Management Web Services
Resume:
Akhila
ac1nw5@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Summary:
7years of experience in different domains like Business Process Flows, Case Tools, with 4 years of experience as a Workday Consultant (Techno-Functional/Functional).
Thorough Comprehension ofHR processes such as recruiting, hiring, employee record maintenance, payroll, compensations, advance compensations, merits, Training, Pay Planning, Performance Management/Talent Management, Applicant Tracking / On-boarding.
Good experience in creating and updating primary organization structure like Supervisory Organization, creating Functional Modules in Workday like Compensation Eligibility Rules, Allowance Plans, Salary Plans, Hourly Plans, Business Process Hiring, Termination, Propose Compensation and also Security Groups
Experience in workday Finance module developing studio integrations, EIB and Coreconnectors.
Experience Working with cross-functional teams in configuring setup and designing integrations to comply with each other.
Configurable knowledge in setting up Merit process, Goals, Employee review templates.
Strong knowledge and experience in creating complex reports, custom reports, calculated fields, XML, XSLT and dashboard configuration.
Extensive iLoad experience, including the creation of an automated, dynamically generated "cleaning" and migration program for client data.
Good experience in creating simple and advance reports, calculated fields, columns, business objects, defining columns and also Security Groups
Worked with internal and external business partners to lead new Workday development or enhancement projects, while serving as a business analyst to gather and translate necessary technical requirements for developers.
Hands on experience in inbound/ outbound integrations Using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports.
Experienced in loading data into workday using EIB and iLoad.
Developed reports using Workday report designer (BIRT) as per client requirements.
Experience in developing both inbound and outbound integrations using Enterprise Interface Builders (EIB), Core Connectors and Workday studio.
Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and involved in all phases of a workday project.
Good experience in requirements gathering, designing and analysis.
Expertise in technologies involving SOAP development like XML, XSLT, XPath, Web Services, SOX and Excel functions etc.
Experience in complete methodology of workday implementations from analysis to deployment and go-live.
Experience in Training the End Users on using the workday system.
Technical skills:
ERP Tools
Workday(HCM/Finance) and workday studio, SAP HCM, Oracle PeopleSoft
Reporting Tools
Crystal Reports, Business objects, XML.
Languages
SQL, PLSQL, JAVA
Database
Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server, MS Access
Operating Systems
Windows 8/7/10/XP
Integration Technologies
XML, XSLT, SOAP, REST, WSDL, Web Services
Package
MS Office 2007 and 2010
GUI Tools
SQLPLUS, Net Beans and Visual Studio
Multimedia
Adobe Photoshop, Dream Viewer
Professional Expérience :
Client: Best Western International, Phoenix, AZ Mar2016 – Till Date
Role: Workday Lead HCM/Finance Consultant
Description : Best Western International, Inc., operator of the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, operates about 4,100 hotels and motels. The chain, with its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, AZ. The Workday @Best Western is sponsored by Finance & Business Operations (F&BO) and HR/Payroll leadership with the help of CPSG. The project AR1501 Workdayimplementation is mainly intended to migrate HCM/Finance module from PeopleSoft to WD. BW intends to complete the implementation of the workday HCM and Payroll modules, including absence management, benefits, recruiting compensation, and time tracking.
Responsibilities :
Helped in implementation of Workday Core Finance, HCM/HR, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation.
Setup Compensation eligibility rules based on compensation grades and job profiles.
Developed inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Web Services SOAP, XML and XSLT Document.
Created custom reporting solutions for HR Analytics and data integration/auditing.
Worked on Document Transformations and applied XSLT transformations.
Worked on data transformations, migrating date from PeopleSoft to Workday 27/28 through EIB’s.
Involved in resolving the HCM core configuration issues on priority based.
Involved in testing of payroll systems and Involved in data analysis and conversion process.
Design Configuration documents for the end users as well for the technical team.
Involved in different phases of Workday implementation.
Gather requirement and provide the details to the implementers for various configuration.
Involved in all phases(Dev/QA/UAT/Prod) of the workday implementation.
Good knowledge of Domain, Role and User based Security.
Experienced in creating all kinds of custom reports like Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports.
Day to day support of Workday HCM, Finance, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues.
Created several Custom Reports and Document Transformation (DT) integration for the Custom Reports.
Created Business form Layouts for the reports built in compensation using BIRT in Workday Studio
Involved in data gathering, system configuration, unit testing, UAT and other components of the Global HR Workday implementation project for all functional areas within Workday HCM and Recruiting.
Developed, tested, and implemented HR Online Transactions to improve PeopleSoft transaction processing.
Implemented changes to existing HR/Payroll business processes for migrating to Workday HCM system.
Experience leading project teams in all phases of the Workday implementation lifecycle.
Redesigned and re-implemented Legacy HR system (HRIS iVantage a SaaS like Workday) re-configured, identified all data entry, configuration and functional errors from original implementation.
Designed all security and audit processes for user access to HRIS and HRIS SOX compliance.
Participate in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers.
Used Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) and are exposed as both SOAP and REST-based web services.
Worked in testing with Accounts Payable on various customizations, which involves Manage Vouchers, Pay Cycle, AP Processing, AP Interfaces, Refund Processing, AP Reports and AP Security.
Performed Pre-upgrade tasks for AP, AR, AM, GL and billing.
Developed studio integrations for finance module like Exchange rates into workday, AP/AR feed, Customer Aging, AP invoices into workday etc.
Daily Matrices report creation based on application usage across the Organization, Create the project support related documents, Update and Maintain Project Cycle Management (PCM).
Designed and developed over 25 Studio integrations. Created test cases and assisted customer in testing.
Ran the scripts in PL/SQL to extract the data from PeopleSoft tables and load data into Workday.
Involved in Data Transformations like loading Employees, Suppliers, Customers, Supplier Invoices, Supplier Connections etc.
Built custom studio integration with ADP to send employee information including job, personal, employment, and compensation data (Full and Changes) from Workday.
Exposed to entire Defect Life Cycle from opening a defect to closing a defect.
Client :Belk, Charlotte, NC Mar 2015 – Feb 2016
Role : Workday HCM Consultant
Responsibilities:
Helped in implementation of Workday Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation.
Setup Compensation eligibility rules based on compensation grades and job profiles.
Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
Performed functional, usability, performance and security testing for a focal implementation project in workday.
Coordinated in performing Unit testing and Integration testing and capacity towards troubleshooting
Successfully completed multiple company acquisition conversions into multiple HRIS systems.
Designed data integrations to both internal and external systems including IT and external providers which resulted in significant cost savings due to automation.
Provided technical expertise to HR Business Partners with performance management plans, bonus plan tracking/reporting, talent management, and company reorganizations.
Expertise in government, benchmark, and ad hoc reporting across all HR systems.
Involved in Workday's enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Assisted employees with payroll, time and attendance, health benefits, retiree medical, HR policies and procedures, absence management, absence management payroll, learning and development, defined benefits, define contributions, and severance policies.
Performed HCM iLoad’s for entire suite of HCM data for several prototypes.
Involved in inbound/ outbound integrations Using Core Connectors, Workday Studio, managing business processes.
Configured functionality for new areas within Workday HCM System, SAP HCM, and PeopleSoft HCM and provide real-time planning and analysis visibility to all levels of management.
Worked on Business Process, Compensation and Custom Reports in Workday and generate simple or advanced Reports in Workday.
Configured XSLT to translate text-based input files into XML-based output files.
Involved in integration process between Workday and other third-party systems using Cloud Connect.
Experience with financial reporting and analytics.
Building reports in different functional areas such as Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, Time tracking, Absence Management, and New Hires.
Worked on integration services which uses data XSLT to convert workday xml to a readable format sent to external applications.
Helped customer implement and go live with Workday Core HCM and Absence management.
Used Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) and are exposed as both SOAP and REST-based web services.
Develop reports for staffing event needs and recruiter evaluation based on time to fill and process metrics.
Uses knowledge of HR business functions and involves the key players to identify and assessing operating needs and issues, and suggest IT solutions (possibly cross-functional or global) for one or more business function.
Designed Custom layouts for the clients using Business Intelligent reporting tool (BIRT) to meet business requirements.
Used XSLT to extract the required elements from the Enterprise XML for performance tuning.
Hands on workday systems integration experience building custom integrations using workday Studio, Cloud connect and Document Transformation.
Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.
Prepare relevant reports and analysis for management / other departments, including monthly, quarterly and year-end for gross payroll, taxes, and benefits.
Built a bi-directional integration to interpret new lines and send a notification file to ADP.
Client: Shire, Waltham, MA Jan 2014 – Feb 2015
Role: Workday Consultant
Responsibilities:
Document Workday Business Processes (BP’s) for Core HCM and Compensation modules
Maintain and design specification documents for the HCM core, compensation, Absence, benefits modules
Modify and enhance the existing business processes by creating validation rules and step conditions.
Create test cases and process to test conversion programs and conversion data.
Configured Workday Core connectors.
Document Transformations which uses connector integrations XML Output as its data source input.
Involved in configuring employee review templates, Setting up Merits and Goal, Performance management business process.
Used Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) to build simple inbound and outbound integrations between Workday and external endpoints.
Designed SOA implementations by Using REST Web Services-WSDL, UDDI.
Building custom integrations using Workday Studio.
Tested all pages, records and menus in HR, Payroll, Time &Labor and Benefit Administration in the new upgrade version.
Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage
Wrote Use Cases and produce Activity diagrams, Develop requirements specifications and Documentations for Business Process Management.
Defined client salary increase plans and client incentive plans using the Workday Compensation Cycles and Variable Compensation functionality.
Help team in functional configuration of the Workday application
Developed different custom reports including matrix reports, advanced reports, composite reports, on all modules, which includes Compensation, Benefits, Core HR and Payroll.
Lead the Workday integration of business processes across disparate systems
Maintain tools and templates for each Workday update
Participate in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers
Develop impact and preliminary analyses in SDLC, and participate actively in their implementation. VISIO and MS Project, Excel as Reporting Tool
Daily Matrices report creation based on application usage across the Organization, Create the project
Support related documents, Update and Maintain Project Cycle Management (PCM)
Observe the standards and procedures established by the project office and Track business needs during development phases in Business Life cycle.
Client: Mu Sigma, Bengaluru, IndiaOct 2011 – Nov 2013
Role: SAP Analyst – HCM
Responsibilities:
Created enterprise structure by defining the personnel areas, sub areas, sub area groupings. Employee group and subgroup groupings
Customized different Personal action reasons for various actions while creating actions menus based on user groups
Defined Personnel Sub-Area Groupings (PSG) and Employee Subgroup Groupings for Work Schedules
Date types for date monitoring, date specifications, Info types for hire date, service dates and termination date
Defined Daily Work Schedules, Periodic Work Schedules
Configured Info type menus in the master data screens (PA30) as per the customer’s requirements
Created tasks and assigned them to the jobs and positions
Defined different Payroll Areas, Pay Scale Types, Pay Scale Groups and Levels for different Employee Groups and Subgroups
Set up features of LGMST and ABKRS
Created meaningful weekly and monthly sales reports capturing various financial and operational metrics
Worked with business to understand the ad-hoc analysis requirements and worked with technical team in creating the same using BOBJ WEBI
Involved in gathering requirements and formulating the requirements for formatted reports
Co-ordination with SAP ABAP/4 Programmers by giving functional specifications for customization according to user requirements
Implemented Workday performance management including goal setting, midyear, and year end processes.
Participated in Enterprise Integration experience web services
Involved in designing the pay structure including Pay grade type, area, grade and level.
Involved in configuring ESS – address change, bank information, office / communications data, personal data, and company’s code of conduct.
Involved in configuring MSS – budget planning, Bonus awards, change in personnel area and work location, work hours, position creation, organization reassignment, promotion, demotion, and salary revision
During the break fixes, provide the detailed information on the issue and also, provide the solution by highlighting the table names and field name to the technical resource.
Worked on creating Salary plans, Hourly plans and Allowance plans.
Built several outbound integrations to send employee demographics upon hire for external and internal vendor systems setup.
Involved in configuring Benefits, Time Management System and Talent Management as this was configured along with the configuration of succession planning.
US Specific services included configuring Federal and State Taxes, employment verification, education assistance, rewards planning.
Client: Dr. Reddy’s Laboratory, Hyderabad, India Aug2010– Sep 2011
Role: SAP HR Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Supporting on-boarding process for new hires, support data flow from SAP HR to other internal downstream systems and partners
Responsible for identifying and researching differences between the SAP releases.
Responsible for ensuring that all relevant objects in SAP HR and Payroll are included in test scripts.
Supporting Benefits Analyst and other team members to provide troubleshooting including researching and resolving issues and process flaws.
Involved in unit testing and Documentations.
Creating custom tables and maintenance view as per the business need.
Developed a Workflow to trigger whenever the basic salary of the employee changes. The Workflow sends a notification to the manager for approval or rejection.
Developed a custom workflow for employee simplified performance management reviews and Involved in deadline monitoring and notification workflows.
Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, JNTU, Hyderabad, India
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