Data Management

Name: Cheryl Gracia

Email: ******.*********@*****.***

MBA-University of Minnesota- Carlson School of Management

Current Role: Workday HCM consultant

Around 6+ years in IT industry in which 5+year experience as Workday Consultant in developing Integrations/Reports using Workday Tools Supported the implementation of a new client on the Workday platform by defining, documenting and testing functional business processes for Workday HCM including Core HR, Recruiting, Talent and Performance Management and Compensation.

• Experience in multiple Workday modules like Workday HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Business Processes, Recruiting, Security, Reporting, Integrations.

• Experience in working on various modules of Workday like Workday HCM core, Finance, Compensation, Benefit, Talent and Performance Management, Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Workday Security, Reports and Integrations.

• Experience defining HR business and systems strategy, developing system requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.

• Experience in performing Business Analysis & Requirements Modeling and developing Analysis diagrams which depict various perspectives of the System's structure and behavior (Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, State diagrams, Data models, and Use - Case Realizations).

• Experience to HR, Finance and Payroll colleagues and end-user population.

• Experience to mentor and work with teams of multi culture, multi domain across the globe. Excellent ability to work with different teams, people and manage business expectations and deliverables while working in a team or as an individual. HCM, Benefits, Recruiting, Payroll, Time Tracking, General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Management, Procurement and Treasury and provided HRIS support

• Experience in Business Process Flows, Case Tools, and Business Analysis of Workday Techno Functionality Workday HCM.

• Knowledge of designing of Dashboards on Core HCM processes (Employee/Workforce details, Hires/Headcount/ Terminations, compensation/Diversity/benefit, Turnover reports & VIP dashboards).

• Experienced in Working with Custom reports, Calculated fields, EIBs, Core Connector, Cloud Connector (CCB), BIRT, Report Design, Business form Layout, data conversions, Solutions and iLoad's.

• Good knowledge in customizing data in Workday in the form of Custom reports with the combination of various Complex Calculations. Custom reports involving various types like Advanced, Matrix, Simple, BIRT and Composite.

• Knowledge in customizing data in Workday in the form of Custom reports with the combination of various Complex Calculations. Custom reports involving various types like Advanced, Matrix, Simple, BIRT and Composite.

• Experience in developing advanced, matrix custom reports and thorough understanding of Workday data sources and business objects.

• Experience in Business Process and configurations of the Compensation, Studios, Time Tracking, Absence management, Payroll, Recruiting, for having the thorough understanding of pulling information to the report.

• Expertise in Back-End/Front-End Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.

• Expertise in PAYROLL Module, Tax Computation and PAYROLL integration with Leave Management, Time Management and Reimbursement modules.

• Experienced in configuring Compensation framework and providing support and guidance to geographically distributed workforce.

• Experience in inbound/outbound integration using EIB, Core Connector, Cloud Connect, Report Writer and Workday reports (BIRT, Advanced, Matrix, Trended, Composite), Calculated Fields both HCM Management.

• Experience in Working with end users to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements using User interviews, Workshops, Observation and Existing systems documentation/procedures, Joint Application Development (JAD), JAR and Brainstorming sessions, identify Functional, Non-Functional, and Business Rules, and then subsequently modelled them.

Work Experience

Workday HCM Consultant

Santander Bank – Boston, Ma October 2017 to Present

• Involved in full cycle implementation projects with responsibilities including Core HCM, Workday Benefits, Configuration & Prototype Testing, Payroll, Time Tracking, Enhancements and Absence, Performance Management, Advanced Compensation and Recruiting.

• Involved in Development, Enhancement, Upgrade and Maintenance of Workday HR, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Absence Management, Payroll and Time & Labor

• Used EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) for integrating location of employees, Performance ratings, assigning organizations and updating payroll Ids.

• Analyzed the functionality of Time & Labor pages, components, records and menus. Tested the functionality of Time & Labor workflow related to payroll.

• In addition to developing integrations exposure to functional and technical support for HCM, Payroll, and Time Tracking.

• Analyzed client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues

• Worked with Core HR and Talent Management modules on planned activities and coordinate across offshore teams, tasks, issues and risks of functional process.

• Maintain and support all the HR Business processes e.g. Compensation, Hiring, Performance and talent management etc. implemented in Workday.

• Worked on Inbound and Outbound Connectors to send the Employee Change details.

• Configuration of Workday's business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.

• Configured and Implementing JIRA based user stories for the internal client.

• Involved in Workday Functional HCM configuration with responsibilities including Staffing Models, Job and Positions, Compensation, Defining Business Processes and Security Groups, Customized Report Generation.

• Worked on Production support of Workday HCM, which includes Core HR, Time Tracking, Absence Management, and

• Create custom Workday reports and modify/troubleshoot existing custom reports using Calculated Fields.

• Provided post production support in Time Management, Absence Management and Compensation.

• Design Workday integrations using Studio, EIB, XSLT and Core Connectors.

• Done Integrations Data reporting design for Workday Recruit Applicant Tracking System and Workday HCM for conversion from BrassRing ATS to Workday Recruit ATS and Testing the system functionality and Business processes to ensure smooth transition.

• Implemented Workday performance management including goal setting, midyear, and year-end processes.

• Worked on Simple and advanced integration with Workday Studio and applied XSLT transformations to XML Data.

• Using EIB configuration, transformed the format of workday report into required file format using XSLT or build in transformation. (CSV, EXCEL).

• Created new integrations to pull new hire information using core connector worker and delivered using document transformation, which uses core connector XML outputs as its data source input.

• Written Use Cases and produced Activity diagrams, Developed requirement specifications and Documentations for Business Process Management.

• Managing Data conversions, HR and Compensation related Custom Reports, and Security Management, Business Process configuration and configuring the application according to customer requirements and developing system Integration.

Workday HCM consultant

M&T Bank -New York, NY January 2016 to September 2017

• Configured Workday HCM, Time Tracking and Absence business processes including validation rules, calculated fields and other components

• Responsible for development and management of Mass Update EIB's and Keeps pace with new functionality from Workday as part of Release Management in order to influence the strategic technical direction.

• Coordinated with client to execute release and Assesses upcoming Workday release functionality and impacts to client business processes.

• Responsible for the generation of client requested reports and dashboards (not requiring Workday Studio or those considered higher complexity)

• Provided guidance and coaching to Configuration Analysts and Working on project costing, cash management, inventory.

• Used Accounting, Reporting, payroll, commitment control and Working on Base benefit, Time off and Providing knowledge and mentoring to Workday Analysts

• Worked on the Signoff of testing for Business Assets, Customer Accounts and Revenue and Banking and Settlement Functional Areas.

• Prepared and record journal entries related to Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Payroll, Cash, Assets, and Accruals.

• Worked on payroll and Worked with time tracking, absence management. Assist the client in testing the Workday solution.

• Build Benefits Inbound Studio Integration and Created Outbound Integrations (EIB/Custom Reports/Calculated Fields/XSLT) to Vendors ( HCM, Payroll)

• Configurated of Workday Absence and Leave, Time off and Time Tracking and Created the Custom Reports, Calculated Fields build EIBs

• Created Inbound External Pay Slips and Inbound Payroll Results Integrations and Created the Design Documents for the interfaces

• Configured different custom reports including matrix reports, advanced reports, composite reports on all modules, which includes Compensation, Benefits, Core HR and Payroll. Building Core Connectors.

• Worked in Building Custom Security for Fusion HCM which includes Create/Modify Data roles and its Security Profiles, Job Roles, Application Roles and Duty Roles.

• Configured monthly payrolls/bonus reports and data audit schedules and check sheets. Performed employee retention analysis, audits, assessed training needs and analyzed performance reviews for succession planning.

• Worked in Building new custom reports (Advanced, Composite) in Compensation, Time and Absence areas.

• Worked on Workday report development, testing and validation; Excel and Microsoft Reporting services reporting

• Experienced in creating inbound/Outbound integrations through Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) using XSLT's, XSLT Mappings and XML Mappings.

• Gathered detailed business requirements and automate business processes to enhance the current application systems, including reporting. Assist in development of new reports for ongoing customer needs.

Workday Business Analyst

Midvale, UT November 2013 to December 2015

• Assist with ongoing day to day Workday compensation support, creation of Job Profiles, Grade Profiles and Compensation plans.

• Troubleshot Integration Break fixes like Data Migration issues, Benefit connectors and payroll connectors.

• Initiate creating, closing, copying, and editing evergreen requisitions and job requisitions. Analyze recruiting demand, identify gaps, and deploy new strategies based on real-time data.

• Worked on payroll Audits and checkpoint process for Time and Payroll processing.

• Utilized analytical skills to identify and research process issues and system defects to formulate recommendations on payroll process improvements.

• Extensive interaction with internal and external clients about payroll delivery to identify, research and resolve problems.

• Worked on setting up the entire framework of Time tracking including- Creating Time Entry Codes, Groups, Time Entry Templates and the Business Process for Entering Time, Setting up Period schedules, Worker eligibility rules.

• Assist with ongoing day to day Workday Talent management and Performance Support

• Serve as compensation consultant for Workday Advanced Comp Implementation, ensuring the solution is designed holistically across modules.

• Created new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams.

• Customized ad hoc goals and configuring a goal template. Created multiple talent review templates and customized them for different organizations or purpose and prepared for a talent review meeting by printing talent cards with a summary of talent information for each employee.

• Created test scenarios for testing all in scope many Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc.

• Written Use Cases and produced Activity diagrams, Developed requirement specifications and Documentations for Business Process Management.

• Assist with data cleanup, extraction/load and data validations (as needed)

• Generated custom Workday reports and modified the existing custom reports.

• Managing Data conversions, HR and Compensation related Custom Reports, and Security Management, Business Process configuration and, configuring the application according to customer requirements and developing system Integration.

• Work with business team to review report requirements. Maintain/Assign security role assignments.

• Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.

• Built and managed integration using Calculated Fields, EIB, Document Transformation, Workday Connector, XML, XSLT and Web Services technologies.

• Developed outbound integration using EIB, Web Services SOAP, WSDL, XML and XSLT Document Transformation for several integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems and provided necessary security for related functional area to launch the EIB.

Business analyst

Autodesk -San Rafael, CA December 2012 to September 2013

• Responsible for driving process improvements, efficiencies and act as the point of contact for all global HR processes that revolve around data integrity, system setup and maintenance, system security, end user setup and training.

• Responsible as key partner to Client's HR Leadership team in providing project, process and systems support to various HR functions.

• Actively worked on configuration and maintenance of the core HRIS system, support interfaces to internal and external systems, and standardize/streamline reporting.

• Support, maintenance and administration of HRIS System, ADP/HRB, in addition to other systems supported by the Human Resources organization in a global environment.

• Ensure data integrity, testing of system modifications and changes, report writing, analyzing data flow for process improvement opportunities, and maintenance of HRIS processes and controls development.

• Responsible for the maintenance of the human resource information system associated with the collection, retrieval, data entry, data integrity, accessibility and usage of global employee information.

• Act as the liaison between HR, IT, Payroll and other HRIS users.

• Process personnel status change actions in the system, including new hire set up, and coordinate with Payroll and other departments as needed.

• Provide accurate, relevant and timely information and assistance to internal customers, striving to maintain the highest quality and customer service standards in all areas of responsibility.

• Apply understanding of system setup, interdependencies and data flow to resolve issues.

• Provide end user training for new users and on-going training to ensure the effective utilization of HR systems; assist with rollout related to new systems and initiatives.

• Work with management to understand their information needs; create and produce reports/databases utilized by management and/other departments relating to employment programs and the corporate initiatives.

• Serves as key point of contact for HR Partners and HR team to assist with questions, provide oversight, training and problem resolution.

• Analyze data and build ad hoc reports as requested as well as monthly headcount reporting and other reports required on a timely basis.

• Participate in systems enhancements and upgrades, including updating user guides and training users on functionality.

Skills

HRMS, hcm (7 years), compensation (7 years), Payroll (6 years), Time Tracking (6 years), BIRT (6 years),Custom reports (6 years), Absence Management (6 years), Advance compensation (6 years), Rules and Rolls (6 years)

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