SANTHY KANNAPPARAO (

Newjersey acd6xz@r.postjobfree.com

732-***-****

Summary

. Around 10 years of SAP R/3 HR experience in implementation,

customization, testing and support, Enhancement of Organizational

Management (OM), Personnel Administration (PA),TM, Benefits,

Payroll, LSO, Recruitment modules .

. SAP HCM functional consultant having experience across several

projects including implementation, post go-live and production

support, up-gradation, testing, enhancement and global countries roll-

out.

. Involved in successful SAP implementations during my SAP career.

. Proficient in full cycle AS - IS to the TO - BE implementation

methodology starting from Project preparation, Business Process,

Blueprint designing, Fit-Gap analysis, Configuration, Unit and

Integration Testing, Cutover Preparation, Go Live, Production

support.

. Experienced in systems analysis, process design, Requirement gathering

and documenting, developing functional specifications, end-users

training materials.

. Experienced in test planning and executing test plans, scenarios and

cases, test scripts for Integration, regression and retrofit phases.

. Extensive problem solving, decision-making skills coupled with

excellent teamwork, analytical and interpersonal skills.

. Strengths include strong understanding of the business enterprise

processes and skills to provide effective and costeffective SAP

solutions according to the business requirements.

. Strong in designing and configuring complex functional scenarios,

incorporating gaps, enhancements, interfaces and reports for business

solutions.

. Highly experienced in many areas of SAP HCM including Personnel

Administration, Organization Management, Personal Development,

Learning Solutions Overview, Benefits, Enterprise Compensation

Management, Recruitment, Time Management Payroll, and workflow,

Experienced in ESS, MSS, Solman, Testing, Global Rollout, Data

Migration, Interface, RICEFW (Reports Interfaces Conversions

Enhancements Forms Workflow) and software testing tools.

. Ability to provide quality business solutions within compressed

timelines and delivery dates.

. Handled multiple projects concurrently.

. Proactively providing ideas and solutions towards improvements to

systems and processes, updated team members, clients and managers on

status and issues.

Technical/Computer Skills

Operating MS-Windows

Platforms:

Software Testing HP Quality Center

tools:

Databases and Tools: Service Now, CCM.net tool, Control M-

Monitoring & Scheduling tool. Remedy BMC tool

Documentation Tools: Lotus Notes, Microsoft (Excel, Publisher, Word,

Power Point), Process Modular

Interface Tools: Message Broker and Message Queue and QPasa,

Managed File Transfer gateway.

ERP (SAP): SAP R/3 4.7, SAP ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, ECC 7.2

Education

M.S - Masters in Science 2001 Pondicherry

University

B.A - Bachelor of Arts 1998

Pondicherry University

PGDHRM - Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management

Pondicherry University

PGDCA - Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application

Annamalai University

Competence

SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 and ECC 7.2

. SAP HCM: Organizational Management, Personal Administration, Payroll

(NA), Benefits, Enterprise Compensation Management, Time Management,

Personnel Development, Learning Solutions Overview, Recruitment,

Loans, Trust, Claims, ESS and MSS, workflows, RICEFW, Third party

Interfaces, Reports

. Data Migration: LSMW - Legacy System Migration Workbench, BDC, IDocs.

. HR Reporting tools : Ad Hoc Query, Info set query,

. Tools: SOLMAN, HP Service Center, SAP PI/XI, Ecatt

Professional experience

Data Solutions Inc.

Feb 2014 - Present

Working on internal project as a SAP HR functional consultant.

Target Corporation (USA & CANADA - RETAIL) MN

Sep 2012- Jan 2014

SAP HR Functional Module Lead Consultant

The project involved the full life cycle implementation, Interface, rollout

& Support of SAP R/3 6.2 and 7.2 in PA, OM, TM, PY and Benefits modules and

Discount Cards.

. Liaison between business process and implementation partners.

. Analyzed and converted business requirements into functional

specifications applying technical knowledge of key HCM and interface

concepts.

. Prepared the Blueprint to Go-Live with Post Go-Live, Interface and

Support phases.

. Understand the AS-IS and TO-BE Business process, provide Subject

Matter Expert help to business users in preparing BRD.

. Converted business requirements into functional specifications and

translated into solutions, improved support process.

. Interacted with stake-holders/business users to clarify each and every

query (covering queries from offshore as well).

. Up gradation, Production support and day to day activities of the SAP

HR module PA, OM, TM, PY and Benefits.

. Troubleshooting, break/bug fix activities and Testing strategies.

. Primary interaction with business, handled and provided support on

outages and deployment of solutions. Cooridinated with SAP BASIS and

ABAPer and end users of the client.

. Defined benefit area for US using feature BAREA and the basic settings

for the plans.

. Designed Health Plans, Insurance Plans, COBRA and Flexible Spending

Accounts (FSA).

. Created Benefits providers and assigned to vendors.

. Defined the program groupings (BENGR and BSTAT), Employee eligibility

grouping (ELIGR) for the benefit plans, the participation termination

grouping for the employees (TRMTY).

. Configured default and automatic plans.

. Defined Cost Variants and Cost Rules for the various health plans and

assigned health plan attributes.

. Defined Cost Variants and Cost rules for the various insurance plans

and assigned insurance plan attributes.

. Configured 401K savings plan general data and assigned insurance code

to transfer participation data for plan to a provider.

. Defined and configured employee contribution variants and Rules for

the savings plans.

. Configured FSA general data, Employee Contribution Variants, rules and

spending account claim types.

. Lead for End-to-End testing, user training and defect closures.

Interface:

. SAP ECC and related HR systems and NON-SAP interfaces and data

definitions.

. Worked on HR Short Term Incentive, W-2 tax reports, ADP outbound

accrual file interface for individual employee's leave balances etc.

Developed SAP Script forms for multiple dependent letter, deduction

notices etc.

. Involved in various data migration across SAP systems, data cloning

within different system environments, daily monitoring and

reprocessing ALE/IDoc for the different master data.

. Scheduled HR jobs in the Control M- Monitoring tool.

. Monitored scheduled jobs, updated the tracking data tables through

Outbound and Inbound interface IDOCs as part of support activity.

. Worked on the third party vendors interfaces include ADP, sunlife,

concur, OIM/ILM, Imaging employee master data, Workbrain and Discount

cards.

. Prepared Interfaces test scripts, to carry out Unit and development

testing and to generated test data and maintain test-case traceability

matrix.

Mother Dairy Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd.

May 2011-Sep 6 2012

SAP HR Functional Lead Consultant

The project involved the full life cycle End to End implementation &

Support of SAP R/3 6.2 in PA, OM, LSO, Loans, Trust and Claims modules.

. Designed and documented Business Requirement Document and Business

Blueprint Document and sign off, followed by IQA and EQA document.

. Identified the fit gap between Technical and Functional teams in IT /

SAP HR Projects and have the ability to deliver from "AS IS" to "TO

BE" state.

. Created Functional Specs for customised Infotypes and tables of OM/PA,

ESS & MSS related Info types and Reports.

. Created BDC, Info set and Adhoc query for Infotypes.

. Managed team members in consulting, business and soft skills in

deliverables.

. Designed the FS for ESS, MSS, Admin, Reports and letters in portal.

. Created Data template, End user Manual and trained the users.

. Provided Support to Post Go-live support and resolution provided to

the issues in production system .

. Reviewed and provided "Master Testing Strategy" document"On-Boarding"

and "Design Document Hand-off" to support team and sales delivery

team.

. Experience with HR data migration. Ensured a trouble free cutover to

production environment including post production system support and

maintenance.

. Excellent Project Management Skills. Knowledge of the software

development life cycle from design through scoping, requirements

gathering, analysis, development, testing, QA, user acceptance,

deployment, maintenance/support, and change management.

. Successfully designed & monitored development of an In-House IS

Portal .

. Created customized HR reports change related to head counts, New Hire,

PD Org, Position Vacancy, Termination and Transfer Promo etc.

. Configured organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions, assigned

the tasks to positions and integrated all of these into the

enterprises organizational plan. Maintained the number ranges for

organizational units.

. Reported gaps between business processes and SAP.

. Significantly, clarified the reporting structure and defined

departmental relationships of the organization.

. Configured the matrix type for the organization and the working time

to generate the work schedules for positions.

. Designed organization structure and Configured Organization Structures,reporting structures,customized Z-relationships.

. Expert in integration between Organizational Management & Personnel

Administration

. Created LSMW and uploaded legacy data into SAP system.

. Experience in configuration of Enterprise Structure, Personnel

Structure and Reporting Structure- Company Code setup, Personnel Area,

Personnel Subarea, Employee Group & Employee Subgroup creation .

Functional knowledge in Payroll configuration of Payroll Areas, Pay

Scale Area/Pay Scale Type,wage types and Basic Pay setup

. Set up dynamic actions to generate system default information based on

business requirements.

. Prepared Configuration document, Test Cases and End User Training

Manuals.

. Customization Procedures and User Interface by modifying the Infotype

groups and Infotype menus and Maintained Employee master data.

. Customized Personal Actions as per the requirements of the company.

. Define Number Ranges for External Operations

. Define Number Ranges for Course Participation Document

. Created course preparation - in that cost items, time schedule, set up

building address

. Created location for the course

. Create company and assigned to training providers types

. Created training providers and their services

. Worked on delivery methods

. Creation of course group and course type

. Worked on resource management- control elements with resource types

. Creation of resources like rook, instructor and other related

resource

. Creating and formatting course with the day to day activities

. Booking - Created participants types control options, and its checks,

booking priorities, and with the related conflict.

. Cancellation of course and firmly booking

. Worked on workflows like Course approval workflow

. Set up of follow up activities to the participants

. Finally, appraisals related configuration like performance management,

edit forms, define forms, form of appraisals and its control

parameters.

Nokia, Finland

Sep 2010- April 2011

SAP HR Functional Consultant

The project involved the full life cycle Implementation, Enhancement &

Support of SAP R/3 in PA, OM, TM and PY modules.

. Created and developed the amendment business blueprinting and data

collection phase for all the Modules in Human Resources resulting in

the implementation of SAP HCM functionality.

. Configured the organizational structure, Personnel Administration,

Time Management and Payroll modules.

. Creation of customized wage types and Maintained features like

PRZNT in the wage type characteristics

. Generation of payroll period, Maintaining of Control record -PA03

. Maintained the wage types data in T510 and in T539J table - indirect

valuation of wage types

. Define wage type model, allowance groupings and features like LGMST

. Maintained defaults value for Master Data through configuration using

features ABKRS, PINCH, VDSK1 and TARIF for Master Data Info Types.

. Expert in analyzing the complex issues and solving them with ease with

in the given time constraint.

. Provided the functional and technical support to solve the trouble

tickets and change requests.

. Worked on OM, PA, TM, PY (wage types) Workflow, Authorizations - User

IDs and Access, Documentation and Transport.

. Configuration, Support and enhancements for New York, Finland, Jordan,

Macau and Cambodia.

. Prepared Weekly reports and Monthly reports

. Worked in Defect Prime activities to reduce the Incidents in the

support.

. Provided suggestions to improve quality and reducing the quantity of

the Incidents.

. Developed processes for production support teams to reduce the

timeframe to fix issues.

. Responsible for evaluation of time data using Time Evaluation Report

RPTIME00 and time schemas TM00, TM04.

. Setting up of DWS, PWS, and Break schedules. Setting up Work Schedule

Rules, Defined Absence and Attendance types, Setting up rules for

Attendance and Absence counting. Defined Absence valuation rule and

counting classes for paid and unpaid absences (LOP). Assignment of

absence type to counting classes,so on.

. Customized Time Evaluation schema and sub-schemas, Configured work

schedules, work schedule rules, absences, attendances and time quotas.

. Involved in the Up-gradation project, post go live and Support.

. Supported in resolving tickets of different kinds and severity,

providing their RCA within due SLA.

. Developed BDC programmes, transaction for PA40-Initial Load and PA30 -

Maintain HR Master Data for most of the common PA infotypes.

. Enhanced setup of Personnel Actions types Create Impatriate, Freeze

Expatriate, Domestic and International transfer, Compensation change.

. Customization Procedures and User Interface by modifying the Infotype

groups and Infotype menus..

. Configured on objects in Organizational Management (OM) -like

Organization Units, Jobs, Positions, Cost Centers, and their

establishing customized Relationships between objects. Created

evaluations paths.

. Created customised wage types and defined valuation rules for

Expatriates, Union and International employees.

. Worked on supporting Tools like ITSM for submitting offshore support.

. Designed and developed the customized reports like SU01, SUIM,

HTHUVIEK to track and resolve the Organizational reassignment and

rehiring related issues.

. Arranged WebEx meeting, status and support calls, Control Based calls.

AC Nielsen

June 2008- April 2010

SAP HR Functional and Test Lead Consultant (SAP ECC 6.0 Global

Implementation)

The project involved the Global Rollout Implementation, Enhancement,

Testing & Support of SAP R/3 in PA, OM, PD, TM, PY, ECM, Benefits with

Interfaces modules, ESS and MSS portal and Solution Manager.

. Worked on Business Configuration preparing BBPs and FS documents.

. Created project plan with major milestones to manage SAP HCM Global

implementation.

. Worked on OM, PA, PD, TM, ECM, Benefits, Payroll interface and Solman.

. Configured functionality in SAP HCM modules such as Personnel

Administration and Organizational Management.

. Created LSMW & BDC for Data Migration for Global countries.-

. Managed unit testing and integration of the deliverables. Actively

participated with "hands on" approach to analyze build quality with

UAT and regression tests.

. Functional Testing(Unit testing, Info type testing and Process

testing), Integration Testing, Language testing, ECATT testing and

Portal testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance

Testing (UAT) and experience with testing SAP HR End-To-End Processes,

along with a good understanding of Transaction Codes and Infotypes,

followed by Retrofit tesing.

. Developed Test scripts and Test cases, conduct Unit testing and

Integration testing of the configured scenarios.

. Managed Project rollout and Data Migration activity

. Payroll interface and ECM testing

. Portal testing - worked on ESS and MSS Iviews and Personalization of

personal information, working time and travel and expenses and MSS -

employee information, compensation, personal change request, universal

work list, MSS reports and ECM, solved workflow issues by giving

production support.

. Worked on supporting Tools like CCM.NET for giving offshore support.

. Worked on workflows and assigning roles.

. Worked for APAC, APIMEA, EPIMEA, LATAM America, US and Canada

countries and Global rollouts.

. Involved in indentified Gap Analysis between the requirement and

configuration.

. Experienced in Unit, Process, Integration, Regression, Retrofit, End-

to-End and UAT testing for OM, PA,TM, PY,ECM, BN, workflows and

Reports.

. Managed testing team for Functional, Integration and End-to-End

testing for a SAP HR Global implementation on ECC 6.0 involving OM,

PA,TM, PY,ECM, BN. Globally Go-live support for 72 countries.

. Creation of Payroll data, Pay scale groups and levels, pay scale types

and area, maintaining features like ABKRS, TARIF, TMSTA.

. Create payroll areas for Short Term and Regular employees, generated

payroll periods and assigned a control record to each payroll area.

. Configuration of customized wage types by copying from standard model

wage types.

. Assigning Pay Scale Type and Pay Scale Area to Basic pay

. Created wage types by copying appropriate model wage types.

. Defining Wage type Permissibility for each personnel sub area and

employee subgroup in Basic pay, Recurring payments and Deductions and

Check Wage Type Characteristics.

. Created date modifier,period parameter

. Created Payroll areas for different employees groups -Monthly, By-

weekly, etc.

. Creation of wage types for basic pay & Recurring payments &

Deductions, Additional payments Creation of Payroll Area, Generation

of payroll period, Maintaining of Payroll Control record -PA03.

. Created work schedule rule - Infotype0007 for payroll

. Maintained the wage type characteristics through features - TARIF,

SUMME, PRZNT, CONST

. Created the Indirect valuation of Base wage type - T539J table

. Maintained default wage types for Basic pay through feature - LGMST

. Maintained the Tax Data IT0207 (US01), IT0210 - Resident Tax Area in

Master Data PA30

. Validation of Processing Class, Cumulation Class and Evaluation

Class.

. Benefits and Compensation Management -Worked on various plans like

Health Plan, Insurance Plan, General Benefit Information,

Miscellaneous Plans, Savings, Flexible spending accounting, credit

plan, etc

. Created Benefit Area and Benefit providers, Configuration and Design

of Benefit Plan Types, Eligibility and Benefit Plans/Coverage/Costs

accounting for domestic partner coverage premiums and recording of

imputed income, out of area employee benefits, and executive benefit

options.

. Maintained Dependent and Beneficiary information and eligibility by

creating salary, age and seniority groups.

. Worked on Employee Groups - Employee Criteria Groups, Cost groupings,

Credit groupings and its features like BAREA, CSTV1, CRDV1, COVER,

EVTGR, etc.

. Assignment of Insurance Plan attributes, Prerequisites and

Corequisites.

. Worked on Employee and Employer Contribution groupings and Eligibility

and its features like EECGR and ERCGR.

. Configured essential plans like Health plan- Dental or medical plans,

Insurance plans- dependent life, travel accident insurance etc, stock

purchase plans.

. Assignment of health plan attributes and insurance plan attributes.

. Maintenance of benefit adjustment groupings and reasons.

. Maintainence of essential infotypes like 0171 - general benefit

information, IT 0167(medical), IT 0168 - Insurance plan, IT 0378 -

Adjustment reasons.

. ECM Data Migration, Testing and Support.

. Authored BPP's for Benefits Enrollments & Terminations.

. Defined benefit area for U.S & Canada, using feature BAREA and the

basic settings for the plans.

. Designed Health Plans, Insurance Plans, COBRA and Flexible Spending

Accounts (FSA).

. Defined Benefits providers and assigned to vendors. Configured default

and automatic plans.

. Defined the program groupings (BENGR and BSTAT), Employee eligibility

grouping (ELIGR) for the benefit plans, the participation termination

grouping for the employees (TRMTY).

. Defined Cost Variants and Cost Rules for the various health plans and

assigned health plan attributes.

. Configured 401K savings plan general data and assigned insurance code

to transfer participation data for plan to a provider.

. Defined and configured employee contribution variants and Rules for

the savings plans.

. Configured FSA general data, Employee Contribution variants, rules,

and Spending Account claim types.

. Lead for End-to-End testing, user training and defect closures.

. Interacting with vendors & benefit administrators to ensure accuracy

of data flow.

. Created and maintained work schedules (WS), period work schedules

(PWS), daily work schedules (DWS), and monthly work schedules rules

and planned working time (PWT).

. Worked on Time Recording- Substitutions, Absences, Absence Counting,

Absence Quotas, Leave Entitlement, and Overtime

. Maintained Absence Types and Quotas applicable to different employees

groups.

. Defined Base Entitlement, Validity and Deduction Period, and

Generation Rules.

ESS/MSS and Portal Implementation

. Conducted interactive business workshops to gather functional

requirements for the implementation of different ESS/MSS business

processes and demonstrated different services available in the

Employee search functionality, Change own data, Dependent Information,

Personal Data, Leave request and approval, Time entry and approval,

Benefits participation overview, Change Personal data, Address change,

Bank Information change, and Family member/Dependents update.

. Assigning system roles to the project like evaluation system,

development system, training system, production system, and quality

assurance system.

. Sequencing of the transaction through test organizer. Created Test

plan, test packages, assigning transactions, configuration, test

cases, test cases types, training materials to the project. Assigning

testers, testers based on the SAP partners and system users.

. Worked on Process Controlling, Payroll interface testing for global

countries.

. Worked on various business processes like OM Designing of Enterprise

structure for organizational planning in Implementation, task

analysis, organization structure maintenance, formation of Job &

Position. Personnel actions, Personnel data changes done in SOLMAN,

ECM- Compensation planning and submission, Travel expenses - reports,

taking day-to-day activities reports for various process, Uploaded

FS, BBP, BPML, test scripts and test results.

DUPONT

April 2004 - May 2008

SAP HR Consultant

. Analyzed and documented AS IS - TO BE, Gaps and Business Blueprint and

made recommendations for gap resolutions.

. Maintained Infotype menus in the master data screens (PA30) as per the

company's requirements.

. Perform configuration changes in Personnel Administration. This

included new additions to the Personnel Structure, creation of new

dynamic actions, new personnel actions, and new subtypes for various

info types. Maintained employee Master Data using T-code PA30 and

PA40.

. Maintained various subtypes for standard Info types.

. Customized personal data, family data and addresses to facilitate

entry of Employee information and various PA infotypes.

. Maintained Administrators and Administrator groups.

. Maintained internal & external number range (Feature NUMKR) allocation

for employees.

. Perform unit testing in the areas of Personnel Administration and OM.

. Directed activities for data gathering and data load preparation

. Activities in the areas of Personnel Administration, organizational

Management.

. Led initiatives for integration testing of Organisational Management,

Personnel Administration.

. Participate in the running of Payroll and Time Management for parallel

testing.

. Perform compares of parallel results, researching and providing

resolutions to issues.

. Administered HP Quality Center HPQC) and setup the initial project for

all documentation purposes.

. Created and maintained customized Wage types, PCR, Schemas,

Maintained Permissibility of wage types to ES and PSG Group

. Configured the features like LGMST, TARIF, ABKRS. Configured default

values for Pay Scale Area/Pay Scale Type.

. Configured wage type, wage type characteristics,Base wage type

valuation,Payroll Area, creating, setting of control record and

generated Payroll Periods.

. Defined Payroll Areas and assigned relevant period parameters and date

modifiers.

. Configured, tested, and implemented business process in SAP Payroll

according to specified requirements.

. Configured symbolic account, Assignment of wage types postings to

symbolic account, GL accounts.

EID PARRY

SAP HR Functional Consultant

. Involved in implementation and support activities.

. Involved in the configuration for the Personnel Administration module.

This included the configuration of Personnel Actions, Info type Menus,

Dynamic Actions, the Enterprise and Personnel Structures and -dynamic

actions.

. Maintained master data using transactions PA30 and PA40 for hiring a

person, pay change, transfer, retirement, termination and leaving,

change entry date after payroll run

. Created and maintained the organizational structure objects like,

organizational unit, jobs, positions, customer specific object codes.

. Participated in the running of Payroll and Time Management for

parallel testing.

. Involved in integration with OM and personnel administration by using

the RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE30, RHINTE20 reports.

. Created number ranges for organizational units, work center by rule

values and the infotype 1011.

. Developed Customized feature SCHKZ for defaulting work schedule rules

for PS and ES grouping. Created of absence types such as

casual/sick/annual leaves & quotas. Defined the leave quotas based on

employee group.

. Defined Attendance, Absences, Overtimes and Availability as per the

client requirements.

. Configured holiday calendar, Quota Generation, creation of Work

schedules, generation of Work schedules rules, Absence.

. Customized the reporting structure, matrix structure for

positions. Coordinated data transfer/migration activities with

Technical team.

. Provided end-user training and detailed documentation on overview of

SAP HCM modules navigation, and the business process.

. Provided production support to business users during the end phase of

the project and go-live support.

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