Peoplesoft HRMS /Payroll consultant

Ramanathan Arunachalam Ph No: 248-***-****

PeopleSoft HCM / HRMS Consultant

*************@*****.***

Summary:

V Over 12+ Years of overall Experience in PeopleSoft Business Functionality

analysis, design, development and testing of software applications.

V Software professional with rich experience in PeopleSoft HCM ERP and

database design and development.

V Worked as HCM functional lead, techno functional senior consultant for

PeopleSoft product, project and support development engagements managing

the product end to end from scoping to delivery.

V Worked on HCM modules like Core HR, workforce administration, Self-

service, Global payroll and Absence management.

V Strong domain expertise in HR business processes helping customers make

strategic business decisions for their HRIS needs.

V Cross product experience by working for various ERP HRMS products like

PeopleSoft and Ramco HCM.

V Solid functional expertise in Core HR, Workforce administration, Global

Payroll, Absence Management modules.

V Worked extensively on Peopletools, PeopleCode, Application Engine, SQR,

Component Interface, PS query, Data mover, Application designer and

Change Assistant.

V Solid hands on trouble shooting skills in SQR and People tools.

V Adept at writing complex SQL scripts and PS queries

V Conducted several training sessions on the PeopleSoft modules for users

and the internal IT staff using power point presentations and hands-on

demos.

V Strong Database skills include data modelling, database design and SQL

queries.

V Strong debugging, problem solving and analytical skills with excellent

understanding of system development methodologies, techniques and tools.

V Possesses strong client facing skills. Worked with customers across globe

especially with customers from Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, Dubai,

India, Malaysia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

V Worked with Oracle PeopleSoft product development teams situated across

geographical regions (United States, Europe and Asia Pac)

V Experience in various HRMS modules such as GPCORE Payroll, Core HR,

Workforce administration, Benefits and Absence Management (PeopleSoft

HRMS), Time Management, Leave Management, Appraisal, Work force

management, Payroll (Ramco HRMS).

Educational Qualification:

Bachelor of Technology (Btech, chem) from Madras University (1996- 2000)

Skills:

ERP PeopleSoft HCM, Ramco e- Applications, HRMS

PeopleSoft People tools, Application designer, People code, Application

Engine, SQR, PS query, Data mover, Component Interface,

XMLP, process scheduler, change Assistant and security

HRMS functional Core HR, Workforce Administration, self-service, Benefits,

Global Payroll core, GP Malaysia, GP India, GP Australia,

GP New Zealand, GP Singapore and Absence Management

(PeopleSoft)

Leave management, Time management, Performance Management

system, Hire process (Recruiting) using Ramco ERP HRMS

Web Technologies HTML, DHTML and Java scripting

Databases SQL Server, Oracle.

Work Experience:

NCS Pte Ltd (Dec 2013 to Jan

2015)

Project Description:

Singtel Telecommunications Ltd, commonly abbreviated as Singtel is a

Singapore telecommunication company with a combined mobile subscriber base

of more than 500 million customers making it one of the largest mobile

network operators in Singapore.

Personal and Payroll Management System (PPMS) is Singtel Organization HR

and payroll system to maintain employee personal, payroll and Job

information. It has Core HR, Global Payroll, Absence, benefits,

compensation modules in it with interfaces from many systems. In this,

payroll module has numerous inbound and outbound interfaces there by

integrating with various other systems. And also, 12 pay groups with over

10000+ employees are processed via the payroll system.

Project/Clie Singtel Telecommunications Ltd

nt

Role Senior Principal Consultant, PeopleSoft HCM

Responsibilities:

. Maintenance, Production support, implementation of change requests in

Core HR, Benefits, Global Payroll, and country related absence

management modules.

. Interaction with the customers for new enhancements, understand the

functional flow and implementing the change requests.

. Fixing critical production bugs with no impact to maintain the

stability of the system

. Implementing best practices, technical methods to reduce the timings

for batch processes across HCM modules especially for Core HR and

Payroll.

. During the tenure, was responsible for integrating the claims module

between PeopleSoft to the People Connect system which acts as the

front end system to the end users.

. Responsible for development of outbound interface files to third party

system for salary payment and payroll accounting.

. Providing training/presentation to the end users on the new

features/enhancements in the product.

. End to End configuration of HR and payroll, Absence management system.

. Support for critical year end processes like Inland Revenue board

Singapore tax submission, legislative changes in PeopleSoft HR and

Payroll product.

. Fixing performance issues, debugging complex queries and suggesting

long term solutions for critical issues.

. Primary resource for both Singtel telecommunication and NCS Singapore

HR, payroll and Absence management modules.

. As one of the Subject matter expert in PeopleSoft HR and Global

Payroll, participates and give inputs for proposals, functional

requirements in various projects.

. Worked on absence management - payroll integration issues for other

clients such as GIC - Government of investment, Singapore

Company : ORACLE Dec 2006 to Sep 2013

Product/Proj PeopleSoft HCM development

ect

Role PeopleSoft HCM Techno Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Establishing one International PeopleSoft Global Payroll, Absence

management Development team which comprises of almost all the Asia

Pacific region(APAC) Global Payroll products (India, Malaysia,

Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong)

. Managing end to end development activities in PeopleSoft Global

Payroll, Absence Management APAC products right from scoping, doing

research of the new features till its release in the respective

products.

. Managing, leading new development activities and Deliverables for the

country Extensions that I own. Analyzing and preparing the functional

requirement documents, technical design documents for all the features

in the Asia pacific region.

. Participating in the technical, functional, test design reviews of the

enhancements/new features across regions.

. Techno functional consultant and Subject matter expert in Core HR,

Absence management and Payroll products in the APAC region.

. Managing Support development deliverables. Ensuring that backlog is

under control for all the products. And also, handling complex

performance issues in Global payroll, HR and absence management

modules.

. Providing PeopleSoft HCM development External representation.

. Effective creation of various innovative methods to increase the

productivity of the team

. Ensuring that escalations, number of issues are kept under control by

proactively talking to the situation management team, Global support

team and customers.

. Providing a road map to various PeopleSoft products by interacting

with Product managers, Architecture and Strategy team etc.

Product/Proj PeopleSoft HCM development, Oracle Dec 2006 to

ect Jan 2012

Role Principal Applications Engineer, Project Leader,

PeopleSoft HCM Products

Responsibilities:

As a Principal Applications Engineer, Project leader my responsibilities

include:

. Preparing/reviewing Business requirement documents, functional

requirement documents, technical design documents for GP Malaysia, GP

India, GP Hong Kong, GP New Zealand, GP Australia and also country

related absence management, HR modules.

. As a Principal Applications Engineer for PeopleSoft products like GP

India, GP Malaysia, GP Australia, GP New Zealand, lead a bunch of

motivated team members to deliver legislative changes, Enhancements

and bug fixes.

. Worked extensively on features involving various technologies and

tools like people code, application designer, Application Engine, SQR, Global payroll rules/non rules and Component interfaces.

. Individually developed new features from scoping to release, held the

absolute ownership, acted as subject matter expert for various

PeopleSoft products features across releases.

. Responsibility includes tracking all the incidents (issues in the

products), do the backlog monitoring, assigning and allocating various

new and Support development tasks.

. Coordinating various development activities within the team and across

the teams like Release Engineering, Quality assurance

. Consistent interaction with Oracle team members of Global Support

center to discuss various issues raised by the customers, clarifying

them and supporting the customers by fixing issues on time.

. Conducting various development tracking meetings with the team members

to meet the goal set for the projects and deliverables.

. Responsibility for end to end design, requirements gathering of all

the new legislative changes and enhancements in the GP APAC countries

. Discussing and interacting with respective country's tax board

executives to discuss about various statutory changes that get

announced for different countries every year.

. Keeping track of the development plan. And also effectively

participates in code and unit test reviews.

. Providing training to the team members from time to time and helping

them to enhance their skills in order to increase the performance

levels

. During the tenure, was responsible for getting the certification for

PeopleSoft product by conducting demos/presentation of the product to

Malaysian tax officials.

. Team member of the Oracle PeopleSoft HCM code review process

initiative committee. For which had to interact, coordinate with

various team members across globe and create altogether a new code

review process which was implemented in almost all the PeopleSoft

product development teams.

Ramco Systems Ltd Jan 2003 to Dec

2006

Project description: Citibank is one of leading banks in Dubai with over

1000+ employees. The project involved customization of the customer's

payroll rules, implementing leave management system, reimbursement and loan

modules

The job data would come in from the third party software in to the ramco

system, validation would be done before running the payroll for the

employees. Then the payment entries will be flown out of ramco system's

database to third party software -flex cube after the payroll is

authorized.

Project/clie HRMS implementation for Citibank Dubai - May 2006 to

nt Dec 2006

Role Onsite techno functional consultant

Responsibilities:

. Interacted with customers to show the demo of the product, collect the

functional requirements, do the fit gap analysis and translate the

same to functional specification document.

. Interacted with all the HR users and also networked with various third

party software team members to integrate the data with the payroll

system

. Prepared the entire functional business requirement document, which

was signed off by the H users.

Project Description: Hindustan Lever Limited is one of the leading FMG

companies in India, with over 5000+ employees employed in its various

branches and Head Quarters.

Unilever India Shared Services (Indigo HLL) serves as the BPO organization

of HLL and assists in all types of Back Office operations. Processing of

Payroll for Hindustan Lever Limited was outsourced to a payroll processing

vendor in the past. With the implementation of Ramco Payroll system,

Unilever India Shared Services will own the responsibility of processing

payroll for all the employees of Hindustan Lever limited across various

cadres such as Managers, Officers and Non Management Staff spread across

seven branches and 480 work locations.

The project involved studying the requirements for the various classes of

employees and accordingly tailoring the Ramco payroll system to meet the

exact customer requirements.

Ramco Payroll is Live from April 2006 and is being used to process payroll

for over 5000+ employees of Hindustan Level Limited.

Project/Clie Payroll implementation for Hindustan Lever Limited,

nt India - Dec 2005 to April 2006

Role Onsite techno functional payroll and HR consultant

Responsibilities:

. Interact with Customers, analyzed the business requirements, do the

fit gap analysis with the product, find out the implications of the

request, effort estimation, technical design and development

. End to End configuration and Implementation of Payroll System

. Development of Indian tax for HLL, verification of over 3000

employee's tax worksheets and Solved the bugs occurred in the system

to match with the existing system's output.

. Developed a complete and comprehensive tax worksheet for summary of

tax deduction which was a first report to be developed of such kind in

Indian projects (Ramco) coming under HRMS domain.

. Perform data migration of the company's historic data into the Ramco

payroll system.

. Ensure system readiness for Parallel and Live runs.

. Fixed up critical live run bugs which had huge impact to ensure the

stability of the system.

. Analyze regress results and resolution of problems.

. Coordinating parallel runs and ensure the system output matches

exactly with the expected output.

. Extend support for Live Run.

Project/Clie Performance Management System implementation for Ciba

nt Specialty chemicals (second phase), Switzerland (Sep

2005 to Nov 2005)

Role Onsite techno functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Interact with customers for enhancements in the existing modules, do

fit gap analysis with the product delivered, translating the same in

to technical design and do the development.

. To improve the user friendliness of the system formulated a core idea

to change the work flow system of the existing appraisal module

delivered.

. Scheduling development task, assigning the same to team members and

monitoring the development task.

. As onsite consultant was involved right from the setup of the servers,

rolling out the changes, testing phase, Fixing up the critical issues

and UAT sign off.

Project Description: Ciba Specialty Chemicals is one of the largest

chemical companies in Europe manufacturing dyes. It has branches all over

the world including Asia, Europe, Canada and Australia. To cope up with the

competitive market across the globe and to increase the revenue for the

company, performance improvement of the individual employees and

organization is one of the essential areas to be developed.

Ramco's Performance Management System (Appraisal) for key and senior

managers would help to establish a comprehensive method for the review of

individual target achievement, leadership performance and for planning

necessary initiatives to enhance performance and development in the

organization.

Project Description: Ramco HRMS product was implemented in various hotels

belonging to Radisson Edwardian Hotels, United Kingdom after tailoring the

same to suffice the needs of the customers. This involved customizations in

various HRMS spectrum such as the Hire Process, Leave Management Process,

Time Management, Staff Accommodation, Appraisal and Payroll.

The Time Management Module developed for Radisson Edwardian Hotels was

tightly integrated to Leave, Training and Payroll Modules. Employees were

paid on a bi-weekly basis. Employees also worked across different profit

centers. The Timesheet had provision to compute the employee's pay based on

the profit centers the employee worked in the specific pay period

The Timesheet had functionality to handle both Pattern based shifts and ad-

hoc shifts. In addition to that both Normal and Overtime payments were also

handled through the same activity.

Ramco HRMS is being used in 13 hotels in and around London belonging to

Radisson Edwardian Hotels.

Project/Clie HRMS Implementation for Radisson Edwardian Hotels,

nt United Kingdom (Dec 2004 to August 2005)

Role Systems Analyst (Team leader)

Responsibilities:

. Understanding the business rules in various modules, translated the

same in to technical design and development

. Effort estimation to complete a task, scheduling tasks and guiding the

team members with the development tasks.

. Led a team to develop modules like Leave Management System, Appraisal

and Timesheet in the project.

. Data migration support from the existing system to new system

. Ensured stability of the live run by providing support from the

offshore, systematic monitoring of the bugs allocated and fixing

critical go live is

Project Description: Ciba Specialty Chemicals is one of the largest

chemical companies in Europe manufacturing dyes. It has branches all over

the world including Asia, Europe, Canada and Australia. To cope up with the

competitive market across the globe and to increase the revenue for the

company, performance improvement of the individual employees and

organization is one of the essential areas to be developed.

Project/Clie Performance Management System implementation for Ciba

nt Specialty chemicals, Switzerland, First phase (Sep 2004

to Nov 2004)

Role Onsite techno functional Consultant, Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

. Responsible from project initiation stage till project implementation

including client interaction, understanding the business requirements,

design and development, testing, implementation, UAT support and live

run.

. Was involved as the primary developer in Appraisal module development

which was considered to be a huge task to be completed in a short span

of time.

. Formulated an idea and developed an interface to migrate the existing

system's employee data to the new system in the client's place.

Ramco's Performance Management System (Appraisal) for key and senior

managers would help to establish a comprehensive method for the review of

individual target achievement, leadership performance and for planning

necessary initiatives to enhance performance and development in the

organization.

Project Description: Housing development board, Singapore is involved in

the town planning and housing activities for Singapore citizens with an

employee strength of more than 2000

Ramco developed a complete customized ERP (HRMS and finance ) for HDB which

includes modules like Payroll, Leave Management, timesheet, time

management, training, Appraisal, Hire process etc.

Product/Proj HRMS implementation for Housing Development Board,

ect Singapore (Jan 2003 to August 2004)

Role Onsite techno functional Consultant, Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

. Understanding the business rules in various modules, translated the

same in to technical design and development

. Support of HRMS implementation from offshore

. Primary developer in the Leave Management, Appraisal and payroll

modules and provided support for the same during live run.

. Performance improvement in code was done in all self-service modules

including Appraisal and Leave management system

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