Sugumar Ganesan

SAP HCM Payroll Time Management Specialist

Phone: 945-267- 4431

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Visa: Australian citizen – E3 Visa Holder

SUMMARY:

•SAP HCM Certified with 17+ years of SAP functional experience in implementation and support of SAP HCM Modules like Organization Management (OM), Personnel Administration (PA), Time Management (Positive & Negative), Cross Application Time sheet (CATS) & Payroll (PY) US, Australia, India, South Africa, Philippines).

•Successful completion of 6 full life cycle implementations as per the ASAP methodology and 4 Support projects.

•Experienced with the following SAP R 3 versions: 4.5B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0

•Experienced Techno Functional in SAP US Payroll & Time Schema and Personnel Calculation rules (PCR’S) and CATS Configuration.

•SAP payroll schema, wage types, garnishment, process models, and remuneration statement.

•Resolved complex payroll system issues which arises during payroll run/ Payroll Production support.

•Involved in all aspects of project work: Design, Configuration, Unit Testing, Acceptance Testing, Documentation, Data conversion migration, End User Training and Support.

•Performed configuration in Om, PA, Time Management (Positive & Negative), ESS & MSS, HR Renewal, CATS Application, SAP Process Model, Payroll (US, Australia, India, South Africa, Philippines).

•Have excellent work experience in integration project with SAP from third party systems.

•Excellent working experience of configuring the Posting to FI\CO.

•Experienced in ADP Global view Support and Implementation projects.

•Data conversion design using tools like SQL for extract and LSMW to upload in SAP.

•Experience debugging ABAP codes. Functional Modules and BAPI’s and BADI’s.

•Experienced SAP Payroll configuration, Unit, SIT and UAT testing, Parallel Testing, postproduction support.

•Certifies in Success Factors Employee Central (EC) & Employee central Payroll (ECP).

•Experience in the development of Business Process model, End User Training, and Documentation using JIRA/Confluence.

•Excellent at understanding the business requirements of the customer, translate them into functional customizations and co-ordinate with the technical team when necessary.

Professional experience:

Company: Donato Technologies, Dallas Sep 2023 – Till date

Lead SAP Payroll Consultant

Duties included payroll day to day issue resolution, TUBS update, SUI updates, HRSP review, testing and configuration of requests to support business needs.

Payroll Support for HR team and resolve tickets such as fix payroll posting issues

Analyzed, developed, maintained and provided production support for the payroll area (Stock Savings Plan, Savings Plan, Pension, Voluntary deductions and Sales Commissions programming, configuration and schema) in a SAP R/3 environment.

Configuration for Tax module by adding additional tax type for different Tax combo

Wage type configuration changes from converting taxable to non-taxable.

Created and maintained payroll Wage Types for payroll processing.

Benefit configuration for changing plan and rates for New Enrollment.

Worked on multi state Tax issues and ran BSI what if analysis tests to determine the root course of the Tax issues and relevant sap configuration changes and PCR rule creation if necessary.

Create Dynamic Action for delimiting info type for employee termination action.

Involved in Year end Tax report generation like W2, W2C, W2S, W3 & 6559 and resolving issues generated in the log.

Company: Zer01 Pty Ltd, Australia Sep 2020 – Sep 2023

Project 1 - Long Service Corporation, Sydney

Integration Project - ECC 6.0

Lead Consultant – SAP HR/PY Consultant

Integrating Sales Force system with SAP in real time claim request submission and customized PCR’S to calculate tax as per Australia Taxation office (ATO) rules.

Created wage types with all the required configuration and new symbolic account for posting to FI.

Involved in defining the enterprise structure (personnel areas and sub-areas), pay scale

structure (pay scale type, area, group and level) and the personnel structure (employee

groups and sub-groups) of the enterprise using the tables T001P, T500P, T501, and T503K and linked the pay scale and enterprise structures.

Created functional specification document and technical support for Interface project which connect leave system of LSC and SAP to process LSL claims to STP.

Customized PCR’S for Long Service Leave Pre August 78, Post Aug 78 and Post Aug 93 claim processing and Tax calculation in Payroll.

Creating Spinifex report for LSC business users to generate and review both Off cycle payments and Single Touch Payroll (STP) submission report.

Prepared functional spec for Sales force and SAP integration to process claims by LSC workers in Sales force.

Created customized SAP Payroll process Model using PEST & PUST to automate Off cycle payroll and subsequent activities Pre-DME, Post-DME, Live Posting, Release document and Post document to FICA.

Developing test plan for scenarios to be tested on Sweet on HANA cloud Azure system.

Testing all the transactions, reports, Payroll parallel run, Posting, STP, custom HRFORMS, Leave accrual, ESS & MSS in SAP on Azure.

Integrated benefits with payroll.

Worked on Personal Calculation Rules (PCR) & and knowledge on Schema etc.

Payroll Data, Processing Classes, Absence Valuation, Cumulation, Deductions,

Worked on Third Party Remittances, Internal Tables, posting to FI, Off Cycle Processing, Check Printing and Bank Transfers.

Created symbolic accounts and assigned those with G/L accounts

Implementing Labor costing solution by using CATS which includes creating Data entry profiles, creating requirement for Security roles, Assignment of work center at positions and transferring time data to project systems.

Configuration of PCC to optimize payroll process for SAP ERP support.

Company: Infosys Technologies Ltd, Australia Dec 2016 to Aug 2020

Project 1: NSW Government Agencies, Sydney

Interface and Migration project

Lead Consultant – SAP HR/Payroll

Performed Gap analysis based on the AS-IS document and detailed in Business blueprint with optimal solution and submit for stake holders sign off.

Configuration of enterprise structure based on the time and pay scale groupings defined in the award for the incoming agencies.

Generate mapping tables based on the source and existing system and provide data migration team for data extraction.

Perform and support unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing and regression testing as part of project deliveries.

Worked in Kronos for mapping interfaces to SAP and implemented shift planning system which was implemented on Kronos.

Creating functional specification for Kronos to SAP integration and presenting to business and technical team to get it approved.

Testing Rostering and generation of ordinary, overtime and Additional hours after saving the time sheet in Kronos system.

Testing Inbound and Outbound interface via MuleSoft from SAPConnect to Kronos and vice versa.

Creating solution for Roster based cost assignment for Shift hours and Penalties as per the agencies award document.

Configuring PCR’s for Sixth Shift and Shift Loading for Saturday 50%, RDO on Public Holiday scenario, Max Shift loading and Shift Allowance for working, Sat/Sun/Pub Holiday payments.

Configuring Time wage type selection rule with new processing type for Public Holiday RDO, Public holiday RDO TOIL, Public Holiday Rec leave and Casual Ordinary Hours.

Creating a new Flex agreement for GWIC and LGR to cater the time sheet requirement for employees which is manual in the source system.

Resolving hyper care issues raised by employees after Go-live.

STP changes in STP related tables, Data analysis, Wage type analysis, SAP service pack analysis, STP impact analysis, Testing STP Pay event fields, Payroll reconciliation, technical build and deployment in production system and post implementation support.

Cornerstone integration with SAP during Employee onboarding process.

Configured new absence quota and types and accrual rules for Inspector and Judges asper the award.

Creating LSMW for the info types which is not updated through IDoc for Data services team.

Creating new PCR’S for Sick leave mutual leave fund, Overtime rate calculation for Inspectors, Additional recreation leave for remote area and proration changes for employees working on 49.98 hours schedule.

Project 2: NSW Government Agencies, Sydney Jun 2016 to Dec 2016

BAU Support Project

Lead Consultant – SAP HR/Payroll

Played as lead role in BAU support for all the Gov Connect agencies managed in SAP by supporting and resolving escalated issues which is unable to resolve by team members.

Taking transition from implementation team to support team.

Worked on position-based security project to stabilize role and authorization assignment to employees to control access.

Resolving escalated issues where the team members unable to resolve and communicated to customer in an efficient manner.

Stabilizing and managing issues by daily tracking and initiating teamwork for faster resolution.

Involved in consolidation of Employees from one company to Other Company.

Project 4: Industry Specific Solutions for Public sector India Nov 2015 to May 2016

Lead Consultant

As a project lead managing and coordinating HCM Competency team in completing the industry specific solution for public sector in internal server.

Closely worked with basis team in upgrading internal server to EHP7.

Prepared project plan for project execution and tracking the team activities.

Reviewed all the project related documents like BBP, Configuration docs, UAT docs, User Manual etc and guided team to complete the documentation.

Worked on UI design for the home page screen in share point 2013 for IS Solution.

Implemented HR Renewal as a platform to launch ESS & MSS Applications.

Implemented SAP Fiori Transactional Apps for mobile.

Project 5: Gujarat HRMS Implementation project Dec 2013 to Oct 2015

Lead Consultant – SAP HR/Payroll

Involved in PA, OM workshops with users for gathering of Blueprint requirements and conversion data.

Managing Team and providing solutions and support to the team on some complex requirement with a view of any future risks and possibilities for any error.

Implemented HR Renewal 2.0 by activating OData services and other basic settings.

Created and configured Employee self-service application.

Prepared functional specification for developing UI screens for ESS/MSS portal based on the business requirement.

Interacting with the client on requirement gathering and presenting HR Renewal process to the team.

Providing high level support to the client in all the processes and applications in the government of Gujarat.

Provided training on ESS/MSS and all HCM process to the departmental heads in Government of Gujarat.

Supporting team members on designing workflow requirement for multi-level approval process like Leave approval, Leave order generation, LTC approval, GPF Approval, Loan approval etc.

Identifying the need of Training & provide training to end users from time to time on existing systems and new developments.

Worked in developing mobile apps for ESS/MSS logins and other processes by using customized OData services.

Company: Aegis Limited – India May 2011 to Dec 2013

Project: Aegis Global Ltd

Implementation Project

Senior Consultant – SAP HR/ Payroll & Time

Client interactions & co-ordinations for requirement gathering, blueprint Finalization, realization, Go-live preparation, cut over and Go-Live.

Identifying, designing Functional specification, and testing of RICEF objects.

Strategy planning for all Milestones in Implementation - Blueprint design, Baseline configuration, Testing, Integration, Interface, Data migration, training, cutover and Go-live.

Coordinating Technical and Enterprise Portal team (Onshore & Offshore) for project deliveries.

Identification of Business scenarios & preparation of Scripts for Unit testing & Integration testing.

Identification of user with their roles for designing Authorization Matrix

Preparation of Configuration document and Super User Manuals.

Coordination with Third parties for interface development & testing.

Positive time management configuration.

Payroll Philippines configuration includes Tax codes, HDMF, SSS and Phil health, company loans.

Configured the settings for Group certificates and payment summaries display in ESS and in SAP.

Copied and configured PH standard schema Q000 to 1300 for various requirements like hourly payments by excluding leave hours, OT payments, Purchase leave process etc.

Prepared FS for salary registers and Super report.

Configured multiple decimal places for hourly rate process with 4 decimals by using new currency AUD4.

Configured all ETP payment wage types and set processing class accordingly to take care of Marginal taxation and Lump sum payment taxation.

Designing Roles and authorization profile matrix for ESS and MSS users.

Prepared FS for developing a report to view Quota approval process without using Workflow.

Prepared FS for the development of WEB DYNPRO ABAP application for displaying Loan display, statutory contribution, and YTD display in ESS.

Company: ADP India Ltd – India Jun 2010 to May 2011

APAC Support Project

Role: Senior Consultant – SAP HR

Supporting Payroll Process, handling day to day issues of the users which is assigned to me in CRM tool and resolved the issues based on service level agreement.

Payroll support for multi countries like India, US, UK, South Africa & Malaysia.

Tested the configuration in development and prepared test document before moving the changes to Quality system.

Interacted with clients for assisting them for some critical issues.

Created new PCR’S for some critical scenarios.

Helped other team members in resolving the payroll issues.

Have created new Company codes, GL accounts and mapped them to symbolic accounts for Posting to FI.

Company: HCL Technologies Ltd – India Feb 2008 to Jun 2010

Implementation & Support

Role: Senior Consultant – SAP HR

Presented HCM Payroll process to the core user team and clarified queries for the same. Given input for preparing AS IS document for the users.

Discussed on CI templates and prepared BBP for TM and Payroll, submitted for validation to the Team HCM Lead.

Presentation on Payroll process communication to the core team.

Completed BBP and uploaded in SOLMAN after getting sign off for the same.

Prepared Configuration documents and conducted Configuration Workshop to the Core team for Payroll and Time management.

Prepared User Manual and presented the same to the Core team.

Supporting HR Module Activities in OM, PA, TM and Payroll, handling day to day issues of the users which is assigned to me in PM Smart and resolved the issues based on SLA.

Visited client site for emergency issues and resolved the same.

Company: Net Business Solutions (I) Ltd – India Jun 2006 to Feb 2008

Implementation Project

Role: SAP HR Consultant

Studying the client Business process and capturing all the existing requirements (AS IS).

Prepared Business blueprint document by mapping their Business processes into SAP.

Activities such as Requirement gathering from client, managing project resources, preparing functional specifications, deciding criticality of developments, effort estimation for completing developments, allocation of work to developers.

Data Migration Activities such as Finalizing data collection templates from client, gathering live data, filtering unwanted/wrong data and get signoff for the same.

Prepared Functional spec for Reports as per client needs and uploading data by BDC.

Understanding legal requirements of the client. Analysing the schema and related payroll functions, personnel calculation rules (PCR's) and operations and modified the same, to reach the required solution.

Certification:

SAP Certified Application Associate – HCM with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5 (Active)

Success Factors Compensation Management (Expired)

Success Factor Employee Central Payroll 2020 (Expired)

SAP Solution Manager (Active)

Education

Master of business Administration (MBA) – Bharathiyar University, India - 2002

Bachelor of Pharmacy – Tamil Nadu DR. MGR Medical University, India - 2000

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