RIAZ AHMED H.U

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SAP HCM and SF Consultant – An Overview

Problem solver with a passion for technology; skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualising, developing, implementing solutions & partnering closely with business leaders & stakeholders

PROFILE SUMMARY

Mr. Riaz is a Certified SAP HCM and Success Factor, Solution Architect with more than 17+ years of SAP HCM and SF, exposure to SAP Workflow experience. So far he has been in a Consulting, Team Leadership and Manager Role for SAP HCM and SF, EOE Implementations, Support, Roll outs and Upgrades projects with business process analysis, conceptual design, blue printing, configuration, testing and production support.

He has a combination of Functional, Technical and Leadership skills, with an overall knowledge of the full SAP R/3 HR suite and a strong focus on PA, OM, Payroll, Travel and Time Management. His breadth of experience gives him a deep understanding of the SAP HR Modules and their integration with other SAP modules and success factors. This allows him to define effective solutions and designing integration strategies with other SAP modules of SAP and with third parties, banks, and government systems

Certified SF for the modules Employee Central (EC), Compensation and Performance Management and Goal Management (PMGM).

Learning Management System (LMS). Holding good experience in Implementation and Support project in Success Factor.

Having more than 17 years of experience in the areas of SAP Implementation, Project Management, Production Support, Enhancements and Stakeholder Management

Worked with SABIC, Jubail KSA as SAP Consultant; active involvement in the HR support and in changes required as per the business needs and Workflow requirement.

Extensive knowledge in managing full SAP R/3 HR suite and a strong focus on PA, OM, Payroll, Travel and Time Management, Employee Central, Compensation and Performance Management and Goal Management.

Excellent understanding of all aspects of the Human Resources business process with experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements for conceptual design

Good working knowledge of ASAP methodology and ESS/MSS configurations with experience in end-user training and documentation

Maintained the number ranges for organizational units

Created and configured the Org Structure and built all the valid relationships using transaction codes PPOCE and PPOME

Responsible for conceptual design, requirement analysis and detail design. Involved in configuration of Organizational Management.

Strong SAP HR/SF functional background with excellent communication and interpersonal skills facilitate the communication of detailed technical information and providing technical assistance to customers, systems, and management and/or external sources.

Resolving issues in HR area for Payroll, Thrift Enrolment, Loan, Repayment, Withdrawal Info type 267 subtype 3700 with default values to the Compensation focal point to create the Onetime payment for requesting for withdrawal from thrift savings plan

Resolving employees Pay slip issues with respect to Remuneration, Overtime, Timesheet, ON-call, Travel trips and Settlements, Furniture allowances etc...

Couples extensive technical knowledge with leadership skills to maximize business performance and competitive edge to propel companies to market dominance

Distinction of coordinating within and other teams to deliver projects to clients within specified timeframe as per specifications.

oSuccessfully administered 4 Full Lifecycle HR Implementation Experience (also experience in Workflow) in SAP R/3 4.7, Success Factor Implementation projects (Employee Central, Compensation and Performance Management and Goal Management), 3 Support Projects in SAP R/3 4.7, Recruitment, On-Boarding, MSS, ESS, LMS, SAP Data Mapping, End user Trainings, Up gradation Projects; Success Factor; 1 SRM Support Project for the Workflow in MM (Material Management) Module. Exposure to Business Specialist – Planning.

oDelivered US payroll HCM EOE Implementations and support for clients for Bahrain(ALBA), Jeddah & Saudi Arabia(SABIC)

oTax slabs (which needed to be reflected in PAYE... Pay as you earn), civil and social and tax laws.

oConfigure the system to accumulate the correct taxable wages, by configuring the tax models. Garnishments and Benefits.

oSupport for the payments issue for the Off-cycle payroll run for example bonus payment for certain employees

Championed Analysis, Development and Global Implementation of SAP HR systems for Service Enterprise. Broad knowledge of ABAP/SDLC methodologies and HR Workflow, Debugging; Understands technology & its applications; adheres to Quality Systems Built systems that were critical factors in Business Development, Support Business Users and Solution Offerings

Cross-cultural exposure to Bahrain, Jeddah & Saudi Arabia

SKILL SET

SAP Consulting Project Management Implementation & Support

As-Is / To-Be Analysis Solution Identification Blueprinting,

Data Migration Successful Roll Outs Integrations

Go-live and Post Go-live User Acceptance Testing End User Training

Technical Support Technical Documentation Quality Assurance

Highlights:

Bagged following awards &accolades:

oFrom client for delivering the complex/critical Issues in shortest period

oAppreciated by Global Subject Matter Experts &Application Specialists of client for smooth KT and building teams confidence

oAppreciated by management as best Lieutenant and dependable

Efficiently performed deliveries as KT lead for the new joiners.

Achieved Solution Architect Award during the HR Implementation project for workflow

Was Part of Innovation; contributed and implemented cost saving &team engagement ideas

Awarded Best Performer and multiple e recognition in the areas of Solution, Team Work, Responsiveness and Client focus from on shore and off shore management

Won Best & Consistent Performer for the support being delivered in SABIC

Good experience in Conversation with Client/customer in business language.

CAREER CONTOUR

Since June’23 – Till date : Khaleej Business Solutions - SAP Project Manager

Formed and led a team to steer the projects towards successful implementation aligned with the stakeholders’ expectations and requirements.

Evaluated project outcomes in terms of quality, consistency, accuracy, overall value, and completion dates.

Reports project status in a timely and accurate manner.

Identified issues and risks promptly and developed/implemented appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.

Created and managed the estimates, project plan, project schedule, resource allocation and expenses to ensure targets were reached.

Configure and customize the SAP Success Factors EC, Compensation module to align with client-specific compensation structures, guidelines, and processes.

Collaborate with other SAP Success Factors modules to ensure seamless integration and data consistency across the HCM suite.

Implement Talent hybrid and EC module; maintain compensation plans, salary structures, and bonus programs within the system.

In-depth knowledge and Proficient in configuring and customizing SAP Success Factors modules.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights.

Identified and monitored project objectives, policies, procedures and performance standards for the project life cycle as an indicator of quality.

Takes on overall project supervisory responsibility and provides mentorship and coaching to an entire project team.

Measure the performance of the projects and analyze the progress in conjunction with the progress of key performance indicators set out at the strategic objectives level.

Provide regular “state of the art” reports in terms of content, insights, and quality to the executive management.

Risk, issue and change management - maintain mechanisms to manage change control, risks and issues within specific projects.

Since July’22 – May’23: SASREF Company – SAP Project Manager (on Contract)

SAP SAC Dashboards for HR, Finance, HSSE, Procurement, AIMS, Contract and Audit SAP Analytics Reports.

Conducting Business Workshops for the business Requirement Gathering.

Demonstrating the SAC Dashboards with Business in respective Domains.

Capturing the Changes required during Business UAT’s for the SAC Dashboards.

Adhering to the Business needs and thereby delivering Quality work.

Follow Change Management Process if the changes are more than 2 working days.

Team and Work load management.

Crisis handling for resources and completion of work within the Sprints.

Testing of SAP HCM services, identify gaps, issues and capability to provide work around solutions.

Managing the Complete Project in Cross Modules of SAP along with HR Module.

Since July’21 – July’22: SADARA Chemical Company – SAP HCM Consultant (on Contract)

Worked in SADARA as SAP HR-IT Consultant in SAP HR Module.

Worked Project Scope document for Supplemental Manpower Project – SMP Project.

Worked on End to end SPDP project, prepared scope document, FS for workflows and WRICEF objects and Test Scripts.

Capturing WRICEF objects required with Workflow Approvals along with Escalation Matrix as per Organization structure by configuring the Notification needed for all the Processes of the Workflow.

Report to Work (RTW) and Contract Release Purchase Order (CRPO)

Personal Administration, Salary Action & Contract renewal.

Time Management (Time sheet, Leave Quota, OT Payment & Prior Approval.

Leave Applications with the Workflows and Attendance

Planned Compensation for the SMP (POD Processes)

Involved in IR Automation Project for the UAT testing for all the Workflow processes and Forms.

UAT for Housing Request.

UAT for Property Damage Process.

Employee Transfer Form Process.

Travel and Event Service Request Process.

Recruitment Calculation Process.

UAT for IT0040 additional fields in the Info type to map with Vehicle Process Workflow.

SASREF – Solution Architect and Project Manager

Worked for Internal and External Audit Project.

Designed the scope of the Project and worked on the Blueprint for the following Applications

Engagement Commencement Letter

Risk Assessment

Planning Memo

Term of Reference

Engagement Work Program & Control Testing

Worked on End-to-end Audit Project, prepared scope document, FS for Workflows and WRICEF objects and Test Scripts.

Capturing WRICEF objects required with Workflow Approvals as per Organization structure by configuring the Notification needed for all the Processes of the Workflow.

Since Feb’20 – July’21: Ahmad A. Abed Trading Est. – Assistant IT Manager (on Direct hire)

Involved in Hiring process of employees.

Managing all IT related issues with all the departments includes HR, FI, MM, and SD.

Responsible for handling staffing, training in the assigned region for showrooms and end users.

Managing all the HR activities.

Configuration Changes done for the Annual Salary compensation for PA30.

Employee details report for all the Info types maintained in SAP HR system.

Configuration changes done for Loans and simulation report for the same.

Training the End Users for all the HR activities.

Updating to the management with requirement gathering with HRBP and stake holders.

Supporting HR Workflows for all Time, Leave and Travel Management processes.

Requirement gathering from the Stake Holders and HRBP for the enhancements required for the Workflow Implementation.

Preparing Functional Specifications for all the WRICEF objects for HR Processing in Time, Leave and Travel Management.

Proposed Cross-Functional project for Invoicing in all the Showrooms of the company by Integrating SAP HR, SD, FI and Portal for Invoicing to the Customers for Sales and Maintaining/Updating Inventory in SAP.

Feb’19-Feb’20 –Federal Consulting as SAP HCM Consultant (on Direct hire)

Key Result Areas:

Leading and managing different stages of project management e.g. Project Initiation, Kick Off, As Is, To Be, Gap, Requirements Gathering, Risks, etc.

Involved in Transition of HR Processes workflows into Fieori Application for Travel, On-call, Overtime, Employee Profile, Thrift etc…

Understanding business challenges & translating them into solutions; analyzing user requirements in order to understand the problem domain and to suggest the alternatives available for a solution to them

Maintaining Relationship with the Managers to understand their recruitment needs and to formulate plans and forecasts.

Responsible for handling staffing, training in the assigned region.

Implementation of Success Factor Employee Central which includes Payroll.

Translate client business requirements into business solutions. Complete Unit Testing and provide UAT Support.

Defines and revises policies related to the various activities that go within the HR department.

Interacting with the regional HR Partners from the point of short-listing any candidate till they join.

Conduct telephonic and face-to-face interviews with the candidates.

Worked on OM, PA, TM, PY and Travel Management modules.

Prepared requirement gathering for Travel management for both Domestic and International trips.

Dealing with grievances of the employees and develop employee relation.

Imparted with hiring process.

Responsible for preparing scope documents, Test documents for change requests.

SPOC for all SAP HCM and Success Factor issues and requirement gathering with the HR Business partners.

Nov’18 – Jan’19: Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited (DRAL), as SAP HR Consultant (At Client site Implementation Project)

(on Contract)

Key Result Areas:

Understanding existing business process during the Blueprint phase.

Leading and managing different stages of project management e.g. Project Initiation, Kick Off, As Is, To Be, Gap, Requirements Gathering, Risks, etc.

Understand the current SAP HR Module setup at DRAL and present utilization, Monitoring and understanding issues with SAP HR module and existing payroll.

SAP HR Project delivery milestone reporting into the overall business process.

Develop and maintain project management documents.

Prepared blueprint documents for Organization Management, Personnel Administration, Time Management, Payroll and Travel Management.

Gathered information with the client by holding discussion sessions with the business process team.

Worked directly with the Ward-level/Zonal level project teams to confirm the requirements and scope the project keeping in mind the need to implement the standard SAP HR as much as possible.

Acted as a primary contact for SAP HR module in all issues related to module implementation and operationalization.

Prepared FRS (Functional Requirement Specification) document containing the workflow of the implementation of Travel management.

Nov’17-Nov’18: Federal Consulting as SAP HCM Consultant (on Direct hire)

Key Result Areas:

Maintaining Relationship with the Managers to understand their recruitment needs and to formulate plans and forecasts.

Responsible for handling staffing, training in the assigned region.

Defines and revises policies related to the various activities that go within the HR department.

Interacting with the regional HR Partners from the point of short-listing any candidate till they join.

Conduct telephonic and face-to-face interviews with the candidates.

Worked on OM, PA, TM, PY and Travel Management modules.

Prepared requirement gathering for Travel management for both Domestic and International trips.

Dealing with grievances of the employees and develop employee relation.

Imparted with hiring process.

Responsible for preparing scope documents, Test documents for change requests.

Acted as a SPOC for all SAP HCM issues and requirement gathering with the HR Business partners.

Maintained different Number ranges for different objects.

Jan’14- July’17: SABIC, Jubail KSA as SAP HR Consultant (on Contract)

Key Result Areas:

Understanding business process, studying and analyzing workflow to design solutions; looking after business case development & performance measurement

Involved in Transition of HR Processes workflows into Fieori Application for Travel, On-call, Overtime, Employee Profile, Thrift etc…

Understanding business challenges & translating them into solutions; analyzing user requirements in order to understand the problem domain and to suggest the alternatives available for a solution to them

Monitoring basic functions, document type creation activities, order creation, etc.; working on Change Requests(CRQ) for the issues reported in HR Area

Looking after HR Process workflows changes; resolving issues related to Business Travel, Time sheet, Employee Profile, Continue Study, Leave and On Call Request related issues

Taking care of the regression testing for a global development and coordinating with development team for defects and issues

Developed ANA Reports for Travel requests for both Inside KSA and International for both Affiliates and SABIC HQ, Overtime, Employee profile update, Thrift Loan, HR Bank Details update, Expense Reimbursement, Employee Personnel Business.

Resolving the ESS reported issue’s through the mechanism of SSRS being utilized in SABIC network for issues like Travel Management, HR On-call, Overtime, Timesheets, Personal Business Requests, Housing Requests, etc.

Involved in Bus Deduction for Transportation; Female Leave Policy Update and Charity Additions & Modifications

Overseeing:

oEFM – Employee File Management – a complete document solution, an add-on of Open text for SAP

oSAP HCM Application maintenance for world’s 6th largest petrochemical company established globally

Feb’12-Jan’14: HCL Technologies as Lead Consultant (on Direct hire)

Lloyds Banking Group – Implementation Project

Key Result Areas:

Designed Functional & Technical Specification for all SAPHR Ledger Workflow Requirements

Accountable for gathering functional requirement and preparing functional specification for all Workflow Requirements

Took care of in SAP HR FINREP (Finance and Reporting in Lloyds Banking Group) for a team of 15 members from offshore

Prepared functional spec for the Development of SAP HR Workflow Templates, Standard Tasks, Methods, Secondary Methods, Containers, Deadline Monitoring, Business Object Types, Roles & Customized Workflow Tasks, Workflow Templates, Standard Tasks, Business Object types, Rules & Function Modules

Blue print for to Design single & multi-step Custom Workflows; enhanced Standard Workflows/Business Object types based on business requirements

Created the Master data for HR and employees and validated all the functionality on the Portal

Handled integration issues of HR with FICO

Sep’09-Jan’12: IBM India Pvt.Ltd.as Advisory System Analyst (on Direct hire)

PMI - Philip Morris International / SRM- Supplier Relationship Management Project

Key Result Areas:

Configured / customized SAP HR module with strong cross functional knowledge

Defect tracking and status update through quality center

Created custom evaluations with ABAP team using Adobe Smart Forms, sent completed data back to standard SAP appraisal functionality

Defined Various Work Schedule rules and defaults for each PS & ES Groupings using feature SCHKZ

Created the Attendance, Absence types and Time types and also defined their characteristics

Defined Holidays and created holiday calendars and the factory calendars

Created work schedule rules and all objects that make up the work schedule rules

Grouped employee subgroups and Personal subareas for various reasons and defined all time modifiers

Created absence quotas & set up the rules to accrue the quotas for time evaluation & non time evaluation

Apr’08-Aug’09: HP, Bangalore SAP Consultant (on Direct hire)

GSK - GlaxoSmithKline (Up gradation from 4.7to ECC 6.0)

Perkin Elmer (Up gradation from 4.6c to ECC 6.0)

Key Result Areas:

Developed Functional spec for SAP HR reports for the objects to be developed using ALV and BDC programming; configuration for output determination, reporting.

Worked with the ABAP/4 workbench team for all the SAP HR reports deliverables

Involved in object oriented programming/design, database tasks/concepts, reporting tasks, etc.

Created and maintained master documents

Responsible for: As Functional role

oABAP query reporting, debugging and performance tuning issues

oProvided Functional specification and Transforming requirements into technical specs

oHandled different tickets related to Time management, ESS and MSS

oDefined various work schedule rules and default for each PS & ES groupings using feature SCHKZ

oGrouped employee subgroups and Personal sub areas for all time modifiers

oCreated valuation rules and the counting classes to evaluate the absences

Apr’04-Apr’08: Wipro InfoTech as SAP and Workflow Consultant

SABIC Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) (Support)

ALBA (Kingdom of Bahrain) Implementation Project

PETRORabigh (Jeddah) Implementation Project

Created Functional spec for the reports in HR module for the workflow related objects; developed workflow for the online scenario Personnel Action Form, Proposed Final Settlement, Local Purchase Order, Personnel Request Form; Workflow for the Offline scenario Loan Application Form, Internal Application Form, Good Suggestion Form, Application for PC

Worked with the team for Generating reports and function modules for the workflow created; developed BDC for the info types 0001, 0002, 0007, 0008, 0014, 0083 and 0043

Collaborated with the ABAP developers and the QA team to develop and test new functionality and enhancements related to CATS

Configured Training & Event Management for Training Programs Catalogue, training need determination, demand determination for training programs, In-house & External training programs, planning & scheduling, training Calendar, nominations for training,resource booking, Resource reservation, booking for training program cancellations, training prerequisites (if any),training Appraisal & attendee Appraisal

Changed the rules for garnishment calculations and maintained the HR accumulators to use and the rules that apply to them

Participated extensively in Unit testing, UAT and integrated testing

Used HP Quality center for testing and responsible for writing Test Scripts, executing and solving the Defects

Worked on Time Management, PA, OM, Payroll (US and Canada), Training &Event Management and Benefits

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Jan’03-Apr’04: Fusion InfoTech as C Programmer and ABAP Consultant

SAP CERTIFICATION

SAP HCM Certification – SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6

Success Factor Certification in Employee Central (EC),

Compensation and

Performance Management and Goal Management (PMGM).

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Applications in 2002

Bangalore University with 70%

PERSONAL SNIPPETS

Date of Birth: 16thDecember, 1977

Nationality: Indian

Marital Status: Married

Languages Known: Arabic, English, Hindi, Urdu and Tamil

Personality Traits

Driven to Succeed & Excel

Innovative in Thought & Solutions

Persuasive Communicator

Effective Business Negotiations

Decision-Making Skills

Problem Solver

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