SRINIVAS GADEPALLI – Workday Technical Consultant Contact Number: 647-***-****

email:ad1tmf@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

A highly motivated Consultant with 6+ years of development, configuration & support experience in Workday HCM & Financial Integrations, Reporting & BIRT (with 15+ years of prior experience in Software Development, Business Analysis & Project Management). Maintains strong interpersonal relationships with Business Partners. Demonstrates excellent Organizational & Problem-Solving Skills to meet deadlines. A consistent high performer with excellent client relationship management skills

Strong experience in Workday HCM & Financials. Completed 2 full life cycle HR system implementations.

Strong experience in Workday Integrations using Enterprise Interface Builders (EIBs), Core Connectors, Workday Studio and Document Transformations - XML/XSLT (ETV & XTT) and Cross-Functional Impacts

Strong experience in creating and managing Custom Reports using Report Writer Tool

Strong experience in designing Business Form Layouts using Workday Studio/Report Designer Tool.

Knowledge in Web Service Technologies like JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, PGP, SAML

Strong experience in documenting Requirements for Workday Data Conversion.

Strong knowledge in Peoplesoft & SAP HR Systems

Strong experience in Data Management, Data Analysis, Data Integrity & SQL scripting

PMP Certified with strong Project Management experience in Project Planning, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management & Team Development

Strong experience in Change Management Processes and Methodologies

Well versed in Testing, Quality Processes, Six Sigma & Lean Methodologies

Strong knowledge in MS Office, MS Project, VBA, and MS Access

TECHNICAL SKILLS

1.Workday HCM & Payroll: Core HCM (Core-HR, Talent, Performance,, Absence, Time Tracking), Compensation, Workday Payroll (PICOF, PECI), Recruitment, Security & Tenant Management

2.Workday Integrations: EIBs, Core Connectors, Document Transformations (ETV & XTT), Workday Studio (Web Services, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, PGP, SAML & BIRT)

3.Workday Reporting: Report Writer (Simple/Advanced Custom Reports, Matrix Reports, Custom and Calculated Fields)

4.Workday Financials (General Ledger / Account Payable/ Account Receivable)

5.Salesforce: Salesforce.com CRM, Cloud Computing, APEX, Visual force and SOQL

6.SAS: SAS 9.4 M2, SAS Access Interfaces Hadoop, Amdocs & Teradata

7.DWE & BI Systems: Hadoop, Teradata, Data Stage/ETL, Informatica ETL, OBI, SAP BI/BW, PowerBI

8.Content Management Systems: Documentum & ECM / IBM FileNet

9.Languages: C/C++, MFC, Java/J2EE, XML, XSL/XSLT, Visual Studio. Net / C# / VB / ASP, Python

10.Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10G & Ingres, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL

11.Operating Systems: UNIX (SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, AS/400), Solaris-10, Windows XP & Windows-7

12.Tools: SharePoint, ClearCase, JIRA, CVS, Purify, UML, JBuilder, QTP, HP QC / ALM and Open view

13.Microsoft Office Tools, including Visio, Excel & PowerPoint

EDUCATION

Master Of Technology (M. Tech) in Computer Science, JNTU

Workday Financials Certification Course – ZaranTech, USA August 2020 – November 2020

(General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables & Billing)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

1.Elanco Inc. USA; Lead Workday Consultant November 2021 – Till Date

Design, development and maintenance of Integrations and Reports

Responsibilities:

Development and maintenance of inbound/outbound integrations using Workday Studio, Core-Connectors and EIBs

Development and maintenance of Payroll Integrations for Equifax, UBS, Darwin etc.

Development and maintenance of Kronos demographic outbound based on RAAS Reports

Maintenance of Package Connectors in Benefits, Compensation and Recruiting

Development and maintenance of Custom Reports using Report Writer tool

Development and maintenance of BIRT Reports using Workday Studio/Report Designer for Merit / Bonus Statements, Talent Card and Offer Letters.

Technologies Used: Workday EIB's (Enterprise Interface Builder), Core Connectors and Package Connectors and Workday Studio (including BIRT / Report Designer), SOAP, REST APIs, JSON and Service Now

2.Wolseley Canada/Ferguson USA; Senior Workday Consultant (Total Rewards & HRIS) July 2021 – Oct 2021

Responsibilities:

Functional Configuration of Text Blocks, Calculated Fields, Conditional Rules and Questionnaires in Workday.

Functional Configuration of Business Processes and Notifications for the Generation, Review & Delivery of Offer Letter Documents

Functional Configurations related to RRSP changes, Tax Forms/Deduction Codes, Compensation Bonus Structure, Scorecards etc.

EIB uploads to update Total Rewards & Compensation changes

Functional Configurations related to embedded videos, Banner/Logo, Company Paragraphs in Job Posting Templates

Develop/Fix Core Connector Integrations related to Payroll and Leave Codes

Develop integrations to send Absence and Time Tracking files

Technologies Used: Workday (Talent Acquisition/Recruitment, Compensation, Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence & Reporting), Workday EIB's (Enterprise Interface Builder) and Core Connector’s

3.FIS Global USA; HCM / Workday Consultant December 2020 – June 2021

Talent Acquisition Program: Implementation of Offer Letter Automation and the BUC Finder Tool. In this context the requirement is to configure the Automation of Offer Letter Generation for various countries in Workday and Workday Studio (using BIRT/Report Designer) and BUC Finder Tool focuses on improving processing times by addressing pain points related to employees who work with Business Unit Code (BUC) comprises of Company, Product, Cost Center and Location. in various contexts beyond People Office and HR processes.

Responsibilities:

Offer Letter Automation for various countries by designing Business Form Layouts for each of the companies in these countries using BIRT/Report Designer in Workday Studio.

Configured Documents, Text Blocks, Calculated Fields, Conditional Rules and Questionnaires in Workday.

Configured corresponding Business Processes and Notifications for the Generation, Review & Delivery of Offer Letter Documents

Uploaded Test Data into Workday using EIB's (Enterprise Interface Builder) and corresponding Workday Delivered Templates

Configured Job Profiles, Job Families and Job Classification/Job Family Groups

Configured Job Requisitions (JR), Posting Jobs, assigning corresponding roles, creating Job Applications for each JR, adding candidate profiles etc.

Configurations related to embedded videos, Banner/Logo, Company Paragraphs in Job Posting Templates

Created and maintained Technical Requirements for set of APIs developed using JSON for integrations between front-end App, Infinity Connect, Workday & Data Lake.

Created and maintained stories using JIRA and associate corresponding requirements to these JIRA stories

Issue Tracking using JIRA and work on resolving the issues on time

Create and run SQL queries in Data Lake Environment

Execution of APIs using Postman and ensure the implementation as per the requirements

Technologies Used: Workday (Talent Acquisition/Recruitment & Reporting), Workday EIB's (Enterprise Interface Builder), Workday Studio (BIRT / Report Designer), REST APIs, JSON, Postman, Microsoft SQL Management Studio, JIRA, Wiki Pages & other Requirement Management Tools

4.Bank Of Montreal (BMO); North America, Workday Business Analyst October 2018 - July 2020

Workday is Software as a Service (SaaS) application hosted and maintained by Workday. Bank of Montreal (BMO) has licensed Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) to serve as the system of record for Human Resource (HR) and Payroll data. Implementation of this new HRMS tool refreshes the overall HR systems architecture within BMO and leverages the benefits of a cloud solution.

Responsibilities:

Participated in Discovery Sessions, Deep Dive Sessions and Design Sessions

Study & Analysis of existing PeopleSoft Integrations and determine impacts to downstream systems

Acted as Technical Point of Contact between Business Partners, internal & external Stakeholders.

Analyzed the customers business requirements / processes and developed solutions to meet desired outcomes

Created data mapping documents for accurate Data Conversion from Workday / IDP to BMO downstream systems

Designed and developed integrations and performed unit and system integration Testing

Followed the defined integration/development standards and best practices

Involved in implementation of all defined integrations from Workday/IDP to BMO downstream systems and third-party systems, such as

A.Mass load of data into Workday using EIBs and Workday delivered Excel Templates

B.Configured Integrations from Workday to various downstream systems such as Audit, Security, Sales Performance, Master Card Benefits Eligibility, Business Continuity, US System Employee Interface, Department Tree, Employee Reporting System, DataMart Asset Management and Mortgage Eligibility System.

C.Configured Payroll Integrations from Workday to other financial systems like Hyperion, Fidelity, Insight, P&C, T&O and Spectre to send Employee Paid FTE, Paid Hours, Overtime Hours, Salary and Headcount information and inbound integration from ADP to Workday to send employee Payroll details

D.Developed Core Connector Integrations related to Payroll and Leave Codes

E.Developed integrations related to Absence and Time Tracking

F.Outbound Integrations from Workday to General Ledger Accounting Systems to Payroll Summary 401K, Accruals and Payroll Register Information

Created integrations and used XSLT to transform XML data to various files formats and to safely deliver files using SFTP server.

Transformed XML files to other desirable formats (like JSON) using XSLT and integrated with third party applications for data exchange.

Created various EIB integrations using Workday templates and engaged in validating and customizing Business Processes for Integrations.

Used functions such as ETV/XTT to do XSLT file transformations for integrations on Workday Cloud, proficiency in understanding SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT languages.

Used sequence generators, generating templates, and validating inbound integration system results

Created multiple custom reports using appropriate data sources, business objects, calculated fields and custom objects with Report Writer tool provided by Workday.

Followed change/release management processes to implement changes into production

Technologies Used: Workday (EIBs, Core Connectors and Workday Studio), PeopleSoft, IDP/Hadoop, Netezza, Aginity Workbench, Hive QL / SQL, Zephyr /JIRA, SharePoint & IDB Requirement Management Tool, XML/XSLT, SOAP, WSDL & Rest APIs

5.TD Canada Trust; North America - Workday Analyst June 2017 – September 2018

HR Platform Program: Implementation of a Software as a Service (SaaS) based Human Capital Management (HCM) platform to replace Oracle: PeopleSoft HCM, Fusion Compensation and P3 (Performance).

Standardize HR processes, leveraging out of the box best practice HR processes, eliminating the need for customizations, and the related expensive upgrades/maintenance.

Reduce the ongoing cost structure for HR, in a predictable manner, while driving digitization and automation, direct access (self serve), and flexible/responsive technology

Support the best of innovation, while improving data quality and control

Core HR Functionality

Full Employee and Manager Direct Access (i.e. self or team information view) including Mobile Capabilities (Phone, Tablet)

Job requisitions and position Management

Global organization charts

Standardized business processes

Absence Management

Requesting Absences (PTO, Leaves, Return from Leaves)

Talent

Replacing P3 for Talent profiles

Replacing P3 for Talent Resource planning process

Benefits

Benefits setup and configuration

Performance Management

Replacing P3 for Completing Mid Year Reviews

Survey functionality for 360 reviews

Payroll

Replacing PeopleSoft with Workday payroll for the US and Canada. Building an integration between Workday and PeopleSoft to keep the two systems in sync.

Time Tracking

Time Tracking switched over to Workday with the payroll go live

Advanced Compensation

Replacing Oracle Fusion and eComp for Year End compensation processes

Reporting & Analytics

Workforce management dashboards for people leaders and HR (i.e. headcount, turnover, movement etc.)

Responsibilities:

Supported day-to-day activities for implementation of workday Core HCM Configurations,

Configured RRSP changes, Tax Forms/Deduction Codes, Compensation Bonus Structure, Scorecards etc.

EIB uploads to update Total Rewards & Compensation changes.

Configured Workday Functional Areas such as Organization & Roles, Staffing, Compensation, Payroll & Time Tracking

Configured Security Groups, Security Policies, Domains & Business Processes to ensure security and data privacy standards are followed

Developed different types of custom reports (Simple, Advanced & Matrix) using calculated fields as per the requirements.

Up To Date in developing trends with relevant technologies, systems development methodologies and best practices by being an active member in Workday Community

Data Catchup Analysis to finalize the Catch-Up Transaction Analysis

Followed change/release management processes to implement changes into production

Provided weekly status to the leadership team

Tracked and maintained issues and key decisions

Technologies Used: Workday 30/31, PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion, P3, e-Comp, SAP Fieldglass, Kenexa, EDPP, NetIQ, CA Technologies ACF2, HP-ALM, Confluence, JIRA & SharePoint

Prior Experiences

6.Bell Canada; Technical PM – SAS; Dec 2016 – April 2017

Technologies Used: SAS 9.4 M2 (Base, EM/TM, OLAP, DIS, EBI, Credit Risk Scoring & Scoring Accelerator), SAS GFS2 Clustered File System, SAS Metadata Server Cluster, SAS Access Interfaces such as Hadoop, Amdocs & Teradata

7.Training & Certification in Big Data Analytics (on Cloudera, Pig, Pig Latin, Hive & HBase using Hadoop (May 2016 – Aug 2016)

8.Royal Bank of Canada (RBC); Sept 2010 – May 2016; PM Consultant

‘FATCA/CRS & DSU’ Programs

Technologies Used: Data Stage-ETL, Teradata Warehouse Miner (TWM), OBI, TSYS, Teradata and Peregrine Service Centre, SAP BI 7.0, Teradata DWE, MS Access, BEx Query Designer, Report Designer, WAD & Analyzer, XML / XSL / XSLT

‘DWE’ Projects:

Worked on small to medium sized projects concurrently for implementation of Data-warehousing (DWE) solutions to various applications such as Credit Origination Systems, Insurance, Leasing and AML Compliance areas:

RBC Leasing Integration: Implementation of Data Load process to convert all active leases from existing NLG system to new ASSET system, Extract/Purge historical lease data from NLG and decommissioning of NLG load process. Data Migration from NLG to Asset systems

DMTI Phase-1: Implementation of DWE solution to enhance the quality of mortgage property addresses recorded in CASPER using DMTI interface for faster client and sales experience

Small Business Credit Made Easy: Implementation of DWE solution to simplify end-to-end credit process for Small Business in CASPER by adding new fields such as Auto-Qualification Indicator, Interest Price Adjustment etc.

CLSB Insurance: Implementation of changes required to receive new product type to existing Tables that holds Balance Protector Information, for optional life and disability insurance on CLSB cards

AML Enhancements 2010-2011: Implementation of Data Load Process for loading ICRE file data into EDW in order to enable AML Intelligence Team to perform their transaction monitoring process effectively with additional data related to negotiable items redeemed at RBC but purchased at OFIs in US and Canada excluding RBC

Following activities were accomplished:

Analyzed business requirements and resolved scope issues with BU and IT stakeholders

Understand the business process and system data flow

Data Analysis and Profiling

Ensured completion of logical and physical data models

Created Data Mapping, Software Requirement Specification and Security Control documents

Evaluated Reporting Requirements and Created ETL / BI Design documents

Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution and Closure

Technologies Used: Teradata MDM Solutions, MSAS, SAS Data Modeler, Data Stage-ETL, Data Mining, Data Archiving, OBI/EE, TSYS and Peregrine Service Centre, HP(UNIX)

9.John Wiley & Sons, USA; Business Analyst (Jan 2010-July 2010)

Tools & Technologies Used:IBM Informatica, Salesforce Cloud Computing and Microsoft Tools

Methodology Used: Flex Delivery Model, Jira, Kanban

10.Wipro Technologies; Business Analyst (Jan 2009 – Dec 2009)

Tools & Technologies Used: Salesforce.com CRM, Cloud Computing, APEX, Visual force, SOQL and

Microsoft Project Plan (MPP) Methodology Used: Scrum Development Model, Jira, Kanban

11. Target Corporation, Minneapolis. MN, USA; Business Analyst (March 2008 – Dec 2008)

Tools & Technologies Used: Solaris(UNIX), Web Sphere Application Server (WAS) 6.0, ATG 7.1, Java/J2EE, XML, XSL/XSLT, Apache & Tomcat, Microsoft Project Plan (MPP) and Clarity Project Management Tool

12.Supervalu Inc., Boise, ID, USA; Business Analyst & QA Lead; April 2004 – Feb 2008

B2C, B2B and B2A Portal projects are the largest IT projects within legacy Supervalu Inc. B2C Portal project is about re-engineering the B2C ecommerce site in J2EE platform and B2A Portal project is to re-engineer existing Associate portal using Struts Framework; Following activities were accomplished:

Built and Managed successful client relationships with Albertson’s - Supervalu Inc, by ensuring all business needs were met

Study & Analysis of EDI & B2B portal requirements and processes to develop solutions meeting customer needs.

Ensured effective design, development & testing of all applications related to B2A & B2C Portals and Documentum Content Management Systems with client Albertson’s – Supervalu Inc. while defining test strategies to ensure SOX Compliance and assisted development & support teams with SOX Compliance

Ensured effective Testing of Retail ecommerce backend systems such as ISP/POS Systems, Sales & Cash Control and Central Billing Systems using TOAD Software Tool

Instrumental in improving quality of deliverables through Continuous Process Improvement

Developed and executed SQL queries using TOAD to perform Database Testing

Tools & Technologies Used: Teradata DWE, Solaris (UNIX), Documentum, Oracle 8i/9i/10G, MS SQL Server, TOAD Software Tool, BEA Web Logic 8.1, HP-ALM and Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), Siebel CRM, Apache & Tomcat

CERTIFICATIONS

1.Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified

2.IT Service Management ITIL v3 Foundation Certified

3.Business Analysis Certified

4.CBSA Certified in SAP BI/BW & Business Objects

5.Certification in Big Data Analytics using Hadoop (June 2016 – Oct 2016)

6.Sun certified Java-2 programmer and brain bench certified J2EE 1.4 development

7.Trained in Workday HCM, Integrations and Reporting from Workday

8.Workday Financials Certification Training

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