Padma

Senior Workday Consultant

470-***-**** ad28ne@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/padmawdpulijala

Summary:

6+ years of IT experience, over 5 years of experience in Workday involving various activities like Integrations, Reports, and Workday lifecycle implementation phases like – Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Go-Live, Support phases.

Good experience on Workday HCM implementations, Workday business process configurations, Workday Reporting, Workday HR, Benefits and Payroll technology domain expertise.

Core HR- Experienced in understanding client business requirements, Organizational Hierarchy setup, configurable Security setup, Tenant setup, Custom field mapping, and system process designs.

Proficient in understanding HR modules like Benefits, Payroll, compensation, Recruiting, staffing, Talent Management, Business process.

Good knowledge of EIBs, Inbound/Outbound Integrations, Workday Studio, Report Writer, and Calculated Fields.

Created more than 75 Custom Reports using Report Writer tool provided by Workday and used to Calculated fields when necessary while creating reports.

Researched issues developed workarounds and assisted Workday end users.

Architected and built Integrations (Cloud Connectors, CCs, WWS, EIB, DT, PI, PECI, BIRT, Custom Reports, CF/Calc Fields, XSLT), plus Security + BP workflow configuration. Migrated objects and data.

Commendable knowledge in developing applications using Programming languages like XSLT, Soap UI.

Setup User Based, Role Based, Intersection, Segmented Security groups.

Worked extensively on designing Workflow Application, creating workflow Maps, Defining Roles and Role Users, and testing workflows.

Analyzed complex sets of data to find out quality issues and implemented steps for improvement Data migration and interface monitoring and processing.

Mass Loading Data through EIB in Workday through Inbound Integration Launching/ Scheduling Integration for data transfer from Workday to Third Party Payroll Vendor (Ex: Ceridian) through Outbound Integration (PICOF).

Worked as a Techno/Functional consultant in the upgrade of PeopleSoft 8,9.0,9.1 HCM.

Expertise in Resolving the issues related to HRIS and Benefits Administration.

Prepared documentation for changes functionality due to upgrade.

Participated in Project management activities - Issue resolution, Interaction with implementation team, risk management, project status reporting.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems Windows: Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac.

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL, HTML, JAVA, Python.

IDE: Eclipse, Oxygen, Workday studio, BIRT.

Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MS access.

ERP: Workday, PeopleSoft.

Reporting Tools: SQR, Crystal Reports, PS Query, XML Publisher, simple, Advance, Matrix, Composite, Trending.

Integrating Tools: Workday EIB, Workday Studio IDE, XSLT, Web Services, PeopleSoft Tools, People code, SQR Package, VISIO

Office Suite: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Ms Office 365, Share point.

Education:

●Bachelor of Computer Applications

Osmania University

2003

Professional Experience:

Workday Techno-Functional Consultant AIG, Charlotte, NC

Oct 2021 to Till Date

Consulting with clients on a variety of data integrity to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or time frame.

Created many reports with simple, advance, matrix, and composite.

Building complex reports with use of advanced calculated fields.

Created both standard and custom reports and used security in the reports. Scheduled many reports in workday.

Designed a lot of reports with the help of BIRT like a new hire Letter.

Uses knowledge of HRIS business functions and involves the key players to identify and assessing operating needs and issues and suggest solutions (possibly cross functional or global) for one or more business function.

Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.

Performed Workday maintenance tasks such as Upload Cost Centres (Using EIB uploads), BP configuration changes (Hire activity approval cycle modifications), Update Delegate task, Security Role mapping for HRBP users as required.

Clarified QA team issues and Reviewed test plans to make sure that all requirements will be covered in scripts and tested properly.

Handling support tickets for various modules in workday like (Core HR, Benefits, Time Off, Compensation).

Responsible for design Supervisory organizations, Cost Centre, Cost Centre Hierarchies and location hierarchy’s maintenance, and modification of Work Business Processes and definitions.

Worked on the creation of Benefit plans, job profiles, and job families.

Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.

Support and service as a liaison between employees and management.

Created functional document for script development, testing execution, defect tracking and resolution.

Experience in Workday Financial Modules like General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Procurement and Asset Management.

Assist with the new business process and working with Finance and Business Managers.

Perform regression testing efforts to support release management and phased rollouts in different geographic regions.

Served as functional administrator for customized Recruiting and Resource Management system. Tasks included coordinating requirements between the firm's Resource Management team and Recruiting team, implementing requirements utilizing the front-end development tools of the system, maintaining system data tables, and troubleshooting the system after project implementations.

Workday Integration Consultant Discover, Riverwoods, IL

Dec 2020 to Sept 2021

Hands-on involvement with Analysis, Setup and Configuration of Workday HCM.

Creation of Supervisory organization, Locations, Cost Centres, Custom Organization, Creation of Business Processes (ex: Compensation, Hire, Onetime payment, Enter Time, Termination).

Implemented Software Quality Assurance development policies, test procedures and testing methodologies, wrote Test Plans according to Business Specifications and design documents.

Designed business flow diagrams and processes, which included processes in staffing, job benefits, compensation grades and packages.

Configurations of core compensation Like Grade, Grade Profile, Plans.

Worked as a Payroll production support and researched, analysed, and fixed Payroll production problems. Monitored all Payroll jobs and post Payroll job run. Troubleshooting all issues with these jobs and fixed them.

Worked on different types of reports, EIB connectors.

EIB's - outbound and inbound with custom transformation using XML, XSLT, XPath

Building Benefits Core Connectors like WBN (Inbound/Outbound service, Enrolment), Integration Document Retention.

Created Inbound/Outbound EIB's to receive/send benefits data from workday to external vendors like Wage works.

Developed Fidelity 401K Integration using Workday Studio to send Employee contributions pre-tax amount based on Payroll Schedule.

Worked on core connectors with document transformation - ETV and XTT transformations.

Workday Studio (Inbound) - Worked on a global inbound integration using nine different transactions like Hire, Terminate, LOA, Benefits and Compensation Changes etc.

Developed to bring in daily worker data changes to Workday by using studio.

Experience in workday Finance module developing studio integrations, EIB and Core connectors.

Participate in compensation management, quarterly incentive compensation payments.

Provide financial and analytical support for the incentive compensation accounting and forecasting processes. Respond to ad-hoc projects related to incentive compensation program.

Production Support - Fixed Production issue varying from employee access, Creation of new Role, Single Sign On issues etc.

Provided Mentorship and Design documents for Reports and Integrations.

Workday Techno-functional Consultant Curvature, Santa Barbara, CA

May 2019 to Dec 2020

Created and modified and launched integration systems and integrated sequence generators.

Designed both inbound and outbound EIB (Enterprise Interface Builders) integrations in various segments of workday system.

Day to day support to workday HCM, security, compensation, and reporting issues.

Updated employee's organizations, locations and compensation using inbound Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

Experience in analysing logs in workday for different modules like security groups, reports, and business process.

Created mass compensation changes and modified allowance plans and benefits.

Good knowledge of data sources, primary business objects and secondary business objects.

Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage.

Converted and validated North American Payrolls for USA. Worked with different business process related to hiring and recruiting and performed root cause analysis.

Worked with team to review system features in correlation to current processes. Developed and debugged functional tests for workday applications.

Configured Cloud Connector for Benefits for Delta Dental, United Concordia, and Express Scripts to send Benefits Enrolment data to Benefits Providers.

Experience in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD).

Conducted project management duties of global teams for Performance Management and Benefits modules.

Documented workflow, configurations, business process for e Performance module using Excel, MS project and Visio.

Participated in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers.

Develop impact and preliminary analyses in SDLC and participated actively in their implementation. VISIO and MS Project, Excel as Reporting Tool.

Created daily matrices report based on application usage across the Organization and created the project support related documents, updated, and maintained Project Cycle Management (PCM).

Expertise in cloud connect HCM and Cloud connect for third party Payroll. Worked on PICOF and GPC, PECI, PI interfaces. Implementation of system enhancements and conversions which included developing detailed documentation for training and testing.

Good Experience on Workday Implementations, Workday business process configuration options in staffing, Compensation, benefits events, Time off/leave events, Talent Management Events.

PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Consultant CUNY, New York, NY

January 2018 to Apr 2019

Created complicated SQL’s and PS Query reports related to student admission data, student records data, student payments and student Financial Aid to assist college bursar, Registrar, Financial advisors, and campus admissions team to make informed enrolment decisions.

Created ad hoc reports and scheduled PS Query reports in PeopleSoft HR/campus solutions module and Microsoft SQL database.

Maintain accurate entries into the applicant tracking system (ATS).

Performs onboarding and accurately records administrative actions into the ATS.

Created SQL’s and PS queries which are not available in HOBSONS RETAIN data warehouse and scheduled them for use in the Production environment.

Analysed the tables present in CCNY data warehouse identified and rectified inaccurate tables and created a query in the reporting instance and scheduled queries to update inaccurate data elements.

Helped the city college bursar department, professors, and IT members on how to use and search in the PS query viewer, PS query manager and PS query scheduler.

Closely worked with the campus functional team to resolve the defects in the CCNY data warehouse.

Created SQL’s and PS queries useful for the EAB and HOBSONS online retention systems.

Explained about design and customization of tables and panels and adding new options using People Tools.

Analysed the payments table and explained to the users how the PeopleSoft tables run and created queries.

Helped the IT department identify inaccurate student data and explained the reason for the data errors by analysing the student’s data through student summary and query manager.

Providing training for all aspects of enrolment operations at any given time.

Developing most effective coding format for translating values between CUNYfirst and external systems.

Train staff on the use of 3C’s, duplicate ID procedure and other skills for CUNYfirst application.

Knowledge of HOBSONS radius functionality for prospective student identification and retention within CUNY

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9, Security, ORACLE 11G/12C, Microsoft SQL database, People Tools 8.50/54, SQR and Windows 2003, Application Designer, People code, Application Engine

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