Ramaiah Pinnam

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

● Extensive experience in the implementation of SAP HCM, Payroll USA, CANADA & Europe, deployment & production support for 19+ years and a total of 21 years’ experience with full life cycle process.

● Expertise in ASAP Methodology, configuration Requirement Documents for each sub modules, GAP Analysis & Implementation of Custom business scenarios for North America, Europe, Asia

● Good understanding of Legal changes / SAP Notes implementation & validation for PY results

● Worked with Cyber Security team to get the dedicated devices upgraded with Windows 10 & have Infra. team to set up Fire Wall & Proxy for the on-premises along with whitelisting IP addresses chosen.

● Experience with Agile Project Management tools JIRA & SPIRA for the SAP Scrum teams.

● Experience with Project Planning, resource allocation & providing reports over projected cost of the project and project enhancements.

● Concepts of SAP HR to S4 HANA popularly known as H4S4 for the use of HR on-premises

● Moved existing NGA Payroll to ADP Global View & the current HR for master data using G2 interface.

● Experience with Personal Administration: Hiring to Termination activities – Personal & Additional info.

● Good knowledge of public sector edition for Funds & Grants management.

● Integration of Benefits for both Qualified, Non-qualified plans, delimiting the dates & Limits.

● Update UI taxes as per TUBS released during that Fiscal year.

● Worked with FMLA for different family events that include maternity & disability.

● Worked with different types of Garnishments, Recovery & Adjustment.

● Worked with FLSA, setting up Overtime payment for Non-exempt employees, say Union employees.

● Configuration & Integration of Time with payroll using Kronos, Time Link, CATS for Unions

● Experience with Time Configuration & PCRs to achieve Overtime calculations for hourly EEs.

● Experience with Payroll Configuration, creation of PCRs to achieve payment calculations for Non-Exempt hourly employees

● CATS approval via ESS/MSS for custom times, Profile change req. & benefits elections

● Experience working with Federal & State - additional with holdings, Other Taxes with /tec. Wage Types.

● Experience setting up Gross2Net payroll with Non-taxable Benefit deductions, taxes.

● Clearing up claims with IT0221 before generating w2s for the US employees

● Experience working with Off-Cycle reasons for a Single & also for Mass employees.

● Generated W2s USA & T4s Canada after resolving year-end differences, adjusting TFGs values via Tax Reporter Manal entries & adding WT values for different Boxes in the Year-end forms. Ramaiah Pinnam

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● Experience working with SAGE50 for payroll accounting and good understanding of renew/upgrade previous year version to latest version to follow latest FED & State taxes reporting.

● Good Understanding with HXM suite that sets up Cloud based solutions like HRMS that connects EC & ECP with pre-built integrations across SAP.

● Experience working with SAP Success Factors for RBP, EC Implementation & testing before Go- Live, Recruitment & On-boarding/ Off-boarding along with Employee Performance & Goals

● Experience working with Year End Adjustments for both in-sequence & out of sequence.

● Good understanding of RICEFW activities as a Functional consultant in executing them.

● Worked with EE Expense Management (EEM) for Travel exp. Into payroll taxable expenses.

● Creation of BPPs for end user training, data gathering & Online training for offshore teams.

● Parallel testing with V-Lookup for the results extracted for mid-year Go-Live Education details:

Education

Country & University Immigration Status

B.S. Engineering – Structures

Andhra University: India

Green Card – USA

Certifications & Learning Competency:

Competency Proficiency Category Subcategory

Day Force ERP System Advanced HCM Payroll, BN & Time Digital: Microsoft Azure E0 Digital Cloud Computing Process: Agile Delivery E0 Agile Agile Delivery

Digital: Cloud Computing

(General)_Foundation

E0 Digital Cloud Computing

Compliance: Data Privacy E0 Audit and Compliance Compliance Quality Management for Delivery E0 Delivery Quality Management for Delivery

Achievements & Awards:

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Award Name Award Date Award Category Award Subcategory Service &

Commitment

Award

01-Dec-2020

01-Dec-2018

Service Awards – PG&E

Service Awards – SCE

Service Award

Service Award

Professional Experience:

Zoetis Inc, Parsippany, NJ Remote Project (March, 2023 – current) Sr.Project Lead, SAP HCM Implementation & Change Management Consultant Requirements Gathering, Blueprint document preparation & CRD (Config requirement document) for Approvals for PA, BEN, Payroll and for subsequent activities like postings Finance, Bank Transfer and 3PR remittance along with unit testing documents to support UAT with Users.

• Created Blueprint Addendums/ Project plans to ensure all the agreed upon project activities are captured for the implementation or enhancements.

• Asessed Projected cost for each milestone working closely with Finance & Stake holders.

• Worked with Time evaluation for full time & Part time Non-Exempt EEs for each payroll.

• Validated payment wage types as per new PCRs embedded for time & payroll sub-schemas.

• Maintained Default Wage Type Model as per Country grouping, EE Group & Subgroup.

• Worked with BSI for each TUB release to update Tax Rate changes and unit testing the same.

• Worked with subsequent activities like FI postings for both Salaried & Hourly employees

• Configured TFGs (Tax Form Groups) and maintained relevant features to produce W2s as per client needs.

• Created Test Scripts & maintained share point for the same to execute end-to-end functional outputs to trace system behavior after every change request. Ramaiah Pinnam

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ADP Inc, Roseland, NJ Remote Home Office (April, 2022 – Nov,2022) Sr. Project Lead, SAP HCM Project Services (ES)

Create Project Milestones & Schedule war room like sessions with Client teams to collect Business Requirements along with Federal, State, Local Tax information to create Quotations for the estimated Man-Days & update ADPs Global View templates for Blueprint Addendums for both USA & Canada to implement Change request as per Service Level Agreements.

• Created Blueprint Addendums/ Project plans to ensure all the agreed upon project activities are captured for the implementation or enhancements.

• Implemented end to end full life cycle projects for New Legal Entities, house banks & FI set up for merger companies along with updating BSI for the New Employer Identification Numbers

• Configured & integrated benefit plans with payroll for health, insurance & savings plans.

• Implemented SFTP connections for the Inbound G2 files to our Global View systems from different Vendors & also processed Outbounds for the same to the Vendor working with our clients for Payroll, Benefits & Garnishments

• Managed the scope of all projects and cut-over activities as per SLA agreement.

• Ensures projected cost, pre-validated as per war room and prepared mitigation plans to report risk items that required management & stakeholders attention.

• Maintained user Roles as per access privileges required to process inbound and outbound files.

• Worked with SSL spreadsheet loading for IT0165 to update 401k Savings adjustments for all the existing employees from the merger company.

• Cleared up Claims using IT0221 before generating W2s & T4s for employees with dues.

• Implemented Tax Locator Audit Report to compare Employee’s existing tax areas with respect to Residence & work Tax location for both On-premises & Virtual employees.

• Supported clients with EC & WDAY for their Master data upload to SAP Global View system.

• Maintained Unit testing documents to train & support UAT teams to complete end-to-end functional process before Go-Live

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Rimini Street Soft. Company, NV (May, 2021 – Jan, 2022) Sr. Quality Engineer/ SAP HCM Support Manager

Manage & Approve SAP HCM functional Requirements for different Clints in USA, Canada & Other Clients.

SAP HCM Support for Clients: Provide end-to-end testing for Business Requirements including Personnel Administration, Payroll & Benefits for different Clients using JIRA framework as Agile Project Management tool to address solutions over a bi-weekly Sprint.

• Created test templates for different requirements such as EFW2s, TUBs to provide Test execution & Passing test cases using test tool Spira.

• Verified RA, RE, RW, RW, RV records & compared totals for EE payments & taxes for both FED

& State

• Created Tax Form groups & assigned $values via PU19 manual entries & added values using IT0015 for the same TFGs to have the totals reflected in W-2 form, for example Box,14

• Worked closely with BSI (RSITE) support on issues related tax calculations, updates on HR Forms to incorporate new taxes on pay slips & W-2 forms to populate correct tax wages.

• Worked on Tax Update Bulletins (TUBs), BSI Unemployment tax rate changes, Configuring Tax Models to make Wage Types taxable for different tax types.

• Updated Benefit Constants for Health, Savings plans etc. And integrated the same with payroll to reflect deductions & employer match as per the contribution Limits for that fiscal year.

• Understood Backlog items in the Scrum & cloning a few to next sprint due to pending developments.

Project Manager, Southern California Edison, CA (March 2019 – January 2021) Project Management for SAP integrated with existing Infra Structure & third-Party Vendors – Project 1: "Corp. Project Delivery - PAN : Manage SAP HCM & Infra teams, Work with Cyber Security team to get the dedicated devices upgraded with Windows 10, Work with Infra team to set up Fire Wall & Proxy Set Up for G05 along with white listing IP addresses assigned, Manage TCS test teams for Work Flows & BW eligibility testing confined to G05, Manage a team for T&D requirements in Chino Hills, Manage Post Go-Live support - Apart from the above, additional scope for BW Eligibility & Report Customization added & validated.

Created Resource allocation plan to arrive at the projected cost for the above project. Ramaiah Pinnam

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Determined Activities for each Milestone as per the expected Timelines proposed by Client teams.

Designed project Blueprints & CRDs as per ASAP methodology to meet Client requirements.

Verified Role Based Permissions created by our Success Factors team. & Worked closely with data migration team.

Maintained SAP Activate timeline to implement SAP SF Employee Central.

Verified activities performed with Data Retention tools to Purge/delete unwanted data and Inactivate User IDs from EC SF

Verified Organizational Structure for PPOCE, PPOME & PPSM for Org Unit, Staffing & Roles

Verified Enterprise Structure for Company Code, Pers. Area, Sub Area & Personal Structure for Employee group, Subgroup & Payroll accounting Area.

Created Hire to Termination for On-boarding/off-boarding activities after the Eligibility check for the qualified candidates with respect to PAN Vendor.

Generated payroll periods for both Exempt/ Salary & Non-Exempt/ hourly employees – monthly, Semi Monthly, Bi-weekly & Weekly pay periods for Country grouping 10/USA.

Validated employee Benefits enrollment & costs associated for both Qualified/non-qualified plans.

Validated test cases for TUBS to confirm Tax Updates configured.

Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the payroll function, including management of the SAP payroll system for company-wide payroll processing in compliance with local, state, and federal guidelines.

Garnishment processing & Adjustments for various types of garnishments.

Created Benefit Plans for Health, Insurance & Savings plans & integrated the same with payroll.

Verified configuration for the post payroll activities like FI postings & third party 3PR posting.

Validated test cases for W2 field mapping for different types of employees for 401k, GTL etc.

Maintained defects tracking tools & Validated issue resolution timelines with respect to SLA. Project 2: Preform Incident Management (IMT) for the project the "Infrastructure was built in a hybrid environment with On-Prem and Cloud" & Integrated with SAP ERP systems “Finance, HCM, Operations Support, Asset and Work Management, Analytics and Reporting; & Customer Care” - to leverage SCE owned infrastructure along with SCE’s private cloud, Azure. All Vendor data validation and Quality Control are done on-premises, while vendor data (drone/helicopter/Ariel etc.) are uploaded on the Azure cloud - Verified Databricks Workshop Navigation - Validated connectors for Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions & unzipping files using ADF – Used JIRA – Agile process to comply with target dates for different module support.

Project Manager, Project Implemen., Pacific Gas & Electric Ltd. - CA (April 2017- January 2019) Ramaiah Pinnam

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Blue Print design as per ASAP methodology & Generate Test Strategy plan for all the business needs & testing process for Product development & process the same via Electronic Data System (EDRS) for the project team approval.

● Understand business requirements from BRD & create blueprint & test plan for both SAP regular & custom objects designed.

● Comprehend functional specification and process security request for T-Codes

& Custom Reports

● Build test cases for third party interfaces like health, Insurance for HR & SNEM, ACEIT for WM to process their test request to SAP.

● Create Role based permissions & integrate SAP master data with Success Factors Emp. Central

● Understand Browser compatibility and validate both inbound and Outbound data processed for 3rd party vendors.

● Execute scripts & maintain test evidence in the HPQC tracking tool. HCM Implementation Project Lead, Ceridian Technologies Ltd. - FL (Dec 2015- March 2017) Implemented & delivered 6 major & 3 ad hoc projects successfully, led offshore team as per their skill set.

● Participated extensively in pre-discovery & discovery session to create Business Requirements templates.

● Understood Legacy system and designed Workbooks for Payroll, Benefits & WFM for Configuration

● Worked with conversion teams to create XML documents to import HR, Payroll

& benefits data as per day force data format using SFTP via File Zillah tool.

● Configure as per workbook, create custom reports & process Equifax files to Vendors as per pat run IDs.

● Supported UAT and re-adjusted business requirements and updated Workbooks per business needs.

● Executed scripts & notified the customers in the percentage compliance as per Service Level Agreement

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HCM Configuration Consultant, Agilent Technologies Ltd - CA (May,2015 – Nov,2015) Global View – HCM implementation by ADP, the current payroll from NGA being moved to ADP Global View & the current HR system has been moved using G2 interface.

● Made updates/corrections to the blueprint.

● Designed Config requirement documents (CRD) for all the sub modules.

● Converted spread sheets to G2 interface format for Cost Centers & GL accounts & interfaced the same for both development & quality systems.

● Configured Enterprise structure, payroll, benefits.

● Configured Time module for Holiday Calendar, WS Rules etc.

● Integrated benefits with payroll & created test cases.

● Configured remuneration statement as per client needs.

● Configured all subsequent activities for payroll.

● Configured Garnishments, reciprocity & validated for different states.

● Created Test data and executed test cases for the functional Verification & Validation. SAP Payroll Lead, Consultant at Coca-Cola. - GA (Oct 2013- March 2015) Role: Project Lead: Responsible for building, Go-Live & Delivery. Implemented & delivered 6 major & 3 ad hoc projects successfully, led offshore team as per their skill set.

An introduction to Success Factors Employee Central for Master data & employee time-off for one of the bottling companies acquired for Coke North America.

● Conducted Workshops with Client users & updated requirements/Spec documents for each bottler being acquired for CONA system.

● Configured and integrated all Benefits Plans as per each bottler requirements.

● Process emps time through Kronos’-CATS & approval process through MSS with Manger’s & NMA, Workflow

● Maintained IT0033 for its Subtypes and Clocks with floor machines.

● Updated TUBS for BSI & table compare using workbench for TUBS – Sync tool

● Configured rule-based payments for Reg, OT, On Call, HoL & for Daily Flat rates

● Implemented support Packs, Publication notes for years 2013, 2014 Levy exempt.

● Worked with W2s for each box-wages, SUI & MWR report etc. Ramaiah Pinnam

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● Used Spinifex-IT reporting tool for Master data, benefits & payroll.

● Understand Browser compatibility and validate both inbound and Outbound data processed for 3rd party vendors.

● Executed test scripts & notified the customers in the percentage compliance as per Service Level Agreement (SLA) & supported UAT, adjusted requirements/ updated Workbooks.

● Supported all the clients to produce W-2 & T4s for USA and Canada Projects at a glance:

Project Title Responsibilities

Zoetis Inc Sr. Project Lead

ADP, Inc. Sr. Project Lead

Rimini Street Soft Company Sr. QA. Engineer

SC Edison, Los Angeles, CA SAP HCM & Infra Project Manager PG&E, San Francisco, CA SAP HCM & WM Project Lead

Ceridian, St. Petersburg, FL Dayforce HCM Implementation Lead Agilent Tech., Santa Clara, CA GVPoint, HCM Configuration Consultant Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA HCM Payroll for Dev, Deployment & Production Support Lufkin Industries, Lufkin, TX HCM Support, Year End Process, W2s & T4s Dow Corning, Auburn, MI HCM Global payroll & EEM Consultant NUCOR Steel, Charlotte, NC HCM Year End Process & W2s AMERICAN WATER, Voorhees, NJ HCM Benefits, Payroll & Data Conversion BUCKMAN, Memphis, TN Lead HCM, Payroll & Travel Management NTUA, Fort Defiance, AZ Team Lead, Travel Management & Benefits Hess, Edison, NJ HCM Payroll USA & Expatriates

Pik-Pac, Arlington Heights, IL HCM Lead for OM /PA, Ben, Travel & PY ADP, Testing City of Houston, TX HCM Functional imp. and V & V testing Novus Intern., O’Fallon, MO HCM Functional for USA & ADP, Europe & Canada Century Aluminum, H'sville, KY Sr. HCM Imp. For Ice land & Prod. Support for USA Flight Safety LGA, New York HCM Prod. Support for Payroll & Travel Management Gantec Sol Inc Schaumburg, IL HCM Travel Mgmt. & Payroll Lead – ADP integration Whirlpool, Benton Harbor, MI HCM Support for USA & CANADA Ramaiah Pinnam

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