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 15 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).

Holding good experience in Implementation and Support project in Success Factor.

Having more than 15 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

Involved in integration with the personnel administration by using the RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE30, RHINTE20 reports

Created organizational units, jobs, task and positions assigned the tasks to positions and integrated all of these into the enterprises organizational plan.

Configured the matrix type for the organization and the working time to generate the work schedules for positions.

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, 2 Success Factor Implementation projects (Employee Central, Compensation and Performance Management and Goal Management), 3 Support Projects in SAP R/3 4.7; 2 Up gradation Projects; Success Factor; 1 SRM Support Project for the Workflow in MM (Material Management) Module

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

CAREER CONTOUR

Since Feb’19 – Till date: Federal Consulting as SAP HCM Consultant

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 Firori 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.

Maintained different Number ranges for different objects.

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

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

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

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 Firori 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 HANA 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

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

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

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

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

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

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

KEY PROJECTS

At HCL Technologies

Title: Lloyds Banking Group – Implementation Project

Role: Workflow Consultant (Functional role)

KRAs:

Worked on MLPD’s (Functional Specifications) and DPAD’S (Technical Specifications) of workflow in Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Fixed Assets; working from offshore by handling a team of 12 members

Configuring the workflow settings

Designing the flow logic for all SAP HR workflow

Adjusted new relationships to relate organizational management objects

Maintained payroll calculation rule for unemployment, payroll schema for withholding information, Tax Functions and Override Methods

Defined the HR creditors & associated rules with them governing the way they are paid

At IBM India Pvt. Ltd.:

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

Synopsis: The project accomplished in Ukraine is part of Philip Morris International's global program for unification and optimization of management procedures based on SAP R/3 system. Since 2002 under this initiative the SAP R/3 system has been the platform deployed for business processes standardization and automation at all affiliated companies of Philip Morris International. eRequisition is a self-service purchasing tool which seeks to:

oenable self-service for procurement of selected indirect materials and services

oUse e Catalogues where possible to ensure compliance to the agreed suppliers and conditions

ouse e Requisition as the entry point for purchase requisitions of non-catalogue based purchases and exchange purchasing documents with the suppliers electronically

Role: Workflow in HR, MM Module

KRAs:

Used Share Point Portal for managing project related documentation

Efficiently resolved the technical issues with the team in HR and Material Management Module; Tickets/Support Request (SR) raised by the users and if there is any change required, and then converting the SR to Change Request

Traced the root cause and resolved the HR workflow related issues

Worked with the Workflow team and the translation team to see the levels of leave approval routed properly to the direct manager and upper level managers

Modified CATS Profile for the absence type and also Wage type routing to IT 2010 for time entry without clock times and TM04 schema to evaluate the time

Modified the existing customized Quota rules and the overtime block rules based on the new enhancement changes

Defined deduction rules for absence quotas and assigned these rules to the counting rules

Gathered the information on which fields to be provided for the Payroll from SAP

Delivered the Leave accrual information based on the FDDS

Adjusted the overtime wage types of IT2010 updated from the Interface, maintained the groupings in customized tables

Forwarded report on CCMS / Daily monitoring i.e. Enterprise Buyer Monitoring to the client

Reported on Workflow Monitoring for Work Items failed without Agents & Errors, TRFC Errors and WF Background Job

At Hewlett Packard:

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

Role: SAP Functional Consultant

KRAs:

Worked on clone objects which are used by the client so as to implement these changes into the standard program, so as to use the standard functionality

Actively involved in SPDD and SPAU Activities with the team.

Took care of cleansing of objects, thereby cleansing the code which is not required for the objects and functionality

Managed the issues from offshore by handling a team of 6 members

Worked on Remediation i.e. the objects for Unicode Remediation and correcting the errors in the objects

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

Synopsis: The project dealt with providing deliverables and/or services, collectively, the Professional Services, required for PerkinElmer’s project. HP also provided the necessary SAP knowledgeable consulting resources to perform an MDMP Unicode Conversion and SAP ECC v6.0 Technical Upgrade to PerkinElmer’s existing SAP v4.6c environment.PKI has decided to upgrade their existing SAP R/3 from 4.6c to SAP ECC6.0. This project is to do a Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversion (CU&UC) for PerkinElmer’s current SAP R/3 v4.6c environment to SAP ECC v6.0.

Role: SAP Functional Consultant

KRAs:

Managed Configuration Management Tool

Took care of technical issues in all the Modules entailing SAP HR,FI, Service Management, Organization Management, Sales & Distribution and Material Management

Actively involved in SPDD and SPAU Activities

Worked on Remediation i.e. the objects for Unicode Remediation

Developed technical document in order to replace the Obsolete Function Modules, thereby replacing the same in all the SAP HR objects

Involved in Syntax Checks and Remediation of Custom Programs, Fields or Structures Replacement (some got deleted in ECC 6, required to create a custom structure or fields and then replace in all those custom objects)

Replaced table TVARVC with TVARV Obsolete in ECC 6 in Custom Programs

Carried out BDC Program Analysis & Remediate (Including Dependent)

At Wipro InfoTech:

Title: PETRORabigh (Jeddah) Implementation Project

Synopsis: PETRORabigh Project Management Consultant (PMC) team was established to do the initial scoping work for SAP implementation for Phase II. The main objective of this exercise was to define detailed scope of SAP Phase II by reviewing key business processes and their critical needs. Also, this document was seen as a key deliverable for Lump Sump Contractor to review the business requirements and scope of work to better size the implementation work and to reduce the future scope amendments

Role: Functional role for Workflow in SAP HR, MM, SD and PM Module.

Workflow Requirement for the SAP HR, SD, MM, PM and QM Modules

oWrote Test Scenarios for UAT and End-to-End, Functional Testing

oWas involved in testing the integration of the Personnel Administration component to Organization Management.

oTested the test data on the PA30, PA40, PP01, and SE16 & SM30

oTested customized Personal actions like on boarding employees, Employee movements including Transfer, demotion, promotion and reclassification within and out of organizational unit

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

oDefect tracking and status update through quality center

oCreated custom evaluations using Adobe Smart Forms, sent completed data back to standard SAP appraisal functionality

oTested functional modules like OM, PA, Payroll, Benefits and Time Management

oSD Module: Annual process for pricing letter – The price conditions created in the system goes for the approval process; annual process for Annual Marketing Plan (AMP) by Marketing and Sales Manager; Contract Approval Process – Agreement between PETRORabigh and marketers to supply products; Lifting Amendment in Nomination – before start of every month, Marketers from Saudi Aramco for refined products and Sumitomo for Monomers submit the following month nominations

oMM Module: Approval & escalation of Purchase Order; Approval for Purchase Requisition and Escalation if it is not approved for the specified time frame; Approval & escalation of Request for Quotation

oPM Module: Approval in case of excess of Labour and Material which was not envisaged in the task list; approval process for Conversion from Minor to Major Activity Type; approval process for the Asset transfer from various proponents.

oQM Module: Vendor / Internal / Customer Notification Process – Task release & notification release should trigger the Workflow

Title: ALBA (Kingdom of Bahrain) Implementation Project

Role: SAP HR Workflow in HR Module

KRAs:

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

Title: SABIC Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) (Support)

Role: Functional Consultant

KRAs:

Created Functional spec for the reports in HR module for Retiree Employee Pension Report

Enhanced HR, QM, PP, MM & SD Modules; Daily Production Report as well as made modification in Role Quality Check

Managed team from Offshore for the HR issues.

Involved in assisting end users with their issues

Worked on SAP HR Master Data

Did Data mapping and designed functional specifications

Worked on Portal (ESS /MSS)- with ECC 5.0 and Portal 6.0 with My Sap ERP 1.0 Business Package

Created Functional Specs, Conceptual design and detail design documents for ESS /MSS/PA/OM based on the business requirements

Created and defined portal Users, Roles, Work sets, Pages and I-views for ESS and MSS

Created various custom views for both ESS and MSS

Configured the IMG settings (work schedules, absences, attendances and quotas) required for Time management

Configured Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS) for time capture

Configured all Time Types, Processing Types and Wage Types

Resolved issues during unit and integration testing using HP (Mercury) Quality Centre

Configured Attendance/Absence types, Attendance and Absence Quotas with differing validity and deduction periods, accrual rules etc.

Worked with Time related Info types 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013

Created Rounding rules and counting rules for attendance and absence valuation

Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS) for employee entering data into Time sheets and worked with Info types: 0001, 0002, 0007, and 0031 in relation to CATS

Configured tested the system on Open enrollment scenarios

CERTIFICATION

SAP HCM Certification – SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6

Success Factor Certification in Employee Central (EC),

Compensation and

Performance Management and Goal Management (PMGM).

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EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Applications in 2002

Bangalore University with 70%

PERSONAL SNIPPETS

Date of Birth: 16thDecember, 1977

Permanent Address: Door NO 13/2, Church Road, Basavangudi

Pin code: 560004

Land Mark: Near East West School

Nationality: Indian

Marital Status: Married

Passport No.: L3554421

Languages Known: 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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