Meher Vamshi

Profile

Mr. Meher is an SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Functional Lead with more than 12+ years of SAP Functional experience and 4 years of SuccesFactors experience in Human Resources and Payroll with emphasis on Employee central, Performance Management, Goal Management, 360 Feedback, Calibration, Compensation, Workforce Analytics, Recruiting, Onboarding, and integration w/EC payroll and Time.

He has worked on 5 global SAP implementations, Implemented Payroll with ADP Global View and SuccessFactors full suite implementations with hybrid and full cloud solutions followed by post production support with multiple country configurations.

He has worked as Project Lead, Subject Matter expert and primary point of contact for the business to take ownership of project commitments and deadlines.

Worked on SuccessFactors DC4 and DC8 data platforms, SAP HR ECC6.0, ECC5.0 and and has experience in all phases of project life cycle including Conceptual Design, Configuration, Security, Data conversion, Integration and production support.

Experience covers Petrochemicals, Manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, public sector and Oil & Gas industries.

Professional Summary

Five full life cycle SAP implementations and Two SuccessFactors implementation and production support experience under SAP Activate and Agile methodologies.

Lead projects starting with Project preparation phase to requirements gathering, Data Preparation, Configuration workbooks, Realization and Deployment phases.

Production support Lead for SuccessFactors Talent Management suite including performance management, Goal Managements, 360 feedback, Calibration, recruting, Onboarding with on premise SAP HR hybrid solution with integration between both the systems.

Worked on Employee central implementation to replace On premise SAP HR solution with integrated SucessFactors suite.

Designed SAP BI data warehouse and power BI reporting/KPI’s for HR, budget and financial data to provide headcount vs budget and cost to leadership

Project Manager for Year End Performance and Compensation project to develop and execute project plan according to the Scope and timelines agreed with sponsors

Coordinated with performance and compensation specialists to understand existing performance and compensation process and timeline and mapped to SuccessFactors Goal Management, Performance Management, 360 feedback and calibration.

Strong Implementation and configuration experience in SAP SuccessFactors suite to Lead business review sessions and provide solutions according to business needs.

Well exposed to Full Life Cycle Implementation projects, Testing cycles, Cut-over tasks, Post Implementation phase, Production Support and Up-Grade Projects.

Knowledge of Standard reports, Ad Hoc queries, Work Force Analytics and Cross tab queries in SuccessFactors and integrated with SAP HANA using SF API’s and HCI.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills and great team player with sound communication skills to Lead Onsite & Offshore teams.

Human Resources: Business process, Design and solution.

Extensive knowledge of HR business processes concentrating on Employee data, Performance Management, Goal Management, 360 feedback, Calibration, Compensation, Onboarding, Recruiting, Payroll, Benefits, Time Management, Taxes, Personnel Administration (PA), Personnel Development (PD), Organizational Management (OM), ESS and MSS.

Worked as a solution lead for production support and was responsible for design and solution of various year end process related issues in performance Management, Compensation, Employee central and integration defects and enhancement requests.

Employee Central, Performance Management & Recruiting:

Hands-on Experience with HR Master Data, User Data file, Role based permissions, Adhoc reporting, V12 Accelerator, 360 multi rater form, Goal plans, Performance forms, Calibration sessions and PM integration with Compensation and EC

Created and modified custom Generic objects using XML Data models and Meta Data framework to accommodate customer requirements for performance process for hourly and salaried employees across the organization.

Data conversion & Integration:

Converted data from legacy HR system to Employee central and EC payroll

Designed integration between Core HR and SuccessFactors to create User profiles

Designed and Developed internal and external interfaces between employee central and other SuccessFactors and third party applications.

Created adhoc reports and worked with SFSF and middleware teams to integrate performance management with in house Succession planning systems.

Requirement Gathering & Creating FDDS:

Expertise in creating business blueprint, as-is, to-be process mapping and Gap analysis. Experience in interpreting the BPP’s and creating FDDS from it.

Gathered additional requirements from clients, created FDDS for Various Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancement s and Forms. Reviewed TDDS and assisted development team.

Test Scripts & Training:

Expertise in writing the Test scripts, Executing test cases, carrying out integration, regression and unit testing using Mercury Quality center and load runner.

Created User training materials, provided Training and coaching to End-user for the entire sub – components.

TIME & PAYROLL:

Excellent knowledge of payroll driver, Schemas, Rules, Functions, Operations, Wage types, Tax schemas, Gross & Net pay, Payroll year end processing, W2 forms, Tax info types and Tax reporter, BSI tax factory, Payroll interface to SAP ADP Global View.

Technical Skills

ERP : SAP R/3 HR and Cloud SuccessFactors Solutions

SAP Interfaces : BOOMI, API, HCI, Point to Point Integration, BDC and LSMW.

Enterprise Portals : ESS, MSS & HRSS using Webdynpro Java/ABAP and HR Renewal.

ABAP Workbench : Data dictionary, Dialog programming, Logical databases,

Enhancements using BADIs and customer exits.

Programming Lang’s : XML, ABAP/4, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++

Other skills : SAP scripts, Smart forms, HR forms and Adobe forms.

Operating Systems : Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, UNIX.

Applications : MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Visio Tools

Databases : Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access.

SAP HR and SuccessFactors Work Experience Details

Client : Rimini Street

Duration: Oct 2019 – Till Date

Industry: Information Technology

Role : SAP HR Payroll Lead (US, Canada & Quebec)

Environment: ECC : Multiple global Payroll Implementations & Support

Provided accurate and comprehensive tax and legislative reviews and analysis for US, Canada and Quebec Payroll changes

Configured and tested various complex payroll tax rules, schemas and operations for US, Canada & Quebec

Developed clear, comprehensive and accurate business requirement documents for US Payroll changes as required.

Developed accurate functional/technical specifications for US Payroll changes as required which have an impact on SAP.

Worked within the new Agile framework and scrum sprints to deliver changes to clients with in the timeline and on budget

Proven track record of successful roles in several Enterprise Application projects including full design, config, development and full QA lifecycle processes

Worked closely with the Global Tax & Regulatory team to ensure the accurate transfer and understanding of all critical information relating to each tax and regulatory change

Worked closely with development to ensure adherence to functional specifications and to work with QA team to develop high level test plans and test strategies

Proficient in developing Business Analysis and Functional specification documentations from regulatory and tax data.

Explain payroll processes and calculations in SAP for various countries

Supported global SAP operations and provided strong analytical and product management skills

Successfully engaged in multiple initiatives simultaneously

Client : Dupont Pioneer

Duration: April 2017 – Sep 2019

Industry: Agriculture Industry.

Role : SAP HCM US and Canada Payroll Lead

Environment: ECC : Global Payroll Implementation & Support

Working as SAP HCM Payroll Lead for US, Canada, Puerto Rico and responsible for supporting Payroll business manager’s, accountable for configuration, testing, user training and enhancements and projects implementation

Integrated SAP HCM payroll with Workday HR Core system and part of impact analysis and design of integration and re-configuration of SAP payroll

SAP HCM payroll Lead supporting Canada and USA for weekly and bi weekly payroll processes and year end and mid year support pack upgrades and enhancements

Coordinated with Canada payroll manager to gather requirements for Canada year end payroll process as well as T4’s and Releve 1 configuration and filings

Designed and configured Canada T4 and Quebec Releve 1 year end payroll process and designed end to end process for payroll team

Designed Canada T4 Amendment and Quebec Releve 1 Amendments to correct filed T4 and Releve 1 forms and produce corrections

Worked closely with US payroll tax manager to assist with issues related to US tax calculation and payroll processes

Fixed year end support pack issues related to reversals, voids and ABAP dumps

Upgraded BSI tubs and coordinated the effort with Basis and business to install and test the tubs updates successfully

Fixed issues related to W2C for puerto rico and docuemnted year end processing for successful W2 filings

Configured new tax authorities and tax types to map additional local and county taxes as part of payroll process

Lead Mid year Canada merger and aquisition project and supported to changing canada business units mid year

Involved in the workday implementation and integration with SAP HR and payroll process for US and Canada

Worked heavily on tax models, year-end tax reporter, W2, W2C, W2PR, W2CPR, T4, T4 Amendments, Releve 1 and Releve 1 amendments

Configured tax models and taxation for both US and Canada

Implemented and supported Gross to Net Payroll, retro payroll payment, posting issues, Offcycle payroll, bonus payments, third party remittance and pre-DME and DME programs

Integrated EC and ECP using standard replication and supported day to day configuration and integration issues in EC and EC Payroll

Coordinated business requirement gathering from HR payroll department and accouting department and configured third party posting rules

Troubleshooting EC and EC Payroll integration issues and suggested solutions for weekly and bi weekly payroll processing

Client : Apache Corporation

Duration: Aug 2015 – March 2017.

Industry: Oil & Gas Industry.

Role : SAP HCM Payroll Architect and Project Manager.

Environment: ECC 6.0: Global Implementation & production support.

Working as IT Project Manager responsible for strategic implementation of SAP HCM, Payroll and Talent Management solutions for US, Canada, UK and Egypt.

Directly reporting to IT ERP director and working with HR business Manager’s on a day to day basis to manage project activities, change control and risk mitigation.

Responsible for creating and executing project plan to replace legacy Lawson system with SAP HR self-service, payroll and Talent Management Solution processes.

Responsible for design, configuration, development and delivery of As-IS SAP and HR Renewal 2.0 Self service management solutions implementation.

Responsible for tracking project status and meeting with steering committee members and project sponsors monthly to review project status, budget, resource allocations and identify and mitigate any risks and issues.

Worked with HR business leads to understand current process in Lawson and mapped out improvements and to-be SAP HR and Talent processes

Involved in scope and design decisions to implement as per SAP best practices

Coordinated with third party vendors to design, develop and test interfaces, enhancements, reports and workflows.

Engaged in weekly PMO meetings with HR business partners and IT Director to review status, understand concerns and take actions to resolve risks and conflicts.

Successfully implemented SAP HR, Payroll, Time, Benefits, ESS, MSS, PA, OM and Talent solutions for US, Canada, Egypt and UK.

Involved in the design of global security roles strategy around segregation of duties and conflicts analysis in the transactional and workflow design.

Involved in the design of HR and finance integration with enterprise structure, General Ledger posting and vendor master.

Responsible for HR data scrambling strategy to protect HR data privacy.

Responsible for planning production support process and implemented knowledge transition between project teams and internal support teams.

Assisted in tracking production support issues and stabilized production system.

Actively mentored internal transition team on SAP HR and Talent solutions to stabilize and support SAP HR and payroll processes

Involved in the year end activities to create payroll calendars, work schedules, CATS timesheets, payroll accumulations and general Ledger posting configuration

Managed end to end Benefits open enrollment process and configuration in SAP HR

Aggressive and detail oriented individual with abilities to take challenges and produce results .

Designed integration between SAP HR, Talent solutions and payroll processes to feed data from SAP into talent solutions and extract data out of compensation for payroll processes

Planned and executed bonus, equity, salary review and year end processes in SAP

Client : Hess Corporation

Duration: July 2011 – Aug 2015.

Industry: Oil & Gas Industry.

Role : SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Functional Lead.

Environment: Global SAP and SuccessFactors Implementation & production support.

Worked as SAP SuccessFactors Consultant to Lead and support Hybrid solution implementation of SAP HR and SuccessFactors followed by post production support

Project Manager for Global Year End performance and Compensation project to develop and execute project plan per the scope and timelines agreed with sponsors

Coordinated with performance and compensation process owners, business leads and HR Generalists to create detailed project plan with dependencies and timelines

Gathered requirements to understand legacy performance management process in Authoria & mapped it to SuccessFactors standard Performance Management process

Involved in the design of cascading objectives and Goals to the entire organization and configured Goal templates with various categories and notifications

Upgraded V11 Goal templates to V12 Accelerator Goal Management templates

Involved in the creation of mid-year and year end performance forms and associated workflows and notifications throughout performance process

Created 360-degree feedback template to ensure feedback from internal as well as external teams are calibrated for the performance ratings

Involved in the design of performance rating scale and their calculations per competencies assigned to the job and their overall performance calculations

Involved in the integration of performance and compensation processes to ensure feedback from Performance Calibration sessions are evaluated correctly in Comp.

Created Calibration templates and required role based permissions across performance management process to ensure employees, Manager’s and HR Generalists have required access to support the performance process

Implemented Performance Management and Recruiting in phase 1 with SAP HCM as single system of source for HR master data records

Built integration between SAP HR and SuccessFactors to create user profiles, org structure as part of Performance Management and recruiting implementation.

Worked with SuccessFactors engineering team on various issues related to objectives templates, Performance management forms and rating calculations.

Created role based permissions for employee, Manager, HR generalist, HR Associate, executive leadership team, recruiters, hiring managers etc.

Supported data conversion activities from SAP and legacy performance management system into SuccessFactors performance management.

Modified route maps, templates, role based permissions etc as part of production support for last 3 year end processes.

Lead support activities for migrating from DC4 data center to DC8 platinum support.

Analyzed system impacts to user profiles, Performance Management, Recruiting as part of platinum support migration from DC4 to DC8.

Scheduled weekly status meetings with project team to review status, accomplishments and upcoming tasks in preparation for Go live

Met with Steering committee members and project sponsors monthly to review project status, concerns and risk mitigation plans

In phase 2, Implemented SuccessFactors Employee central to replace On premise SAP HCM solution, Employee self-service and Manager self-service.

Lead and Managed Employee central design sessions to understand the mapping between SAP HCM solution and Employee Central.

Worked with Implementation partners to map the end to end process in Employee central, starting with Onboarding, recruiting and ending with Performance Management.

Assisted with Role based permissions for employees, Manager, admins, performance management team, Compensation and benefit teams.

Implemented Online report designer on top of existing Adhoc reporting to fulfill the need of executive reporting.

Actively involved in decisions and solution process to integrate Employee central with SAP Finance, Supply chain, Contingent workforce and SAP BI reporting tool.

Worked with SAP BI reporting team to implemented standard SAP connector to pull master data from Employee central, Performance Manager and recruiting into SAP BI.

Analyzed system impacts to SuccessFactors Performance Management and recruiting due to Employee central implementation and made changes to role based permissions, Reports and other synchronization jobs between modules.

Currently in the planning phase of implementing Learning solutions, Compensation Management and Work force Analytics as part of Phase 3 along with production support.

Client : British Petroleum, Houston, Tx

Duration: Sep 2009 – July 2011.

Industry: Oil & Gas

Role : SAP HCM Functional Analyst.

Environment: ECC 6.0: Global Implementation & production support.

Worked as a payroll solution lead with onsite and offshore associates by providing various requirement documenting, configuration & coordination activities between client services team & technical teams.

Involved in RFP (Request for proposal) meetings with client services team to finalize the scope of the project and managed the project independently.

Ensured use & fit with the design, configuration, testing and implementation of the PA, OM, payroll, compensation, reporting, workflow, ESS and MSS.

Gathered requirements, Designed and delivered high quality solutions via technical system configuration & design that meet overall business requirements.

Involved in the technical design and support of North America localization of global implementation through configuration and creating functional specifications for the technical objects like interfaces, reports, workflow as per requirement

Designed, tested and worked heavily on customized interface between BP SAP HR and ADP Payroll Global view processes and systems.

Involved in reviewing Test scripts and supported test script execution process. Coordinated with the data management team to set up the functional test data.

Implemented HR TPV & XI interfaces to various vendors ensuring requirements.

Gathered requirements and provided solution for heavily customized payroll reconciliation, SOX, compliance, audit and wagetype reports.

Gathered requirements from Financial & Accounting Departments and defined FI Posting attributes by mapping Symbolic & G/L Accounts to various wage types.

Assisted with the design, configuration, testing and implementation of the PA, OM, Benefits, Time and Payroll along with ESS and MSS functionality.

Created various payroll areas according to pay frequencies of the employees.

Customized remuneration statement according to the client needs.

Worked on generation of various garnishment history and statistics reports.

Defined pay scale types, Pay scale areas, Pay scale groups and salary ranges.

Good understanding of Tax tubs, BSI and payroll integration and Maintained the tax related tables in both BSI and SAP.

Extensively used SAP service market place to get information on tax tubs, SAP notes and worked with basis consultants to apply TUBS in SAP.

Maintained Tax Authorities, Tax Areas, tax Types and configured Tax model for tax calculation in the payroll processing

Benefits integration in payroll by using the schema UBE1 and UBE2.

Carried out offcycle payroll for employees using offcycle workbench for bonus payments, reversing the payroll results and replacing the results.

Client : Johnson & Johnson (Convergys), Jacksonville, Fl.

Duration: Apr 2008 – Sep 2009.

Industry: Pharmaceuticals Industry.

Role : SAP HCM Techno Functional Lead.

Environment: ECC 6.0: Global Implementation & production support.

Worked as a PA/OM solution lead with onsite and offshore model by providing various coordination activities between client leadership teams & technical teams.

Assisted with the design, configuration, testing and implementation of the PA, OM, Benefits, Time and Payroll along with ESS and MSS functionality.

Gathered requirements, Designed and delivered high quality solutions via system configuration that meet overall business requirements

Configured the various Actions involved in the life cycle of an employee. (Hire till Termination of Employee) and customized the info groups for each of the actions.

Gathered requirements and configured Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure and Pay scale structures according to the client requirements.

Configured Features to default Payroll Area and wage type model for employees.

Configured the on loan Info type to record what company assets an employee has received and created FDDS to develop an on loan report for managers.

Experience with using Additional Actions info type 0302 functionality.

Created TDDS and Developed demographic and various vacancy and requisition inbound and outbound interfaces according to the functional specifications.

Developed Various PA and OM related reports in using logical database programming in HR and also created adhoc queries for straight forward reports.

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

Configured features LGMST, TARIF and ABKRS to default basic pay wage type, pay-scale type area and payroll accounting area respectively

Worked on the Internal and External number range allocation for the employees.

Integrated OM with PA by activating PLOGI feature, maintaining values in table T77s0 for PLOGI & ORGA and by cost center distribution with integration to 0001.

Checked Consistency of OM with PA using RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE20.

Configured various standard Info type screens to add or hide fields on PA20.

Configured pay scale structure (pay scale type, area, groups and levels).

Configured the wage types for Basic pay, Recurring payments/deductions.

Configured annual salary wage types, pay scale reclassification wage types.

Configured Personnel actions, Dynamic Actions and HR Master Data info types.

Modified 401K plan and vesting rules based on the 401K employer contribution.

Defined evidence of insurability conditions for health and insurance plans.

Configured plans relevant to COBRA administration and administered the Flexible benefits schemes. Defined various features like BAREA, BENGR, and BSTAT.

Configured COBRA Plan, employee benefit plans eligibility and termination rules.

Worked on Open Enrollment process to generate enrollment forms & enroll the employees in desired benefit plans and provided support to enrollment issues.

Worked closely with ABAP team in designing various benefit provider interfaces.

Created wage types for all benefits plans to enable Benefits-Payroll Integration.

Defined program grouping (BENGR & BSTAT), employee eligibility grouping for the benefit plans and participation termination grouping for the employees.

Defined and maintained benefit areas, benefit providers, dependents and beneficiaries, benefits plan types & maintained features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT.

Configured Health Plans by creating options for Health plans, Dependent Coverage Options, Cost rules and assigned Plan Attributes, and Wage Types.

Configured Savings Plan (401k) general data, Employee and Employer Contribution Rules, Benefit Events and defined Benefit Event Groups.Configured Insurance Plan general data, Cost and Coverage Rules, assigned Plan Attributes and Wage Types.

Client : DuPont (Convergys), Jacksonville, Fl.

Duration: Oct 2007 – Aug 2008.

Industry: Chemical Industry.

Role : SAP HR PA/OM Functional Consultant.

Environment: ECC 6.0: Global Implementation & Production support.

Implemented PA, OM, PY, TM, ESS, MSS module globally which includes Canada, USA, Mexico, China, Singapore, Europe from the start off to go Live.

Created the Dynamic Actions for Global Personnel Actions.

Configured the features like IGMOD, LGMST, TARIF, PFREQ and ABKRS.

Maintained User Groups for Global Environment.

Configured Ad-hoc queries, assigned Transaction codes.

Integration of OM with PA using RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE20, RHINTE30.

Responsible for providing documentation and knowledge transfer to super users.

Created Function specs for Custom Infotypes.

Created TDDS and developed various inbound and outbound interfaces in PA/OM.

Created functional specifications for conversion programs and created mapping documents by discussing with client & had walkthrough with development team.

Defined Info groups, created Personnel Actions and set reasons for the actions.

Developed Various Audit and employee history and statistics reports on portal.

Created specification for inbound interface from Integrity System to impart appropriate qualification into SAP for the courses completed by employees.

Configured various objects like Organization Units, Jobs, Positions and Tasks.

Maintained the number ranges for organizational units.

Defined and maintained the planned working times for the organizational unit, position and work center by using rule values and the Infotype 1011.

Customized the account assignment for cost center at department level.

Involved in unit testing, string testing and system testing and also worked

Defined benefit areas, benefit providers and the basic settings for the plans.

Configured health plans, insurance plans, saving plans (401K plan) and COBRA plans

Defined Evidence of Insurability conditions for health and Insurance plans.

Integrated Benefits with Payroll.

Defined Benefit Event Groups, Events and permitted changes for Events

Clearly documented system configuration and business processes

Configured health plans, insurance plans, Saving plans and credit plans based on the bargaining units. Created Plan attributes, Configured Benefits Administration including definition of Cost Groups, Credit Groups, and Coverage Groups.

Configured absence catalog including grouping personnel subareas for attendances and absences, defining absence types.

Maintained and Modification of Features like BAREA, BEGNR, BSTAT and info types. Integrated Benefits module with payroll module.

Modified the user exits PBEN0001 and PBEN0008 for the county requirement

Created Deduction/Payment models for benefits deductions and premiums and assigned to the Benefit Plans.

Customized, created and assigned various Wage Types to Wage Type groups.

Maintained retroactive accounting triggering relevant for payroll info types.

Maintained Wage Types and their Permissibility over various Info types.

Configured Info type 0008 and customized LGMST feature for default basic pay.

Configured Processing classes, Evaluation Classes & Cumulation of Wage Types.

Maintained Tax Authorities, Tax Areas, tax Types and configured Tax model for tax calculation in the payroll processing.

Maintained Gross-Up’s and Net Pay Wage types as per the requirements.

Configured and worked on factoring, partial period factoring and prorating.

Customized Tax Schema for UTX0 for tax processing.

Worked with Tax Reporter and generated forms including corrected W-2 form.

Customized BSI tax factory interface and imported TUBS for tax calculations.

Worked with quota deductions using attendances/absences by defining deduction rules and assigning them to counting rules.

Client : Kennametal, Latrobe, PA.

Duration : Jan 2007 – Oct 2007.

Industry : Manufacturing.

Role : SAP HCM PA/OM Techno Functional Consultant.

Project Scope: Kennametal is a manufacturer of various metal devices used in grilling, mining etc. Kennametal is selling a part of business and I worked as a HR Functional consultant in the design, configuration and testing of migration project involving in various master data extraction and uploads.

Generated W2 & corrected W2 forms for yearend processing using tax reporter.

Worked on tax tubs and tested the system after year end service pack upgrades.

Functional design specifications for HR employee data conversions, HR interfaces, data warehousing requirements, and custom reports.

Allocation of personnel numbers automatically from the Number ranges when an employee is hired

Configured various Actions to change the status of an employee as per the business process requirement

Defined the employees to the Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure and Organisational Plan.

Created New Organization units to between positions, jobs, and organization units.

Populated entries in tables V_T5U26 and V_001P_ALL for organization units.

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