SHALINI VALVANUR SAIRAJ
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PROFILE SUMMARY
Overall 10yrs of IT Experience in Human Resource, Recruitment, Business Analysis and Operations Management, Process Improvement, Program Management
Extensive 5yrs of Workday Expertise as Workday Techno-functional.
Hands on Experience in Requirement Gathering, analyzed customer requirements and prepare Business Requirements Document and Functional Requirements Document.
Extensive Experience in Global Stakeholder Management.
Configuring the system to meet the requirements of all the Core HCM, Compensation, Advance Comp, Supervisory Organization, Cost Center, Cost Center Hierarchies, Job Setup, Tenant Setup, EIB, Reporting etc
Experienced in Configurating Workday’s business process framework, configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
Key Expertise in Core Compensation - Configuring Compensation framework, providing support and guidance to a geographically distributed workforce and/or HR Business Community to meet customer requirements.
Experienced in creating salary structure, merit budget, evaluated bonus/incentive plans
Establish collaborative relationships with HRBPs, HR leaders and Business leaders to support and align the compensation agenda with the business strategy.
Experience in developing test strategy by creating test plans and executing cycles of unit string integrations and assisted the customers in user acceptance test and smoke testing.
Worked on ticketing system such as Salesforce and SAP-Abacus to solve day to day tickets
On an average receive around 3-5 tickets and based on priority resolved the tickets on JIRA, TFS, Sieble and ITSM tool.
Created Workbook, Quick Reference’s Guide for end users to use as guide or reference to solve the issues.
Worked on Data migration using tools provided by Workday like EIB's
CORE COMPETENCIES
Business Analysis Stakeholder Management Process Optimization Prioritization Decision Making Skills
Team Management Analytical Skills
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS ACROSS TENURE
Successfully received the following awards:
oRecognised by General Motors Brazil Team – Think Customer
oReceived many Appreciation emails in GM, FOX Abbott from Business Stakeholders, Counter Parts, Managers etc
ACADEMICS:
MS in Computer Information Systems, USA – 2017.
Master’s in Business Management, India – 2010.
Bachelor’s in business management, India – 2002.
Cloud ERP and Modules
Workday HCM, Workday Core and Advance Comp, Workday Recruitment, EIB, Migration tools, OX
ERP
Workday, Sap HR, People Soft and Taleo
Operating Systems
Windows XP/2000/NT/98
Software Tools
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, MS Visio)
Projects: - Completed
Project Name: Workday HCM Implementation Project
Client Name: General Motors (MI-USA)
Duration: 1st Oct’ 2019 to Oct’2020
Role: Workday Compensation Consultant Supported Recruitment Module
ERP: Workday Application
Ticketing Tools: TFS and Siebel
Compensation: -
Created and maintaining various Compensation Salary Packages with multi Allowances, One Time Payment, Merit Bonus, Stock Plan.
Created compensation eligibility rules based on management levels, job profile, and job family and create calculated fields for Custom Reports to ensure required report delivery.
Setup Automatic Step Progression Process along with eligibility rules for multiple Countries like Canada, Brazil, Argentina and USA.
Rolled out Compensation Plans to thousands of Employees for different Bonus Plans, Allowance Plans and Period Salary Plans.
Benchmark and conducted analysis on base pay, differential pay, short-term & long-term incentive plans, supplement pays and bonuses.
Configuring compensation features such as Grid Participation to leverage during Compensation Review Process and Matrix.
Configured Merit Components, mapped and rolled-out Merit Plans to eligible participants included in Comp Review Process including using eligibility rule.
Configured Country Specific rules for HR Business Partner to perform their Business as Usual Task.
Establish collaborative relationships with HRBPs, HR leaders and Business leaders to support and align the compensation agenda with the business
Built and Launched EIB file to load the Grade Profile Step rates based on changes happening due to Union Labor Relation law.
Created Multiple Advance reports for Compensation Validation process to pre and post data load easy for the Business.
Adding up Help text to Various BPs such as Request Comp Change, Change Job, Hire, Transfer, Propose Comp Change, Emergency contact etc to help the User to understand what is needed to complete the transaction
Configured Validation Rules for Background Verification Process Country Specific with multiple criteria.
Support Global Compensation Consultants in delivering upon all aspects of our compensation programs.
Configured condition rules for Hire Bp / Designed and Harmonized Region-Specific Offer letter across GM.
Configured the onboarding site URL on the New Hire Dashboard for Help related information.
Worked on defining naming standards for Calculated Fields, Condition Rules and Custom Reports
Worked thoroughly on Data Conversion, Mapping and Data Migration from Legacy system to Workday.
Recruitment
Responsible for setting up Offer/Employment Process Globally.
Gathered Requirement by understanding their Current Business Process, Converted them to functional requirement
Set up the Offer Business Process with multiple Condition Rules along with process flow
Build various Text block with different Combination of criteria based on individual Countries.
Build multiple Calculated fields to fetch the required data from various Components from Job, Address, Compensation Component, Recruiter Details etc required on Offer letter.
Responsible for Testing of the end to end process before the tenant was released to USER’s for Testing.
Configured Job Posting template – Internal and External Career Sites need to display Required / Preferred fields.
Responsible for Multiple Enhancements of for Recruiting Module and designing Workday as per business Requirement
Fixed critical bugs by setting up Candidate security for who can determine, who can view candidate information and perform candidate-related actions.
Project Name: Workday Merger and Acquisition Project
Client Name: Fox Corporation (LA, USA)
Duration: 1st Jan’2019 – 30th Sep’2019
Role: Workday HCM Consultant
ERP: Workday Application
Ticketing Tools: Jira
Worked Extensively on Tenant Split Project as part Fox/Disney Merger and Acquisition.
Created many Purge Reports to run Termination and Purge activities as part of Tenant Split.
Validated the data, to purge all the Workers’, Candidate and Pre-hire data for Tenant Spilt
Configured Business Processes like Job-Requisition, Job-Application, Screening, Offer, Employment Agreement, Background Verification, Hire, Wage Theft Prevention etc.
Setup the Recruiting workflow for New FOX which involves steps like assessment, background check, employment agreement, interview offer, ready to hire, reference check, review and screening.
Configured Job Application Offer and Convert Contingent Worker to Employee Business Processes for NEW FOX.
Set up Job requisitions / job postings and configured electronic signatures (Adobe Sign) for New FOX.
Configured External and Internal Career Sites and Notification which is sent to Candidates when applied for Job.
Created Testing strategy, Test plans, documentation for Business Process testing and Integration testing.
Loaded EIBs to Inactive Sup Org/Cost Center’s/ Companies which are not part of FOX.
Creation of New Orgs, Locations, Cost Center for the New Fox Entity, Validated the data and moved employees thru EIB,
Extensive Production support after Tenant Split for Business on Recruitment, Compensation and HCM.
Re - Configured the different associated Business Processes for Workday Recruiting for New Fox
Configured Multiple Questionnaire for different Countries for Interview Screening Process.
Created One-time Plans, Allowance plans to various Fox Entities
Configured Wage Theft Statement for CA and NY under Hire/Job Change and Req Comp Change from Requirement Gathering, Sign offs, creating functional specifications, developing and executing test cases.
Involved in Payroll implementation Project for FOX Sports, Leading the client through project test strategy, planning, & execution.
Worked on Data Conversion and mapping from Legacy system (PS) to Workday.
Setup the Payroll Processing Framework.
Configured Period schedules, run category, payment election rules, pay groups, pay run groups, pay accumulations and pay component groups.
Configured Earning Codes: Base pay, allowances, bonus, hourly, Over time, shift allowance etc
Configured Deductions Codes: Benefits related, loan related.
Assisted on critical issues related to earnings and deduction calculations
Setup Federal, State and Local Tax Reporting and assigning tax elections to employees
Designed and Configured Payroll related Business Process
Project Name: Workday Compensation Implementation
Client Name: Adient (MI,USA)
Duration: 1st Jan’2018 – 31st Dec’2018
Role: Workday Compensation Consultant
ERP: Workday Application
Ticketing Tools: Siebel
Compensation: -
Adient being a global client group, spread across 37 countries across the world, interaction with people from different cultures, backgrounds and countries every day.
Gathered Requirements, designed, tested and deploying solutions across 37 countries to meet their requirements.
Worked closely with different stakeholders across 37 countries.
Lead Compensation work stream process and recommended best practices related to Workday functionality including compensation grades, grade ranges, compensation steps, compensation plans, eligibility rules, Allowance Plan, advanced compensation configuration such as Merit Planning and Bonus Planning.
Configured several Compensation eligibility rules and used those eligibility rules and updated them in various compensation grade profiles, allowance plans, merit plans, and period salary plans.
Strong expertise in compensation including compensation strategies, merit, bonus and stock processing and international compensation
Defined key business process decisions related to Compensation such as Propose Comp Change, Request Compensation and other HCM related areas.
Configured compensation features such as compensation matrix, compensation grid and participation used for compensation review process.
Configured Merit Components, mapped and rolled-out Merit Plans to eligible participants included in Comp Review Process including using eligibility rule.
Configured Compensation process template, created waiting time period to define different time proration rule.
Configured different Bonus plans Components and rolled out bonus plans for thousands of eligible employees
Security: -
Supported the ongoing design, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of Workday Security.
Created and maintained different types of security groups including Role based, User based, Segment based groups etc., for different business requirements and Created Proxy Access policy for the company.
Created and Edited Domain Security policies /Business Process Security Policies and activating the changes.
Auditing the Domain/Business Process Security Policy Changes, User-based security group assignments every Bi-weekly.
Provide Security assignments to new users, security user changes and user removals.
Oversees migrations using both Workday and Object Transport (OX).
Establish collaborative relationships with Country HR and Payroll leaders and Business leaders to support and align the compensation agenda with the business strategy
Creating validation rules for different business processes and moving them to production after testing them in sandbox.
Develops and conducted data integrity audits between Payroll data and data for Workday implementation. Assist with data cleanup, extraction and load and data validations for the Workday implementation.
Supported Recruiting Module by Designing Multiple Offer Letter and Employment agreement for different Countries also configured E-signatures.
Recommended best practices related to functionality including, but not limited to: job requisitions, evergreen requisitions, confidential requisitions, job application business process, job posting templates, career sites, recruiter security, offer letters, agency management and candidate management.
Experienced in Configuring and Launching EIB for different modules (Human Resource /Compensation and Recruiting)
Trained the Shared Services Team to conduct the training sessions to HR Business Partners and Payroll team.
Project Name: Workday Enhancement Project
Client Name: Abbott Laboratories (IL, USA)
Duration: 1st Feb’2017 – 31st Dec’2017
Role: Workday Recruitment Consultant
ERP: Workday Application
Lead the E-offer Letter Setup for US and Puerto Rico.
Gathered Requirements, converted the technical specification to functional, Created Proto-Types, took approvals from Business.
Configured Various combination text block with different Condition rule for US and Puerto Rico.
Build many Calculated Fields to fetch details via Job application/Job requisition for Text block upon landing the Candidate Home Page.
Configured many notifications on Various BP’s such as Job Application/Offer and Hire for Internal and External hire to guide Candidate and Recruiter.
Supported the Security team to set up the required security for the e-offer setup.
Supported business during hyper care to resolve the issues encountered on day to day business needs.
Provided knowledge transfer to the internal team for future enhancements, shared user guides and documentation.
Configured the Wage Theft Prevention Business Process, Configured the California Wage theft Exempt and Non-Exempt Text block.
Created Calculated Fields for different offer Letter Text block pulling Candidate Name/Internal Candidate Home Address/Incentive plans/Allowance plans /Condition rules etc
Project Name: Workday Implementation Project
Duration: 1st Feb’2016 – 31st Oct’2016
Role: Workday Techno Functional Consultant
ERP: Workday Application
Lead full-cycle implementation projects within the Workday HCM Recruiting product suite.
Managing Data conversions from Legacy system such as Taleo to Workday on the recruitment process setting up business process configuration and setting up various recruitment stages based on their Business Criteria’s.
identifying the root cause of data integrity concerns, recommend and apply solutions, and ensure proper governance is implemented to prevent reoccurrence.
Configuration of Workday’s business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes
Configured Career Sites, Offer Letters and Employment Agreement using Document Generator and Agency Portal.
Collaborate with team to help clients navigate the selection, transformation, implementation, and configuration of the Workday HCM application (Recruiting)
Created procedural guides for all HR processes.
Supported the HR team with day to day issues in using the workday portal and guiding them to resolve the tickets raised by them.
Provided end user training and participated in user acceptance and end to end testing.
Configured many notifications on various BP’s such as Job Application/Offer and Hire for Internal and External hire.
Company: Accenture Services Private Limited, India
Duration: 1st Sep’2013 – 31st Sep’2014
Role: Workday Techno Functional Consultant
Migrated data from legacy system into new software Workday by using Excel and MS Project to plan and schedule task and integrate fixes for SAP to Workday.
Creating the Supervisory organizations and renaming the locations and reprocessing the changes to production.
Configured Job Profiles, Job Families and Job Family Groups.
Setting up of info groups for personnel actions like Hiring, Org Reassignment, Termination etc.
Setup business process steps, such as Action, Approval, Approval Chain and Checklist, and how they work and integrate with security groups.
Develop testing strategies and verification scenarios along with project Scope and Requirements documents.
Configured Workday business process framework, configured condition rules to guide workflow or validate as required accommodating desired outcomes.
Coordinated migration of Performance Historical data.
Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
Configured workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
Designed and Developed Custom Reports using Workday.
Liaison between Core HCM and Talent Management team on planned activities.
Coordinated with HRIS teams on tasks, issues and risks of functional process.
Used Abacus for resolving the Tickets raised
Company: Accenture Services Private Limited, India
Duration: 1st Sep’2011 – 31st Sep’2013
Role: HR Generalist
Responsibilities:
Handled a business group with a head count of 1500 employees spread across several regions under industry group such as Health & Public sector, Financial services and Resources
Ensure to have regular connects across the location to interact with employees across levels to understand their concerns and ensure consistent implementation of HR policies and programs.
Led and Managed successful execution of training programmer
Coaching the line managers with process and ensuring they adhere the same with timely execution of all processes involved in the Performance Management System.
Guided the employees for Rewards and Recognition program.
Conducted orientation and helped new joiners with the onboarding formalities.
Company: Accenture Services Private Limited, India
Duration: 1st Sep’2009 – 31st Aug’2011
Role: Business Analyst Recruitment
Responsibilities:
Responsible for creating Business and Functional requirements in Job Specifications.
Led several Key projects from start to finish for clients and coordinated business process discussions
Engaged with the Business Stakeholders to understand the future demand scenario, share the inputs and design sourcing strategy to Business.
Involved in Market Analysis based on Resource Availability, Time, Budget and share insight to the Business by projecting the right options.
Responsible for tracking and Monitoring, Scheduling Conversions against the inflow of resumes.
Coordinated with Vendor partner’s and Accenture team on New and ongoing Requirements.
Published reports at the management level to highlight the gaps between Demand Vs Supply.