Sap Consultant

Lakshmi Somalaraju

adl838@r.postjobfree.com 469-***-**** linkedin.com/in/lakshmi-nagulapati

Summary

Around 20 years of IT experience in SAP HCM and SuccessFactors.

Working for Hollyfrontier as a senior HCM Delivery lead (SAP & SF), supporting Payroll, Time, Benefits, Compensation, Recruitment, Onboarding, Provisioning and various processes in HR Systems.

Had worked for SAP America’s client Newmont Mining, Southwest Airlines, DuPont, Johnson and Johnson, State of Florida (Public Sector), Dawn Foods, Rio Tinto Minerals, Gerdau Ameristeel, Bose Systems, Computer Sciences Corporation as a SAP HR Consultant.

Huge number of country rollouts, implementation of several modules, integration with in SAP and outside of SAP like other HR systems.

Have global implementation experience, implemented HR systems in countries US, Canada, UK, India, Singapore, France, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and China.

Provided bunch of solutions as a subject matter expert, outlined systems and their behavior (inflow & outflow of data).

Played a key role in filling the gaps in processes and established solutions as an architect.

Have good experience to manage functional team members as well as technical team.

Provide weekly status reports and accomplishments to the management.

Have extensive experience in debugging through ABAP and have written functional specification.

Designed data conversion plans and coordinated with clients on conversion data by phase by phase and communicated team members to load in to SAP as per schedules.

Designed several functional design documents and walkthrough them with development team(s).

Customer satisfaction is the key, I keep my customer happy most of the time with innovative solutions.

Written and reviewed number of FDDSs which are designed by team members before moving to development.

As I have good inter personnel skills, always try to work with stake holders and find out their pain points part of the processes and assign right team members to provide solutions.

Good experience in estimating the timeline for development, integration and testing (IT + UAT), part of the deliverables.

Conducted several UAT testing session among different teams like SAP HR and Finance and end users. Participated in individual application testing as well as integration testing with different modules such as PA, OM, Benefits, Payroll, Time, Compensation Management and Finance.

Have good experience in different phases like Implementations, Post implementation Support, Integration Testing, Version Upgrade and Enhancement or Support packs and Maintenance.

Good experience in testing all HR modules in different phases – Unit Test, Quality Assurance Test, User Acceptance Test, End to End with bigger teams.

Excellent in debugging the programs/interfaces, analyzing the problems where I can help my team members to guide in right direction.

Leading production support team to support all HR systems along with Payroll. Implemented SLA to support business 24X7 and always coordinates with Service Desk/Tech Support teams whenever any major implementations or key changes in existing applications where impacts bunch of users.

Walkthrough support documents to service desk teams prior to launch, my team will be notified by tickets if any support required.

Work with business partners in a periodic basis and discuss projects and on-going support and communicates/set the goals to my team members.

Have good experience in writing functional documents and giving inputs to technical team for developing the reports, interfaces, conversion and enhancements.

SAP R / 3 Specialization: Configuration of SAP HCM - Organizational Management Personnel Administration

Personnel Development Benefits/Payroll Module ESS (Employee Data Employee Benefits & Benefits Enrollment)

Manager’s Desktop Compensation Management (ECM) Recruitment Time & SAP Project Management

EXPERIENCE

HollyFrontier Corporation, Dallas, TX 2014 – Till Now

The HollyFrontier Corporation is a Fortune 500 company based in Dallas, TX. HollyFrontier is a petroleum refiner and distributor of petroleum products, from gasoline to petroleum-based lubricants and waxes.

As a Senior ERP Delivery Lead, delivered HR projects on time and within budget by collaborating with project manager and delivery team.

Acquisitions: Lead three acquisitions for the company to ensure smooth consolidation of 1450 new employees into company’s HR system to process benefits, time, and payroll. Reviewed/approved project charter, developed BRD and project scope. Project scope consisted of business requirements, financial consolidation, and resources. Used solution manager for documentation.

Gross Payroll in US: Implemented gross payroll in SAP using payroll schemas and did data transfer to ADP for net payroll, store net payroll results in SAP HR/Finance. Implemented BADI for payroll posting.

Payroll implementation for UK and Canada: Insourced from ADP Payroll for UK. Implemented Canada Gross and Net payroll in SAP. Implemented user exit RFFOUS_T for ACH file.

US payroll Support: Update payroll calendar and check dates as part of year end process, installed required HRSPs, reviewed and applied OSS notes, BSI TUBS updates.

Canada payroll support: Implemented year end PDF forms including YE & ROE - XML validation error location improvement, Tax - Quebec legal changes, Tax - Corrections, Incorrect tax threshold for Quebec taxation. Applied OSS Note. Changed payroll constants TX000 for personal exemptions and Provincial/Territorial personal exemptions and indexing factor changes in T511K table.

Time Management: Implemented time management with positive and negative time using time schema, time evaluation. Implemented CATSDB for exempt and non-exempt employees. Implemented Kronos for hourly employees.

Benefits: Implemented SAP benefits. Production support during open enrollment payroll year end projects ensuring corporate compliance.

Cloud Benefits: Implemented Aspire Cloud Benefits to improve user experience with benefits enrollment. Cloud benefits is deployed on SuccessFactors portal.

Successfactors: Implemented Compensation, Performance management, RCM and RMK modules in successfactors.

Learning Management System: Implementing new global learning management system for the company to centralize the process.

Dawn Foods, Jackson, MI 2013 – 2014

Dawn Foods is a leading bakery ingredient manufacturer.

As a Senior SAP HR Consultant, streamlined Personnel Administration and organizational management processes in SAP HR system.

Reconfigured HR actions and OM Objects and relationships in SAP to minimize maintenance.

Collaborated with user to identify OM structure changes to include manager relationship with org. unit, streamlining org. structure in SAP. Used LSMW to load the data changes.

Updated interfaces to incorporate the changes.

Updated configurations to correct the tax deductions in payroll to ensure state and federal compliance.

Created functional spec, worked with developer to change SuccessFactors interface and send correct employee information to SuccessFactors system.

Southwest Airlines, Dallas TX 2012 – 2012

Southwest Airlines Co. is a major American airline headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

As a Senior SAP HR Consultant, worked on Benefits Open Enrollment project.

Gathered business scope in templates and configured benefits plans, wage types and payroll deductions in SAP Benefits Module. Added features to handle Benefits Administration for Union Contract specific benefits.

Updated billing interfaces with new benefit plans.

Added default benefit plans to employees using LSMW.

Created audit reports for benefits to confirm eligibility of the employee and dependents.

Rio Tinto Minerals, Denver CO 2012 – 2012

Rio Tinto Group is MNC and world's second largest metals and Mining Corporation.

As a Senior SAP HR Consultant, implemented SAP HR modules for Minerals Business unit.

Created blueprint and functional specification for SAP modules PA, OM, LSO, and Performance Management for North America to fit in the existing RTBS (Rio Tinto Business Solution) and did gap analysis.

Configured PA and OM modules and qualifications, course catalogs, approval workflows and uploaded WBT (Web Based Training) courses.

Designed new performance template for QIP (Quarterly Incentive Plan) for hourly employees.

SAP America / Newmont Mining, Denver CO 2011 – 2012

Newmont Corporation is the world's largest gold mining company.

As a Senior SAP HR Consultant, implemented global SAP HCM project.

Designed and configured PA and OM modules for US, Canada, EMEA and AP.

Configured ESS and MSS and designed interfaces and reports. Worked with KPMG development team on interfaces.

Switched on the MGE (Management of Global Employee) for managing global movement of employees.

Worked with SCM teams to design workflow strategy and approval process.

Gerdau Ameristeel, Tampa, FL 2011 – 2011

Gerdau is the largest producer of long steel.

As a Senior SAP HR Consultant, worked on upgrade project.

Provided solutions for global template project (upgrade project) in ECC 6.0 for PA, OM, PD and ECM.

Created project scope and worked closely with basis team on integration points.

Provided weekly project summaries to executive team members.

Configured dynamic actions and created notifications for managers for personnel actions.

Johnson & Johnson/ NGA, Jacksonville, FL 2009 – 2010

Johnson & Johnson is an MNC that develops medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods.

As Senior ERP Analyst, supported production system.

Worked on production tickets regarding SAP HCM system for PA, OM, BN and Payroll modules.

Created compliance reports in SAP and changed interfaces between SAP and Taleo (Recruitment system). Updated ESS and MSS.

Built adhoc reports for the day-to-day client needs using SAP Query tool.

State of Florida/ Convergys, Jacksonville, FL 2008 – 2009

Public sector company.

As Senior ERP Analyst, supported production system for SAP Payroll module.

Made changes to payroll schema, wage types, process models, and remunerations statements to correct payroll discrepancies.

State of Florida/ Convergys (continued)

Managed payroll year-end process and worked with basis team in applying support packs.

Supported regular and off-cycle payroll

Dupont/ Convergys, Jacksonville, FL 2005 – 2008

DuPont is world’s largest chemical company.

As Senior ERP Analyst, implemented SAP HCM project for all four regions (NA, EMEA, LATAM and AP).

Led the OM team of four people to design organizational structures and integrate with other modules for the client. Designed learning solutions with qualification catalog and integration with job catalog.

Defined Objects under data model enhancement with time constraints, plan versions and relationships between objects to model reporting structure. Integrated PA and OM using PLOGI tables.

Mapped cost centers to Organizational units/positions based on hierarchical structure and inheritance model.

Defined workflow and structural authorization and configured evaluation paths for building the roles.

Bose Systems, Framingham, MA 2005 - 2005

Bose Corporation is an American manufacturing company.

As SAP HR Consultant, implemented time management project in SAP system

Created mini master data of employees in SAP.

Created grouping for personnel sub area and employee subgroup.

Configured work schedules. Defined absence types and attendance types. Specified special processing rules for time data evaluation. Defined time constraints to prevent overlapping or collision of absences.

Used CATS to capture time details for exempt employees and Kaba Benzing for non-exempt and hourly employees in manufacturing units.

Computer Sciences Corporation, Singapore 2003 – 2004

Computer Sciences Corporation is an MNC that provided IT services.

As SAP HR Analyst, implemented PA and OM modules in SAP system in 40 countries as part of project.

CPF Board, Singapore 2002 – 2003

Central Provident Fund Board is a statutory board operating under the Ministry of Manpower.

As SAP HR Consultant, supported production system for SAP time and payroll modules.

Nokia, Singapore 1999 – 2001

Nokia is consumer Electronics Company.

As SAP HR Consultant, supported production system for SAP HR systems.

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Master’s in Business Administration from Padmavathi University, India

Bachelor of Sciences from Venkateshwara University

Professional Certificate Course on Compensation and Benefits Management from Singapore

Working on transition to SuccessFactors – completed ‘Introduction to SuccessFactors HCM Academy’ and attended two SuccessFactors Conferences. Now working on module specific (EC, PM/GM, Comp etc.) training/ certification. Also completed Open SAP training on SuccessFactors

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