Workday functional lead

Nethra Kamath

973-***-**** adlf4z@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nethra-d-kamath-539998170/

Experience summary

Workday Functional Lead, offering 15+ years of HRIT experience delivering Enterprise Scale Solutions in HCM platform with hands-on experience as solution architect, strategic planning, process improvement, and transformational change management for medium and large scale Industry. Assisting multinational client companies in implementation and support of SAP solutions; improving business processes in areas of Human Resource, operations, IT services, governance, risk and compliance. Able to take over failing projects, hit the ground running and directly impact the bottom-line.

Currently working as Workday Functional lead and Solution architect for Global HCM implementation and post- production project specialized in HCM Core, Absence, Time Tracking and payroll. These included project implementation and BAU for Large Enterprise for 70+ Countries across North America, LATAM, APAC and EMEA.

Expertise includes Client Interaction, Elicitation, Co-ordination of the project Deliverables, Gathering of Requirements, Impact Analysis, Co-ordination with Technical Resources, Conducting Brainstorming Sessions and Communicating effectively with higher Management.

Possess an excellent understanding of the Human Resource Process, right from pre-recruitment to exist process including Recruiting, Hiring, Staffing, Time and Travel Management, Performance and Goal Management, Payroll and Benefits and Termination.

Ability to bridge the gap between Technical and Functional teams in HR Projects and have the ability to deliver the Process from "AS IS" to "TO BE" state.

Exposure on working Onsite–Offshore Model, Excellent Communication & Resource and Project Management skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Systems Configuration Solution Architect SAP Enterprise Strategy Business Transformation

Business Process Solution Cross-Functional Team Leadership Data Migration Strategy Master Data Management

Data migration Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Continuous Process Improvement Project Lifecycle Management

Risk Management Team Building & Leadership

Key Skillset: Workday: HCM Core, Absence, Time Tracking and Reporting, SAP HCM Module, ADP EV5, Citrix, Vantage, Ee-Time, Kronos, Wiztec and Brassring

Project Tools and Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, HR Workplace, HP Quality Center, RICEF Objects and Solution Manager.

EDUCATION

•Manipal Academy for Higher Education; Master’s Degree in Human Resource

•Bangalore University ; Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

•Cardiff University ; Managing people and Organization

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and TRAINING

•Workday HCM fundamentals

•Workday Absence Management: configuration and Administration

•Workday Time Tracking

•Workday Business process Fundamentals

•Workday report writing

•Trained on Lean Awareness Six Sigma – Green Belt with top score at Novartis.

•Trained on SAP HCM Module from Software Information Solutions, India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Novartis – Workday Functional lead 10/2015 Present

•Workday functional Lead for Global implementation project by gathering requirements, implement, test, deploy and support functionality for workday HCM Core, absence and time tracking, benefits and Integrations.

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•Highly involved in RFP Process to identify the Global time and payroll system and by providing input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility.

•Provide leadership across HR project methodologies, governance, and adoption of best practice and help drive implementation of key initiatives following Global project principles.

•Ensure the recommended approach follows the Global standard approach and meet the local regulatory needs and to follow the change Management protocol in case of any deviation from Global principles.

•Act as both BSA and configuration expert for HCM Core, absence and time keeping management work stream by driving towards decisions and recommending best practices related to Workday functionality including, but not limited to: Hiring & Onboarding and Compensation, advanced compensation and benefits, payroll and integration team.

•Identify strategies, risks, and options, recommend approaches and mitigations to meet client/functional requirements by Provide artifacts ( policies, requirements, data, etc.) to assist in the design and documentation of business processes.

•Configure solutions that consider impacts to work streams while mitigating any cross-functional impact from legacy system to Workday or any downstream systems.

•Prepare high-level architectural design (Inbound and outbound fed from and to Workday) and documentation of technical and functional specification document of current business process, Blue print and configuration workbook.

•Accountable for validating system upgrades, data migration, tenant set up and tenant build from Unit testing to production tenant.

•Partner with stakeholders to develop business requirements documents, functional specification documents, and test plans.

•Partner with other technology resources to design and build integrations and by preparing end-to-end data mapping from SAP legacy system to Workday and to the downstream systems like 3rd party Time tracking, Benefit vendor and payroll systems.

•Support major Workday releases by researching new functionality, testing, and implementation.

•Foresee any system challenges faced due to upcoming changes in business process and proactively provide Business system implication for the updates which controls operation support of master data.

•Participate in functional and regression testing for implementation, enhancements, projects, and upgrades.

•Develop and optimize standard / custom reports for ongoing customer needs.

•Contribute to change management and training efforts.

Key internal Projects includes:

•Primary interaction with North America and Canada Business Units in Gathering requirements, Preparing Business Blueprint documents, designing, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and support Phases for all HRIS operations.

•Subject Matter Expert in various Global enhancement project related Process automation, upgrades or transformation, Interface data feed and SAP Fiori 2.0 and HRCore enhancement.

•Worked on project implementation for new Business Units by understand the Business need and preparing blueprint and documentation pertaining to Gross pay policies, Break rules, Absence and attendance types and quota generation, Work schedule rules, generation of Holiday calendar, Payroll calendar and Compensation and Benefits.

•Prepare & document Business Process Specification documents to support development and enhancements of business applications.

•Provide guidance in formulating new requirements and aims to improve business processes by coming up with creative and alternative approaches to solving business problems.

•Strategies to operationalize and support of SAP HRCore Time system including management of custom programming, security roles and new functionality/configuration requests in HRCore System as per divisional requests and North America HR initiatives.

•Liaison with the Global HRIT department in the matters of system fixes and enhancements, IDOC processing and supporting the HR Operations department on various regulatory and business-critical projects.

•Work in partnership with HR Data migration (Internal and external web application) in regards to Integration and Interfaces with Master data and ADP payroll system and troubleshoot and fix interface related issues.

•Involved in preparing user acceptance testing and help to ensure smooth transport of code to the regional environments.

•Extensively involved with resolving Quest Ticket Management system while adhering to Service Level Agreements (SLA).

•Services and Implementation teams as required addressing incidents that are reported through the ticket inquiry system, or for new development requests.

•Support business in providing various ad-hoc and various project related requests and to identify trends and develop forecasts.

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Wipro Technologies - Lead SAP HRIS 05/2008 01/2015

•Primary interaction with Business Unit leaders and users of Human Resource Administration, Payroll & Benefits, Financial Operations, and Transportation teams to provide the business with optimum Organization Structure and Business Processes.

•Creating Recommendations for the appropriate HR platform and Application to support accurate reporting of HR information for the Enterprise and its Lines of Business.

•Implementation of Change Request, Enhancement to the existing system functionality.

•Worked on Solution design document for implementing new HR Business Process improvements and Maintain Process Documentation and Test Results.

•Maintained Employee master data, Customization Procedures and User Interface by modifying the Infotype groups and Infotype menus.

•Maintaining Time management system using Wipro web applications and thereby generating various time reports.

•Actively involved in defining Time Types, Time wage types selection rule, Absence / Attendance for Time Evaluation.

•Customized Personal Actions and customized the reason for change as per the requirements of the company.

•Facilitated testing of Personnel Administration, Organizational Management and Time Evaluation processes, Benefit and Payroll.

•Cross functional support for analyzing the issues, troubleshooting and resolving HR application issues, validating data in SAP HR system.

•Assisting technical team in development technical Solutions, RICEF objects, enhancements and bug fixes.

•Creating and Maintaining Time sheets and Time recording including Substitutions, Absences, Leave Entitlement, and Overtime.

•Creating and Maintain Benefit plan related to Plan Enrollment, Plan type, Plan options, Calculated Cost and Coverage.

•Provide Production Support, which includes but not limited to, providing full support for HRIS, Researching and Resolving defects, unexpected Process flaws, Recommending Solutions or Alternate methods to meet Requirements and Adhoc Query generation as per business needs.

•Involved in Monthly /Quarterly Release, Testing Coordination activities which includes Test Execution assignment and Status monitoring.

•Involved in preparing various documents like Business Requirement Traceability matrix, Project vision, Data Flow Diagram using Microsoft Visio, Mapping document Use and Test cases.

•Proactive in providing Data Analytics, Dashboards, Metrics, and Key Performance indicators to the HR team, including delivery of Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly reporting in a logical and concise manner.

•Create regular and Ad-hoc reports by utilizing the company system tools to generate historical data and to identify trends and develop forecasts.

Satyam Computers Services Ltd - HR Executive 06/2006 04/2008

•Organizing in conducting Induction for New Joinees thereby designing and driving smooth transition thereon.

•Management of all HR operation like Progression, Performance Appraisals, Training and even management.

•Ensure HR policy and process implementation are in compliance by the Business Unit.

•Maintain a high level of confidentiality due to the sensitive nature of data obtained and documents handled pertaining to Human Resources area.

•Have extensive interaction with the Leadership team and the Employees for grievance handling, disciplinary procedure and increased touch time thru innovative initiatives.

•Driving Employee Engagement Activities and Supervisor Effectiveness Programs across Business Unit.

•Handled independently in Separation Process, conduct Exit Trend Analysis to recommend and Implement actions plans in consultation with the business.

•Maintaining the Attendance Tracker and monitoring through the Intranet system and thereby acquiescence to the Company Standard.

•Driving New Initiatives like Flexi-Timings, Telecommuting, TED Unplugged, P-Square and Appreciative Culture (Awards and Recognition).

•Calculating Onsite salary for the Employees depending upon the location and eligibility.

•Generating HR Letters like Transfer/ Relocation, Onsite Offer Letters and Other HR related Approval Letters.

•Generate and maintain confidential HR MIS reports using SAP system for all employee related data like Profile, salary, progression, Attrition and Attendance reports.

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