Workday

Gowtham RV

Senior Workday HR & HCM Consultant

Phone: +1-469-***-****

Email : ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Workday HCM Consultant with 8+ years of Techno-Functional experience in Human Resource including Workday Finance, Workday Payroll, Recruitment, Health Care, Business Analysis, Business Process Flows, Reporting and Integration.

8+ years as a member of Workday implementation consultant designing, developing, testing, and deploying integrations.

Extensive knowledge of various HR transactions involved in Workday HCM Integrations.

Hands-On Experience in Configuring with Custom reports, calculated fields, Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connector, Cloud Connector (CCB), Report Design, Business form Layout, Solution Manager.

Lead a team in post implementation project and good working experience in Integrations including Web Services, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework, Payroll Interfaces, Staffing, Compensation and Benefits.

Good Command over Employee Life cycle (Core HR), Employee self-service, Manager Self-service, Payroll Interfaces, Benefits and compensation modules.

Proven integration design experience using Workday Custom integration, Studio Integration, Packaged Integration, Core Connectors, Document Transformation.

Expert in Workday Integrations (EIB’s, Core Connector & Studio), iLoad, Data Migration and Reporting.

Proficient in Reports development (Advanced, Custom, Matrix, and Simple) and Building Complex Workday Reports using in Studio/EIB Integrations involving error Handling, Splitter/Aggregator, and Route based on strategy, Custom Java Objects.

Analyzed client’s HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues.

Actively participated in the Migration of On-Premise application to Cloud Systems Workday Data through Spreadsheets.

Worked on Object Management Systems like Role Based Security, User Based Security, Job Based Security groups.

Implemented Custom XSLT file to transform the content into a CSV file format. Also Experience with the various technologies involved in development (XML, XPath, XSLT, SQL, Web Services)

Analytical exposure of UML such as Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram and Entity Diagram which included processes in Staffing, job benefits, compensation grades and packages.

Designed and built both inbound/outbound EIB integrations in various segments of Workday system and worked with Core Connector, Cloud Connector (CCB), Report Design, Data Conversions XML, XSLT and SOAP web services, generated and developed Custom Reports, Advanced Reports as needed by business.

Experienced with Pre-Hire, Onboarding, Manager Evaluation, Succession Planning reports.

Good Experience in custom reports using Workday Report Writer

Configured Business Processes like Job Change, Hire, and Change Benefits.

Maintenance and creation of Workday Supervisory Organizations, Locations, Positions, Cost centers, Cost Center hierarchies and Developed studio integrations to create multiple interface files for payroll.

Actively involved in full cycle PeopleSoft to Workday 24 implementation project. Actively involved in design of process flows in workday and the fit-gap analysis of the existing HR Business processes in the On-Premise PeopleSoft and Workday.

Worked with Workday vendor’s team to prepare the design of Sync between PeopleSoft and Workday.

Worked with clients to research, document, troubleshoot and resolve functional, integration and security issues and Solid understanding of Service Oriented Architecture concepts.

Extensively involved in trouble shooting and fixing problems at development, system testing and post-production stages for various HRMS modules.

Excellent Problem Solving, Debugging and Communication Skills.

Technical Skills

ERP Systems

Workday Version 35

SAAS Workday

Workday HCM and Integrations, Core Concepts, and Navigation Basics, Organizations,

Staffing models, jobs and positions, Compensation, Security group, calculated field,

Workday Report Writer, Workday Report Designer, EIB, Core Connectors.

Programming Languages

C, C++, Java, SQL

Operating Systems

Windows NT/00/03/07, Windows XP/Vista

Languages

XML, XSLT, CSV, HTML

IDE

Sublime Text, Net Beans 8.0, Eclipse

Tools

Workday Studio, Service Now, Ask HR, JIRA, Notepad ++, SOAP UI, Oxygen XML Editor,

MS Visual studio 2008, Excel, Visual Studio

Software Applications

MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Web, MS Excel, Sharepoint

Professional Experience

Beachbody, Santa Monica, CA Aug 2021 – Present

Senior Workday HR & HCM Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Configured Outbound/Inbound Integrations with different payroll providers according to the requirements

Configured and Update Earnings, Deductions, Pay Groups codes to flow with certain Calculations in Workday Payroll Integrations.

Manage the entire Recruiting lifecycle in one system, including workforce planning, sourcing, and advanced talent analytics

Streamline the Recruiting process by enabling transparency and collaboration across the entire hiring team

Involved in tenant Configurations with some areas: Hiring, Recruitment, Compensation, Onboarding, and Staffing Positions

Attract top talent with a consistent and engaging candidate experience from outreach to Onboarding through Recruitment models

Worked on the Object Management Systems like Role Based Security, User Based Security

Worked on Domain Security Policy and Business Process Security Policy Changes in Functional area to configure with Inbound EIB web service templates

Developed Studio Integration in which it generates the Worker payroll data with Brazil country based on data changes with various data forms.

Maintain Design Documentations for integration services, File Layout, Build test plan for Brazil APData Integrations.

Configuring Workday Inbound Integrations to meet each client's unique business requirements also developed test scripts for other outside systems that interface with Workday.

Developed PICOF’s for the different countries based on business needs to send Worker Payroll data to vendors (ADP, NGA, BDO, Ceridian etc.).

Migrated workday objects using OX Transporter/Solution from Implementation to Sandbox and then to Production tenant by following the change ticket process.

Testing with new features in WD35 version for all the existing integrations letting the users know about new features or Issues to resolve with updated version.

Created Integration System User and Integration System Security group based on the business requirement for Brazil Payroll Integrations.

Configured New Inbound EIB has to load the payroll data with worker data changes.

Built integrations using Calculated Fields, Document Transformation, Workday Core Connecter, XML, XSLT and Web Services tools

Extensive use of Document Transformation, which uses Payroll connector integrations, XML Output as its data source input.

Configured validation rules with Bonus Plans for various countries based on business requirements.

Extensive knowledge of handling the post implementation project from end-to-end integrations with testing including custom reports and calculated fields

Resolving Service Now tickets based on issue by making modifications/creating new conditions to send the correct data to business upon UAT confirmation.

Extensive knowledge of handling with Payroll Integrations/Payroll information in workday Implementation projects

Reinforced developers by providing KT session to the team and mentored for developing Integrations.

Created Adhoc & Non-Adhoc Payroll Integrations for the vendors to schedule and deliver the output files to vendor secure location by setting up with business process definition.

Environment: Core Connectors, BIRT, EIB’s, Workday Studio, Workday XML, Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, custom reports, calculated fields, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Exchanger XML Editor.

USAA, San Antonio, TX Feb 2020 - Jul 2021

Workday Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

Work closely with the technical team to analyze integrations and security needs and complete projects that may arise.

Serve as a point resource for handling a variety of cross-functional HR projects including HCM, Time tracking, reporting/metrics, and governance.

Configure and maintain Workday configuration to meet new business needs.

Provide recommendations and training to assigned client groups on all Workday related issues.

Setup Compensation Eligibility Rules based on compensation grades and job profiles.

Observe the standards and procedures established by the project office and Track business needs during development phases in Business Life cycle.

Worked on Compensation Components and created compensation eligibility rules based on management levels, job profile, and job family and responsible for Worked on creating Salary plans, Hourly plans, and Allowance plans

Generated Compensation Grade profiles to divide the grades into functional tasks, geographic regions, and the required sub-categories for the business

Worked on creating Compensation Packages to group together the compensation guidelines and compensation plans that could be assigned to an employee all at once

Worked on Compensation Eligibility rules to set the required criteria so that there is automatic association of a group of employees with the selected compensation elements

Managed management level and workflow of employee data for compensation module including job families, pay ranges, bonus scales, grading and supervisor setup.

Responsible for gathering and documenting customer requirements, designing, tracking, reporting, and analyzing key organizational and operational reports

Customized end-to-end configuration and suggestions provided for the benefits of the client and customized accordingly

Designed the Pay grade structure – Defined the Pay grade Type, pay grade Area, pay grade, and Pay grade Level.

Created work schedules, period work schedules, daily work schedules and planned working time.

Implementation of Core Confidential, Onboarding, Recruiting, Talent, Advanced Compensation, Benefits and Career Development modules of Workday.

Provided design, configuration, and troubleshooting services (functional and technical) for Workday Human Capital Management solution

Created Supervisory Organizations, Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchies, and location hierarchies' maintenance, and modification of Workday Business Processes and definitions

Worked on the creation of benefit plans, supervisory organizations, job profiles, and job families

Designed, configured, and automate business processes to enhance the current application systems for Confidential including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation etc.

Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing

Unified with Human Capital Management, Payroll, Absence Management, and Project and Work Management and Integrated with Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll.

Defined business processes and proposed new or improved processes by Functional Analysis with validated new processes with the business process owners.

Worked on complete cycle of Compensation (Compensation Criteria, Plans & Grades), Configuring Security to the employees in an organization.

Interstate Batteries-Dallas, TX Mar 2018– Jan 2020

Workday HRIS Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

Perform key annual processes within Workday but not limited to: Annual Enrollment, Bonus, Merit, Performance Reviews, Talent Management, Absence, etc.

Support and optimize the design, development and performance Workday and related business data and processes.

Involved in the meeting with business process owners, Subject matter experts (SME) and Security Audit team for requirements gathering

Independently owned the process of preparing detailed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD)

Involved in Design and configuration of Initiate Merit and Bonus Business Processes by configuring complex approval workflow and validation condition rules

Created Supervisory Organizations, Subordinate Supervisory Orgs, and Reorganizations, Company, Position, Locations, Cost center and Organizational Hierarchies

Configured and Tested Business Process and notifications in core HR: Hire, Job Change, Termination, Create Positions, Requisitions, Termination, & Contract Contingent.

Designed and configured workday HCM & Security configuration objects like Organizations, subordinate organization, Management Hierarchies, Position, Security groups, Functional area, Domain and Business Process Security Policies and Tenant setup.

Built industry standard reports like Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Calculated Fields, Conditions and Eligibility Rules that applies to the parameters of the report

Worked on created several Adhoc custom advanced reports as a part of data validation and testing.

Worked on reports for Headcount, Compensation, Talent Management, Recruiting, Benefits, Payroll, Business reports etc

Working experience on testing the data and security issues with the data from the reporting perspective.

Worked on functional configuration of Compensation e.g., Eligibility rules, Comp. Grade & Grade Profiles.

Created test data and executed Test cases for System testing. Created test scenarios and test cases and coordinated the testing effort with all the stakeholders for System and UAT.

Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues

Worked with Business Process and configurations of the Compensation, Payroll, Talent Management, Recruiting and Benefits

Responsible to test end to end for HCM Hire, termination and change job business processes.

Configured Workday Modules such as Workday Talent Performance, Workday Comp & Workday Absence

Support the Manager HRIS in the development, operation, and maintenance of HRIS systems. This includes Workday and any other systems utilized by the HR Team.

Understanding the business requirements and building Workday solutions.

Setup Business process configuration including process steps, notifications, business process conditions and BP security.

Project Management: Coordinated the collection and documentation of user requirements, test plans and test cases.

Created Workday reports on a regular basis based on requirements from business and Calculated fields; Reports to audit current data for the operations team to ensure data integrity

Provide day-to-day support by troubleshooting and fixing issues in Workday.

Support Workday upgrades by reviewing new features and testing the new functionality by executing several tests cases.

Fidelity Investments, Bangalore, India July 2014 - Dec 2016

Role: Workday HCM Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Configuring Outbound/Inbound Integration with different application interfaces according to the requirements. Managing Data conversions, HR and Compensation related Custom Reports, Security Management, Business Process configuration.

Consulting with clients on a variety of data integrity issues to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframe

Configured and Update Earnings, Deductions, Pay Groups and Related Calculations in Workday Payroll.

Created Outbound Integration to fetch the Workers Time off & Expenses Data

Designed and configured Workday Business Process for Job change, Propose Compensation, Termination.

Involved in HCM Configurations over multiple areas: Compensation, Benefits, Onboarding, Performance, Absence/Leave, Profile, Position

Managed Security configurations for Solution and Studio Users to grant access and regulated security by added Business Process Security Policies for Functional Areas like Payroll, Expenses, Budgets

Worked on Development and Customization of Time off plans and Absence plans

Worked on creation of Time Tracking Validation rules, Time Entry Codes and Time Entry Template

Configured security, and created process flows, steps, Condition rules, Custom validations on Accounting Journal Event Business Process Definition and notifications on Outbound Integration Business Processes within Workday system

Worked on the Object Management Systems like Role Based Security, User Based Security, Job Based Security groups

Worked on Domain Security Policy and Business Process Security Policy Changes in Functional area

Developed a Studio Integration in which it generates the Worker Pre-Hire data followed by New Hire details, which generates Worker Profile with Quick look ID & Login Credentials for X500.

Maintain Design Documentations for Downstream Mapping, File Layout, and Build test plan for Financial Integrations.

Configuring Workday system to meet each client's unique business requirements also developed test scripts for other outside systems that interface with Workday.

Developing Custom Workday Reports like Advanced, Matrix and Composite for HCM (HR/HRIS) and Financials

Developed PICOF’s for the different countries based on business requirement to send Worker Payroll data to ADP.

Migrated workday objects using OX Transporter/Solution from Sandbox to Production tenant by following the change management process.

Troubleshooting, Debug Issues in Studio Integrations using MVEL and log steps.

Testing the new features in WD30 and for all the existing integrations in each upgrade and letting, the users know about new features.

Used Document retrieval process in Workday for files coming in from third party systems and loaded data to Workday.

Assigned User Based Security to Worker Security Groups for New Hires based on their role.

Worked on creation of Supervisory Org’s, Positions with Job Requisition, Cost centers, Locations etc.

Created Integration System User (ISU) and Integration System Security group (ISSG) based on the business requirement for every Integrations.

Utilized the functionality of Workday Web service tester to test workday web services through WSDL Interface

Involved in Workday Payroll Integrations using Templates and Transformation of Data based on the end user Requirement.

Created reports with Workday Report Writer and various Calculated Fields, In addition, creating custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)

Used delivered ETV/XTT functions from a Custom XSLT file to transform the content into a CSV file format.

Creating the new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenant based on the designed business flow diagrams.

Creating validation rules for different business processes and moving them to production after testing them in sandbox. (Creating validation rule for required identifiers at the time of hire, termination, transfers)

Used Sequence generators, generating templates and validating inbound integration system resources

Good knowledge of Domain, Role and User based security.

Supported QA by providing KT session to the team and resolving the defects raised by them.

Co-ordinated with other IT resources to support configuration of SFTP sites and Single Sign on capabilities as needed to support project requirements.

Responsible for Build and Delivery of Workday Integrations that were built using EIB’s, Cloud Connect and Workday Studio.

Documentation of system changes, and business processes for upgrades and capture of business processes

Environment: Inbound & Outbound Integrations, Compensation (Core & Advanced), Workday Payrolls Configuration, Workday Studio, Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, Custom Reports, Calculated Fields, Benefits, Absence management, Time management, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Oxygen XML, JIRA’s.

Ramboll Group-Hyderabad, India Feb 2013 – June 2014

HRIS Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

Actively worked as part of the global HR Operations and Systems team

Responsible for driving process improvements, efficiencies, and act as the point of contact for all global HR processes that revolve around data integrity, system setup and maintenance, system security, end user setup and training.

Responsible as key partner to Client’s HR Leadership team in providing project, process and systems support to various HR functions.

Responsible in evaluating the effectiveness of current data entry procedures and assume the responsibility of data integrity by working with HR and other partnering groups such as Finance, IT, Payroll to define data integrity standards, and then implement protocols and procedures to mitigate data integrity issues in the future.

Actively worked on configuration and maintenance of the core HRIS system, support interfaces to internal and external systems, and standardize/streamline reporting.

Support, maintenance, and administration of HRIS System, ADP/HRB, in addition to other systems supported by the Human Resources organization in a global environment.

Ensure data integrity, testing of system modifications and changes, report writing, analyzing data flow for process improvement opportunities, and maintenance of HRIS processes and controls development.

Responsible for the maintenance of the human resource information system associated with the collection, retrieval, data entry, data integrity, accessibility, and usage of global employee information.

Act as the liaison between HR, IT, Payroll and other HRIS users.

Process personnel status change actions in the system, including new hire set up, and coordinate with Payroll and other departments as needed.

Provide accurate, relevant, and timely information and assistance to internal customers, striving to maintain the highest quality and customer service standards in all areas of responsibility.

Apply understanding of system setup, interdependencies, and data flow to resolve issues.

Implement ecomap which is part of Halogen's Talent Management System as well as load HR data into system to maintain data integrity.

Provide end user training for new users and on-going training to ensure the effective utilization of HR systems; assist with rollout related to new systems and initiatives.

Work with management to understand their information needs; create and produce reports/databases utilized by management and/other departments relating to employment programs and the corporate initiatives.

Serves as key point of contact for HR Partners and HR team to assist with questions

Assess company’s HR information needs and plan for changes in HR systems to meet these needs.

Create data reports and metrics in consultation with internal clients. Reports would include but are not limited to division staffing analyses, census reporting for leadership, turnover, organizational charts, compensation surveys, annual reviews, diversity.

Provides technical and functional support for production systems, schedules and plans system upgrades, patches, testing and other technical projects for HR systems, as well as improve upon and resolve internal data integrity and efficiency issues.

Mapping and integrating local business processes with global business processes for all steps of worker life cycle.

Manage and support all HR Regional Systems, Interfaces and Processes

Facilitating team processes; writing and reviewing Unit Testing and UAT test plans and scripts when necessary.

Education:

Masters from Texas A & M University Commerce

Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Vanguard Business School, Bangalore

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