Workday

Anookhya M

Workday Consultant

*************@*****.***

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

Professional Highlights:

Around 8 years of extensive experience with Development, Design, Analysis, and unit testing of business requirements.

Expertise in analysis of client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation, and Reporting issues.

Providing support of HR processes such as employee record maintenance, Payroll, Benefits, Security, Pay Planning, Performance Management/Talent Management, Time Tracking / Onboarding (Hire).

Experience in implementation of Workday HCM for various HR modules which includes Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent Management, Change Management, Compensation, Time tracking, and Leave/Absence Management.

Experience in working as an admin for LMS and configured many reference guides(QRG)

Experience in analyzing various benefit programs that included retirement, health, dental, vision. Also, calculated benefit pensions for employees under various different retirement plans.

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

Expertise in the Workday product suite, specializing and deepening skillset within the Talent Management and HCM Functional area.

Experience in Workday Human Resource including Workday Payroll, Business Analysis, Business Process Flows, Security, Reporting, and Integration.

Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework.

3+ years of experience on Creating Reports in Workday (Compensation, Benefits, Core HR).

Proficient in Simple, Advanced, composite, and matrix Reporting, dashboard development.

Responsible for full development of Custom Reports and calculated fields manipulating data for the Confidential Group.

Strong experience in Kronos Configuration and support of modules including WFS-Workforce Scheduling, time & attendance (work rules, pay rules, holiday configuration, display/access profiles).

Developed configuration items in Time & Attendance like Labor Level entries, Payrules, Display Profiles, Access profiles, Accruals, Comments, Employee group and LL transfer sets.

Experience in various technologies involved in Integration development (XML, XPath, XSLT, XSD, Web Services).

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

Provided continuous HR Reporting & Analytic support for: Cost Centers, Payroll Earnings and Deductions, Compensation, Time Tracking and 401(K) auditing.

Experience in Advanced Excel and its features like Pivot Tables, Charts, Functions, etc.

Experience working on Workday HCM Global roll out and implementation which includes configuring Security, Roles, Business Processes, Reports, Data migration, and Upgrades.

Expertise in Data management, Workday, and creating Custom reports using different combinations of calculated fields. Creating containers in the cloud to create, deploy, and run applications.

Proven skills in developing the test scripts for the System testing, Regression testing using Mercury Interactive tools (QTP, Load-Runner, QC).

Expertise in Workday LMS in creating, updating, and configuring Learning Programs; develop and edit numerous lessons & e-learning courses that are required by the personnel. Track course views, completions, feedback, and survey the results.

Involved in QA/Testing processes like User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and System Integration Testing (SIT).

Good experience in testing of Converted Data in Workday Tenant.

Developed and built custom reports related to Workday Financials.

Experience in designing and prototyping User Interfaces for intranet, Web applications and websites using HTML/HTML5, XML, CSS.CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery.

Strong knowledge with the administration and implementation of Workday Financial modules like Procurement, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Business Assets, Endowments and Gifts, Financial Accounting, Non-sponsored AR, Banking and Settlements.

In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment.

Good knowledge in using the JIRA tool for bug tracking, issue tracking & project management.

Experience in analyzing and preparing Project Deliverables such as Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Requirement Traceability Matrix, and proposed changes for process improvement.

Worked on Automated Deployment, Jenkins for Continuous Integration, and continuous delivery.

Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills, Strong data analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Education:

Master’s Degree in Computer Science (North Dakota State University, ND, USA)

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering in Electronics and Communications – (LPU, Punjab, India)

Technical Skills:

Software Products: Workday, ServiceNow, Peoplesoft, ADP, Kronos, JIRA, Liquid Planner, Oracle, AWS.

Workday Technical: Workday Integrations - Core Connector, EIB Inbound and Outbound, Workday Studio, PECI, PICOF, Workday Custom Reports, BIRT Design, XSLT Document Transformations, Calculated Fields, Business Object, and Security.

Workday Functional:

Workday HCM - HR, Payroll, Recruiting, Staffing, Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management.

Workday Financial - Budgets, Cash Management, Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, Expenses, Inventory, Procurement, Projects.

Tools: SQL, PL/SQL, Microsoft Visio, Excel, Crystal Info, Citrix, and Visual Basic 6.0, SOAP, XpressO, Oxygen XML, XSLT.

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Server,Unix (Solaris), Windows XP/07/10/vista, and Linux 7.1.

Web Programming Tools: ASP, HTML/ HTML5, DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript, React.js, IDE/ Editors Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, Net Beans, C, C++.

Work Experience:

Workday End to End Tester

SPIN, Remote November 2022 to Present

Responsibilities:

Play a key role as a domain expert in Workday Implementation END TO END Testing for Workday Benefit, Payroll tenants, Core HCM, Advance Compensation, Recruiting, Time and Absence.

Worked closely with the External Workday Consultants, Payroll, and Benefit teams to compile business requirements, analyze processes, provide end to end testing during Workday Implementation.

Served as a Migration data expert from Legacy system into Workday for accuracy.

Working as a Techno-Functional consultant in the implementation of above mentioned HCM Modules.

Gathering and documenting customer requirements, tracking, reporting and analyzing key organizational and operational reports. Converted Business requirements into Workday requirements by creating Workday Mapping documents.

Experience in Testing various Workday environments to ensure successful processes, configurations, reports, and interfaces in the production environment.

Partnered with Workday Consultant Team in configuring various Business Processes.

Served as a subject matter expert during Implementation phase.

Environment: Workday, JIRA, EIB Inbound/Outbound, Core Connector, XML, XSLT, Workday Report Writing, custom reports, calculated fields, Tableau, Compensation, Talent Management, Recruiting, Benefits, Payroll, Headcount, Implementation Tenant, Sandbox Tenant, Production Tenant.

Workday Analyst

ServiceNow, Remote Nov 2021 to Nov 2022

Responsibilities:

Play a key role as a post-Production support for the Workday system in modules like Core HR, Recruiting, Compensation, Payroll, Benefits, Time Tracking, and Absence Management related to User access.

Working as a Techno-Functional consultant in the implementation of above mentioned HCM Modules.

Experience in working as a report writer by creating numerous Custom Workday Core HR, Time Tracking, Compensation & Payroll reports and modified the existing custom reports.

Serve as a subject matter expert for Core HR, Payroll, Compensation, Advanced Comp, Talent & Performance modules, and Security.

Worked on updating Job Profiles, Business Titles, Worker Type, Time Type, Converting Contingent Worker to Employees, Re-hire, Contract Ends, Terminations, Create Supervisory Organizations, Custom Organizations, Setup Cost Centers, Business Units, Locations, etc.

Proposed Compensation for New Hire, involved in Editing Government Ids and Workday Account.

Configured the Compensation Basis, Compensation Components like Packages, Compensation Grades, Grade profiles, plans, frequency, Pay Rate type, One-Time payment, etc.

Experience in creating Custom Advanced and Matrix reports for Upper Management Dashboards.

Developed simple and secure Integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) both Inbound and Outbound.

Auditing the Integration Events, work on the Error reports and resolve those errors following the successful executions of the Inbound EIBs.

Worked with the configuration of Workday Studio and Cloud connector Integrations to fix/update the issues.

Worked on Talent and Performance modules including the key product areas Talent Profile, Performance Management, Talent Review, Succession Planning, Goal Management, Talent Marketplace, Career and Development Planning, etc.

Developed several integration and functional reports to report out mass data from the workday.

Built and managed integration using Calculated Fields, EIBs, Document Transformation, Workday Core Connector, XML, XSLT, and Web Services technologies.

Extensively worked on Workday data conversion, I Loads and Workday integrations.

Configured User-based Security Groups, Role-based Security Groups, Edit Domain Security Policies, Business Process Security Policies, granting Initiation/ Cancel/ Rescind – web service accesses to Integration Administrator, Assignable Roles at the Supervisory Org level, etc.

Gathering user requirements for key operational reports for the HR Director of Human Resources.

Design and build Inbound/ Outbound integrations using EIB, Core Connector.

Worked on updating the Employee records and data like Updating and Adding the Legal Names, Local Names, Put Applicants, Change Job, Create & Edit Position, Hire Employee, Contract/End Contingent Worker, Update the Salaries of the employees.

Worked on adding/updating the data on the Supervisory Organization level using numerous EIB Inbound web services like Add/ Update Organization, Assign Roles, Put Supervisory Organization Restrictions, Put Cost Centers, Adding Business Units, etc.

Workday Testing which includes System, Integration and End to End Testing, Parallel Acceptance Testing, Access Testing, UAT.

Serve as a resource for Tier 1 end-user support. Participate in testing for semi-annual Workday updates.

Support the design, testing, and maintenance of the Workday HCM system globally.

Developed and Configured XSLT code to transform the XML into the required file format.

Workday HRIS Consultant

Salesforce, Remote Nov 2020 to Nov 2021

Responsibilities:

Played a key role in the implementation project of various Workday HCM modules including Core HR, Recruiting, Time Tracking, Absence, Payroll, Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Talent, and Benefits Modules related to User access to the Workday system.

Serve as a subject matter expert for HCM, Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, Talent, Performance, and Security.

Experienced in working with users and management in gathering requirements and translating them into effective reporting deliverables. Proven ability to validate and perform data analysis on report as well as explain report findings to users when needed.

Built Many EIB files to load the Grade Profiles Step Rates based on Changes happening due to Union Labor Relation law.

Managed Data Conversions, HR and Compensation related business process configuration and configuring the application per customer requirements.

Created numerous test scenarios for Testing in scope of many Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc.

Created and tested various Workday reports in the categories of Compensation, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, Compliance, International Assignment, Contingent Worker, Scheduled Processes, Headcount, and Termination.

Worked on adding/updating the data on the Supervisory Organization level using numerous EIB Inbound web services like Add/ Update Organization, Assign Roles, Put Supervisory Organization Restrictions, Put Cost Centers, Adding Business Units, etc.

Created condition and validation rules in various Business Processes to work for multiple countries.

Created LTIP and STIP plans and their custom objects to load from downstream applications.

Experience in setting up scheduling of reports (custom, ad-hoc) and understanding the required permissions for security report sharing, performing specific authentications on reports.

Executing functional, Regressing, Manual, Automated BPT's and SOX testing.

Supporting Existing Integration and building new integration based on the client requirements.

Hands on experience in creating inbound/Outbound integrations through Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), CCB, Studio using XSLT's, XSLT Mappings and XML Mappings for different functional areas.

Responsible for Payroll table maintenance; Create annual Payroll Calendars.

Experienced in creating various report types, including advanced, matrix, composite, search, trended, nbox.

Created multiple reports for Benefit Module like Benefit Census, Benefit elections and Bi-weekly deductions.

Worked with business owners to ensure report designs met requirements.

Developed and support 20 individual Workday reports (Worklets) currently being utilized on 4 unique dashboards and available to over 200 Managers, Compensation Partners, Talent Partners, Executives, HR Partners, and HR Operations users combined.

Worked on updating the Employee records and data like Updating and Adding the Legal Names, Local Names, Put Applicants, Change Job, Create & Edit Position, Hire Employee, Contract/End Contingent Worker, Update the Salaries of the employees from the Asian and European Countries including Austria, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Singapore etc.

Presented dashboard demonstrations to HR executive leadership.

Business Processes/Objects: Develop and configure steps, step conditions, notifications, due dates and alerts.

Troubleshoot long-running reports and integrations and Working on improving performances.

Developed test scripts and scenarios for SIT/UAT testing and Performed UAT testing on reports.

Actively participated in Unit Testing, Functional Testing and End to End Testing. Resolve the Ticket’s raised by the Users on the severity basis by tracking them in Microsoft TFS and fixing all kinds of issues of Reporting, Security.

Excellent organizational skills with the ability to balance multiple demands and thrive in a collaborative and fast paced environment.

Workday Security: Security Admin, create security groups, manage role based security groups, Maintain security policies for Domains, Functional Areas, and Business Processes.

Environment: Workday Report Writing, XpressO, custom reports, calculated fields, Custom Objects, EIB, Workday Studio, Core Connecter, Kronos, XSLT, XML, LMS, UAT, Document Transformation, compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Payroll.

HRIS Consultant (PeopleSoft/ Workday)

ADP, Georgia Dec 2020 to Nov 2020

Responsibilities:

Assists with the definition, implementation, and maintenance of the Workday development and production architecture and environments.

Update the company's data management system, security policies as new Best Practices emerge and are adopted by the computer network.

Knowledge of database design best practices, performance tuning, and data normalization rules.

Develop and test code to adhere to the design documents.

Managed Workday databases for all new hires, terminations, promotions, and updates.

Point of contact for business partners on issues and inquires related to Workday support.

Involved in design, development, enhancement and maintenance of Workday HR, Base Benefits, e-Recruit and Payroll.

Conducted new hire orientations, behavioral-based interviews, and extended offers to candidates.

Performed software upgrades to Kronos multiple time clocks and maintained Kronos pay rules, codes, work rules, wage profiles, Labor levels, schedules and shifts as required by HR.

Actively participate and take personal ownership in a career through self-assessments, mid-year, and annual reviews, goal setting, and performance management.

Initiating and executing Improvements to Process.

Weekly/Bi-weekly meetings with staff to distribute information, schedule work, discuss issues.

General management including budget requests, hiring, coaching, performance management, terminations, etc.

Ensure Workday Development staff are cross-trained and continuously improving.

Lead overall functional requirements and gap analysis of new project requests which also includes the creation of functional specifications for new development work.

Responsible for the successful completion of project goals and milestones.

Complete configuration and functional set-ups in Workday modules.

HRIS Consultant (PeopleSoft/ Workday)

Genpact, Hyderabad, India Mar 2016 to Dec 2018

Responsibilities:

Worked on the data extract for Workday HCM modules and led the team on providing the data extract from PeopleSoft training data for load into their new training module Cornerstone scheduled to go live simultaneously with the new Workday system.

Led the data extract project from PeopleSoft to Workday. This involved extracting data out of PeopleSoft initially to help configure all the required hierarchy organizational data required in Workday before extracting the employee transactional data.

Assisted with the generation of Workday Advanced Custom Reports and Integrations EIB Enterprise Integration Builder. EIB is a tool used in Workday to handle inbound files to Workday or outbound files from Workday to vendors or Web Services.

Designed business applications using web technologies like HTML, XHTML, and CSS.

Since Workday is a heavily object-oriented strong understanding of calculated fields is a requirement for advance report writing and integrations.

Additionally, the use of writing XSLT to transform data from the advanced reports is common. Generated several XSLT to generate flat files for vendors.

Managing and understanding the different data sources, business objects, primary business objects and secondary business objects.

HRIS Consultant (Workday)

A3 IT Solutions Jun 2014 to Feb 2016

Responsibilities:

Created Custom reports (Simple, Advanced and Matrix) in functional areas – Core HCM, Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, and Talent Management using Workday Report Writer tool.

Provided guidance to the users for gathering and documenting business requirements and testing business process changes within the assigned functional areas.

Maintained report templates, automated and scheduled reports in Workday for several business units and provided reporting prototypes.

Worked on different EIB’s both Inbound like Add update Organizations and outbound like Quarterly SUI (Out Bound Integration).

Assisted users including managers in establishing their operational reports and create a report catalog to include operational and advanced reports.

Provided support to the HRIS team for processes pertaining to employee lifecycle, such as New Hires, Terminations, and Job change.

Worked with business users to collect requirements for reporting purposes.

Working knowledge of Workday data structure, including data sources and creating complex calculated fields.

Created and maintained Security Groups, like segment-based, Job based Security group, Role-based security permissions to users to view and create reports.

Provided day-to-day support of Workday Core HCM, Workday Security, Workday Reporting and Admin issues.

Environment: Workday HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, Talent, and Recruiting, EIB, Transformation using XSLT, XML, calculated fields, Excel, Integrations, and Reports.

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