Workday HCM & Technical Consultant 9+ Years Experience

KARTHIK SUDDHULA

********.*******@*****.*** • 571-***-**** • linkedin.com/in/karthik-yadav-s-a032b71b2

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Workday HCM and Technical Consultant with over 9 years of experience designing, developing, and supporting end-to-end Workday configurations for large, global clients. Adept at delivering scalable solutions across key modules including HCM, Reporting, Onboarding, Benefits, Advance Compensation, Payroll, Recruiting, Security, Time Tracking, Performance, Absence and Time Off. Skilled in data transformation, validation, and integration testing, with a strong ability to lead and coordinate with external vendors, clients, and third-party consultants throughout implementation lifecycles. A collaborative team player with strong communication skills and a consistent record of delivering high-quality, reliable integration solutions.

EDUCATION

Southern Arkansas University

Magnolia, AR Master of science, Major in Computer science

Graduated Dec 2016

Workday Certifications:

Workday HCM Pro Certification

Workday Reporting:

Advanced, Matrix, Composite, BIRT reporting.

Workday Functional:

Configuration of setups and business processes for HCM modules including Recruiting, Advance Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, Talent and Performance and Payroll. Experienced in managing integration security, including OAuth 2.0 and SAML authentication, PGP encryption, Integration System User (ISU) setup, and domain security policies to ensure secure and compliant integrations.

Success Academy at Charter Schools - Charlotte, NC. Nov 2024 – Present

Role: Senior Lead Workday Analyst

Key Responsibilities

Configured and managed Workday HCM modules, including Recruiting, Onboarding, and Time Tracking, Absence, and Time Off, Security and Reporting.

Configured and optimized Workday Recruiting workflows, including job requisitions, offer letters, and candidate management processes.

Designed and managed Workday security roles and domain policies to ensure appropriate access and data protection.

Executed and validated security object migrations between Workday tenants using Object Transporter (OX 2.0), ensuring accurate transfer of Business Processes, Security Policies, and Reports between Sandbox, Implementation, and Production tenants.

Converting Simple reports to Advanced Reports by using Calculated Fields, Sorting, Filtering Report Fields, providing Advanced Filtering Option, Creating Sub Filters and by using related Business Object.

Configured, tested, and maintained Workday Advanced Compensation plans including merit, bonus, and equity awards.

Design and expansion of onboarding/offboarding experiences across HCM, Recruiting, and Talent, mapping end-to-end steps from pre-hire to day-1 and from termination to deprovisioning with clear SLAs and compliance checkpoints.

Administer and support Workday Benefits, including benefit plans, eligibility rules, life event processing, vendor coordination, and employee issue resolution.

Designing and building compensation plans (e.g., merit, bonus, stock plans) in Workday. This includes setting up eligibility rules, compensation grades, grade profiles, and compensation matrices.

Designed and implemented domain security policies and business processes to ensure data integrity and compliance.

Configured and managed Custom Security Groups, User Provisioning, and De-Provisioning processes in Workday.

Developed advanced reports using compensation data sources and on understanding the data behaviors using the data sources developed the reports.

Developed Custom Reports and Audit Dashboards using Workday Report Writer to track Security Access Logs, Role Assignments, and Policy Violations.

Configured and maintained complex Workday benefit plans, including health, dental, vision, life, disability, and retirement programs, ensuring accurate eligibility rules and enrollment options.

Designed and configured complex compensation plans, including salary structures, bonus plans.

Implemented merit cycles, performance-based compensation, and salary adjustments to drive business performance.

Managed Workday HCM security modules, troubleshooting access and security issues.

Utilized Workday Object Transporter (OX 2.0) for secure data migration and configuration.

Coordinated tenant and release management activities, ensuring smooth deployment of updates.

Configured and maintained Time Entry Rules and implemented rule sets to govern how employees record their time, including rounding rules, grace periods, and minimum/maximum hour validations.

Developed and maintained Time Tracking security roles and assignments by Created and managed security roles to control access to time entry, review, and approval functionalities.

Designed and implemented Time Off Plans Created various time off plans (e.g., vacation, sick, personal) with specific accrual rules, carryover limits, and eligibility criteria.

Configured Time Off Accrual Rules and Schedules Defined how time off balances are earned based on factors like hours worked, service duration, and frequency.

Create test strategies and scripts for unit, end-to-end, and UAT; manage defects, track readiness via entry/exit criteria, and execute cutover plans for BP and integration releases.

Managed Holiday Calendars and Processing Rules Maintained accurate holiday calendars and configured rules for holiday pay and time off accrual adjustments.

US Bank - Charlotte, NC Nov 2021 – Oct 2024

Role: Workday Product Solution Consultant

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for configuring business processes, creating compensation plans, launching compensation reviews, and creating custom reports and configuring security across the compensation module.

Configured Scorecards eligibility rules and goals.

Configured initiate compensation review business process and modified business process security policies as per the requirement.

Worked on creating and loading EIBs to modify the compensation plan assignments for worker.

Created bonus plan and eligibility rules based on the number of years of service and location of the worker.

Led the full lifecycle configuration of Workday Advanced Compensation for multiple organizations, encompassing compensation grades, grade profiles, compensation plans (merit, bonus, stock), and eligibility rules to align with company-wide compensation.

Implemented Workday HCM Payroll configuration including pay groups, deductions, gross-to-net calculations, and retro pay.

Configured multiple Benefit Plans in Workday across different categories of benefits such as Health Care Plans, Insurance Benefit Plans, Retirement Plans.

Delivered meaningful metrics, trends, and analytics through Workday dashboards and scorecards, enabling leaders to make datadriven workforce and financial decisions.

Developed and maintained simple to complex Workday reports (advanced, matrix, composite) using Workday Report Writer and Report Designer to support HR and Finance stakeholders.

Strong knowledge of compliance, regulatory, and tax reporting requirements in Payroll and Leave Management.

Conducted payroll data audits, validation reports, and reconciliation with finance systems.

Managed project timelines and deliverables for Workday Advanced Compensation implementations, ensuring timely and accurate configuration and go-live readiness.

Configured and managed Custom Security Groups, User Provisioning, and De-Provisioning processes in Workday.

Designing and configuring complex compensation plans, including salary structures bonus plans incentive programs, equity awards and stock options.

Managed Merit Cycles, Performance bases compensation, salary adjustments and compensation reviews.

Build, test, and migrate EIB integrations for high-volume worker data changes, supervisory org updates, and provisioning/deprovisioning attributes; establish error handling, audit controls, and rollback plans.

Created and maintained security audit reports and dashboards using Report Writer and Calculated Fields to monitor unauthorized access attempts, user activity logs, and policy compliance.

Implemented data privacy standards and compliance requirements for government industry regulations.

Conducted regular audits and risk assessments to ensure Workday security configurations aligned with regulatory requirements.

Managed Workday HCM security modules, troubleshooting access and security issues.

Utilized Workday Object Transporter (OX 2.0) for secure data migration and configuration.

Coordinated tenant and release management activities, ensuring smooth deployment of updates.

Configured recruiting related business processes includes job requisition change, edit job req additional data evergreen requisition processes, job posting processes.

Implemented and managed workday recruiting for end-to-end recruitment processes.

Configured and managed Workday Time Tracking module for accurate employee time entry and approval.

Configured and managed performance review cycles, templates, and workflows and set up performance rating scales, goals, and competencies.

Developed and customized Workday reports using Report Writer, Advanced Reporting, and Composite Reporting tools.

Designed and implemented absence management policies, procedures, and workflows in Workday.

Configured absence types, reasons, and accrual rules to meet organizational requirements.

LEIDOS – State Project Oct 2019 – Oct 2021

Role: Senior Workday HRIS Analyst

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for configuring in scope Business processes (hire, job change, terminate, etc.), Talent & Performance, Recruitment, Onboarding, Compensation, Expenses and Absence & Time tracking modules.

Configured the annual Workday Open Enrollment process, from initial configuration and testing to live deployment, achieving a 98% on-time enrollment rate for 15,000+ employees.

Participated in Workday's bi-annual update cycles, analyzing the impact of new features on existing benefits configuration and implementing necessary changes.

Designed, configured, and maintained Workday Security Groups, including Role-Based, User-Based, Job-Based, Segment-Based, and Intersection Security Groups.

Assessed Workday releases and new features for impact on reporting and Prism datasets, recommending and implementing configuration changes and regression testing as needed.

Implemented Domain and Business Process Security Policies across HCM and Recruiting modules.

Developed reports with Workday Report Writer and created custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

Created integration system security group to hold respective ISU and assigned required domains to run the integration without any security issues.

Created multiple benefit events and configured enrollment rules for enrolling and waiving plans. Configured Enrollment Instructions and Cross Plan Dependencies.

Designed and implemented domain security policies and business processes to ensure data integrity and compliance.

Configured multiple Benefit Plans in Workday across different categories of benefits such as Health Care Plans, Insurance Benefit Plans, Retirement Plan and Additional Benefit Plans.

Configured and managed Custom Security Groups, User Provisioning, and De-Provisioning processes in Workday.

Configured Workday Business Processes for payroll processing, approvals, and validations.

Managed Compensation data, including salary, bonuses, and equity awards to ensure accuracy and compliance in workday.

Created training materials and provided payroll system knowledge transfer to HR/payroll teams.

Collaborated with HR and Payroll stakeholders to streamline payroll processes and resolve payroll discrepancies.

Implemented merit cycles, salary adjustments using workday advanced compensation.

Implemented data privacy standards and compliance requirements for government industry regulations.

Conducted regular audits and risk assessments to ensure Workday security configurations aligned with regulatory requirements.

Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure data privacy and compliance requirements were met.

Managed Workday HCM security modules, troubleshooting access and security issues.

Utilized Workday Object Transporter (OX 2.0) for secure data migration and configuration.

Coordinated tenant and release management activities, ensuring smooth deployment of updates.

Designed Automated Role Provisioning Rules based on supervisory org, location, and job profile changes. Set up time tracking policies, rules, and calculations to meet organizational needs and Implemented time-off requests, leave balances, and holiday schedule.

Configured domain security policies to control data visibility, incorporating data masking and encryption to safeguard sensitive information.

Collaborated with HRIS, IT Security, and Compliance teams to develop and test custom security roles, conduct impact assessments, and remediate gaps during internal audits and Workday releases.

Participated in periodic Workday Security Audit Reviews, providing insights, correcting misconfigurations, and documenting risk mitigation plans.

Configured review documents and BIRT forms for the candidate to sign employment agreement.

Developed simple and secure integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

Used inbound EIBs to load data – Hire Employee, Contract Contingent Workers, and Job Profile. Etc.

Developed advanced reports like Employee roaster, Weekly New Hire report, business process transactions.

Towne Park - Annapolis, MD Nov-2017 – Oct -2019

Role: Senior Workday Report Writer

Key Responsibilities

Configured and maintained Workday Business Processes: Designed, built, and modified business processes across various HCM modules (e.g., Hire, Termination, Compensation Change, Performance Review) including conditional steps, approvals, and notifications.

Led the design, implementation, and management of Workday healthcare staff scheduling using Shift Wizard integrated with Workday to ensure accurate time tracking and absence reporting.

Used data sources and calculated fields to develop custom reports and integrate financial data with other modules like HCM.

Worked on personal information settings during the job application process.

Configured event reasons and categories for the recruiting business processes.

Expertise in workday Compensation configuration and extensively worked on Base Compensation, history lines and Compensation plans.

Created and maintained multiple Passive events for removing the benefit election when workers lose eligibility.

Configured absence balances and time off requests submitted through Workday Absence and Shift Wizard to ensure compliance with organizational policies.

Configured and maintained shift patterns and schedules within Shift Wizard aligned with Workday time tracking policies and absence entitlements.

Implemented data privacy standards and compliance requirements for government industry regulations.

Conducted regular audits and risk assessments to ensure Workday security configurations aligned with regulatory requirements.

Participated in Workday release testing and feature enablement specific to payroll.

Managed end-to-end payroll process, including payroll calculations, deductions, and reporting.

Ensure Compliance with applicable. Wage and hour laws, tax regulations, and payroll best practices.

Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure data privacy and compliance requirements were met.

Hire into Position Management, Create Compensation for new hire employees, Review employee hire, edit Workday accounts and reset the passwords.

Integrated Workday Talent Module with other Workday modules in HCM, Recruiting and Configured integration workflows, mappings, and data flows.

Implemented and managed Workday Recruiting module for end-to-end recruitment processes.

Set up candidate management, screening, and interview processes.

Developed inbound and outbound integrations for background checks using Core Connectors, including REST and SOAP APIs for secure and reliable data exchange.

Created JSON-based API integrations to automate account creation after pre-hire, including setting up training accounts in third-party systems.

Worked on E-Verify integrations to verify employee eligibility.

Create a Compensation Grade Hierarchy, Automatic Compensation Grade Step Progression Schedules, Request Grade Change, Adjustments to Compensation Grades Assigned to Job Profiles.

Configuring, Testing Workday solutions and providing product expertise to clients based on their business requirements, along with writing test scripts for vendor interface systems and documenting using FDD (functional design document) and TDD (technical design document).

OCLC - Dublín, OH Feb-2017 – Oct -2017

Role: Workday Configuration Analyst

Key Responsibilities

Create, maintain, and direct the tasks on the project plan for the implementation of Workday Human Capital Management.

Created employee review templates and configured organizational goals.

Configured Workday compensation packages which include employee's salary, Compensation Grades, Allowances, Bonus, Merits based on their profile.

Configured dispositions, reasons and categories on the job application business process.

Configured notifications on the job application bp to notify the status of the candidate to primary recruiter candidate and hiring manager on various steps.

Developed the Custom reports using workday report writer tool and deploying it into workday tenant.

Implemented time-off requests, leave balances, and holiday schedules.

Involved in End-to-End testing and Integration testing. Involved in Analysis, Setup and Configuration of Workday HCM. Involved in Workday Business Process Configuration.

Enabled at BO report level for Drill options like Drill down, drill up, Drill through and also various functions like merge dimensions for multi providers, sections, breaks and rules.

Participated in the design and optimization of all global HR processes ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes.

Changing the supervisory Organizations & organizational Hierarchies.

Worked closely with QA Lead for HCM-Human Capital Management, Benefits Administration Outsourcing and Talent Management implementations.

Assigning Organization Roles, Assigning User based Security Groups, Hire into Position Management, Create Compensation for new hire employees, Review employee hire, edit workday accounts and resetting the passwords.

Involved in creating the Applicants, Hiring applicants into supervisory Organizations.

HIGH GATE – INDIA Jun-2014 – Jul -2015

Role: Workday HCM and Technical Consultant

Key Responsibilities

Designed and implemented requirements in Workday HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Talent, Absence, Security and Reporting, demonstrated configurations using prototyping, Workday's Implementation Methodology and use it on all projects.

Inactivating Supervisory Organizations, Changing the Organizations and moving the workers into other Supervisory Organizations.

Involved in creating the Applicants, Hiring applicants into supervisory Organizations.

Propose Compensation for New Hire, design Business process to hire an employee.

Configured Workday compensation packages which include employee's salary, Compensation Grades, Allowances, Bonus, Merits based on their profile.

Facilitating annual bonus and salary merit programs for both US and international business units.

Implementation of Salary Structures for different grade profile employees.

Configured the processes like change job, compensation grades, mass hire, mass promotions.

Worked with developers, project managers, business analysts, and quality assurance staff to ensure that they fully understand the requirements, which includes reviewing high-level technical designs and detailed testing documentation.

Acted as the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.

Document the acquired results of analysis and workflows as well as obtaining sign-off from the appropriate business units.

Communicate effectively with external business partners and internal teams to deliver the projects requirements.

SYSTEM EXPEREINCE

General Tools: Microsoft Office, JIRA, Monday.com, ServiceNow, Smartsheets, Google Sheets, XML editor, Notepad ++, ERP Systems, Workday BIRT

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