Workday Consultant with 5+ Years Experience

Kalyan Reddy

Workday

*************@*****.*** 857-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalyanreddyk05/ SUMMARY

Workday Consultant with 5+ years of experience supporting Workday HCM, Payroll, Benefits, and Financials at companies like CVS Health. Key achievements include:

• Designed and supported 15+ Workday integrations using EIB, Workday Studio, and Cloud Connect.

• Implemented REST and SOAP - based Workday Web Services APIs, improving data transmission accuracy by 30%.

• Reduced manual report preparation time by 35% by creating custom Workday and BIRT reports. SKILLS

Workday Ecosystem: Workday HCM, Workday Payroll, Workday Benefits, Workday Financials, Workday Recruiting, Workday Compensation, Workday Learning, Workday Studio (Proficient), Cloud Connect (Expert), EIB (Expert), Workday Extend, Workday Prism Analytics, Calculated Fields Integration Technologies: REST APIs (Proficient), SOAP APIs (Proficient), Workday Web Services (Expert), MuleSoft (Proficient), Informatica (Proficient), XSLT, XPath, ETL Processes, Data Mapping, Interface Control Documents, Dell Boomi, Celigo Reporting and Analytics: Workday Report Writer (Expert), BIRT (Proficient), Advanced Dashboards (Proficient), Excel Pivot Tables (Advanced), Data Audits, Reconciliation, Data Visualization, Data Modeling, Predictive Analytics, Statistical Analysis, Report Scheduling Database Management: Oracle 12c (Advanced), SQL Server 2019 (Advanced), IBM DB2 (Intermediate), MySQL (Intermediate), PostgreSQL, Data Warehousing, Database Security, Data Governance, Data Quality Management, Master Data Management EXPERIENCE

CVS HEALTH

Workday Consultant Sep 2024 – Present

Designed and supported 15+ Workday integrations using EIB, Workday Studio, and Cloud Connect, enabling reliable data exchange between Workday HCM, Payroll, and 10+ third-party vendors.

Implemented REST and SOAP–based Workday Web Services APIs to support benefits administration, payroll processing, and compliance systems, improving end-to-end data transmission accuracy by 30%.

Created custom Workday and BIRT reports supporting HR operations, payroll reconciliation, and audit requirements, reducing manual report preparation time by 35%.

Configured Workday Business Process Frameworks (BPF), including approvals, notifications, and condition rules, streamlining HR workflows and reducing processing turnaround times by 20%.

Administered Workday security roles and domain access for 500+ users, ensuring compliance with internal controls, SOX requirements, and data privacy policies.

Executed end-to-end testing and cutover activities, including unit, integration, and regression testing, ensuring accurate employee and payroll data across 100% of production releases.

Collaborated with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT stakeholders to gather requirements, troubleshoot integration issues, and improve system performance, reducing recurring incidents by 25%.

Delivered ongoing production support by resolving integration and data issues within SLA targets, decreasing manual HR interventions and data inconsistencies by 30%.

Authored functional and technical integration documentation, including data mappings and interface control documents, improving maintainability and accelerating onboarding of new support resources.

Investigated integration errors, identified and resolved the root cause of 3 recurring data integration errors, which increased data accuracy by 7% and reduced data loss.

Spearheaded regression testing across 10 impacted interfaces after Workday releases; identified and resolved 15+ high-priority defects, elevating data reliability scores from 80% to 95% within one quarter.

Directed business validation efforts, aligning HR and payroll requirements for integrations and reports, ensuring 100% compliance with federal and state regulations for 12 consecutive months.

Orchestrated the redesign of integration and reporting workflows, decreasing the incidence of payroll system production defects by 35% and accelerating issue resolution.

TRANSOL SYSTEMS

HRIS/Payroll Analyst May 2019 – Dec 2022

Maintained HRIS and payroll operations for 1,000+ employees by ensuring accurate employee records, compensation data, and timely processing across regular and off-cycle pay runs.

Reviewed, reconciled, and audited payroll and benefits data within HR systems, reducing discrepancies by 25% and supporting compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements.

Orchestrated successful migration of employee data to Workday HRIS, achieving 99.98% data accuracy within a 4-week timeframe and ensuring continuous payroll processing for 1,000+ employees.

Accelerated payroll processing cycles by 2 days, by automating the generation of 10+ key financial and compliance reports with Excel and HR reporting tools, leading to management visibility improvements.

Pioneered automation of three critical payroll processes, including new hire onboarding, which cut down processing time by 8 hours per pay period and minimized manual errors.

Streamlined HRIS data management for employee lifecycle events, cutting down onboarding time by 3 hours per new hire and reducing manual data entry by 7 hours weekly.

Engineered a centralized HRIS documentation repository, shortening new HR employee training time by 20% and accelerating issue resolution by 35% through readily available system knowledge.

Spearheaded root cause analysis of system exceptions impacting payroll, implementing permanent solutions that slashed payroll errors by 25% and saved 7+ hours per pay period.

Participated in UAT activities for HRIS enhancements and payroll changes, validating results against business requirements before production deployment. Triaged and escalated HR and payroll system defects, partnering with technical teams to establish fixes minimizing business disruptions; identified findings to fix the two biggest causes of payroll errors.

EDUCATION

Master in Information sciences Trine university, Allen Park, Michigan, 48101

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