Workday HCM SME & Solution Architect

SWAROOP KATIKAPUDI Mobile: 502-***-****

Workday HCM Subject Matter Expert 9911 Whitehurst Dr, Dallas, TX -75243

(Ex-Deloitte, Ex-IBM, Ex-Accenture) E-mail ID: *******.*@************.***

MBA-Human Resource

Executive Summary:

Hands-on Technology SME with over 15+ Years of IT experience in Cloud Technology Workday Solution and Configuration Architect Program and Project Management HR Transformations across industries Workday HCM Architect Core HR & ERP (Workday, PeopleSoft) applications implementation, post-go-live, helping organizations in transitioning from implement to operate, and developing support model for multiple workday clients in various industries such as energy, life sciences, financial Services and Consumer Products.

Workday Areas of Expertise:

With over 12+ years of in-depth knowledge in Core Workday HCM, Workday Compensation & Advanced. Compensation, Workday Recruitments, Workday Benefits, Workday Time & Absence and Workday Advanced Reporting – Custom reporting areas and successfully deployed both Workday Phase1, Phase X global rollouts and supported AMS - Maintenance projects across diverse industries including IT, Manufacturing, Finance, Banking, and Telecom.

Client Engagement: Collaborated effectively with 18+ Workday clients, fostering strong relationships and delivering innovative solutions.

Methodologies and Skills: Proficient in Agile and Scrum methodologies, enhancing project efficiency and operational reporting capabilities. Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement and best practices in project delivery.

Workday & Professional Active Certifications (as of Feb 2026):

Workday HCM Core and Practical Implementer Certified - Workday (Partner Certified)

Certified Workday Compensation & Adv. Compensation - Workday (Partner Certified)

Workday Benefits Certified - Workday (Partner Certified)

Certified Workday Launch - Workday (Partner Certified)

Certified Workday EM/PM - Workday (Partner Certified)

Project Highlights:

Workday HRIS SME July’2024 to till date

Client: Google - Verily, an Alphabet Company

Skills: Compensation & Advanced Compensation & Recruiting

Job Responsibilities:

Actively contributed to the Workday HCM implementation project focusing on Advanced compensation, Workday Recruiting, Supporting Data Conversions and Reporting areas.

Workday Advanced Compensation: Responsible for configuring and migrating advanced compensation components such as Merit & Bonus, Stock Plans, Participation Rules, Compensation Review Templates, Compensation Statement Rules, Grid Configuration, and Compensation Matrix.

Involved in the Year-end merit review of compensation which includes rolling out merit, bonus and stock plan and leading the entire process from start till end (Jan – March)

Responsible for the entire compensation review process & generating compensation statements.

Workday Recruiting: Work closely with HR and recruitment teams to understand their needs and translate them into Workday configurations.

Conduct workshops and interviews with stakeholders to gather detailed requirements and identify any gaps in the current recruitment processes.

Workday Time & Absence: Configured and supported Workday Time & Absence including Time-Off plans with complex accruals, carryover rules, and eligibility criteria aligned to global policies.

Managed Leave plans include intermittent leaves, balance periods, and compliance validations across multiple regions.

Developed calculated fields and custom reports leveraging Absence and Time Tracking data sources to support workforce planning and compliance reporting.

Supported integrations for leave balances and time tracking using EIB and Core Connectors.

Reporting and Dashboard Development: Conducted comprehensive analysis of 30 advanced reports out 102 reports from legacy system, developed a prioritized reporting queue, and collaborated with stakeholders to build tailored Workday dashboards and reports aligned with business requirements.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Worked closely with stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into technical Workday HCM solutions, enhancing configuration and decision-making processes.

Configured Workday Job Architecture including Job Profiles, Job Families, Job Family Groups, and supervisory organization structures.

Configured Skills Cloud to support talent intelligence, skills mapping, and workforce planning.

Supported HRIS administration activities including data integrity, reporting, and Tier-2 issue resolution.

Effective Communication: Led daily and weekly workstream meetings, addressing high-priority issues, managing RAID log items, and ensuring transparent progress reporting.

Workday Project Lead (Deloitte) Aug’2022 to May’2024

Clients: Veralto, Albemarle, Millennium (Onsite)

Skills: Compensation & Advanced Compensation, Recruiting enhancement & HCM Areas

Job Responsibilities:

Experienced Workday Functional Lead for DHR / Veralto divestiture project implementation project

Core Compensation certified with 4 years of expertise in compensation module, including 3 annual cycles and 1 implementation.

Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans, Bonus Plan and Stock Plan including plan processing.

Created new compensation eligibility rules, Bonus Plan profiles with targets for the existing Bonus plans.

Involved in Year-end merit review of compensation which included rolling out merit, bonus and stock plan and leading the entire process from start to end.

Configured, managed, and tested the Shared Participation Compensation Review process for managers and planners to participate in a single process to award employees on a global platform.

Enhanced and configured of Workday BPs for Initiate / Propose stock / Merit and Bonus

Supported compensation, compensation packages, Business Process, Compensation plans, grades, grade profiles and compensation elements for global project.

Led configuration and optimization of Time & Absence modules, including shadow plans, accrual schedules, cascading leave rules, and automated balance adjustments.

Configured and enhanced Time Tracking setup including work schedules, time entry validations, and approval workflows.

Provided Tier 2/Tier 3 troubleshooting for absence-related transaction issues and ensured accurate leave accrual processing.

Designed security groups and notifications supporting Time & Absence business processes.

Collaborate with the client's HRIS Manager and team to prioritize Recruiting Enhancements, Change Requests, and Incidents based on business needs.

Configure the system based on business requirements, including job requisitions, candidate workflows, and interview processes.

Populate suggested skills for Job Profiles, Skills self-assessment, importing of external skills, Set up Skills endorsements and ratings, Setup skill level, Skills cloud translations, Automated skill management.

Redesigned the Job Requisition Process by incorporating the questionnaires for gathering more job requirement details from the Manager

Configure set up required features in Preview tenants, present new features to business, identify quick wins, Impact analysis, user manuals or new features.

Presented workday new features as part of new releases and implanted the Quick one.

Impact analysis: Experience in impact analysis before configuring any new feature or module in workday.

Corrected all payroll and compensation related interfaces for synchronizing with new employee benefit enrollment plans.

Solid understanding of the Performance based Merit process.

Launched various Stock Process to do enhancements.

Workday Project SME (IBM) Jun’2021 to Aug’2022

Clients: Anheuser-Busch InBev, LA-IBM (Onsite)

Skills: Advanced Compensation, Recruiting & HCM Areas

Job Responsibilities:

Experienced Workday Functional Lead with a focus on large, multi-region Implementation & AMS Projects.

Requirements Gathering & Business Analysis: Gathering requirements from stakeholders analyze the feasibility, Impact analysis and preparation of BRD, demoed the new features, Providing the estimates.

Global Expansion Configuring the Business Process, notifications, Custom objects, Custom report, EIB load, Data validation, different organization types, Job Profiles, Job family groups, Pay groups etc.

Configured new Compensation components like Grades, Grade Profiles, Salary Plans, Allowance Plans, One-time Payment Plans, compensation Packages etc.

Conducted Business requirement sessions with stakeholders identify Planers, controllers, Creating Merit Plans, Bonus Plans, Stock plans, Compensation Matrix, Scorecards, Score card Results, Portion Rules, compensation review templates, Validation Rules, Parallel events, launching annul global process, hyper care support.

Configured new providers, benefit plans, rates, coverages, eligibility rules and reports for Open Enrolment.

Configuring the business Process definitions for Change Benefits, Open Enrolments, Change Benefits Elections.

Configuring Custom Objects and inbound EIB’s to load bulk data pertaining to Compensation plans, Job Classifications, Benefit Annual Rate etc. design and develop BIRT reports to generate COBRA letters.

Release Management: Configure set up required features in Preview tenants, present new features to business, identify quick wins, Impact analysis, user manuals or new features.

Customize workflows, notifications, and reporting as per the organization’s recruitment processes

Managed preprocess launch activities including EIB loads, Merit matrices, and Compensation Scorecard, coordinating with clients for successful process launches in regions like China and Singapore’s.

Tested and optimized compensation processes, ensuring accurate compensation statements.

Led project teams, managed milestones, and engaged stakeholders for transparent project progress.

Configured global Time-Off and Leave plans with complex eligibility and validation logic across multi-country deployments.

Managed Open Enrollment and Leave integrations ensuring accurate time balance transfers and compliance adherence.

Built Absence and Time Tracking reports for HR and Payroll stakeholders.

Conducted impact analysis for Time & Absence enhancements during global expansions and service upgrades.

Contributed to defining and writing SOWs (Statements of Work) for various Workday projects, ensuring clarity and alignment of project goals.

Defined and executed Backlog CR Sprint Planning and managed Incident and Change Management processes.

Skilled in EIBs, iLoad’s, Migration recipes for data loads, enhancing data integrity and reporting capabilities.

Workday Functional Expert (Accenture Technologies) Nov’2017 to June’2021

Clients: United Technologies, Keppel Group, COX, SKY & SGRE (Onsite)

Skills: Core Benefits, Compensation & Advanced Compensation, HCM Areas

Job Responsibilities:

Designed new approval steps, notifications, entry conditions on business process, text & validation rules, New custom objects. Configured the new documents for various countries based on business requirement

Created new one-time payment plans, Allowances, eligibility rules including end-to-end testing of output on PICOF.

Collaborated closely with customers and cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality project scopes.

Worked on Workday Benefits modules, configuring benefits plans, eligibility, and enrollment processes to meet client needs.

Also, worked on workday benefit enrollments and on the configurations to align with client-specific benefits structures, including health, retirement, and wellness programs.

Delivered comprehensive training sessions for HR teams and end-users, ensuring smooth adoption and effective use of Workday Benefits features.

Managed end-to-end implementation as Benefits Lead for global Workday projects, including Core HCM implementations.

Benefits Lead for end-to-end implementation projects and Rest of the World (ROW) Core HCM projects in Workday, from kickoff to Go-Live.

Implemented and supported Time & Absence configurations including accrual calculations, carryover rules, intermittent leaves, and automated return-from-leave processes.

Configured business processes, notifications, and security roles specific to Absence Partners and Time Tracking Administrators.

Delivered end-to-end testing and validation for Time & Absence during global go-lives and hypercare support.

Developed custom reports using Time Tracking and Absence data sources.

Previously served as an AMS Workday Support Consultant, handling critical tickets, bug fixes, and enhancements.

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

Employee Performance review process for Mid-Year and Year End, Net Attainments, Weightings, Rating Scales.

Enabled workday skill cloud and loaded skills and competencies to workday from legacy system, creating gigs.

Worked with EIBs, Core Connector, Cloud Connector (CCB), Report Design (BIRT), Custom reports, Matrix, Composite, calculated fields.

Developed standard/custom reports including quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc reports, and converted PeopleSoft reports to Workday Reports during migration.

Conducted weekly Global Service delivery calls to review project progress with clients and stakeholders.

Managed Workday Service Upgrade Testing from WD27 to WD36.

Performed Fit-Gap analysis, created unit test cases, conducted unit acceptance testing, regression testing and performance testing.

Workday Techno Functional Consultant (Wipro Technologies) Sep’2015 to Oct’2017

Client: Broadcom, Hitachi (Onsite)

Skills: Integrations, Compensation, HCM Areas

Job Responsibilities:

Application Support and Integration Development: Played a pivotal role in an AMS Workday Support Consultant, resolving high-priority tickets, bugs, and enhancing functionality across Workday and PeopleSoft systems. Developed and maintained integrations using Workday EIB, Core Connectors, PICOF.

Created Workday Calculated Fields, Custom Reports, Advanced Reports, and several EIB Integrations

Created reports for groups like Employee self-service, Manager’s self-service, HR Business Partners, Compensation Partner, Absence Partners, Payroll Partners, TA Team, Recruiters and Executives

Hands-on experience in Standard Reports, Calculated Fields, and Custom reports Created and maintained custom and ad-hoc reports as well as, run scheduled reports needed by end-users and Create custom Workday reports and modify/troubleshoot existing custom reports using Calculated Fields.

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

Organizational Management and Restructuring: Managed the reconfiguration of supervisory organizations, including the deactivation and reallocation of workers to optimize operational efficiency.

HR Process Optimization: Provided ongoing maintenance and support for all HR processes within the Workday, including hiring, performance management, compensation, and talent development.

Security and Role Assignment: Implemented robust security measures by assigning organization roles and configuring user-based security groups to protect sensitive data and ensure regulatory compliance.

PeopleSoft HCM Consultant (Immunis Services Pvt Ltd) June’2010 to Sep-2015

Client: Franklin Templeton Investments Pvt Ltd (Onsite), Bank of America (Onsite)

Skills: PeopleSoft, Workday

Job Responsibilities:

Worked on full-cycle PeopleSoft implementations, managing servers, databases, and developing insightful reports.

Implemented secure access controls and restructured organizational security using SJT Class All/SJT OPR Class and Tree Manager.

Deftly created Run Control Records, Pages, and Components as per client requirements; used process scheduler for setting up the report to run at specific time intervals and process monitor to monitor the status of report.

Expertly, customized few Application Engine Programs, whilst meeting the business needs of the client in NA Payroll Module

Also, modified and debugged existing People Code Programs for production support to resolve issues; customized custom PS query reports to meet business needs

Developed strategic ad-hoc reports using PS Query for key HR metrics. (Regional Salaries, Salary Plans, Grades)

Ensured application functionality through rigorous testing in ESS & MSS Base Benefits modules.

Automated report scheduling and resolved complex job data and global assignment issues.

Maintained and Supported HR Business Processes in Workday: Ensured seamless operation of all HR functions including compensation, hiring, performance management, and talent management within Workday. Provided continuous support to optimize and troubleshoot processes to meet business objectives.

Developed and Maintained Reports Utilizing Reporting Tools: Produced, maintained, and optimized a variety of reports and queries using advanced reporting tools. These reports were crucial in providing actionable insights and data visualization for HR and payroll applications.

Moreover, developed SQR, Application Engine Processes & SQL Scripts to load data from flat files into PS HR tables encompassing Bulk Job Codes, Preferred Job Title, ID Type, ID Information, and Other Personal Data

Developed reports in 'Time and Labour’ for Unapproved Time, Absence History, Comp Time, and Reported Time.

Customized and created Fields, Records, Views, Pages, Components and Menus as per the client’s requirements

Added & modified People Code according to Business Rules as a part in development.

Technical Skills:

ERP / HCM Product: Workday HCM, PeopleSoft

Workday HCM Modules: Core HCM, Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Time, Absence, Recruiting, Security and Reporting.

Workday Tools: EIB, Calculated Fields, Object Transporter, Report Writer, Cloud loader.

Ticketing & Other Add. Tools: ServiceNow, JIRA, Smart sheets, HP-Quality Center, Azure DevOps, MS Visio and Tableau.

Package: MS Office

Data Base: Oracle 12c and SQL Server 2014

Academic Credentials:

Master of Business Administration in Human Resource (HR) - Sikkim Manipal University –Year 2010 – 2012

Professional References Available On request.

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