Workday HCM & Financials Senior Consultant

Rajani B

Senior Workday Consultant

612-***-**** **********@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/wdrajanibazar/

Summary:

Over 6 years of experience in IT industry in which 5+ years of experience in Workday HCM Modules, reporting, Integrations and Reports and 2 years’ experience in Peoplesoft.

Worked with the creation of Supervisory Organizations, Reorganizations, Subordinate Supervisory Orgs and Organization Hierarchy, Locations, Positions and Cost Centers.

Involved in Workday modules like Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Finance, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Talent and Performance and Recruiting configuration during the implementation.

Successfully completed 4 full end-to-end Workday implementations, covering configuration, testing, integrations, data migration, and post-production support.

Hands on experience in Inbound/Outbound integrations Using Core Connector, EIB, Workday Studio.

Skilled in Workday Benefits administration, including open enrollment, eligibility rules, dependent events, and carrier file integrations to ensure seamless benefits processing.

Expertise in PICOF (Payroll Integration Common Output File) and PECI (Payroll Effective Change Interface) Integrations along with Document Transformation.

Expertise in Report Writer, Creating Complex Workday Calculated Fields, and Custom Reports.

Experienced in creating Job Profiles, Job Families and configuration of Compensation Structure for resource-based Job Profiles and also Eligibility Rules.

Experienced Workday Finance Specialist with a strong background in financial management systems, ERP implementation, and business process optimization.

Proficient in configuring and managing Workday Financials modules, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, and Expense Management.

Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement scalable financial solutions, driving efficiency and accuracy in accounting and reporting processes.

Designed and involved in the Workday HR Systems Integration Testing process and development of UAT and End-to-End Test plans prior to deploying the integrations in production.

Involved in Version Testing for the current and earlier Workday releases.

Experience with Eclipse, XML, XSLT, RaaS, JSON and Web Services and Expert in designing/development of Interfaces with legacy and third-party systems.

Have experience in Workday Studio Integration configuration and BIRT reports and Modified Workday Standard reports according to the client requirements.

Defines Test Strategy and Test Approach. Manages the overall test project plan, defect management, issue resolution, and risk management.

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

Education:

Bachelor of Technology in Electricals and Electronics Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University May 2007

Professional Experience:

Senior Workday Consultant WellSky, Overland Park, KS

Oct 2022 – Till date

Worked closely with the business to analyze the integration needs, research potential various options and recommend solutions.

Have experience in converting the Business rules and requirements into Workday Configurations according to the client.

Responsible for all development work including integration, reporting, data migration, Production issues, testing and rollout.

Designed and built inbound and outbound Integrations including Studio Integration and have experience in PICOF and PECI Integrations along with Document Transformation using XSLT.

Converting ERP data such as PeopleSoft into the Workday format.

Have experience in writing scripts to automate data conversion.

Designed and built various Enterprise Interface Builders (EIB) for Importing and exporting data from the legacy systems.

Work alongside the integration team to configure and test integrations between the Workday solution and the client’s selected payroll and benefits providers.

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

Configured and developed the outbound payroll integrations for US and Canada and worked with different 3rd party payroll vendors like ADP and few more.

Have experience in End-to-end (E2E) Workday Payroll Implementation.

Developed several custom reports using Workday Report Writer and Workday Studio BIRT.

Worked on Security Group Creation, ISU, and ISSG.

Workday Integration Consultant Baker Hughes, Tomball, TX

Jan 2021 to Sept 2022

Worked on post-implementation support and enhancements.

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.

Workday Recruiting Configuration – Set up job requisitions, candidate pipelines, and hiring workflows.

Developed a Workday Studio integration for background checks, ensuring seamless pre-employment verification.

Improved hiring process efficiency through automated background check integrations.

Enhanced employee development and succession planning with real-time performance insights.

Reduced HR administrative efforts by optimizing Workday business processes

Developed various calculation fields on specific reports to pull the required data.

Involved in Development, Enhancement, Upgrade, and Maintenance of HR, Benefits, and Payroll.

Worked on different integrations including PECI and Studio Integrations.

Worked on Hire Right Integration, which is Studio Integration with delivered CLAR file.

Developed several reports using Workday Report Writer for Salary Changes, Severance, and Payroll.

Created custom financial reports and dashboards using Workday’s reporting tools to provide actionable insights to stakeholders.

Participated in project management activities, including requirement gathering, testing, and go-live support.

Provided post-implementation support, troubleshooting system issues, and recommending enhancements.

Involved in the Data Conversion from legacy PeopleSoft systems.

Managed Workday Financials modules, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, and Expense Management

Led the implementation and configuration of Workday Financials modules, including Core Financials, Procurement, and Grants Management.

Designed and optimized financial workflows such as journal entry processing, expense reporting, and supplier invoice management.

Built integrations in Workday Finance Module which includes Data retrieve to Accounts, Accounting, Business Plans, Tax and Financial Reporting

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.

Created custom reports for spend management and made it as RaaS and scheduled it using EIB.

Used ETV/XTT functions in a Custom XSLT file to transform the content into a CSV file format with validations.

Developed integrations using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound.

Created workday user group to assign to integrations instead Particular User.

Workday Consultant Talbots, Tampa, FL

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020

Involved in building custom reports such as Advanced, Matrix, Trending, composite.

Involved in building and Maintaining Inbound and Outbound Integration using EIB, CCW, PICOF/PECI, Studio integration tools.

Involved in bug fixing, incident resolving w.r.t to the existing reports and integration.

Created EIB Inbound Integration for loading the employees personal Information like, Emergency contacts, Compensation, One-time payments, Bank account information.

Managed Workday Financials modules, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, and Expense Management.

Developed integrations with external systems, such as banks, payroll providers, and tax reporting platforms.

Partnered with finance, HR, and IT teams to align Workday Financials functionality with organizational needs.

Responsible for supporting data extraction, mapping and conversion tasks. Hands-on experience in creating the calculated fields using different functions

Hands-on experience In Migrating the XSLT Code, Reports from Lower tenet to Sandbox and Production using Object Transporter.

Involved in configuring security, roles and access restrictions at domain level and BP.

Provide Day to day support of Workday Integration, and Reporting issues.

Involved in calls with client and update the work status as well as clarifications if any.

Peoplesoft HCM Functional Analyst Citizens Bank, Johnston, RI

Aug 2018 – Jul 2019

Developed Payroll Audit queries and report to conduct the audit of Payroll System.

Audit query to run prior to Pay Sheet Creation to clean up missing HR and Benefit Information and Provide Compensation Report for each Department throughout the Campus.

Involved in Install PeopleSoft 9.0 HRMS, People Tools 8.50 demo database.

Fixed Current Payroll Issues for Faculty and Staff Employee Payroll

Developed test plans and Payroll checklist for Monthly and Semi-Monthly pay run.

Defined Fit/Gap questionnaires and Conducted Fit/Gap sessions in Core HR, Payroll Interface to ADP EV5, Profile Management and Employee/Manager Self-Service.

Delivered Upgrade Feasibility Study Document Outlining the direction and recommendations for the Upgrade Project.

Install Tax updates 12-B, 12-C and 12-D.

Configured and Customized the Rapid Entry Pay sheet to improve the Current data entry Payroll data.

Audit report to show actual payroll payment and department budget for all incumbents before Pay confirms

Defined Customizations, Upgrade Direction, Project Timeline/Resources/Cost and Business Process improvements to Eliminate Customizations and Understand the new Functionality of Version 9.1.

Worked as Payroll SME for current production payroll.

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