Workday Integrations Consultant
Honie Kali
Email: *****.****@*****.***
Contact: 469-***-****
Professional Summary: -
Around 10+ years of work experience in the field of information technology, focused on communication, banking, healthcare, Retail domain. as a Workday Integration and report Developer working through requirements to production and support projects with a focus on Integrations, Core HR, Benefits, and Reporting and many HR roles
Subject matter expert in Workday HCM with hands-on experience in large-scale full lifecycle implementations.
Experience working with cross-functional terms in configuring setup and designing integrations to comply with each other.
Hands-on experience in the successful implementation of Workday HCM solutions to meet specific business needs of clients.
Worked on workday Learning management system (LMS) implementation
Experience with Workday Studio Custom Integrations, EIBs, Core & Cloud Connector, Web Service integrations (SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT).
Engineered dynamic Workday Extend apps using custom business object models to extend native Workday functionality.
Worked on Data Encryption like Encryption of Data at Rest (Database Security) and Encryption of Data in Transit (Network Security)
Experience in Document Transformation, Simple and fixed-length XSLT, RAAS to load data
Experience in reports, Integrations in the modules: HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll - PICOF, PECI, and Time/Absence
Experience in creating Simple, Advance, Matrix, Custom, audit/validation, shared and BIRT reports, Report Design, Business form Layout, Dashboards, Worklets, Calculated Fields, Multi-level calculated fields.
Hands on experience in inbound/ outbound integrations Using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports
Primary duties include developing Integrations using EIB, Core Connectors and Studio integrations to integrate with third party systems and to create Custom Reports for various functional areas.
Worked on Object Management Systems like Role-Based, User-Based, Job-Based Security groups.
Experience in Unit testing, SIT, Regression, and Parallel Testing, and UAT for Workday Integration, Business Processes & Execute Integration testing for all API outbound integrations touching all HCM objects.
Hands-on experience in Workday HCM, Payroll, Financial Reporting (Advanced, Matrix, and Composite).
Expertise in Microsoft Reporting Services (SSRS) with Report authoring, Report Management, Report Formatting, Report Distribution, Report Delivery and Report Security.
Conducting & leading design, deep-dive, BP sessions & workshops with C-level client executives.
In-depth knowledge on EIB Inbound/Outbound integrations, Workday Core Connector, Workday Studio, Workday Report Writer and Calculated Fields.
Hands-On expertise in the implementation of Workday HCM (Business Process, Recruiting, Onboarding, Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Absence Management, Performance Management)
Post Production support of modules including Time Tracking and Payroll.
Experience working as Security Administrator/Security Configurator. Good understanding of Workday security framework including Business Process and Domain Security Policies.
In-depth knowledge in Software Development life cycle experience such as planning, developing, implementing, Testing, Deployment, and maintaining HR systems.
Hands-On Experience in Configuring Custom reports calculated fields, Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connector, Cloud Connector (CCB), Report Design, Business form Layout.
Experience preparing documents for, Worker's Compensation, Time tracking to department and company.
Experience in HRMS Workforce Administration (WFA) and Candidate Gateway, ESS, MSS, and basic NA Payroll.
Quick learner and an excellent team player having the ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.
Lead various stages of testing of Workday HCM and Financials.
Hands-on experience in Workday HCM, Payroll, Financial Reporting (Advanced, Matrix, and Composite).
Experience in designing, building, and troubleshooting inbound/outbound integration (EIB and CCB).
Provide HRIS support to HR and Payroll colleagues and the end-user population.
Technical Skills:
Workday Functional
Business Processes, Condition rules, Compensation Plans, Benefit
Plans, Enrolment rules, Recruiting, Staffing models, Compensation &
Benefits, Security setups, Performance Management, Talent
Management.
Workday Technical
Calculated fields, Custom reports (Advanced, Matrix and Composite),
BIRT, Cloud Connects, Core Connectors, PICOF, PECI, CCB, Document
transformation, EIBs, Studio integrations, Web services, XML, XSLT 2.0,
XSLT3.0, XPATH, WSDL, SOAP, REST, XSD.
Tools & Languages
SaaS, WSDL, CSV, XSLT, XML, SQL, RDBMS, Tableau, Java and JavaScript.
SQL Studio, Toad, Workday Studio, iLoads, Oxygen XML, XSLT.
Other Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, MS Visio, Microsoft Project,
GitHub, GUI Tools, People Tools, Eclipse.
Cloud Technologies
Workday Core Connector, EIB, Report Writer, Workday Studio and Security.
Protocols
HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, SOAP, REST
Professional Experience: -
PGA of America – Palm Beach Gardens, FL May 2022- Present
Role: Senior/Lead Workday HCM Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Designed, configured and automate business processes to enhance the current application systems for HCM including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation etc.
Configured Security objects including Management Hierarchies, Regions, Locations, edited Domain and Business Process Security Policies, Tenant setup and created reports to meet customer requirements.
Generate different kinds of reports - Advanced and Matrix reports for client requirements within Workday Tenant.
Worked on Inbound/Outbound integrations using EIB and XSLT Document Transformation for integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems and provided necessary security for related functional area to launch the EIB
Workday SME Led full-cycle configuration of Workday HCM and Compensation modules, including calculated fields, business processes, and EIB integrations.
Built scalable Workday Extend applications using Object Management Services (OMS), Workday Orchestration, and Workday UI frameworks.
Developed inbound EIB integrations to load employee data (e.g., compensation, job changes) from external sources into Workday.
Led cross-functional teams of Workday consultants, developers, and business analysts through full-cycle Workday HCM implementations across multiple regions.
Designed outbound EIBs to extract data using Workday advanced calculated fields and prompt filters for tailored data delivery.
Built and deployed inbound and outbound integrations between Workday and third-party vendors using EIB and Workday Studio.
Designed and maintained PECI integrations to transmit effective-dated employee payroll changes from Workday to ADP GlobalView, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing across multiple countries
Worked on troubleshooting integration issues and provided support in resolving defects.
Worked with consulting partners on the Conversion tasks, Integration tasks, Security tasks, and Reporting tasks.
Involved with implementation and support of Workday Core HCM, Benefits, Onboarding, termination, Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Talent and Recruiting modules.
Led Workday tenant strategy, including sandbox refreshes, configuration migration, and security auditing across multiple environments.
Monitored integrations using Workday Integration Dashboard, resolving failures and providing post-production support.
Implemented audit and validation routines to ensure PECI files complied with payroll provider specifications and Workday data standards
Delivered end-user training and created comprehensive documentation, facilitating smooth adoption of Workday HRMS modules.
Led end-to-end delivery teams, assigning roles, defining accountability, and tracking performance metrics to ensure project success.
Developed custom reports and dashboards using Workday Prism Analytics and integrated them within Extend apps.
Configured and created new time off plans.
Changing the supervisory Organizations, inactivating an organization and moving the workers into different Supervisory Organizations.
Worked on new Workday release upgrades functionality and tested new features.
Environment: Core HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Payroll, Reporting, Security Admin, Integrations, Benefits, Time tracking
Client: Wachter, Inc-New Jersey May 2021-April 2022 Role: Workday Consultant
Responsibilities:
Designed, developed, built and tested integrations.
Involved in implementation of Workday HCM for various HR modules such as Time Tracking, Benefits, Absence Management, Payroll and Compensation.
Analyzed Business and Integration requirements.
Led enterprise-wide Workday implementations, guiding global HR teams through discovery, design, testing, and go-live phases.
Facilitated regular design review and governance meetings as Workday SME, ensuring system consistency and data integrity.
Developed Workday Studio integrations to push payroll data to ADP using PECI with advanced data mapping and XSLT transformation
Managed EIB scheduling and recurrence settings to align with payroll and benefits processing timelines.
Leveraged Workday Studio to create advanced PECI integrations with conditional logic and external data calls
Hands on experience in inbound/outbound integrations using Core Connector, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports.
Designed and built both inbound and outbound integrations in various segments of Workday system using EIB, Workday Studio, Core Connectors and Cloud Connectors.
Led end-to-end data migration from legacy HRMS systems to Workday, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
Utilized Xpath, Workday Studio, and REST APIs to integrate Workday Extend applications with external systems.
Developed Various Custom Reports (Simple, Advanced, Composite and Matrix) in HCM and Financial areas.
Configuration, Workday Security Configuration, Integration Maintenance and Modification Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), iLoad & Report Writer Tenant setup activities, alert and notification configuration.
Experience in Core HCM, Workday Benefits, Payroll, Time Tracking and Absence, Performance Management, Advanced Compensation and Recruiting
Played a key role in M&A activities by leading the HCM data conversion, harmonization of business processes, and org structure realignment.
Developed and maintained custom PECI integrations for transmitting payroll-impacting employee data changes to third-party systems.
Designed and implemented business processes and calculated fields to automate complex HR workflows.
Led end-to-end Workday HCM implementation across Core HCM, Absence, Compensation, and Benefits modules.
Monitored integrations using Workday Integration Dashboard, resolving failures and providing post-production support.
Developed and maintained custom reports and dashboards using Workday Prism Analytics for HR leadership insights.
Data configuration in Workday using Core Connectors.
Built custom Workday reports as data sources for outbound EIB integrations to vendors and internal systems.
Worked on the Calculated fields used in the Core Connector Integrations and resolved the issues.
Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
Created scalable template-based EIB integrations to handle multiple data types (compensation, absence, job data) across business units
Tested different types of Benefits integrations during Workday implementations including Cloud Connect for Benefits (CCB), Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).
Created a complex pre-packaged payroll interface to leading payroll providers.
Supported Workday integrations for Customer in collaboration with other internal stakeholders.
Have played a crucial role in handling production support issues which require good analytical skill and quick response.
Dashboards for HR and Finance leadership using Workday Prism and Composite Reports.
Created complex custom reports with multi-layered calculated fields and used these as basis for Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and Document Transformations.
Utilized Workday testing methodology for System Development and Implementation, developed detailed Test Strategy, Plans and Scripts to test specific HCM Business processes in Workday HCM.
Strong knowledge of on premise and SaaS architectures.
Created XSLT scripts for Integrations to transform XML data.
Created multiple PICOF Integrations for Global countries and sent to Third party vendors.
Created and Maintained integration and reporting documentation (TDDs and FDDs).
Environment: Workday, Workday Studio, core HCM, Workday BIRT, Workday EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, Calculated Fields, Workday Report writer, XML, XSLT.
Client: Accenture, Hyderabad, India Sep 2019-Dec 2020 Role: Workday Integrations Consultant
Responsibilities:
Worked extensively on integrations – Core connectors, EIBs, Cloud connectors and Studios.
Worked on Core HCM, Payroll, Benefit vendor, Time & Labor, Recruiting integrations.
Worked on the end-to-end Workday HCM implementation flow: requirement gathering & analysis, design and
development, tenant configuration, data extraction, data migration and report development.
Worked on HCM configurations which includes building organization structure, Job Code structures, notifications etc.
Involved in Global design sessions and localizations sessions for the implementation.
Worked on security configurations both role based, user-based securities, location-based securities.
Worked on security configurations for integrations.
Worked on Positive pay integrations.
Developed and supported inbound and outbound EIBs to automate HR, payroll, and compensation-related data transfers
Worked on guiding and creating complex Calculated fields for all the integrations for payroll-based integrations and Benefits integrations.
Worked extensively on Workday Studio for both Inbound and Outbound integrations.
Examples of Studio integrations worked on – Inbound studio to update Cost Centers, Inbound Fieldglass integration to load Hire data for contractors, Outbound studio to send supplemental pay data to ADP.
Examples of Studio Components used – Workday out REST, Workday out SOAP, Splitter, Aggregator, Write Store, PIM.
Worked on all phases of integrations from requirements gathering to design, build and testing.
Worked on complex document transformations using XSLT, XPATH.
Worked on web services using REST API, SOAP API, XML and workday APIs.
Worked on creation of integration technical documents including scope discovery review, field mapping, data transformation and translation rules, and test cases.
Involved in integration experience building custom integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation.
Worked on various Mass data loads using EIB's in names Bonuses, Allowances, Personal information, hire employee, terminate employee, and change in work location, Change in Organization.
Worked on Payroll Interfaces and designed integrations in both EIB (inbound/ outbound) and Core Connector, managing business processes, working with EIB.
Worked on support tickets in the following modules - Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Benefits, Core HCM and Security.
Developed custom integrations to load new hires from people admin. These also include internal hires, contingent workers, and additional jobs.
Modified Merit and Pay statement performance review report using Workday Report Designer (BIRT) for client requirements.
Developed different custom reports including matrix reports, advanced reports, composite reports on all modules, which includes Compensation, Benefits, Core HR and Payroll. Building Core Connectors.
Written reports using BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool) that extract Workday data and manipulate it in other formats (Excel) for various needs.
Perform system, UAT, and regression testing, throughout the life of the implementation.
Environment: Workday Core Integrations, CCB, EIB, core HCM, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, Document Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, custom reports, Calculated fields, compensation
Client: TriGeo Technologies-Hyderabad, INDIA Sep 2017-Aug 2019 Role: Workday Consultant
Responsibilities:
Involved in full-length Life-Cycle implementation of Workday modules including requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance.
Analyzed and configured HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions of new business processes.
Worked on various complex calculated fields for advance, matrix & composite reports using workday report writer.
Created Core Connector integration reports to pull the new hire and terminate employee’s information.
Built integrations for accounts and financial reportings and support for post rollout productions support.
Performed unit tests on the developed integrations.
Maintain internal and external interfaces and secure transmission of data through integrations
Analyzed client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and supported configurations of new business processes and a future state design.
Worked on BIRT layouts by creating payslip designs, customer invoices, adding deductions and earnings
Define and Configured Compensation packages including plan, bonus, allowance, and commission for multiple countries including bonus plan processing for various countries.
Participated in meetings and Assisted HR management in the overall administration and analysis of salary programs, incentive programs, bonus plans, and merit plans salary structure.
Used Prism to schedule automatic data sync.
Created Core Connector integration reports to pull the new hire and terminate employee’s information.
The primary focus is to understand how reports are in PeopleSoft and create reports in Workday with optimized results.
Analyzed client's HR business needs through client working sessions and Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues.
Created matrix custom reports and understanding of data sources and business objects using sorts and group functional and calculated fields.
FPS expects errors notifications before sending to payroll (invalid or undefined information).
Involved in QA processes like User Acceptance Testing for System Integration Testing.
Setting up scheduling of reports and understanding the required permissions for report sharing and support the
various reporting functions with Simple and Advanced Reports, defining columns, business objects, fields with respect to Workday functionality and client business requirements for new implementation initiatives.
Configure BP Hire, Compensation package, compensation eligibility rules, and compensation plan and compensation grades and termination. (Setup business process steps, such as Action, Approval, and notification).
Conducted training to the Benefit team of the Confidential Ben Admin/eBenefits modules
Configured all security groups based on business requirements like Role-Based Security, User-Based Security, and Job Based Security.
Understanding Workday data sources, business objects, and related business objects plays a significant role in developing workday custom reports and sharing reports with the team.
Participate in the payroll process, understanding of earnings codes, deductions, pay components like basic salary, hourly wages, viewing paychecks for troubleshooting and details like current period in process, next period to process, and last period completed to create reports.
Client: IS Solutions-Hyderabad, INDIA Dec 2015-Aug 2017 Role: Workday Analyst
Responsibilities:
Take a part in analyzing, configuring, testing, and implementing the technical aspects of the Job Profile Alignment project.
Configured several Compensation eligibility rules and used those eligibility rules and updated them in various compensation grade profiles, allowance plans, merit plans, and period salary plans.
Experience in analyzing, configuring, testing, and implementing the functional and technical aspects of the workday.
Created Business form Layouts for the reports built in compensation using BIRT in Workday Studio. Workday report development, testing and validation; Excel and Microsoft Reporting services reporting.
Created several custom reports and calculated fields to extract data according to specifications in production.
Created new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation which uses connector integrations XML, XSLT, JSON and Xpath output as its data source input.
Assist in testing of new releases. Coordinated in performing Unit testing and Integration testing.
Creation of benefit plans, supervisory organizations, job profiles, and job families.
Worked on Agile, Scrum methodology. Strong knowledge of Salesforce agile accelerator to create sprints and work in a timely manner.
Worked in creating all kinds of custom reports like Simple, Advanced and Matrix and BIRT reports.
Designed, configured, and automate business processes to enhance the current application systems including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, etc.
Provided assistance in researching new capabilities within Workday.
Defined business processes and Proposed new or improved processes by Functional Analysis with validated new processes with the business process owners.
Communicated with the implementation partner weekly on the project updates.
Attend weekly meetings with the offshore project sub leads and communicate the project status.
Take a lead role in Regression testing of the build data and also in User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Created many test cases as part of testing.
Client: Wipro-Hyderabad, INDIA Apr 2013-Nov 2015
Role: Workday Analyst
Responsibilities:
Write and maintain custom reports (standard, custom and dashboards); assist in data analysis to support internal customers.
Maintain user security profiles in accordance with established security policies and protocols Recommend system improvements and enhancements.
Ensure the completeness and accuracy of HR data.
Deliver training to managers and employees; deliver Workday training to new hires as part of the onboarding process.
Responsible for project management and serve as a consultant on requests for enhancements and new configurations.
Configuration of eligibility rules, calculated fields, company, locations, worker types, reason codes, custom organizations and business processes.
Drive continuous improvement of Workday HCM.
Served as a resource for Tier 3 end user support.
Participated in testing for semi-annual Workday updates upport the design, testing, and maintenance the Workday HCM system globally.
Served as subject matter expert for HCM, Benefits, Talent, Performance and Security Perform system enhancements, system maintenance, system testing, system upgrades.
Building and maintain system configurations and integrations with third-party systems.
Providing hands-on troubleshooting support to employees in completing transactions.
Creating and maintain Workday user guides and end-user documentation.
Education:
Btech (2011 from Kakatiya university)
MS (2022 from Lindsey Wilson college, USA)