Senior Workday HCM Functional Consultant

Sr. Workday Functional Consultant HCM Configuration & Implementation

Sindoora Reddy Kondakindhi

E-mail: ***************@*****.*** Phone: +1-945-***-****

Professional Summary:

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Overall, 10 yrs experience IT Industry. 8+ yrs experience as a workday consultant with Strong expertise in Core HCM, Recruiting, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, Talent and performance, Payroll, Security and Reporting.

Hands on experience in Workday Configuration/Reporting consultant. Expertise in Workday Business Process configuration, Validation and condition rule creation, Report Writer, EIB, Core connectors and Calculated Fields.

Designed and configured Workday HCM & Security configuration objects including Management Hierarchies, Regions, Locations, Domain and Business Process Security Policies, Tenant setup.

Works closely with Business and Functional design teams, gather requirements, configure functionalities and sign off before moving to Production (followed Agile Process).

Involved in full life cycle implementation of workday modules.

With strong ability to plan, prioritize and manage complex projects under aggressive timelines and exposure to diverse environments.

Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable Workday configurations while ensuring data integrity, security compliance, and system stability.

Technical skills:

Workday Modules:

Payroll, Recruitment, Absence, Talent and performance, Benefits and Time tracking.

Testing, Releases & Documentation:

UAT Testing, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Re-testing, White Box testing, Compensation & Benefits Testing, Open Enrollment Testing, Release Testing Support, Workday Bi- Annual Release Support, End-User Training & Enablement, release validation, configuration validation.

Reporting

Calculated Fields, Report Writer- Simple, custom, Advanced, search and Matrix

Integrations:

EIB’S, Core connectors, Integrations: EIB (Inbound/Outbound), Core Connectors, Payroll Effective Change Interface (PECI)

Security:

Role Based security Groups, User Based security groups, Rule based security groups, Segment Based Security groups and Intersection security groups.

Tools:

Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps

Employment Details:

Sr. Workday Functional Consultant Responsibilities:

Workday Hands-on Experience Working with various Workday HR modules Workday Core HCM, Absence, Payroll and Time Tracking modules

Conducted requirements gathering, workshops, and documentation with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT stakeholders.

Expertise in configuring business process framework for various HR modules with complex

condition rules, custom notifications, advanced routing restrictions. Configured rule-based

business processes to accommodate different flows as per the requirements.

Strong configuration skills on Time off and Absence Modules, built various new Time Off plans and Absence Types, created few new accruals, adjusted current accruals as per the business needs.

Strong Communication skills, ability to understand the business needs and delivery the desired outputs in timely manner. Involved in requirement gathering calls and explained to the stakeholder various solutions that would satisfy their requirement.

Configured Pay groups, Involved in Run Pay calculations and pay complete. Automated Arrears specific to different benefit plans

Configured different pay components like earnings and deductions. Involved in audits. Responsible for recording with holding orders.

Reconciled Workday payroll data by validating employee data, benefits, time entries before payroll processing.

Collaborated with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate delivery of payroll data through PECI.

Involved in release management from running audit reports, preparing module specific test scenarios for users, UIT and Smoke testing in production.

Configured and maintained Workday security framework, including Domain Security Policies, role-based security groups, user-based security groups, rule-based security groups and segment based security group.

Partnered with HR, Stakeholders, Benefits, Finance, and IT teams to gather requirements Design documents, implement enhancements, troubleshoot issues, and support production.

Prepared functional design documents (FDDs), configuration workbooks, test scripts, user guides, and knowledge transfer documentation.

Created and maintained custom reports, Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, dashboards, and calculated fields to Payroll, Benefits, and leadership reporting. Provided functional support for HR transactions and reporting requests.

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

Configured and optimized Workday HCM modules including Core HCM, Recruiting, Benefits, and Security.

Configured Recruiting and Talent business processes, eligibility rules, validations, and notifications to align with business and compliance requirements.

Worked on eligibility rules, condition rules, validations, and notifications to align system behavior with business requirements.

Partnered with HR stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into functional configurations and reporting solutions.

Prepared and executed test scenarios, validated results, and coordinated defect resolution with HR and IT stakeholders.

Solely responsible for running the Open Enrollment Program for the company by creating new Benefit Plans, Benefit Providers and coverage targets and changing rates as per the new vendor rates.

Configured and maintained Workday Benefits plans, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, FSA, HSA, and Retirement plans.

Developed and maintained Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) integrations for inbound and outbound employee and benefits data loads.

Configured and maintained Workday Benefits plans, eligibility rules, benefit events, Open Enrollment, life events, and benefit deductions.

Collaborated with third-party benefit vendors, VSP, MetLife,Unam,Newyork life and Aetna, to ensure accurate benefits enrollment and carrier integrations.

Collaborated with payroll teams to validate compensation changes, benefit deductions, payroll inputs, and payroll calculations before payroll completion.

Worked on entire Recruitment Workflow from Candidate Screening to Ready to Hire stage with configuration of different stages and associated Business Processes.

Configured different business processes in recruiting like create job requisition, Job post, Close job requisition by Created various condition rules, validation rules and configured alerts

Designed and configured Workday BPs for HCM, including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation etc.

Designed and maintained advanced, matrix, and composite reports using calculated fields and RaaS to support HR, Recruitment and Absence operations.

Configured and supported Workday security, including domain security policies and business process security.

Client-NTUC Income

Workday Payroll Consultant Project: DMS

Responsibilities:

Configured payroll calculations for regular base pay, overtime, bonuses, HAS, FSA, parking deductions, 401K etc

Configured and maintained pay groups, earnings, deductions, with holding orders and tax elections.

Configured payroll integrations for different vendors using Core connectors like PECI and EIB’S.

Created payroll reports like Payroll register, Net to gross reports, deduction register and Tax register using filters and prompts.

Validated Court Orders setup including scenarios for prioritization, overlapping orders, and compliance with HMRC requirements.

Executed extensive testing of USA Payroll including Pay Components, Statutory Deductions, Court Orders, and Net Pay validations.

Collaborated with HR, Benefits, Compensation, Time Tracking, and Absence teams to ensure accurate payroll processing.

Maintained and updated time entry templates, time entry validations, and work schedule calendars to support evolving business needs.

Workday Functional Consultant Project: Advisor Net

Responsibilities:

Configured Workday Absence plans including Vacation, Sick Leave, Paid Time Off and Leave of Absence programs.

Configured accrual rules, accrual calculations, carryover limits, waiting periods, and service-based eligibility for absence plans.

Configured eligibility rules, time-off validations, and approval workflows for absence requests.

Supported leave events such as FMLA, maternity leave, parental leave, military leave, jury duty, and unpaid leave in accordance with company policies.

Configured absence business processes, notifications, validations, and condition rules to streamline leave administration.

Collaborated with Payroll and Benefits teams to ensure accurate processing of leave-related pay impacts and benefit eligibility.

Created custom reports to monitor leave balances, accruals and absence trends.

Performed Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, and regression testing for absence configurations and system enhancements.

Configured and maintained compensation plans, compensation grades, grade profiles and compensation packages.

Configured compensation eligibility rules based on worker type, job profile, location, time type and business requirements.

Configured compensation business processes, approval chains, validations, and notifications.

Maintained compensation components, allowances, one-time payments, and recurring compensation plans.

Collaborated with Payroll teams to validate compensation changes and ensure accurate payroll processing.

Created compensation reports, dashboards, and calculated fields to support budgeting, salary analysis, and compensation planning.

Supported compensation data loads and mass updates using EIB’s

Workday QA Tester Responsibilities:

•Led the QA testing lifecycle for Workday implementations, developing and managing over 300 test cases across Core HCM, Recruiting, and Absence Management modules.

•Prepare test scenarios, test cases and execute them by verifying actual results with expected results.

•Produce test results/screenshots & upload to Test Director/Quality Centre

•Raising defects and assigning them to development team, Re-test when fixed and follow it till the closure.

•Actively interacting with development and project team during defect calls and discussing testing process

•Preformed Regression, Re-test, Functional testing, Participated in UAT, Smoke testing

•Daily and weekly status reporting

•Prepare UAT plan and execute report for releases.

CLIENTS:

Go Daddy India – Domain Support Functions Key Result Areas – Technology Support & Consulting

•Consulting on all products of Godaddy client which helps customers to design their own various websites related to their business

•Support customers to buy various online TLD’S available with our client and those present in auctions as well. This helped improve my consulting capabilities.

•Provide Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for web-sites and also Search Engine Visibility which brings website to top level priority with some specific key words with in the website.

•Troubleshooting on servers while the websites go down by testing various applications on servers

•Configure outlook emails and trouble shoot on office365 mail configurations.

•Help customers to get started with website builder and ultimately with their business.

Academic Details:

Bachelor of Engineering from JNTU University 2013 batch.

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