Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning Consultant

Sohan Kurumaddala

Email: *****************@*****.***

Mobile : +1-224-***-****

Professional Summary:

Around 8 years of comprehensive IT experience in gathering requirements, designing, configuring, developing, enhancing, migrating, converting, upgrading, supporting, and testing Workday HCM ERP applications and HRIS integrations.

Hands-on experience in implementing Workday Adaptive Planning solutions for budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, revenue planning, expense planning, and long-range financial planning.

Extensive experience in configuring Adaptive Planning sheets (Standard Sheets, Model Sheets, Cube Sheets, and Level-based Sheets) for financial planning and operational reporting

Extensive experience in configuring Adaptive Planning sheets (Standard Sheets, Model Sheets, Cube Sheets, and Level-based Sheets) for financial planning and operational reporting.

Experience designing budget approval workflows, forecast revisions, and cross-functional financial planning processes between Finance and HR teams.

Hands-on experience integrating Workday Adaptive Planning with NetSuite ERP and Workday HCM, enabling automated financial and workforce data synchronization

Working in the client communication team, handling functional and technical tickets.

Building custom integrations (outbound) via core connectors and EIBs.

Creating compensation grades, grade profiles, salary plans, merit plans, bonus plans, and packages.

Configuring business processes and security groups.

Developing custom reports and calculated fields for custom integrations.

Setting up alerts and notifications for reports.

Managing report transfer ownership tasks and removing unnecessary reports from schedules.

Handling integration system users for transferring ownership of reports, schedules, and integrations.

Creating EIBs with custom reports outputting .csv files sent to specific emails.

Knowledgeable in change detection and file sequence generators.

Configuring custom notifications for business processes within Workday.

Experienced with various staffing models, including hiring restrictions for position, job, and position management.

Creating supervisory organizations, regions, regional hierarchies, cost centers, and cost center hierarchies.

Developing job profiles, job families, job family groups, compensation rules, grades, plans, and packages.

Supporting the team in building new integrations by following business processes and client requirements.

Working on document transformations and applying XSLT transformations.

Monitoring integration jobs configured in Workday daily.

Creating custom reports and calculated fields, including simple, advanced, and composite reports.

Developing both inbound and outbound EIB integrations.

Creating new integrations to pull new hire information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation.

Using sequence generators, generating templates, and validating inbound integration system results.

Providing day-to-day support for Workday applications, responding to tickets, and resolving issues within SLAs.

Proactively monitoring integrations and resolving failures without impacting dependencies or other areas.

Verifying inbound/outbound files to ensure no data errors.

Designing and developing payroll interfaces and integrations using EIB (inbound/outbound) and REST APIs.

Developing and supporting PICOF integration with ADP for Fresh Thyme team members.

Creating Workday integrations for third-party systems, finance systems, and internal systems using EIB, Cloud Connectors, Document Transformation, and Workday Studio.

Creating various custom reports for benefits audit, time off balances, and accruals using Workday Report Writer.

Working on enhancements related to EIB integrations, Core Connectors, CCB, Studio Integrations, and custom reports.

Performing day-to-day support tasks for Workday HCM and maintaining data integrity.

Creating supervisory organizations, cost center hierarchies, and location hierarchies.

Maintaining staffing models, job profiles, job families, and family groups.

Working with compensation grades, grade profiles, grade plans, salary plans, allowance plans, packages, bonus, and merit plans.

Providing day-to-day support for core Workday HCM functionalities, including recruiting and talent management.

Providing operational and production support as the initial point of contact for all Workday HCM and recruitment support tickets.

Experienced in end-to-end recruitment processes, including creating BPs, job requisitions, job applications, hiring, onboarding, and self-service processes.

Creating test scenarios for BPs like job requisition, job application, hire, onboarding, manager self-service, employee self-service, job change, compensation change, and termination.

Providing functional system support to the HR department on Workday processes, including recruiting, HCM, security, talent, performance, calculated fields, and reporting.

Actively participating in the development, testing, and configuration of new projects, enhancements, and interfaces across Workday.

In-depth knowledge of the Workday application and best practices within the Workday framework.

Providing advice and coaching across all configuration areas for the team.

Proactively researching enhancements and value-add changes across the platform.

Working with functional team members and subject matter experts to understand requirements and communicate system capabilities/limitations.

Implementing proper change management documentation for internal/external audit controls and compliance.

Documenting technology service requests to ensure proper action and documentation.

Designing, developing, and maintaining various reports based on business requirements.

Implementing test plans and providing test results to appropriate resources.

Troubleshooting issues to determine if changes were needed by the technology team.

Maintaining system training documentation and delivering end-user training.

Responsible for core HR business processes like manager self-service, employee self-service, and staffing.

Utilizing weekly meetings, reporting, and call trending to identify knowledge gaps and training opportunities.

Working on the complete cycle of compensation, including configuring security for employees in the organization.

Technical skills:

Operating systems

Windows 7 and Windows 10, Linux

Software

Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Access

Cloud platforms

Workday, PeopleSoft

Database

Oracle, SQL Server, MYSQL

Languages/Technology

Web Services, XML, XSLT, HTML, Java, JSON, Oxygen XML

Workday HCM

Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Time and Absence, Human Resource Management, Recruiting, Talent Management, and Learning.

Workday Student

Student Recruiting, Student Admissions, Student Records.

Tools

Oxygen XML Editor, JIRA, Notepad++

Workday skills

Workday HCM, Workday Integrations, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, Workday Payroll, PICOF, Security, Time tracking, Report writer

Professional Experience:

Client: Iovance Biotherapeutics, Remote Jun-2025 - Present

Role: Workday HRIS Consultant

Responsibilities:

Currently supporting backend implementation activities, including configuration validation, issue resolution, and coordination with technical teams to ensure smooth deployment.

Developed integrations between Workday Adaptive Planning and Workday HCM to automate workforce planning and headcount forecasting.

Led end-to-end implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning to support enterprise financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.

Designed and created project-specific security groups, implementing role-based access controls to ensure data security and compliance with business requirements.

Worked in the client communication team, responsible for functional and technical tickets.

Present working on implementation giving support to back end

Designed and implemented financial planning models including workforce planning, revenue planning, operating expense planning, and capital planning models.

Build custom integration (outbound) Via core connectors and EIB’s.

Worked on compensation to create compensation grades, grade profiles, salary plans, Merit Plans, Bonus Plans and packages.

Configured Adaptive Planning sheets including Standard Sheets, Model Sheets, Cube Sheets, and Level-based Sheets for financial data capture and operational planning

Built integrations between Workday Adaptive Planning and NetSuite ERP to synchronize financial actuals and budget data.

Worked on business processes and security groups.

worked on custom reports and calculated fields for custom integrations.

worked on alerts and notifications for reports.

Worked on report transfers ownership tasks and removed unnecessary reports from schedules.

Worked on integration system users for transfer the ownership of reports, schedules, and integration.

worked on EIB’s like outbound integrations and core connectors.

created EIB with a custom report and the output of the EIB should be a .csv file and sent to a specific email.

Have a good knowledge on change detection and file sequence generators.

Experience in configuring custom notification for business processes within the workday system.

Experience with the different staffing models including defining hiring restrictions to position, Job, and Position Management.

Worked on creating supervisory organization, regions and regional hierarchies, cost center and cost center hierarchy, company, and company hierarchy.

Created Job Profiles, Job Families, and Job Family Groups, Compensation rules, grades, plans, and packages, business Process and Security

Supported team in building new integrations by following the business process which associates with Inbound data and building new integration based on the client requirements.

Worked on Document Transformations and applied XSLT transformations.

Monitoring the integration jobs configured in Workday on a daily basis.

Worked on creation of Custom Reports and Calculated Fields in the Workday i.e., Simple, Advanced, Composite reports.

Developed both Inbound and Outbound Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) integrations.

Created new integration to pull the new hire’s information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation (DT) which uses connector integrations XML Output as its data source input.

Used sequence generators, generating templates, and validating inbound integration system results.

Environment:

Business Framework, HCM, RAAS, Security Configuration, HR and Payroll Business Process Configuration, Payroll Processing and Tax Handling, Advanced Reporting and Analytics, Security Configuration

Convergys

Workday HRIS Consultant Feb 2022 to May-2025

Responsibilities:

Led Workday discovery sessions, design workshops and architecture solutioning sessions.

Workday configuration across Talent/Performance Reviews, Learning Management, Recruiting, Payroll, Benefits & HCM

Development of Workday Payroll Configuration job aids, overview of design considerations and when to use/how to use applicable payroll calculations across Workday Payroll

Development of test plans, test scenarios and led client testing processes.

Development of end - user deployment and training plans, training content/vidoes and conducting training sessions and train the trainer sessions.

Responsible for Workday design, configuration, deployment of Talent/Performance with three separate deployments of Mid-Year Performance Reviews, Goals and Performance Improvement Plans.

Lead development of job aids and training videos and conducted multiple in-person training sessions for individual contributors and managers Responsible for Workday design, configuration and production support across HCM, Talent, Learning, Benefits, Payroll, Security and Reporting.

Responsible for design, configuration, testing and production support for initial deployment of Workday Recruiting.

Led Change Management Activities for two full-cycle Workday deployments across HCM, Benefits, Talent, Time, Absence, Recruiting and Learning.

Conduct Workday presentation for new hire orientations - Educate & Demo all aspects of Workday.

Workday Named Support Contact responsible for tenant management, case management, etc.

Support testing, communication and training for semi-annual Workday releases.

Responsible for end-user support for Talent and Learning processes.

Responsible for reconciliation of Workday Time reporting to Workday payroll calculations

Responsible for Workday adhoc/custom reporting.

Responsible for Workday SOX reporting.

Conduct compensation benchmarking and analysis for Core departments - Total Cash Compensation

Manage new hire background check processes.

Assist recruiting team in screening candidate resumes/interviews.

Review and analysis of Employee’s and Manager’s performance review comments and ratings for alignment, and consistency.

Client: BlackRock, India Jun 2020– July 2021

Role: Workday Integration consultant

Responsibilities:

Provided day-to-day support for Workday application currently functioning at the client site. This involves responding to the tickets raised by the customers and resolving it within give SLA’s.

Proactively monitored all the integrations and resolved the failures without impacting to the dependencies or to other areas. It also involves verifying the files which are inbound/outbound to the integration to make sure that there are no data errors in the file.

Worked on Payroll Interfaces and have designed and developed integrations in both EIB (inbound/ outbound) REST API’s, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, and experience with XML, XPATH and XSLT.

Developed and supported the PICOF integration with the ADP for Fresh Thyme team members.

Developed Workday Integrations for Third party Systems, finance system and Internal Systems using Integration tools like EIB, Cloud Connectors and Document Transformation, WD Studio.

Created different custom reports like Advanced, Matrix, Composite Custom Reports for Benefits Audit, Time off balances and accruals using Workday Report Writer.

Worked on various enhancements related to EIB Integrations, Core Connectors, CCB, Studio Integrations and Custom Reports.

Performs day to day support tasks for Workday HCM, maintain data integrity.

Environment:

Workday 32/33, EIB, Workday Studio, XML, Web Services, XSLT 2.0, Report Writer.

Client: Sprinklr, India Jan 2019 –May 2020

Role: Workday HCM consultant

Responsibilities:

Created Supervisory Organizations, cost center hierarchies, location hierarchies, maintenance staffing model, job profiles, job family and family groups,

Worked with compensation grades, grade profiles, grade plans, salary plans, allowance plans, packages, Bonus & Merit Plans

Provide day to day support to core workday HCM functionalities including Recruiting and talent management.

Provided operational and production support as the initial point of contact for all workday HCM & Recruitment support tickets

Have experience in end-to-end recruitment process from creating bp, Job Req, Job application,

Have experience in creating test scenarios for bp’s like job req, job application, hire, onboarding, Manager Self Service, Employee Self Service, job change, comp change, termination

Provided functional system support to the Human Resources Department on Workday processes. Configuration experience with the combination of the following modules/processes: Recruiting, HCM, Security, Talent, Performance, Calculated fields, Reporting and good understanding of Workday Integrations.

Actively participated in the development, testing, configuration of new projects, enhancements, and interfaces across Workday.

Having In-depth knowledge of the Workday application and strong understanding of best practices within the Workday framework.

Providing advice and coaching across all configuration areas for the team. Proactively research enhancements and value-add changes across the platform.

Work with functional team members and subject matter experts to understand requirements and communicate system capabilities/limitations to increase the impact of Workday.

Implement proper change management documentation to satisfy the company's internal/external audit controls and compliance practices.

Documenting all the Technology service requests to ensure proper action and documentation are completed.

Design, develop and maintain a variety of reports based on business requirements.

Implement test plans while providing test results to appropriate resources. Troubleshoot issues to determine if changes need to be made by the Technology Team.

Maintaining system training documentation to ensure the proper use of HR systems. Deliver end user training as required.

Responsible for core HR business processes like Manager Self-Service, Employee Self-Service, and Staffing.

Utilized weekly meetings, reporting and call trending to identify knowledge gaps and opportunity for knowledge transfer/training.

Worked on complete cycle of compensation (Compensation Criteria, Plans & Grades), configuring security to the employees in the organization.

Environment:

HCM Module, Finance Module, EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, Report Writer, Security Roles and Groups, Instance Object Transporter, Calculated Fields, XSLTSOAP, WSDL, XML, Sequence Generators.

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