Senior Workday HCM Configuration & Support Analyst

NIKHIL V

SENIOR WORKDAY HCM CONFIGURATION & SUPPORT ANALYST

San Francisco, CA 336-***-**** **********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Workday HCM Analyst with 5+ years across enterprise HRIS, payroll, workforce, integrations, reporting, and production support. Hands-on experience with Workday Core HCM, Payroll, Time, Absence, Compensation, Benefits, business-process configuration, EIB-based data loads, custom reports, security validation, tenant testing, and integration development. Strong SAP SuccessFactors EC/ECP foundation supporting complex payroll, employee data, time, audit controls, and controlled releases. Known for translating HR and payroll requirements into configuration, testing complete business scenarios, tracing integration failures, maintaining clear documentation, and supporting users through releases and production issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Workday HCM: Core HCM, Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Talent, business processes, tenant configuration

Integrations & Data: EIB, Core Connectors, calculated fields, custom reports, inbound/outbound interfaces, file-based and API integrations, source-to-target mapping

Configuration & Delivery: Sandbox configuration, requirements gathering, full development lifecycle, unit/system/UAT testing, release validation, implementation methodology

Reporting & Controls: Advanced and matrix reports, audit reports, configuration validation, data loads, reconciliations, SOX/change controls, technical specifications

Enterprise HR Systems: SAP SuccessFactors EC, SAP ECP, SAP HCM, Workforce Software, ADP, ServiceNow, SQL, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WillScot Phoenix, AZ June 2025 – Present

Senior HRIT Payroll Systems Data Engineer

• Configure and support HR and payroll business processes across Workday-aligned HCM workflows, SAP SuccessFactors EC/ECP, and Workforce Software, with primary focus on payroll, time, absence, employee data, and controlled production changes.

• Gather requirements from HR, payroll, finance, and business partners; convert process gaps into configuration specifications, integration mappings, test scenarios, deployment steps, and support documentation.

• Build and test inbound and outbound integrations for employee, time, payroll, and vendor data, including new file layouts, transformation rules, control totals, rejected-record handling, and restart procedures rather than only maintaining existing feeds.

• Investigate complex payroll and time defects by tracing effective-dated worker data, time inputs, absence events, wage types, business rules, retro results, and downstream outputs; correct root causes and validate the complete transaction cycle.

• Prepare mass data changes and interface loads using EIB-style templates and structured validation controls, checking required fields, effective dates, duplicate records, reference IDs, and post-load audit reports before production use.

• Develop operational and audit reports used to verify configuration changes, identify employee-data exceptions, reconcile payroll outputs, and confirm that business-process routing and integration results match approved requirements.

• Coordinate Sandbox and QA testing for configuration, integrations, security, and releases; document defects, maintain evidence, support UAT, and complete pre- and post-launch monitoring within a controlled change environment.

• Review role-based access for payroll and HR support teams, validate permissions against job duties, and maintain audit-ready change records for sensitive employee and payroll data.

• Provide production support, end-user guidance, issue resolution, and release communication through ServiceNow; explain system behavior to business users and document repeatable recovery steps for recurring issues.

Walmart Bentonville, AR January 2024 – May 2025

Senior HRIS Data Infrastructure Engineer

• Supported Workday Core HCM data and configuration across worker, organization, position, job, compensation, payroll, time, absence, and benefits processes in a large multi-tenant HR environment.

• Participated in end-to-end Workday enhancement and implementation work from discovery through requirements, configuration review, integration development, testing, deployment, stabilization, and ongoing support.

• Built HR integrations and recurring data feeds from source mapping through production validation, using Workday reports, calculated fields, EIB concepts, SQL, and Python to deliver employee and organizational data to payroll, finance, and vendors.

• Configured and tested business-process routing, condition rules, notifications, approvals, and security dependencies in Sandbox environments, then documented expected behavior and evidence for controlled promotion.

• Created and refined custom reports for audits, data-quality review, operational support, and integration inputs; traced report discrepancies back to effective-dated source records, calculated logic, or security access.

• Executed mass-load validation for hires, job changes, compensation updates, organizations, and worker corrections, checking control totals and rejected records before and after tenant loads.

• Met with HR product owners and business partners to clarify requirements, challenge inefficient workflows, and recommend configuration or reporting changes that made better use of existing Workday functionality.

• Maintained configuration workbooks, source-to-target mappings, test scripts, release notes, support runbooks, and issue logs throughout the development lifecycle.

Unilever Hyderabad, India January 2022 – December 2022

HRIS Data Integration Engineer

• Administered SAP HCM employee and organizational data supporting Core HR, payroll, time, absence, benefits, and downstream reporting, providing a strong functional base transferable to Workday HCM configuration and support.

• Collected HR and payroll requirements for interface and reporting changes, documented field-level rules and effective-date behavior, and worked through build, testing, deployment, and post-release support.

• Configured and validated employee master-data changes, organizational assignments, infotypes, pay attributes, and workflow inputs; reviewed exceptions before scheduled payroll and interface processing.

• Developed SQL reconciliation extracts and operational reports to compare source files, HCM records, and target outputs, making configuration and integration errors easier to isolate.

• Tested inbound and outbound HR interfaces for required fields, control totals, duplicates, formatting, rejected records, and successful reprocessing; maintained test evidence and support notes.

• Supported users with data corrections, report questions, access issues, and production incidents while maintaining change documentation and audit traceability.

Wipro Hyderabad, India August 2021 – January 2022

ERP Data Engineer

• Supported ERP and HCM data conversion activities by extracting, cleansing, mapping, and validating employee, job, organization, and payroll-related records for controlled system loads.

• Built SQL queries and file checks for duplicate detection, required-field validation, record counts, formatting, and source-to-target reconciliation across inbound and outbound interfaces.

• Monitored scheduled data jobs, reviewed error logs, corrected mapping or source-data issues, and confirmed successful reruns with functional analysts.

• Prepared mapping documents, load templates, defect notes, test results, and runbooks used during development, testing, and release support.

• Assisted with production issue triage by determining whether failures came from source data, transformation logic, security, or target-system rules.

CERTIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION

SAP Employee Central Payroll — 2025 SAP S/4HANA HCM Payroll — 2026

Master of Science in Computer Science University of Central Missouri May 2024

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