SAP Certified Solution Consultant-HCM / Payroll

Mohamad Shafiq. A

SAP HCM / Payroll Consultant Mobile: +1-201-***-****

(SAP Certified Solution Consultant Human Resources - mySAP ERP 2005)

Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA

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

Objective

I’m seeking a challenging career as SAP Payroll Functional Consultant. My Objective is to provide best solution by mapping client requirements to SAP standard functionalities and by adapting SAP best practices.

Experience Summary

• Having a total of 4 years and 8 months of experience in HR domain and out of which 4 years as SAP Payroll Consultant.

• SAP Certified Solution Consultant Human Resources - mySAP ERP 2005

• Good exposure in the configuration of Personnel Administration, Payroll and Time Management. Also worked on SAP HCM Benefits, Organizational Management, ESS/MSS and BSI.

• Worked on US, UK and India payroll .Trained on US Gross and Net Payroll.

• Theoretical knowledge on International, Singapore and Canadian payroll

• Worked on two Payroll Implementation projects and two Payroll Support projects

• Trained on SAP HR050, HR100, HR110, HR305, HR306, HR400, HR410, HR505 ,HR580 and Benefits administration

• Experience in SAP HCM upgrades (R/3 4.7 to ECC5.0 and ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0)

• Integration of SAP Payroll with SAP FI , SAP Benefits and BSI

• Integration of SAP HR systems with Non-SAP Systems

• Data Conversion and Data migration for any HR / Payroll System mergers with SAP HR / Payroll System with standard data templates.

• Developed on global templates and country specific templates for India and UK for Payroll on SAP ECC 6.0.

• Ability to understanding the business processes and can translate the business requirements into SAP solutions.

• Excellent team player with high degree of initiative, good documentation and effective time management skills.

Career Profile

Dates Organization Designation

1st Nov 2008 – till date ASR Group, US SAP Payroll Functional Consultant

1st April 2008 – 31st Oct 2008 Tata Consultancy Services, India IT Analyst

1st Dec 2005 – 31st Mar 2008 Tata Consultancy Services, India Asst System Engineer

1st Dec 2004 – 30th Nov 2005 Tata Consultancy Services, India Asst System Engineer-Trainee

1st July 2004 – 26th Nov 2004 Empower Works Ltd., India Junior System Engineer(Probation)

Technology

Below is a list of important hardware, software products, tools and methods that I have worked with.

Hardware Software Products Tools Methodology

SAP 4.7 ,SAP ECC 5.0 – HCM (mySAP ERP2004) , SAP ECC 6.0– HCM (mySAP ERP2005 )

PL/SQL Developer, Visual Studio 2005, MS-VSS ASAP Methodology

Qualifications

Degree and Date Institute Major and Specialization

Bachelor Of Engineering (July 2000-May 2004) Madras University, India Computer Science Engineering

Professional Memberships / Certifications

Professional Society / Certification Member Since / Date Certified

SAP Certified Solution Consultant Human Resources - mySAP ERP 2005 March 2009

DNIIT Certified July 2004

Assignments

Project Nielsen SAP HR Support

Customer Nielsen, New York, US

Period Nov 2007 – Nov 2008

Description The Nielsen Company is the world’s leading provider of marketing information, audience measurement and business media products and services. By delivering an unmatched combination of insights, market intelligence, advanced analytical tools and integrated marketing solutions, Nielsen provides clients with the most complete view of their consumers and their markets. Headquartered in New York, USA and Haarlem, The Netherlands, Nielsen operates in more than 100 countries with a global team dedicated to helping clients compete more effectively and discover opportunity with more clarity than ever before.

Their HR system for US geography and 6 European business units is currently on SAP ECC6.0. Responsibility of TCS is to support their US Payroll, Benefits PA, OM, Time management and T&E on SAP ECC 6.0 and to carry out the global SAP roll out for Nielsen.

Role Team member (Till Mid Feb) / SAP Payroll Manager (since Mid of Feb). My responsibility was to lead the SAP HR/Payroll Support team.

Solution Environment SAP ECC 6.0

Tools Lotus Notes, CCM.Net

Highlights • Twice carried out Company merger changes in SAP with data migration – Telephia (Dec 2007) and IAG (Sep& Oct 2008).

• Legal Entity consolidation of 22 companies in Nielsen

• California Recruiter Audience Pay structure roll out

• Enterprise structure standardization

• New Benefits plan changes for 2009

• Supporting their US Payroll, Benefits, PA, OM, T&E, Time management and ESS/MSS.

• Carried out end to end unit testing, integration test and UAT for all the change requests

• Tax Company creation in BSI, Tax rate changes in BSI and BSI Tub Application

• Change management and approving change requests.

• Planning and Implementing new changes request.

• Analyzing HR Support pack, testing and corrections.

• Daily and weekly analysis of the support activities and ticket assignments

• Interacting with client, requirement gathering, functional analysis, functional specification preparation, effort estimation, template preparations and documentation

Project Nielsen SAP HR Global Rollout

Customer The Nielsen Company, New York, US

Period Sep 2007 – Nov 2007

Description The project involves the roll out of SAP HR modules (OM, PA, CM, ESS and MSS) for Nielsen in 46 countries. Studying the current process and suggesting the process improvements based on the SAP HR best practises. Streamlining and standardization of the global process and also defining regional specific or country specific process. Use most of the business process in the ESS / MSS to help the business owners to automate the processes.

Role Team Member in Requirement gathering phase and Global Process Study for the SAP HR roll out.

Solution Environment SAP ECC 6.0

Tools MS-VSS (for document control)

Highlights • Understanding the current business process and difficulties faced

• Understanding the pain areas in the current version of SAP R/3

• Understanding the needs of ESS and MSS in the organization and features available in the Business Package for Employee Self-Service (mySAP ERP 2005)

• Developed global standard processes templates for Nielsen based standard PCRs

Project TCS UK Payroll

Customer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., UK

Period April 2007 – August 2007

Description TCS UK is a part of Tata Consultancy Services and has about 500 employees working local in UK. This project involves implementation of payroll for TCS UK on the TCS SAP Payroll global template platform. The designed templates have to be configured on SAP Platform and make it available for the customers. Project involves template configuration on SAP platform and enhancing the SAP client for TCS UK.

Role Team member of the project in the implementation phase and was leading the team after go-live. Main responsibility was to understand the TCS UK Payroll business process, blueprinting the requirements, configure Pensions, SxP / OxP, National Insurance, Court orders and UK taxes and test.

Solution Environment SAP ECC 6.0

Tools MS-VSS (for document control)

Highlights Personnel Administration:

• Configured Enterprise structure & Personnel structure

• Customized Actions and Info groups, and assigned the info groups to personnel actions

• Configured Infotypes as per the template and customer’s requirements.

• Maintained features like NUMKR, ABKRS, SCHKZ and TARIF

• Maintaining UK specific infotypes – 0065, 0069, 0070, 0071 and 0088

• Prepared test Scenarios, carried out end to end unit testing and integration testing

• Also lead the UAT Phase I and Phase II

Payroll:

• TCS UK Payroll Blueprint Preparation

• Defining Payroll areas, control record, Period parameter, date modifier and generated Payroll periods.

• Assigning Pay Scale structure to Enterprise structure.

• Revised Pay scale Groups and Levels.

• Configuring wage types and their characteristics.

• Defining valuation of base wage types and used indirect valuation methods.

• Schema and PCR modification

• HR – FI integration for payroll posting.

• New Pension type creations

• Loan sub type creations.

• Time management configurations up to the payroll limitations.

• Preparing Functional specifications for ABAP reports and other object changes.

Project TCS SAP Global Payroll Template

Customer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India

Period Jan 2007-March 2007

Description TCS SAP Global Payroll Template will be a platform for the global client payroll processing. The template design was developed by 10 Senior SAP Consultants and was approved by SAP Labs. This project involves implementation Global and country specific template on SAP ECC 6.0.

Role Team Member for the developing the template on the SAP ECC 6.0 Platform. Configuration of Global template and Country specific template for UK and India.

Solution Environment SAP ECC 6.0

Tools MS-VSS (for document control)

Project Ultimatix – TCS US Payroll Maintenance

Customer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., US

Period Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

Description Tata Consultancy Services Limited is leading IT consulting company in US has more than 15,000 employees. This project involves implementation and maintenance of US payroll on SAP ECC 4.7 (later to ECC 6.0) and data migration from the legacy system, building up interface systems for communication between different systems in TCS.

Role Lead for the TCS SAP US Payroll Module after go-live and responsibility was requirements gathering, performing business and technical analysis, performing feasibility analysis and providing best solution by mapping client requirements to SAP functionalities implementing the change requests. Configuring and customizing info types, schema and building functional specifications. Performing support activities like new change requests, Support pack testing, writing functional specs and interacting with Abapers, handling issues, analyzing and solving them.

Solution Environment SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 & ECC6.0

Tools MS-VSS (for document control)

Highlights • Requirement gathering, blueprinting, realization, testing and training during the implementation phase

• Involved in PA, Payroll and Time management configuration.

• Leading the HR support team after go-live and implementing the change requests

• Functional specifications for inbound and outbound files between SAP and Non-SAP systems like ADP, Ultimatix and others

• SAP HR FI implementation and Wage types, symbolic account and GL account clean up in re-engineering phase.

• SAP HR - FI integration with SAP Project system and Ultimatix (Non SAP system)

• Benefits plan creation and administration support

• PCR and Schema modification for client requirements.

• Business process enhancement to adapt SAP standard functionalities

• Part of change management process implementation team

• Payroll maintenance and payroll support with high customer satisfaction.

• Upgradation from 4.7 to ECC 5.0 and ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0

• Carried out end to end unit testing, integration test and UAT for all the change requests

• Gross payroll to net payroll Conversion

• BSI Integration, tax model set ups, US Country specific changes

• Benefits integration for year 2007

Project Initial Learning Program

Customer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Period Decembery-2004 to January 2005

Description It is the 45 day initial learning program covering software engineering processes in detail, soft skills, Java and German language.

Role Trainee

Product Adrenalin - (Empower works Ltd.)

Company Empower works Ltd ( Now as Adrenalin eSystems Ltd )

Period July 2004 –November 2004

Description Adrenalin is a web based HR Product developed for Indian and UK clients. Adrenalin has modules like eRecruitment, Performance and Talent Management Systems, Project and Resource Planning Systems, Training and Development.

Role Team member

Tools VB.Net , C# , SQL Server 2000 and MS-VSS

Highlights Designed and developed the Recruitment and Training Module in Adrenalin

Development of Daily builder tool for automatic compilation and generation of executables for Adrenalin product

Key Competencies & Skills

My Competency Profile includes the following

Skill Proficiency (E0 to E4)

SAP HR Payroll and PA E3

SAP HR OM, Time, Benefits E2

MS Office, BSI E2

E0-Novice, E1-Exposure, E2-Experienced, E3-Strong, E4-Guru

Training / Continuing Education Summary

Program or Course Coverage

SAP HR and Payroll Phase-1 SAP HR 100,HR 110,HR305

SAP HR and Payroll Phase-2 SAP HR 400

TCS Internal - SAP US Payroll Concepts SAP US Payroll Fundamentals

TCS Internal – Global and Country specific template Global Standards , Country specific standard and customization

SAP HR 410 at KDC, San Francisco US Payroll-Details, Configuration & Transaction

Visa Status:

For US:

B1 – Multiple entries

H1B – Employer: ASR Group Inc

P.S.: Interested to relocated and open for Full time.

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