$40

Hourly Consulting Rate

Abhinav Chandra

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Business Supplies/Equipment

Construction

Human Resources/HR

Information Technology/IT

Leisure/Travel

Management Consulting

+ 2 More

Location Supported

India

Malaysia

Singapore

Thailand

United Arab Emirates

Languages Supported

English

Hindi

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Functional consultant
  • Project management
  • ERP
  • HRIS
  • HRMS
  • HCM
  • +3 more

Product Specialization

  • SAP Success Factors
  • SAP S/4HANA

About

A dynamic professional with over 11 years of experience in Human Resource Management, Talent Acquisition, Training and Development, HRIS, Data Management, Employee Engagement, Facility and Vendor Management and Human Resource Communication out of which over 5 years in SAP implementation, maintenance and support of HCM/ ERP systems using SAP R/3 with specific functional experience in SAP HR/HCM Core module.

Streamlining and integrating essential workforce processes such as Personnel administration(hire to retire), Organization management(creation of Jobs, Positions, Organisation Units, Tasks, Mapping person to position), Time management and legal reporting.

Experience in implementation of SAP - HR/HCM Module including Business Process Analysis, Conceptual Design, Designing Business Blueprint, Module Configuration, Unit Testing (UT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Post Go-live support.

Excellent understanding of all aspects of the Human Resource business process with experience in gathering and analysing business requirements for conceptual design.

SAP HCM Skills :
- SAP HR End to End Implementation
- Designing Business Blueprint Document (BBP)
.AS-IS, TO-BE, Gap Analysis
.Legacy HR Systems Mapping to Non-Legacy SAP System
.SAP HCM Modules Configuration :
.SAP Organization Management (OM)
.SAP Personnel Administration (PA)
.SAP Time Management (TM)
.SAP E-Joining (Custom Based - Client specific)
.SAP E-Separation (ESEP)

.SAP Features Generation -ABKRS, PINCH, NUMKR, IGMOD, SCHKZ, TMSTA, WWEEK, WRKHR, VTART, QUOMO
- Infotypes and Info groups Configuration
- Infotype Menu and Personnel Actions Configuration

Successfactors Skills :
1. SAP Payroll to Successfactors Integration
2. Successfactors Data Replication to SAP ERP
3. Successfactors Employee Data Maintenance

Top Project Highlights

SAP Payroll – Success Factor Integration

Role: Senior Data Migration Consultant (Lead Consultant, India Team)

Location: Gurgaon, India

Duration: April 2020 – August 2020

Key Contributions:

  1. India Lead for all SAP Data migration activities – Data mapping, Data Loading, Data Extraction, Data Cleansing, Transformation and Migration to SAP.
  2. Worked on Employee Master Data (Hire, Termination, Bank Records, Address, Change in Employee Life Cycle, Payroll, Basic Pay, Contract Elements, Communication, Recurring Payment/Deductions, Additional Payments, External Bank Transfers), HR-Personnel Administration (PA), HR-Organization Management (OM) functionalities
  3.  SAP Data Extraction for 1 Go-Live. Extraction, Cleansing and migration of data from different legacy systems to SAP R/3
  4.  Interacting with legacy business users to understand business process flow, business logic and to assess major data objects
  5. Working with business users/owners to gather data migration requirements, design data mapping documents, and define business rules for cleansing and transformation requirements.
  6.  Collection of master data requirements to be processed in SAP, Provide parameters for identifying obsolete/inactive records
  7.  Understanding Master data requirement, duplication issues and defining a strategy for data consolidation and harmonization
  8.  Involved in Master Data, transaction data analysis, work requirements estimation, planning of training and testing
  9.  Extensive Reconciliation of load files to that of SAP Extracted files
  10.  Documenting Data extraction, Cleansing and Migration processes
  11.  Interacting with functional consultants to understand SAP configuration and data requirements for SAP load
  12.  Design, develop and maintain data migration programs and manage migration tools like LSMW
  13.  Analyze and resolve cross-functional data issues between SAP, legacy applications
  14.  Coordinated with users while extraction, transformation, cleansing, loading, pre-go-live, Cutover, post-go-live, UAT processes.

Replication of Employee Master Data from Employee Central to SAP ERP HCM via CPI

Role: SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Location: Gurgaon, India

Duration: February 2020 – July 2020

Key Contributions:

  1. Part of PwC India Integration team in delivering the Success Factor Data replication to SAP ERP systems by running through Standard SAP replication programs and involved in extensive testing of Custom Interfaces.
  2. Organization Data Replication - Positions (S), Jobs (C ), Cost Centre(K), Organization Unit (O)
  3.  Employee Data Replication – Actions (IT0000), Personal Data (IT0002), Addresses (IT0006), Bank Details (IT0009), Family Member/Dependents (IT0021), Date Specifications (IT0041), Personal IDs (IT0185), Basic Pay (IT0008), Communication (IT0105)
  4. Organization Assignment Replication – Enterprise Structure (CoCode, Personnel Area, Cost Centre, Sub Area), Personnel Structure (Employee Group, Employee Sub Group, Payroll Area), Organizational Plan (Position, Job Key, Org.Unit, Org.Key)
  5.  Leading the SF to SAP Integration testing by aligning SuccessFactors, Integration and Technical Team and conducting intensive Configuration
  6. Testing, Development Unit Testing, Interface Testing, Regression Testing.
  7.  Successfully completed testing for 18 custom interfaces where the data flow was SAP > SCPI > SF and SF > SCPI > SAP.
  8.  Prepared test scripts for Unit Testing (UT), User Acceptance Training (UAT) and providing End-user training

SAP Payroll – Success factor Integration Testing – Single Payroll Testing (SIT)

Role: SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Location: Gurgaon, India

Duration: July 2019 – November 2019

Key Contributions:

  1.  Part of PwC India team supporting in the execution of 1960 SIT test scripts.
  2.  Validating existing 1960 test scripts.
  3.  Understanding the process for which test script is created.
  4.  Creating test data in Success factor and SAP Payroll based on the test script specifications.
  5.  Documenting the test results.
  6.  Highlighting the failure of the test scripts to PwC UK team and Client.
  7.  If any interfaces are connected to SAP, check with interface integration consultant if the data sent from SF to SAP is populated in the respective SAP info types. 
  8.  As per planned daily target - Successfully executed 15 test scripts per day as per defined India team target.
  9.  Passing the test status as PASS/FAIL/DESCOPE/ in JIRA.
  10.  Updating SIT Test Logsheet on a daily basis.

SAP S/4 HANA Implementation

Role: SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Location: Gurgaon, India

Duration: December 2018 – October 2019

Key Contributions:

  • Organizational Management
  • Created Organization Structure, Organizational units, Jobs, Positions and Assigned Relationships between different objects like
  • positions, jobs & organization units.
  • Assigned Relationships between different objects like Positions to Positions, Jobs to Positions & Positions to Organization units.
  • Configured complete HR structures (enterprise, organization, personnel structures)
  • Customized Info type menus according to client requirement.
  • Worked on Info group modifiers & Info type menus.
  • Configured Personnel actions like Hiring action, Transfer action and termination action.
  • Personnel Administration
  • Configured Enterprise structure and Personnel Structure and Organization planning to meet company business process.
  • Maintenance of Infogroups, Infotype Menu, Personnel Actions.
  • Configured and maintained the HR master data by using PA30 & PA40.
  • Maintained personal data, organizational data, planned working time and Basic Pay.
  • Created Personal Action reasons for various Actions.
  • Time Management
  • Configured and set up the public holidays and Holiday Calendar as per Clients Requirement
  • Created various Work Schedules such as Break, Daily Work Schedule and Periodic work Schedule and Maintained Work Schedule Rule according the clients specifications.
  • Configured various Client specific Absences/Attendance types
  • Setting up of Custom Specific Time Quotas for Absences and its Corresponding Sub types
  • Defined and assigned the counting rules and deduction rules for various types of Absences Quotas i.e., Sick Leave, Casual Leave, and Annual Leave
  • Performed the Time Evaluation for generating Absence Quotas using the Report RPTQTA00 E-Separation
  • Configured and set up the Area key master, Reason key master, Detailed reason properties.
  • Maintained Stage start time at various E-Separation process levels – Approvals, Due Clearance, Exit Interview
  • Configured various Field configurations - Field properties, Editability/Visibility of Field properties, maintain group relevance for Area and Reason key
  • Configured Reason and Mailing configuration at various stages of E-Separation i.e Employee, HR, Counselor, Reporting Manager, Task Owners.
  • Configured and maintained Counselor and Approver configurations and data.
  • Maintained various Department wise Task owners in Due Clearance Configuration
  • Functional Testing
  • Wrote Test Scenarios for UAT and End-to-End, Functional Testing
  • Was involved in testing the integration of the Personnel Administration component to Organization Management.
  • Tested the test data on the PA30, PA40, PP01, and SE16 & SM30
  • Tested customized Personal actions like on boarding employees, Employee movements including Transfer, demotion, promotion and reclassification within and out of organizational unit
  • Created the Master data for HR and employees and validated all the functionality
  • Defect tracking and status update through quality center
  • Created 45 Functional Specification documents (Module Pool, Smart Form, Email trigger program, User Exits) based on Client given logics and mapping the same to SAP feasibility and functionality custom evaluations using Adobe Smart Forms, sent completed data back to standard SAP appraisal functionality

Employment

Senior Consultant

2018 - Present
    • SAP HCM Solutioning
    • Team Leadership in Project Execution
    • Account Management
    • Project Management
    • Data Migration
    • SAP to SF Data Replication
    • Business Process Mapping
    • Functional Testing - UT, UAT
    • Client Management - Domestic / International
    • End-User Training

CoFounder and Partner

2017 - 2018
  • Project Management: Oversee end-to-end process including Admission Management, Course Time Table planning (weekly, monthly), Payment Management, Batch and Staff Scheduling, Marketing campaign planning – Offline and Online.

    Contract Oversight: Responsible for all facets of contract development, including analysis, negotiation and closeout.

    Prioritization and Multitasking: Manage multiple, concurrent processes, and where necessary, strategically prioritize to ensure all deadlines are met.

    Financial Planning, Forecasting and Management: Budget Allocation, Management and Control, Expenses Management, Monthly Cash flow monitoring, Allocation and management w.r.t expenses.

    Business Analytics and MIS: Preparation of Course monthly trend – Student Intake to Planned Intake, Preparation of Monthly Business reports pertaining to Profits, Expenses. Preparing Quarterly Student Feedback w.r.t to Faculty, Course and Facility for making necessary improvements.

    Administration and Misc. Activities: Rent Management, Maintaining and organizing Weekly, Monthly Files pertaining to Student's Admissions, Expenses, Faculty hours delivered, Batch schedules etc. Printing of Course brochures, Coaching Pamphlets, Letterheads etc.

    Digital Media Content Creation: Website content creation, Facebook Content creation.

Manager Human Resources

2015 - 2017
  • SAP HCM End to End Implementation:

    • SAP Human Capital Module (HCM) implementation including Business Blueprinting, Development and Configuration.
    • Mapping HR Business process to SAP HCM modules, AS-IS, TO BE documentation preparation.
    • Business Process Master List (BPML) preparation.
    • Worked on implementation of SAP HR Enterprise Structure, Personal Structure, Personnel Administration, Organization Management and Time Management.
    • Hands on experience on Test Planning, Test Designing, Defect reporting and tracking, Test Result analysis, Ticket Monitoring and resolution.
    • Creation of Business scenarios, documentation etc.
    • Experience in deriving test scenarios and designing test cases from the business process.
    • Talent Acquisition: In line with organization’s succession planning road map with respect to critical positions in the organization, designed Talent Acquisition strategy where in best practices of hiring, evaluating candidates are followed and assuring quality talent is being hired in organization.
    • Slashed recruitment/manpower consultant fees Rs.8 Lakhs annually by revamping talent acquisition strategy and bringing in-house recruitment team.
    • HR Policy, Process and Design: Develop and monitor overall HR strategies, systems, tactics and procedures across the organization.
    • Prepare different policies like Travel Policy, Code of Conduct, Recruitment Policy, Exit Policy, etc. and implemented them in the organization.
    • Defined certain processes like Onboarding, Leave Management, Payroll, Relocation, Travel and VISA.
    • Nurture Positive working environment.
    • Manpower Planning and Budgeting:
    • Develop the yearly manpower plan and budget in collaboration with the different functions based on the approved organization structure.
    • • Define sourcing plans and programs to effectively and efficiently meet the business manpower requirements.
    • Performance Management: Followed and closed the Annual Performance Appraisals based on Bell Curve Rating method for 700+ employees based on KRA/KPI ratings and score within the specified turn around time.
    • Ensure all performance management actionable are completed within plan timelines.
    • Facilitate the performance review process to ensure that all reviews are completed within timelines.
    • Contributed to the Promotion Gate and Goal Sheet preparation.
    • Quality and Grievance Management:
    • As HR SPOC, responsible for managing employee related queries and their resolution.
    • Ensuring proactive employee communication on process and policies.
    • Handling of employee grievances and taking proactive steps to ensure local level of grievance handling.
    • Take employee escalations and take proactive steps.
    • Training and Development: Based on the core values of the organization, identified Behavior and Technical training programs for workforce deployed at corporate and manufacturing units.
    • Developed Training budget in line with HR Annual operating budget.
    • Cloud HR Implementation – HR Mantra: For developing better employer – employee connect and HR process automations, successfully implemented Cloud based HR Automation E-portal: HR Mantra to increase HR process efficiency in areas of Recruitment management,
    • Employee On-boarding and Joining process, Leave/Attendance management and Exit management.
    • Joining and On-Boarding: Responsible for smooth on boarding of new hires.
    • Ensure timely generation of Employee codes.
    • Ensure timely generation of Appointment letters.
    • Conducting HR Induction and orientation program.
    • Employee Engagement: Responsible for designing and rolling out Employee Engagement calendar at Corporate and Plant level.
    • Town hall meetings with employees on regular basis.
    • Drive preparation and implementation of Engagement action plans.
    • Regular Plant visit and meeting with Plant Heads and second line chain of command.
    • Drive 100% participation for Employee Satisfaction surveys.

Deputy Manager Human Resources

2012 - 2015
  • SAP HCM End-to-End Implementation:

    So as to bring standardization in HR processes, better information management across all the project employees and corporate

    office, successfully Implemented and configured SAP HR sub modules – Organization Management, Personnel Management

    which dramatically improved the efficiency of HR functions.

    HR Analytics and Data Management:

    Driving HR key indicators for Tecpro domestic locations – Attrition Analysis, Location-wise manpower headcount, Budget

    monitoring, Employee Turnover. Utilization of HR Data for strategic planning.

    HR Dashboard and Reporting:

    In a view to provide a clear and transparent view to management for HR activities, prepared monthly HR Dashboard showing

    various HR reports like New Hires, Employee Transfers, Terminations, Statutory Compliances, Leave report.

Manager Human Resources

2008 - 2012
  • • Coordinating with line managers and business leaders for interviews.

    • Coordinating with consultants for closing the vacancy on time

    • Cover the HR aspect of completing all the joining formalities like employment form, bank forms, PF

    forms and collecting all the relevant documents to open a new employee record.

    • Ensuring quality delivery in On-boarding & Training via content review & improvement

    • Leave Management

    • Sharing Payroll inputs with Accounts team w.r.t HR components

    • Processing of all management incentive bonuses and salary deferrals.

    • Medical Insurance Data update with relevant additions/deletions.

    • First point of contact for employee’s queries.

    • Administering employee feedback surveys and ensuring corrective action, when required.

    • Building and maintaining personal touch with employees.

    • Grievance handling whenever complaint arises

    • Co-ordination & Managing employee engagement activities

    • SPOC for PAN India employees for driving PMS

    • Setting up and monitoring the KRAs for the employees in alignment with the organizational and departmental goals.

    • Reviewing the KRAs post probation period of the employees and taking corrective actions.

    • Evaluating the performance of the employees in co-ordination with the BU Heads.

    • Handing over the appraisal letter and updating the systems accordingly

    • Ideating & implementing Rewards & Recognition schemes for various functions

    • Reviewing & overhauling of policies as per business objectives & industry benchmarking

    • Attrition analysis & recommending various aids on regular intervals to Business for controlling Talent Loss

Education

PG Diploma in Human Resource Management
2009-2010

MBA – Tourism and HR Management
2004-2006

Bachelors of Commerce
2000-2003

Certification

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0
2020-Present
Become a SAP HCM Consultant
2020-2020
Certificate course in SAP HCM ERP 6.0
2013-2013

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