$45

Hourly Consulting Rate

Amber Bhatia

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Computer Software/Engineering

Information Technology/IT

Location Supported

Worldwide

India

United Kingdom

United States

Languages Supported

English

Hindi

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Functional consultant

Product Specialization

  • Workday Human Capital
  • SAP ECC

About

Amber is currently working with AQA as a Workday Support Manager and holds more than 11 years of consulting experience in HR systems implementations/support in other ERP’s and is also Workday Integrations & HCM Core certified.

Specializes in workday HCM Core, Talent & Performance, Absence, T&A, Recruiting, Compensation, Finance, Integrations (Studio, CCW, DT, BIRT), Workday Security and Workday Reporting including Advanced/Matrix/Trended and Composite Reporting, Workday dashboards.

Prior to this he was working in Deloitte’s HR Transformation practice. He has worked with large global clients in the implementation and maintenance of both, their Legacy and SaaS HR systems.

Aims to work in a position where he can utilize his experience with product development, establishing, measuring and reporting on KPIs, Workday cloud, SAP development, Oracle Fusion, research, training, leadership and retention. Assist your organization in increasing productivity and quality of its services.

Top Project Highlights

Consulting

Industry:  Retail

Client: Walmart 

Role:

  • Worked as a lead for Integrations and Reporting Module.
  • Has been involved in resolving issues related to various complex workday integrations both
  • inbound/outbound related to client’s critical/non-critical transactions.
  • Created a Studio integration to send critical integrations like Hire, Termination and other events to Stronghold that acts as a middleware for the client to send data further downstream systems.
  • Created Studio inbound integration for Kenexa (Recruitment System) wherein data was read from workday message queue and based on whether a WIN was present or not accordingly Hire or Change Job was triggered in Workday.
  • Worked on change requests involving modifications to studio integration for sending new security group data to ServiceNow to be in sync with Workday.
  • Developed Inbound Studio integrations to update workers email address in workday.
  • Enhanced studio inbound Go Service integration to fetch workday id for the user by calling the Go Service web service and updating the same in workday using ‘Create/Update Workday Account’ web service in WD.
  • Have been creating performance incentive Studio integrations using XSLT 3.0 and hash maps.
  • Responsible for Handling tickets in the HCM and compensation area and resolving them based on SLA
  • Developed dashboards to help with client’s Project Hyper-care reporting requirements. This, apart from multiple reports and dashboards in the Recruitment, HCM, Compensation, HRA and Talent modules. This also involved creating various combination of various composite and matrix reports to be used in dashboard.
  • Developed various Audit reports related to User Activity and Security.
  • Additionally, supported functional team with configuration issues related to HCM Core and Recruiting.
  • Supported various Inbound/Outbound Studio integrations for vendors like Service Now, Kenexa, CATS, Go Service and many more.
  • Have been interacting directly with the client and third-party vendors through status calls for discussing various issues related to integrations.
  • Enhanced/Modified various custom reports that were being used in different integrations to pull data/for validation purposes.
  • Leading design sessions with clients, analysis of requirements and configuration setup of workday tenant including testing and delivery.
  • Have been involved in analyzing various integrations to suggest if any break fix is required.
  • Completed Knowledge transfer process to support client’s workday support through ServiceNow.
  • Created troubleshooting guides for error handling of various integrations based on Issue Category specific to those integrations. 
  • Lead CATS reorganization project, which involved restructuring compensation for client’s hourly employee population. This included redesigning multiple business processes, reports, compensation configuration and integrations.
  • Working on Workday security as a secondary owner to handle enhancements in this area.

Industry:  Financial Services

Client: State Street Bank

Role:

  • Lead the Security/Integrations streams and additionally supported Reporting and HCM tracks.
  • Working on supporting reports related to modules like payroll, compensation and core HR.
  • Working on supporting integrations related to modules like payroll, compensation, performance management, recruitment, talent and core HR.
  • Created/Supported various finance integrations such as Customer Invoice, Supplier Invoice, Journals and Purchase Order BIRT.
  • Created/Supported various finance reports like Tax Register Purchase, Sales by Rep (USA) based on customer invoice lines, etc.
  • Addressed critical business concerns around the Security and Reporting environment at the client end by expeditiously resolving Support Issues and also recommending modifications to the Security/Reporting processes to address inflow of tickets.
  • Worked on supporting State Street implement a critical Global Regulatory requirement called GDPR which addresses data privacy and reporting relationships in the StateStreet ecosystem.
  • Involved in Implementing Supervisory Org realignment strategies and building process frameworks around Security and Reporting.
  • Analyzed the existing PeopleSoft report inventory to decide on the most optimum reporting solution suiting client requirements; Advanced, Matrix, Composite Etc.
  • Analyzed Workday Delivered Standard reports across each of the work streams, evaluating if these could fulfill the existing reporting requirements.
  • Supported and participated in end-to-end SIT, UAT and Go live activities for reporting module.

Industry:  Media

Client: News Corp Australia

Role(Technical/Functional):

  • Created various Third-Party Integrations to send payroll & employee demographic data to client’s third party vendor.
  • Created a studio integration to upload leave override balances for employee using Put Override Balance Web service call.
  • Created EIBs to fetch middle of stack data for a worker for all the compensation events till date except top of stack.
  • Created an inbound integration using standard template import external payslips for uploading workers’ payslips on worker profile.
  • Created a studio integration to send email notification to worker for who the Payslip was successfully loaded using studios email-out component.
  • Created payroll (PICOF) integration to send payroll data on a daily basis to client’s vendor in vendor specific output formats through WD Studio integration. Transformations were handled through Studio.
  • Created a Core Connector daily integration to send position change details to client’s vendor in an output format acceptable by vendor. Transformations done using Document Transformation (DT).
  • Done configuration in workday to set up various codes related to Allowances, Base Hours, Leaves and Work Patterns.

Industry: Retail

Client: Macy’s

Role:

  • Handling Oracle fusion objects.
  • Developed BI Publisher Report for Hawaii employees for extracting time entry week’s data.
  • BI reports developed for sending HCM & garnishment data on garnishment team’s email by extracting data from cloud.
  • Worked on seeded HCM Extracts like Payroll Register for enhancing them.
  • Implementing Performance-tuning techniques and hints at Application, Database and System levels.

Management Consultancy

Industry:  Management Consultancy Firm

Role:

  • Working as a Workday System Analyst and helping baringa in areas like Integrations, Reporting, Security and functional issues/configuration related to HCM Core, Compensation, Benefits, Talent & Performance, Feedback and Absence within workday.
  • Helped baringa with their day to day BAU activities within workday from Business Process configurations, reporting and security.
  • Redesigned baringa’s custom org. structure to accommodate their business units & business unit sector hierarchy.
  • Educating client with how best the system can be utilized on a day to day basis along with training an in house resource with the same.
  • Improved & Built performance review process as per baringa’s requirements, designed annual awards process within workday and created various reports for different departments within workday.
  • Currently, working on a payroll integration with 3rd party vendor Activpayroll to send all the Employee as well as Earnings/Deductions data from workday to process payroll using PICOF + Studio integration.
  • Created a very critical Studio inbound integration for Cornerstone (Recruitment System) wherein data is read from cornerstone APIs and based on whether an employee is present or not accordingly Hire or Change Job will be triggered in Workday.
  • Created PDF integration with Cornerstone to load all the worker documents in workday, enabled Single Sign On (SSO) with Activ payroll and configured a worklet within workday for employee to view it.
  • Currently, analyzing their MI Reporting requirements and how can they be replaced by using workday dashboards & analytics module.

Education

Industry:  Education

Role:

  • Supporting AQA in areas like Reporting, Security and functional issues/configuration related to HCM Core, Recruitment, Compensation, Benefits, Talent & Performance, Feedback, Absence & Finance within workday.
  • Training internal users in resolving day to day BAU activities along with fixing several configurations for different modules within workday.
  • Helping AQA in streamlining process to handle tickets for resolving workday issues based on priorities & differentiating between simple, medium & complex issues.

Employment

SAP Consultant

2009 - 2011
  • May 2010 - June 2011   JKT Consulting Ltd. – SAP Technical Consultant

    Client: Ajay Industries.

    Role:

    • Created Org Units, Jobs, Positions and Maintained relationships.
    • Gathered business requirements, designed business processes diagrams
    • Conducted stakeholders’ meetings to identify AS-IS and TO-BE business processes
    • Identified and translated business constraints, in collaboration with the technical team

    SAP modules implemented:

    • PA, OM, Travel Management, Time Management, Payroll.

     

    May 2009 - July 2011     JKT Consulting Ltd. – SAP HCM Techno-Functional Consultant  

    Client: JK Cement Ltd.

    Role:

    • Involved in full life-cycle implementation for JK Cement
    • Created Org. Units, Jobs, Positions and Maintained relationships
    • Designing the template for data migration & conversion
    • Review & validation of master data
    • Organized data migration, testing processes and provided training
    • Involved in Unit and Integration testing
    • Identified and translated business constraints, in collaboration with the technical team

     Modules implemented:

    • PA, OM, Travel Management, Time Management, Payroll.

Information Analyst

2011 - 2012
  • Sept 2011 - Feb 2012    Terra Information India Pvt. Ltd. – Information Analyst

    Client: Fisker Automotive

    Role:

    • Responsible for implementing business processes based on blueprint documents created
    • Configuration of ECM system for the annual employee and manager salary and bonus review cycle
    • Configured a new Compensation method for guideline Matrix (Business Area) to award annual Financial Bonus to managers. (Bonus percentage depended on the Business area of the managers)
    • Customized the solution for pro-rating managers Personnel and Financial Bonus

Senior SAP techno-Functional Consultant

2012 - 2016
  • Sept 2012 – Nov 2016    HCL Technologies Ltd. – Senior SAP Techno-Functional Consultant

    Industry: Toy Manufacturer

    Client: LEGO

    Role:

    • Develop requirements specifications
    • Mapped business processes to SAP functionalities
    • Involved in Data Migration activities for HCM objects
    • Have developed interfaces through interface toolbox PU12 for generating various time as well as payroll reports and transferring data from SAP to Kronos.
    • Configured SAP HR/HCM core systems and sub modules
    • Creating Attribute views, Analytic views & Calculation views.
    • Creating and Using Database Procedures in ABAP on Eclipse and HANA Studio.
    • ABAP Managed Database Procedures (AMDP) and Consumption in ABAP SAP List Viewer with Integrated Data Access.
    • Implementing Performance-tuning techniques and hints at Application, Database and System levels.
    • Supported incidents and changes in Payroll, PA, OM and Time Management.
    • Implementation of new Cash Saving Scheme for TW in Payroll.

    Modules implemented:

    • PA, OM, PMP (Performance Mgmt.)/PRP, Travel Management, Time Management, LSO, EHS, R-REC, IDP, Compensation, Talent management (Succession Planning), Payroll.

     

    Apr 2012 - Aug 2012    HCL Technologies Ltd. - SAP Techno-Functional Consultant

    Industry: National Health Service

    Client: DOH (Department of Health)

    Role:

    • Preparing Functional and Technical Specification for this Enhancement.
    • Provided advice to business SME’s to analyze, design and deliver SAP functionalities
    • Analyzed business processes to identify functional gaps and points of external integration
    • Assessed and documented business needs, business processes and support systems.

    Modules implemented:

    • PA, OM, PY(UK), Time Management, E-Rec, PMP.

Workday Consultant

2016 - 2019
  • Sep 2018 – June 2019  Workday Integrations Compensation and Reporting Lead

    Industry:  Retail

    Role:

    • Worked as a lead for Integrations and Reporting Module.
    • Has been involved in resolving issues related to various complex workday integrations both inbound/outbound related to client’s critical/non-critical transactions.
    • Created a Studio integration to send critical integrations like Hire, Termination and other events to Stronghold that acts as a middleware for the client to send data further downstream systems.
    • Created Studio inbound integration for Kenexa (Recruitment System) wherein data was read from workday message queue and based on whether a WIN was present or not accordingly Hire or Change Job was triggered in Workday.
    • Worked on change requests involving modifications to studio integration for sending new security group data to ServiceNow to be in sync with Workday.
    • Developed Inbound Studio integrations to update workers email address in workday.
    • Enhanced studio inbound Go Service integration to fetch workday id for the user by calling the Go Service web service and updating the same in workday using ‘Create/Update Workday Account’ web service in WD.
    • Have been creating performance incentive Studio integrations using XSLT 3.0 and hash maps.
    • Responsible for Handling tickets in the HCM and compensation area and resolving them based on SLA
    • Developed dashboards to help with client’s Project Hyper-care reporting requirements. This, apart from multiple reports and dashboards in the Recruitment, HCM, Compensation, HRA and Talent modules. This also involved creating various combination of various composite and matrix reports to be used in dashboard.
    • Developed various Audit reports related to User Activity and Security.
    • Additionally, supported functional team with configuration issues related to HCM Core and Recruiting.
    • Supported various Inbound/Outbound Studio integrations for vendors like Service Now, Kenexa, CATS, Go Service and many more.
    • Have been interacting directly with the client and third-party vendors through status calls for discussing various issues related to integrations.
    • Enhanced/Modified various custom reports that were being used in different integrations to pull data/for validation purposes.
    • Leading design sessions with clients, analysis of requirements and configuration setup of workday tenant including testing and delivery.
    • Have been involved in analyzing various integrations to suggest if any break fix is required.
    • Completed Knowledge transfer process to support client’s workday support through ServiceNow.
    • Created troubleshooting guides for error handling of various integrations based on Issue Category specific to those integrations. 
    • Lead CATS reorganization project, which involved restructuring compensation for client’s hourly employee population. This included redesigning multiple business processes, reports, compensation configuration and integrations.
    • Working on Workday security as a secondary owner to handle enhancements in this area.

    Jan 2018 – Sept 2018  Workday Security Integrations and HCM Core Consultant

    Industry:  Financial Services

    Client: State Street Bank

    Role:

    • Lead the Security/Integrations streams and additionally supported Reporting and HCM tracks.
    • Working on supporting reports related to modules like payroll, compensation and core HR.
    • Working on supporting integrations related to modules like payroll, compensation, performance management, recruitment, talent and core HR.
    • Created/Supported various finance integrations such as Customer Invoice, Supplier Invoice, Journals and Purchase Order BIRT.
    • Created/Supported various finance reports like Tax Register Purchase, Sales by Rep (USA) based on customer invoice lines, etc.
    • Addressed critical business concerns around the Security and Reporting environment at the client end by expeditiously resolving Support Issues and also recommending modifications to the Security/Reporting processes to address inflow of tickets.
    • Worked on supporting State Street implement a critical Global Regulatory requirement called GDPR which addresses data privacy and reporting relationships in the StateStreet ecosystem.
    • Involved in Implementing Supervisory Org realignment strategies and building process frameworks around Security and Reporting.
    • Analyzed the existing PeopleSoft report inventory to decide on the most optimum reporting solution suiting client requirements; Advanced, Matrix, Composite Etc.
    • Analyzed Workday Delivered Standard reports across each of the work streams, evaluating if these could fulfill the existing reporting requirements.
    • Supported and participated in end-to-end SIT, UAT and Go live activities for reporting module.

    Mar 2017 – Dec 2017  Workday Integrations Reporting Consultant

    Industry:  Media

    Client: News Corp Australia

    Role(Technical/Functional):

    • Created various Third-Party Integrations to send payroll & employee demographic data to client’s third party vendor.
    • Created a studio integration to upload leave override balances for employee using Put Override Balance Web service call.
    • Created EIBs to fetch middle of stack data for a worker for all the compensation events till date except top of stack.
    • Created an inbound integration using standard template import external payslips for uploading workers’ payslips on worker profile.
    • Created a studio integration to send email notification to worker for who the Payslip was successfully loaded using studios email-out component.
    • Created payroll (PICOF) integration to send payroll data on a daily basis to client’s vendor in vendor specific output formats through WD Studio integration. Transformations were handled through Studio.
    • Created a Core Connector daily integration to send position change details to client’s vendor in an output format acceptable by vendor. Transformations done using Document Transformation (DT).
    • Done configuration in workday to set up various codes related to Allowances, Base Hours, Leaves and Work Patterns.

    Jan 2017 – Feb 2017  Oracle Fusion HCM Consultant

    Industry: Retail

    Client: Macy’s

    Role:

    • Handling Oracle fusion objects.
    • Developed BI Publisher Report for Hawaii employees for extracting time entry week’s data.
    • BI reports developed for sending HCM & garnishment data on garnishment team’s email by extracting data from cloud.
    • Worked on seeded HCM Extracts like Payroll Register for enhancing them.
    • Implementing Performance-tuning techniques and hints at Application, Database and System levels.

    Nov 2016 – Jan 2017  Workday Consultant

    Industry: Consulting

    Role:

    • Underwent various Trainings for Workday.
    • Completed certification in Workday HCM Core and Integrations.
    • Completed an internal project on Workday studio assignment for creating WD accounts for users using Web services ‘Create Workday Account’ & ‘Update Workday Account’.
    • Worked on Oracle Fusion tools like BI Analyzer, HCM Data Extracts and Fast Formulas.

Workday System Analyst

2019 - 2020
  • Sep 2019 – March 2020  Workday System Analyst

    Industry:  Management Consultancy Firm

    Role:

    • Working as a Workday System Analyst and helping baringa in areas like Integrations, Reporting, Security and functional issues/configuration related to HCM Core, Compensation, Benefits, Talent & Performance, Feedback and Absence within workday.
    • Helped baringa with their day to day BAU activities within workday from Business Process configurations, reporting and security.
    • Redesigned baringa’s custom org. structure to accommodate their business units & business unit sector hierarchy.
    • Educating client with how best the system can be utilized on a day to day basis along with training an in house resource with the same.
    • Improved & Built performance review process as per baringa’s requirements, designed annual awards process within workday and created various reports for different departments within workday.
    • Currently, working on a payroll integration with 3rd party vendor Activpayroll to send all the Employee as well as Earnings/Deductions data from workday to process payroll using PICOF + Studio integration.
    • Created a very critical Studio inbound integration for Cornerstone (Recruitment System) wherein data is read from cornerstone APIs and based on whether an employee is present or not accordingly Hire or Change Job will be triggered in Workday.
    • Created PDF integration with Cornerstone to load all the worker documents in workday, enabled Single Sign On (SSO) with Activ payroll and configured a worklet within workday for employee to view it.
    • Currently, analyzing their MI Reporting requirements and how can they be replaced by using workday dashboards & analytics module.

Workday Support Manager

2020 - 2020
  • Apr 2020 – Present Workday Support Manager

    Industry:  Education

    Role:

    • Supporting AQA in areas like Reporting, Security and functional issues/configuration related to HCM Core, Recruitment, Compensation, Benefits, Talent & Performance, Feedback, Absence & Finance within workday.
    • Training internal users in resolving day to day BAU activities along with fixing several configurations for different modules within workday.
    • Helping AQA in streamlining process to handle tickets for resolving workday issues based on priorities & differentiating between simple, medium & complex issues.
    • Helping with the new Release upgrade 2020R2

Education

BSc.(H) Computer Science
2005-2008

Degree

Institute

Board/ University

Year of Passing

Bachelors of Computer Science

Shaheed Sukhdev college of business studies

Delhi University

2008

Certification

Workday Integrations
2016-2019

Workday Integrations

Workday HCM Core
2016-2019

Workday HCM Core

SAP ABAP Net Weaver ECC 6.0
2009-Present

SAP ABAP Net Weaver ECC 6.0

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