KAPSCH Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management Implementation

Role : WD Time Tracking and Absence Management SME

Duration : November 2019 till July 2020

Sakthii's  tasks are to gather, analyze requirements, and provide SME guidelines on process improvements, setting up, enhancing and maintaining Business Processes, end to end Absence Management and Time Tracking configuration for EMEA and APAC region, His main objective is to Involve in global projects like Time Tracking and absence types Standardization, creating and maintaining security groups across Workday. Well versed and have good hands-on experience in domain policies, BP policies and functional areas.

• Involved in working on business requirements by coordinating with management to set correct expectations in terms of deliverables, deadlines etc.
• Implemented Absence Management in various countries like Singapore, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Poland
• Actively involved in setting up, enhancing and maintaining Business Processes

Lloyds Banking Group ,WD HCM Implementation

Role : WD HCM Engagement Manager  and Solution Architect

 Duration : November 2017 to September 2019

 Senior techno-functional consultant, certified in Workday HCM, and Workday Project Management. Some of SK's tasks are to gather, analyze requirements, and provide SME advice and best practices recommendations with respect to Integrations ,Core HR /Absence Management configuration, Time Tracking, Benefits implementation and Design of a Data conversion techniques , His main objective is to provide solution to align the customer business processes with Workday or other environments, including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing (unit testing, integration testing, UAT and parallel run testing) and deployment.

• Resource Management 
• Team Management and Development
• Manage a diverse workforce and grow talent globally to meet client needs
• Hiring globally based on the strategic and immediate client needs
• Identify resource demand and work through fulfillment process. This includes internal resource mapping as well as external requirements. 
• Manage resource allocation and utilization across multiple portfolios
• Workforce planning and execution (Local hiring, Visa planning)
• Work with Human Resources staff to recruit, interview, select, hire, and employ an appropriate number of employees
• Plan resource movement between onsite and offshore
• Identifying suitably skilled associates at offshore for visa processing.
• Provide approvals and required documentation (SOWs, BRM letters, PRD) for visa extensions and visa transfers
• Maintaining a resource bench for future needs at onsite and offshore.
• Cross training associates as a part of back up planning.

AMEX Business Cards WD Time Tracking and Absence Management

Role : Workday HCM Consultant

As Workday HCM Consultant tasked to gather, Analyse requirements, provide SME advice and best practices with respect to Core HR /Absence Management/Time Tracking configuration and implementation. Provide a solution to align the customer business processes with Workday or other environments, including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing (unit testing, integration testing, UAT and parallel run testing) and deployment.

• Workday SME support
• Data validation/ load through EIB
• Functional/Technical Specification
• Regular Status meeting with business lead and providing the status update to project stake holders
• Manage project deliveries 
• Functional design of Absence and time tracking module
• Maintenance and Support
• Work Schedule load using EIB
• Report Creation specific to Absence plans and time off 
• Manage production support, user queries.
• Document all the business requirements related to the enhancements or reports.
• Perform Mapping of the requirements with the Workday Delivered functionality, perform the required configurations or build reports as per the requirements.
• Direct interaction with end level user for support issues, Configured Absence plans Time Tracking templates with various time codes for 3 European countries  

Sanofi Workday HCM Implementation

Workday Expertise Committee –Team Lead/Absence Management Consultant

• Workday SME support
• Data validation load through EIB
• Functional/Technical Specification
• Regular Status meeting with business lead and providing the status update to project stake holders
• Manage project deliveries 
• Metrics Management
• Analyze and design the global template model
• Handles 60 geography team and their territory specific design
• Manage production support, user queries of global design.
• Document all the business requirements related to the enhancements and global design template.
• Perform Mapping of the requirements with the Workday Delivered functionality, Perform the required configurations in various WD modules.
• Direct interaction with end level user for support issues, Functional design as per the user requirement, Support for workday global template issues, Co-ordinate with the nearshore /Offshore team and weekly update on the work status

Nissan North America Motor Company -WD HCM Implementation

Workday HCM Consultant/Engagement Manager

• Presenting To-Be business design during Business workshops.
• Business design discovery preparation based on scope.
• Functional/Technical Specification
• Regular Status meeting with offshore integration lead and providing the status update to project stake holders
• Manage project deliveries 
• Team Management
• Metrics Management
• Scorecard Maintenance
• Resolving the Tickets
• Integration design Maintenance and Support
• Integration Development
• Report Creation and Review the Integration and Reports, 
• Manage production support, user queries, 
• Document all the business requirements related to the enhancements or reports
• Perform Mapping of the requirements with the Workday Delivered functionality, Perform the required configurations or build reports as per the requirements, 
• Direct interaction with end level user for support issues, Development of reports as per the user requirement, Support for workday integration issues, Co-ordinate with the offshore team and weekly update on the work status

NXP Semiconductors – Workday Conversion

Data Conversion/Functional Lead

NXP acquired Freescale and they decided to use Workday as their HCM System. During this project SK participated as a Lead and advisor for all the data conversion work.

• Developed an audit report to extract the current version of the Organization Hierarchy
• Coordinated with various HR partners across the globe to validate their responsible Business units.
• Updated the organization structure according to the business guidelines.

Telenor Group, Belgium WD HCM Implementation

Workday HCM Consultant and Conversion /Support Lead

• Developed Data gathering workbook template.
• Staffed Technical/Functional/Conversion team for the project
• Conducted many walk-through sessions on DGW for the various region team.
• Prepared checklist for data gathering.
• Conducted various business workshops and captured the scope.
• Configured Core HCM, Compensation and Absence Management modules.
• Identified the resources with required background and trained them internally in workday
• Conducted business workshops with the business users and derived the scope of the project.
• Prepared Project Plan.
• Creation of design specification. (Functional/technical design document)
• Analyzing the requirements & the related Business Processes and derived with the project plan
• Suggesting the best possible solution by weighing the pros & cons
• Effort Estimation
• Data Validation
• Loaded the data using various iload templates
• Created supervisory Organization using various staffing models
• Created Organization, locations/Regions hierarchies.
• Updated various business process like Hire, Promote, Terminate, Change Personal information.etc
• Created various Reports/and Calculated fields
• Business Process Design
• Worked on Domain and Business process securities.
• Testing/Design Review
• Created Escalation process.
• Handle Post production issues and support activities
• Involved in functional testing and prepared test scripts for Workday 21 Update.
• Understand/ Analyze and evaluate the need for change in Requirements based on functional specification and organizational demand, and make the necessary corrections accordingly.
• Co-ordinate with the off-shore team and allocate support activities.
• Good working knowledge on Inbound and Outbound EIB Integration concepts and created the various EIB integrations.
• Involved in Unit Test on Integrations, UAT Support and End User Training
• Involved in Functional Report Testing and prepared test scripts.

Hess Corporation, USA WD HCM Data Conversion

SAP and Workday Consultant

• Prepared the data extraction strategy document and extracted the data using non-programming methods.
• Prepared Conversion Strategy.
• Identified and derived the solution to transform the custom fields from SAP to Workday
• Transform the data from SAP to ADP system for Payroll processing.
• Conducted business workshops with the business users and derived the scope of the Workday system.
• Prepared Project Plan.
• Identified the resources for the design team
• Coordinated with various stake holders on various data extractions types and transformation procedures and its processes.
• Conducted various business and design meetings and represented client team as a workday and SAP SME in various business workshops.
• Creation of design specification. (Functional/technical design document)
• Analyzing the requirements & the related Business Processes and derived with the project plan
• Suggesting the best possible solution by weighing the pros & cons
• Effort Estimation
• Created SAP queries to extract the data for ADP (Payroll) and Workday system.
• Created a template to map the data type with legacy system data.
• Prepared end user documents on Data/Conversion methods.