Lavanya Gaddam
Chicago,IL
Summary
Hands-on leader with over 18 years’ experience in development and support of HRIS Applications, that includes experience in managing, implementation, design, development, customization and stabilization of Workday, PeopleSoft and SAP. Workday Lead for multiple Workday implementations and worked on both retiring and retrofitting legacy requirements in Workday. Techno-functional lead with background of leading integration design/development as well as functional configurations on both Workday and PeopleSoft. Functional expertise in HRMS modules which includes Core HR, Security, Recruiting, Talent and Performance, Core Compensation, Advance compensation, Payroll and Benefits. Extensive experience with data and analytics tools such as SQL, Tableau, Alteryx, Viser, Power BI and Workday Discovery Boards. Significant Workday and other HRMS systems implementation experience from project conception through roll-out which includes fit gap analysis, development, major customization, testing, and training.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director – Workday Technology
SS&C Technologies inc
Chicago, IL
03.2023 - Current
- Won Tech and Media Industry Analytics trailblazer award at Workday Rising 2025 for building Comprehensive analytics that were superior to People Analytics product delivered by Workday.
- Lead Payroll Harmonization project to consolidate payroll vendors for 40 countries into three vendors.
- Partnered with Total Rewards, HR, Finance and IT to ensure data Alignment and Data consistency.
- Managed multiple Merit, Bonus and Stock compensation cycles for 3000 managers and multiple cycles every year.
- Built and lead a high performing team of 4 analysts who managed the business processes across recruiting, compensation performance, benefits and absence modules.
- Managed and architected data conversions for multiple large acquisitions which included 25K employees in 13 countries and 4 Workday tenants into a single Workday tenant.
- Managed the data retention for acquired companies’ data following GDPR guidelines.
- Designed, developed, and maintained advanced Workday Prism data pipelines, Discovery Boards and reports that provide actionable insights for senior leadership and business users.
- Developed and maintained Advanced, Composite, Matrix and Trending reports, partners with key stakeholders to create custom reports on an ad hoc basis to support business needs; drive HR analytics and delivery.
- Developed short and long-term training and development strategies and corresponding execution plans aligned to overall business need.
- Supported management effectiveness of the day-to-day business while simultaneously managing large projects and improvement initiatives.
- Establish and support data governance policies and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations to protect employee data and maintain data integrity.
- Identified opportunities for process improvement within HR operations and leverage technology and analytics to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Created dashboards and discovery boards for compensation managers for Annual cycle and post cycle management.
- Automated 28 workflows in Workday using digital workers through SS&C custom AI tool called WorkHQ.
Workday Lead Consultant
HCSC Corp
Chicago, IL
08.2014 - 02.2023
- Integrations SME on recommending the best integration methods for requirements and solution design.
- Worked with key businesses, IT stakeholders and vendors to confirm the requirements, recommended design alternatives, facilitated discussions and ultimately derived requirements sign off.
- Evaluated and coordinated the technical impacts of application configuration decisions.
- Managed the integration inventory across the HR organization for Workday implementation.
- Coordinated testing with external vendors for integrations and driven the timely resolution of all the issues identified.
- Managed post-production support for all integrations and Business Processes and timely resolution of all issues.
- Created Alteryx Workflows to validate the data conversion files against the legacy system.
- Facilitated design sessions for Advance Compensation implementation.
- Worked with compensation COEs to re-map the grade structure for the entire organization.
- Worked on configuration of complex union requirements for both Merit and Bonus plans.
- Created new allowance and One-time payment plans to support all the ad-hoc payments.
- Simplified the goal scorecard structure for the Annual bonus cycle.
- Configured custom validations that were unique to HCSC on both merit and Bonus plans.
- Created custom reports to validate compensation data.
- Developed end to end test scenarios for COE and HRIS validation of annual compensation cycle.
- Continued support of legacy annual compensation cycle while working on implementation of Workday compensation.
- Managed multiple Annual compensation cycles in Workday for Merit and Bonus.
- Designed the review statements for the annual compensation cycle in BIRT.
- Managed Performance reviews for mid- year and annual cycles in Success Factors.
- SME for Core HR applications which includes Manager Self-Service and Employee Self-Service.
- Extensively worked on developing career architecture to improve career advancing opportunities for employees.
- Responsible for re-designing on the compensation architecture as it relates to salary ranges.
Sr. Application Development Lead
AonHewitt
Chicago, IL
12.2007 - 08.2014
- Responsible for data conversion from PeopleSoft to Workday during workday implementation.
- Responsible for creating the mapping documents for Workday integrations based on the PeopleSoft requirements.
- Worked closely with business users, external vendors, IT representatives and others to collect the business requirements and translated them to design documents.
- Worked on estimations, project plans and schedules in various phases of the project. Completed the assigned tasks within budget and within schedule.
- Principal subject matter expert for Core HR functionality with extensive knowledge of Self-Service and delivered PeopleSoft personal model. Supported Workforce administration functionality across 30 countries.
- Developed and assisted business functional testing plans and performance testing for various projects within PeopleSoft. Extensively used HP Quality center for quality assurance testing.
- Designed, Developed, upgraded and supported the interfaces to Taleo recruiting system.
- Extensive experience with supporting various compensation applications which includes a heavily customized PeopleSoft module called Pay Delivery Tool and external SaaS based application called Peoplefluent.
- Lead Compensation and Performance cycles and responsible for issue free load of merit and promotion pay increases for employees in 35 countries.
- Designed and developed the payroll interfaces for India and NorthgateArsino.
- Resolved the issues that arose due to the complexity of maintaining multiple PeopleSoft systems.
- Responsible for conversion of data from PeopleSoft to Workday during workday implementation.
- Responsible for creating the mapping documents for Workday integrations based on the PeopleSoft requirements.
- Worked on the full life cycle implementation of PeopleSoft upgrade from version 8.0 to version 9.0.
- Ran the upgrade assistant and fixed number of issues during the test moves to production.
- Worked on the data conversions from 8.0 to personal model in 9.0.
- Developed a complex program to perform the mass updates in PeopleSoft using Component Interfaces and App engine programs.
- Responsible for development and support of interfaces to around 200 Internal systems.
- Worked in retrofitting the SQR’s to change the SQR interfaces to run on PeopleSoft 9.0 system. This involved thorough testing of each SQR.
Education
Masters - Business Administration
Bachelors - Computer Science Engineering
Skills
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Vendor Management
- Analytical thinking
- Strategic leadership
- Coaching and mentoring
- Compliance
- Relationship building
- Team collaboration and leadership
- Integration Analysis
- Workday Integration
- M&A Integration
- SQL
- Visier (Platform)
- Workday Advanced Reporting
- HR Analytics
- Power BI
- Workday Compensation
- Workday Recruiting
- Workday Payroll
- Workday Absence and Time Tracking
- Workday Prism Analytics
- Workday Reporting
- PeopleSoft HCM
- Power BI
- PeopleSoft human capital management
Certification
- Workday Pro HCM Core
- Workday Pro Compensation
- Workday Pro Reporting
- Workday Pro Prism
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from IASSC
Timeline
Associate Director – Workday Technology
SS&C Technologies inc
03.2023 - Current
Workday Lead Consultant
HCSC Corp
08.2014 - 02.2023
Sr. Application Development Lead
AonHewitt
12.2007 - 08.2014