Linda Fesser
Antioch,IL
Summary
Workday Pro Certified HRIS Manager with demonstrated leadership in HRIS Systems, Business Process Configuration, HR Processes and Project Management. Enthusiastic and results-oriented professional with extensive technical and functional HRIS expertise; including HCM, Benefit Administration, Compensation and Payroll, Time and Attendance, Reporting, Recruiting, Performance, Manager Self- Service and Employee Self-Service. Client focused team player experienced in meeting facilitation, requirements gathering, system development, process improvement and help desk resolution. A proven record of managing projects from conception to execution with effective problem-solving and time-management skills. Demonstrated expertise in full cycle conversions and implementations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Mgr; P&O Operating Systems
Novartis GTx (formerly Avexis)
Bannockburn , IL
2018.01 - Current
- Leads the development and configuration of the HCM system
- Took Avexis from spreadsheets to Workday; whole tenant implementation
- Configure all aspects of the Workday tenant including benefit enrollment(s); annual compensation planning, performance and check-in(s), onboarding and dashboards
- Responsible for review of What's New report to determine opt in verses push functionality across tenat's
- Configure to support business needs
- Assign and manage all security roles within tenant
- Manage a team of 5 full time employees; the team supported over 2000 associates in both US and Europe for Workday inquiries, reporting and data analysis
- Work closely with Director of Compensation to configure Advanced Compensation features; support the compensation team with EIB's for annual salary planning, job profiles, job family and job classifications
- Support all escalation inquires regarding Workday and the systems functionality
- Support all business partners with reporting needs from Workday including SOX, EEO and Affirmation Action
- Created working documents for HRIS procedures for Manager Self-Service and Employee Self-Service; including quick reference guides that live within Workday
- Provide consistent and meaningful training and mentoring to direct reports in all areas of Workday
- Audit system to ensure timely processing of initiated business processes
- Partner with external vendors to ensure outbound integrations met vendor requirements
- Responsible for data intergrity within the Workday system.
Sr. HRIS Administrator
CF Industries Inc
Deerfield , IL
2012.01 - 2017.12
- Projected managed full cycle implementation of Workday 26 for US and Canada including HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Absence and Core Compensation
- Project managed the implementation with concurrent responsibility for Data Workbook completions and configuration of Business Processes
- Recognized for On Time project completion
- Implemented Workday Recruiting for US and Canada
- Co-project managed the implementation with responsibility for configuration of Business Processes
- Assumed responsibilities for the company's time tracking system from payroll: ADP eTime
- Developed expertise on the configuration and setup of legacy system: eTime 6.0
- Project managed and oversaw the Service Pack upgrade bringing us to eTime 6.3
- Project managed and configured Function Access Profiles in upgraded system to comply with CF Industries Separation of Duties requirements
- Project entailed cross system analysis between Workday and eTime security roles
- Workday Upgrades
- Responsible for review of 'What's New' report to determine opt-in vs push functionality across all tenants
- Provide overview and coordinate upgrade with function area business partners
- Configured new functionality to meet company business requirements
- Review of reports for self-deprecating fields
- Coordinate upgrade go live with existing in house projects
- Maintenance of Workday GL mapping and integration to SAP
- Acted as subject matter expert on bank consolidation project for both US and Canada
- Developed process for the addition of new bank accounts to Workday and creation of posting rules
- Oversee HP ALM business as usual support function; including loading of EIB's, issue resolution, breakfix configuration and end-user training
- Supported CF Industries company-wide project to revise Legal Entity structure from a HCM systems perspective; resulting in the consolidation of structures from seven companies to three
- Received a recognition award for project completion
- Design company-wide process for CF Industries ex-pats
- Provided system support for consolidation/centralization of US payroll from three locations to one which also resulted in moving from nine paygroups to four.
Administrator
CF Industries Inc
2011.01 - 2012.01
- Migrated both US and Canada to Ev5 Self-Service within first four months with the company
- Completed upgrades from Ev5.0 to Ev5.3 and Ev5.4
- Maintained all user security and setup tables in Ev5 application
- Filed annual EEO-1 and VETS-100 reports
- Responsible for performance, maintenance, upgrading, data integrity and support of HRIS System
- System administrator for ADP Netsecure to maintain computer certificates for ADP
- Responsible for the implementation and upkeep of all external interfaces with the HR/Payroll System
- Scheduled and executed mass changes (e.g
- Merit, bonuses, mass transfers), conversions, and data updates.
Education
B.S. -
Illinois State University
Skills
- Workday
- Compensation
- Payroll
- Benefits
- Business Processes
- Requirements Gathering
- User Acceptance Testing
- Test Cases
- Data Warehouse
- User Interface (UI)
- SOX
- Oracle
Certification
- Workday Pro HCM, October 2023, Present
- Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT, January 2024, Present
Additional Information
Expertise: Workday: HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Absence, Performance, Integrations, Recruiting, Reporting and Compensation, ADP eTime 6.0 and 6.3, ADP Ev5 (5, 5.3, 5.4), PeopleSoft 9.1, PeoOrgPublisher PeopleSoft 7.5, OrgPublisher, Query, Microsoft Office, Oracle
Timeline
Sr Mgr; P&O Operating Systems
Novartis GTx (formerly Avexis)
2018.01 - Current
Sr. HRIS Administrator
CF Industries Inc
2012.01 - 2017.12
Administrator
CF Industries Inc
2011.01 - 2012.01
B.S. -
Illinois State University
- Workday Pro HCM, October 2023, Present
- Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT, January 2024, Present
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