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Lubna Ali

Tampa,USA

Summary

Workday SME and Senior Workday Consultant with 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting and enhancing Workday across Core HCM, Absence, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent/Performance, Compensation, and US Payroll (support). Strong background in HRIS production support, business process configuration, release/tenant management, reporting and analytics (custom reports, calculated fields, RaaS/BIRT, Prism), and integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, PECI/PICOF, Studio). Experienced supporting Adaptive Planning planning/reporting requests including model administration, dashboards, data loads, and reconciliation. Known for partnering with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT to deliver scalable solutions, improve data quality, and drive operational efficiency.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Workday Consultant

Pfizer
New York, NY
11.2024 - Current
  • Serve as primary Workday SME for HR/Payroll/Talent/Recruiting, owning end-to-end production support (intake, prioritization, RCA, resolution) across Core HCM, Absence, Benefits, Recruiting, Compensation, and Payroll.
  • Lead business process configuration and governance (eligibility rules, condition logic, routing/approvals, notifications, validations, and security), ensuring alignment to global HR operating models.
  • Drive release/tenant readiness: impact assessments, feature evaluation, regression testing coordination, and deployment communications for Workday updates and approved enhancements.
  • Deliver HR and Payroll reporting/analytics: dashboards, custom reports, complex calculated fields, and compliance reporting used by HR leadership and operations.
  • Partner with Payroll SMEs on payroll-impacting scenarios (time/absence calculation issues, costing allocations, earnings/deductions, and PECI/PICOF outputs) to prevent downstream payroll defects.
  • Act as Workday-to-Finance bridge supporting Adaptive Planning requests: requirements intake, e, prioritization, solution design, and ongoing support for planning/reporting enhancements.
  • Build and maintain Adaptive budgeting/forecasting views, scenario models, and KPI reporting for operational and executive stakeholders.
  • Develop management reporting for month-end close and variance analysis; improve transparency into workforce and cost drivers through standardized reporting packs.
  • Support data loads/migrations and reconciliation/validation across Workday/Adaptive and upstream/downstream sources to ensure planning accuracy and auditability.
  • Support integrations and data movement (EIB, Core Connectors, PECI/PICOF, Studio, RaaS scheduling, XSLT transformations); assist with Prism datasets and Extend app support as needed.

Workday Integration Consultant

Bay Business Edge
Clearwater, FL
07.2023 - 10.2024
  • Served as client-facing Workday SME providing daily functional support across Core HCM, Benefits, Absence, and Payroll; owned ticket triage, root-cause analysis, and resolution for configuration, security, and transaction issues.
  • Led business process and configuration optimization (staffing models, job profiles, eligibility rules, BP routing/approvals/notifications) to streamline HR operations and reduce manual effort.
  • Owned release/change testing (SIT/UAT/regression) for Workday enhancements and integrations; validated BP/security/report impacts and documented outcomes to ensure stable deployments.
  • Built and maintained HR/Payroll operational reporting (custom reports, audit reports, calculated fields, RaaS) to support stakeholders and compliance needs.
  • Supported Workday Adaptive Planning customers with model build and administration (dimensions, accounts, assumptions, versions), configuration changes, and data validation for budgeting/forecasting cycles.
  • Led Adaptive data migration activities (historicals, master data, mappings), performed reconciliation checks, resolved load errors, and standardized import processes.
  • Built and enhanced Adaptive dashboards and reports for budgeting/forecasting and operational reviews; enabled self-service reporting through training and documentation (guides, FAQs, templates).
  • Developed and supported integrations using EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, and PECI/PICOF; managed inbound/outbound EIBs and vendor files; monitored schedules and remediated failures.
  • Migrated Workday objects using Object Transporter; enforced Prism row-level security/data governance and supported integrations feeding reporting and planning.

Workday Consultant

Saint Leo University
Tampa, FL
05.2021 - 06.2023
  • Served as post-implementation Workday SME across Core HCM, Benefits, Absence, Recruiting, and Payroll; owned production support, defect resolution, and stabilization efforts after go-live.
  • Redesigned and optimized HR business processes (routing/approvals, notifications, validations, eligibility conditions, and security alignment) to improve data accuracy and reduce manual rework.
  • Built and enhanced reporting and analytics (custom reports, audit reporting, RaaS, complex calculated fields) to support HR, Talent, and Payroll operations (recurring and ad hoc).
  • Supported HR teams with staffing and worker lifecycle transactions (job/position changes, compensation updates, benefits corrections), ensuring correct routing, approvals, and data integrity.
  • Supported legacy PeopleSoft data conversion activities, including validation, reconciliation, and issue remediation to ensure accurate migrated employee data.
  • Built RaaS reports and automated report delivery using EIB to improve timeliness and consistency of operational reporting.
  • Partnered with Finance and IT on planning/reporting deliverables, including budgeting/forecasting inputs, scenario requests, and executive-ready reporting (Adaptive Planning-supported).
  • Assisted with multi-entity planning/consolidation support (entity rollups, mappings, validation) and helped standardize reporting across departments.
  • Supported month-end close activities with variance analysis and ad hoc reporting; improved data accuracy through reconciliations between source systems and reporting outputs.
  • Developed and supported integrations using PECI, Workday Studio, SOAP APIs (WSDL), XML/XSLT; supported HireRight (CLAR) integration and Financials-related integration outputs.

Peoplesoft Consultant

HDFC Bank
Hyderabad, India
06.2019 - 10.2020
  • Developed Payroll Audit queries and report to conduct the audit of Payroll System.
  • Audit query to run prior to Pay Sheet Creation to clean up missing HR and Benefit Information and Provide Compensation Report for each Department throughout the Campus.
  • Involved in Install PeopleSoft 9.0 HRMS, People Tools 8.50 demo database.
  • Fixed Current Payroll Issues for Faculty and Staff Employee Payroll.
  • Developed test plans and Payroll checklist for Monthly and Semi-Monthly pay run.
  • Defined Fit/Gap questionnaires and Conducted Fit/Gap sessions in Core HR, Payroll Interface to ADP EV5, Profile Management and Employee/Manager Self-Service.
  • Delivered Upgrade Feasibility Study Document Outlining the direction and recommendations for the Upgrade Project.
  • Install Tax updates 12-B, 12-C and 12-D.
  • Configured and Customized the Rapid Entry Pay sheet to improve the Current data entry Payroll data.
  • Audit report to show actual payroll payment and department budget for all incumbents before Pay confirms.
  • Defined Customizations, Upgrade Direction, Project Timeline/Resources/Cost and Business Process improvements to Eliminate Customizations and Understand the new Functionality of Version 9.1.
  • Worked as Payroll SME for current production payroll.

Education

Bachelor's - Computer Science

Saint Leo University
Tampa, FL

Master’s - Data Analytics

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

Skills

  • Workday Functional (SME): Core HCM, Absence, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent/Performance, Compensation, US Payroll (support), Business Process Configuration, Security, Tenant/Release Management, HRIS Production Support
  • Reporting & Analytics: Custom Reports, Advanced/Composite Reports, Calculated Fields, Report Writer, RaaS, BIRT, Dashboards, Prism Analytics
  • Integrations: EIB (inbound/outbound), Core Connectors, PECI/PICOF, Workday Studio, SOAP APIs (WSDL), XML/XSLT, JSON, Vendor File Integrations, File Transformations, Scheduling/Monitoring, Testing/Triage
  • Adaptive Planning: Model Build/Administration (Dimensions, Accounts, Versions), Dashboards & Reports, Data Loads/Migrations, Mapping & Reconciliation, Scenario Planning, Budgeting/Forecasting Support
  • Delivery/Methodologies: Requirements Gathering, Stakeholder Management, SIT/UAT/Regression, Release Support, Training/Enablement, Ticket/Case Management, Documentation/Runbooks, Defect Management, Cross-functional Collaboration

Websites

Timeline

Senior Workday Consultant

Pfizer
11.2024 - Current

Workday Integration Consultant

Bay Business Edge
07.2023 - 10.2024

Workday Consultant

Saint Leo University
05.2021 - 06.2023

Peoplesoft Consultant

HDFC Bank
06.2019 - 10.2020

Bachelor's - Computer Science

Saint Leo University

Master’s - Data Analytics

University of Central Florida
Lubna Ali