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Priyanandan Thota

Dallas, ,TX

Summary

Results-driven professional with 2.4 years of experience in SAP Payroll, specializing in HCM, Payroll (PY), OM, and PA for U.S. and Canada clients. Proficient in SAP configuration, payroll processing, benefits, and GL error resolution. Hands-on with payroll schemas, year-end tasks, and data extraction from clusters and info-types. Effective communicator with clients, business analysts, and developers to ensure seamless collaboration. Former Full Stack Web Developer Intern (10 months) skilled in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, front-end, and API integration. Passionate about problem-solving, user experience, and process optimization. Adaptable and committed to delivering high-quality solutions.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Functional Consultant

ADP
04.2021 - 07.2023
  • A results-oriented professional with 2.4 years of experience in SAP Payroll.
  • Strong functional HCM experience, combined with good interpersonal and communication abilities, facilitates the dissemination of technical information to customers, systems, and management.
  • Supported major SAP development projects for clients in the USA and Canada region.
  • Handled day-to-day payroll issues and configuration for clients including Apple, Cisco, Under Armour, DXC, etc.
  • Configuration, support issues, and application work requests related to Payroll (PY), Organizational Management (OM), and Personnel Administration (PA) in U.S. payroll.
  • Performed setting up and maintaining plan versions, number assignments, and ranges are the fundamental settings for OM. Customized and up-to-date personnel actions for positions, jobs, and organizational units.
  • Configured basic parameters, benefits qualifying occasions, eligibility monitoring, while participation. Assigned Wage Types: FSAs, savings plans, insurance plans, and health plans. Established combined contribution caps, FSA general information, employer contribution variant, grouping, and rule.
  • Worked on year-end activities, updating the payroll schema, and developing custom rules for specific gross-up wage kinds, as well as the payroll schema, which included taxes, benefits, and employee garnishments.
  • Worked extensively in extracting the payroll information from clusters and info-types. Wide experience in testing payroll, OM, PA, and benefits. Experience in creating and modifying pay slips.
  • Thorough knowledge of GL errors and GL configuration change requests.
  • Troubleshot issues with employee data entry, pay calculations or other HR and payroll related topics.
  • Awarded 'Associate of the Quarter' three times in a row in Quarterly Rewards and Recognition.
  • Collaborated with business analysts and other developers to identify gaps and simplify the user experience.
  • User-oriented thinking and easily adaptable to the client's culture.
  • Defect tracking, retesting, and root cause analysis.
  • Conducted recreational activities for the team on a weekly basis.

Full Stack Web Developer Intern

Uniworld Studios
06.2020 - 03.2021
  • Developed responsive and dynamic user interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, NodeJs, Angular and Bootstrap.
  • Built and maintained full stack web applications using Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and SQL.
  • Integrated third-party services such as payment gateways, OAuth2 authentication, and other external APIs.
  • Designed and optimized relational databases (MySQL), writing complex SQL queries for efficient data retrieval.
  • Collaborated in the development and maintenance of user-centric, cross-browser compatible websites.
  • Utilized tools like Adobe XD, and Canva for UI/UX design and digital content creation.
  • Revamped existing websites to enhance UX/UI, improve page load speed, and boost SEO performance.
  • Developed some personal projects showcasing skills in frontend and backend hosted on GitHub.
  • Familiar with Agile methodologies, version control (Git/GitHub), and CI/CD pipelines.

Cloud Computing Intern

GoOffer Hyperlocal
07.2019 - 11.2019
  • Configured and launched Amazon EC2 instances to host scalable web applications.
  • Implemented AWS Lambda functions triggered by S3 events for serverless data processing.
  • Applied newly acquired cloud computing skills to automate tasks and improve operational efficiency.
  • Performed configuration, management, and deployment in AWS, enhancing system reliability.

Education

Master of Science - Business Analytics

University of North Texas
Denton, TX
05-2025

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

KL University
Vijayawada, India
05-2020

Skills

  • Languages - Python, Java, C, SQL, R, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
  • Frameworks - SpringBoot, Angular7, NodeJs, Android, Bootstrap
  • Databases - MySQL, DB2, NoSQL, MongoDB, HDFS, Hadoop, DynamoDB
  • CloudComputing - MicrosoftAzure, AWS, GoogleCloud
  • ERP - SAP, CRM - Siebel
  • Tools/IDEs - Git, VisualStudioCode, Slack

Academic Projects

  • Block level data-deduplication and security using convergent encryption - Implemented cloud storage optimization using data deduplication techniques and evaluated encryption methods to enhance storage efficiency and data security. Published in IEEE.
  • Shipment costs analysis and forecasting - Conducted shipment cost analysis and forecasting using Python for data processing and modeling, and performed visual analysis using Tableau to identify cost drivers and optimize logistics decisions.
  • Analyzing the impact of economic indicators on sustainable development goals - Analyzed the World Bank Projects & Operations dataset using Python and machine learning to uncover trends in global development financing.

Timeline

Associate Functional Consultant

ADP
04.2021 - 07.2023

Full Stack Web Developer Intern

Uniworld Studios
06.2020 - 03.2021

Cloud Computing Intern

GoOffer Hyperlocal
07.2019 - 11.2019

Master of Science - Business Analytics

University of North Texas

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

KL University

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