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Pete Kumar

Pete Kumar

Berlin,GERMANY

Summary

Customer-driven Principal Consultant offering expertise in Workday HCM, Financials & Integrations for clients in the US-UK & EU from the past 5 (five) years and around 12 years of overall experience in the HRIS/HRIT domain. As an EU Blue Card holder I have the flexibility to consult and implement HR Solutions for customers that are looking for collaboration across their People and Places functions - across regions. Being part of organizations where I have influenced the thinking around their people processes and systems, resulting in direct impact on employee experience has been my true highlight. Knowledgeable about developing and implementing successful HR &
Financial solutions that drive productivity and growth. I provide full
Workday support including daily requests, tasks, system upgrades,
automation, new implementations and integrations all with the creativity
and autonomy to do what I know works best– basically, I am a geek!

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Solution Architect (Workday)

N26 GmBH
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Serve as first point of contact for all Workday, ServiceNow and global Payroll HRIS related matters and recommend solutions for improvements
  • Mentor and innovatively coach the global team to develop expertise and drive process and configuration excellence
  • Effectively work with the team to prioritize work and establish a strong partnership with HR Technology Strategy and IT to ensure clear governance in how value is delivered to the end users with the goal of providing an amazing employee experience
  • Thinking about quality of business processes as well as data quality and integrity by ensuring a regular audit cadence in coordination with the People Analytics team
  • Collaborating with the HR Technology Strategy leader to ensure a clear 3 year roadmap is outlined, prioritized and executed across all
  • HRIS tools
  • Actively identify & resolve issues or opportunities for enhanced user experience and other HRIS integrations
  • Develop, document, and maintain all current and new HRIS business process workflows for efficiency and compliance
  • Partner with cross-functional team members and IT team members on HRIS related issues/enhancements/queries
  • Collaborate with HR Operations team and provide Tier 1&2 support for Workday and other HR matters via the ServiceNow scoped application for HR
  • People Analytics - Prism| Adaptive Insights - Culture Amp

Workday Solutions Architect

Bookings.Com
08.2020 - 01.2021
  • Work with COEs to translate business needs into projects, including prioritization, scheduling, and resource planning
  • Manage staffing and maintaining a best-in-class HRIS tea
  • Booking.com - Solution Architect (Workday HCM & Financials, Implement Workday Benefits, Security Redesign for Booking &
  • Transport Companies for entire EU
  • Developed company best practices, reporting guidelines, and custom reporting roles to enforce better data governance and data integrity and ensure a consistent product and delightful user experience for all
  • Created and Designed new Benefit Plans for US entities and non- financial rewards for EU & UK entities
  • Provide techno/functional support for Workday, managing ongoing configuration & maintenance

Principal Integration Consultant

Cloudreach B.V
11.2019 - 08.2020
  • Implemented Workday Recruiting and Workday Learning module single-handedly for the entire organization
  • Worked with HR leadership teams (HR, IT, Payroll, Benefits,
  • Compensation and recruiting) to effectively identify the gaps and streamlined HR processes and use technology to implement solutions systematically by Workday HCM solution Implementation
  • Responsible for overall solution design, build, test and deployment of complex business processes and Workday HR functionality
  • Owned integration related enhancements, fixes and implementation of new vendor integrations
  • Supported interfaces with several systems and issue resolution to ensure data integrity across platforms, vendors and downstream systems with people data in Workday
  • Post Go-Live Support of Workday Financials and HCM module

Principal Consultant

Google Inc
03.2019 - 10.2019
  • Responsible for implementation of Workday’s UK Payroll and Time
  • Tracking & Absence solutions for Fitbit utilizing the Workday
  • Implementation Methodology to get them live in production on time and within budget
  • Responsible for Workday HCM Support and new workstream rollout (Time Off for 27 countries, Learning), Global Benefits, Advance
  • Compensation & Integrations (Core Connectors, CCB, BIRT)
  • Working to capture requirements and extend Workday applications to meet Fitbit's agile business needs
  • Developed Reporting and Dashboards using various combinations of calc-fields to derive raw company data for tracking improvements in organizational efficiency.

Sr. Consultant - Workday

Pure Storage, HCM
11.2018 - 03.2019
  • Responsible for supporting Workday's Payroll, Absence and Time tracking solution, including understanding client business
  • GLOBAL PRESENCE
  • Implemented Workday solution for global clients with onsite visits to Paris (France),
  • Netherlands, Brussels (Belgium) and Berlin

Sr HRIS Analyst

A10 Networks Inc, Workday HCM
04.2018 - 11.2018
  • 01860256) requirements and configuration, and working with client to meet all future-focused needs within Workday
  • Processed and reviewed accuracy of all payroll data and resolve discrepancies and unusual transactions
  • This included but not limited to employee data, taxes, garnishments, new hires, terminations, leave of absence, PTO accrual, time cards, and Expats transactions, Provide ongoing administration, technical expertise and support for
  • Workday HCM related to business process configuration, reporting, security and design, Integration issues (XSLT, REST, SOAP web services) while acting as the primary link between the business requirements and underlying capability of the Workday modules, ensuring that the solutions that are delivered are robust, efficient and provide the maximum possible value to the business
  • Rolled out Performance Management process for the entire organization in Workday
  • Rolled out Bonus & Merit Process within Workday for the entire
  • Organization and created BIRT letters in Report Designer
  • Designed and implemented Request Framework within Workday HCM as an internal approval tool.

Sr. HRIS Consultant

Workday Inc
11.2017 - 04.2018
  • Responsible for implementation of Workday’s Payroll (US) for an employee headcount of 50,000 employees
  • Designed and configured Payroll Command Center for all Payroll functions (Offcycles, Retroactive Accounting, One-time/Lump Sum
  • Payment and Additional Payroll processing for GLs)
  • Lead the research and implementation of Affordable Care Act reporting and compliance, meeting all new reporting guidelines for the 2016 tax year
  • Wrote and maintained payroll and Workday procedures resulting in more consistent and error-free payroll processing.

Sr. HRIS Analyst - Workday HCM

Belden Inc
10.2010 - 10.2017
  • Functional Lead on the core Workday 25 implementation team for
  • HCM, Payroll (UK), Business Process Configuration, Security
  • Administration and Report Administration in addition to being the
  • Workday Training Coordinator and Community Group Administrator
  • Solely responsible for compiling and submitting all Workday data conversion workbooks, including history, for 1800+ workers globally in the US, EMEA and APAC ; met all milestone deliverables and deadlines over a very condensed implementation window of eight (8) months
  • Prepared Expats and relocation gross up data sheet for tax purposes
  • Configured setting up new earning and deduction codes in WD and do the GL Mapping as and when needed
  • Assisted Belden migrate from SAP Payroll (US/UK) to Workday
  • Payroll

Education

Business Administration

Harvard Business School

MBA - Information Systems Management

Aspen University

Bacherlors - Arts, Managerial Economics & English Literature

University of Delhi
2005

Skills

  • Dashboards Worklets
  • Workday Financials
  • Procure to Pay
  • Spend Categories
  • Expenses
  • Financial Accounting
  • Integrations
  • Core Connectors Document
  • Transformation (New and Custom)
  • Workday Studio BIRT Assembly
  • Data Sets
  • EIB Outbound Boomerang
  • Custom Object Inbound SSO
  • Program management
  • Project coordination
  • Vendor Management
  • ATS Management
  • Jobvite Greenhouse
  • PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
  • Customer-driven Principal Consultant offering expertise in Workday HCM,
  • Financials & Integrations for clients in the US-UK & EU from the past 5 (five)
  • Years and around 12 years of overall experience in the HRIS/HRIT domain As an
  • EU Blue Card holder I have the flexibility to consult and implement HR
  • Solutions for customers that are looking for collaboration across their People
  • And Places functions - across regions Being part of organizations where I have
  • Influenced the thinking around their people processes and systems, resulting in
  • Direct impact on employee experience has been my true highlight
  • Knowledgeable about developing and implementing successful HR &
  • Financial solutions that drive productivity and growth I provide full
  • Workday support including daily requests, tasks, system upgrades,
  • Automation, new implementations and integrations all with the creativity
  • And autonomy to do what I know works best– basically, I am a geek

Accomplishments

  • Written 9 articles on Workday
  • Optimization - Frequent blogger on Workday community & Dashboard Bay (Weekly journal - Prague (Czech Republic))

Certification

Workday HCM - Absence | Time Off | LOA - Net Payroll (UK) - Benefits | Open Enrollment | - Advance Compensation - Core Compensation - Learning - Business Processes - Reporting | Calculated Fields

Affiliations

Member, PIHRA –Santa Clara Chapter (License ID: 53695225) Member , SHRM –NorCal#759 Chapter

Languages

English
Full Professional
German
Limited Working
French
Limited Working
Spanish
Limited Working

Timeline

Solution Architect (Workday)

N26 GmBH
01.2021 - 04.2022

Workday Solutions Architect

Bookings.Com
08.2020 - 01.2021

Principal Integration Consultant

Cloudreach B.V
11.2019 - 08.2020

Principal Consultant

Google Inc
03.2019 - 10.2019

Sr. Consultant - Workday

Pure Storage, HCM
11.2018 - 03.2019

Sr HRIS Analyst

A10 Networks Inc, Workday HCM
04.2018 - 11.2018

Sr. HRIS Consultant

Workday Inc
11.2017 - 04.2018

Sr. HRIS Analyst - Workday HCM

Belden Inc
10.2010 - 10.2017

Business Administration

Harvard Business School

MBA - Information Systems Management

Aspen University

Bacherlors - Arts, Managerial Economics & English Literature

University of Delhi

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