Ravi Kandula
Irving,US
Summary
Accomplished Workday Consultant with a proven track record at CGI, adept in implementing and managing Workday HCM modules, enhancing HR operations, and ensuring compliance. Demonstrates exceptional leadership and analytical skills, significantly streamlining talent acquisition and performance management processes. Skilled in project management and teamwork, consistently delivering results that exceed client expectations.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Workday Consultant
CGI Technologies
05.2022 - Current
- Implemented Workday HCM for various clients, ensuring all HR transactions and data are accurately stored and processed within the HRIS system.
- Collaborated with clients and cross-functional teams to configure Workday HCM in compliance with HR laws and regulations.
- Managed the Workday Benefits module to administer and track employee benefits across the organization.
- Implemented Workday Recruiting and Talent Management modules for clients, streamlining the talent acquisition process and onboarding.
- Oversaw Workday Performance Management module implementation for clients, ensuring accurate performance tracking and evaluation.
- Implemented and Managing Workday Learning management module for clients, providing employees access to relevant training and development programs.
Senior Analyst- Workday
DXC Technology
09.2020 - 01.2022
- Manages company HCM system and business process configurations, system and data maintenance, and content management; supporting data integrations and system authentication, security compliance and resolution for high impact issues.
- Serves as a functional and operational point of contact for all HRBPs, HR Admins and recruiters for Workday and HR issues. Ensuring data integrity and quality assurance by developing and communicating
best practices to company users. - Overseeing the integration and implementation of HR technology; Maintains, updates, and tests system integrations with other departments and external vendors. Developing and generating reports and presentations containing insightful analytics to key business stakeholders.
- Consulting with HR, IT and external business stakeholders on technology issues, business requirements, and user adoption, to manage system related projects, including system releases/upgrades, enhancement packages, and process redesign.
- Reviewing and updating the narratives that outline key SOX controls, responding to audit and RFP requests, preparing sample documentation for walkthrough and testing, and ensuring SOX compliance for HRIS processes;
- Writing and updating standard operating procedures; Custom business process configuration and maintenance for all modules and Security.
- Serving as a subject matter expert and resource to system users and external business units; Performing company-wide special projects as assigned.
Workday Consultant
Cloudevops EU
06.2019 - 08.2020
- Managing Data conversions, HR and Compensation related Custom Reports, Security Management, Business Process configuration and configuring the application according to customer requirements and
developing system Integration. - Hands on Workday systems integration experience building custom integrations using Cloud Connectors, EIBs and Custom reports. Designed business flow diagrams and processes, which included processes in Staffing, job benefits, compensation grades and packages.
- Designed business flow diagrams and processes, which included processes in Staffing, job benefits, compensation grades and packages.
- Created Headcount reports for workers, locations, cost centers, Home departments, companies, Race and Gender, Supervisory organizations and management levels.
- Created global reports on weekly, quarterly, annually and on an ad-hoc basis to include turnover, terminations, active employees, cost center reports.
- Created annual/SOW budget reports and complex reports for auditing and senior management.
- Testing the new features in Workday for all the existing integrations in each upgrade and letting the users know about new features.
- Created reports on Worker Business process transactions, Staffing activities, Active Directory changes and Time off plans.
- Worked on day to day issues/tickets in Workday Active directory changes. Maintain the integrity of the global data stored in the HRIS system to ensure accuracy.
Workday Integration Developer
PVH Crop
11.2018 - 02.2019
- Working on different types of reports- Advanced, Composite etc
- EIB’s – outbound and inbound with custom transformation using XML, XSLT.
- Building Core Connectors- Worker.
- Assist team in implementation of Workday. Work with consulting partners on Conversion tasks, Integration tasks, Security tasks, and Reporting tasks.
- Custom Transformations and Configuring Document Delivery to the SFTP Location
- Developed Workday Custom Reports and utilized Report as a Service (RaaS) ability to use in integrations.
- Used my expertise to design an efficient solution for a complex Workday Studio integration which retrieves data from multiple Business Objects.
Workday Consultant
NTT Data Global Delivery Services
09.2017 - 11.2018
- Developed complex integrations using Studio, EIB, Web Services SOAP, WSDL, XML, and XSLT Document Transformation for several integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems.
- Documentation of Workday processes, configurations and customizations with technical and functional details in the design documents for new interfaces.
- Generated different reports - Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports as per client needs.
- Designed, configured and automated business processes to enhance the current HCM application systems.
- Configured workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentiality and segregation of duties and also provided necessary security for ISU accounts.
- Developed complex studio integrations for compensation, demographics and payroll journals.
- Created reports that extract Workday data and manipulate the data in other formats for various needs.
- Involved developing, enhancing, implementing, and supporting different integrations for Asset Management, and Banking using different Workday applications such as EIB Outbound/Inbound, Core Connectors, Custom Reports, Calculated fields, Studio, XSLT and configurations.
- Designed Assets inbound studio integration from a file generated by the physical asset scanner into the tenant using Asset Edit Data web service and JSON query code for custom fields.
- Coordinated with project leaders, business users and vendors regarding the requirements needed to implement workday integrations – Tracking and assigning action items to the specific resource or BA
- Administration of AWS transfer for SFTP - creating new servers, S3 bucket, directories, user accounts, and maintaining ssh-RSA keys based on tenants and the users.
- Participated in Design Sessions, Kick-off meetings, and Strategy approach meetings.
Workday Consultant
AMK Technology
10.2016 - 09.2017
- Developed advanced custom reports for integration and data validation purposes.
- Day to day support on Workday HCM, Security, and Reporting issues.
- Worked as a Report Writer to create custom reports to meet the business needs of HR and integrations.
- Involved in the defect triage calls and integration defects fixing.
- Developed ADP custom integrations for Payroll Payments data in an XML format that includes most payroll data elements that a third-party check printing system or service may require. The outputs payment information based on field attributes, maps, and services configured and use the Payment Data Initialization Service for improved performance and additional configurability.
- Worked on Integrations across all functional areas like HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Recruitment, Compensation, Time, and Absence.
Software Engineer
Accenture Services
05.2013 - 10.2016
- Designed, configured and automated business processes to enhance the current application systems for HCM including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, etc.
- Tested the Core Connector: Worker (CCW) with the transactions in and beyond 90 days cases.
- Configured Workday core HR, time and pay structures, benefits, Absence Management, Compensation structure, and integrated talent management.
- Generated different kinds of reports - Simple, Advanced, and Matrix reports for client requirements within Workday.
- Experienced in setting up the scheduling of reports and understanding the required permissions to Workday functionality per client business requirements for new implementation initiatives.
- Worked with consulting partners on Conversion tasks, Integration tasks, Security tasks, and Reporting tasks.
- Developed reports with Workday Report Writer and created custom integrations with third-party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.
- Developed Core connector and Document Transformation integrations to get changes file of CSV format from XML.
- Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using iLoads and EIB.
- Developed various calculation fields on specific reports to extract the required data.
Education
Bachelor's - Aerounatical Engineering
Auroras Scentific And Technological Insititute
Hyderabad05.2013
Skills
- Time and Abscence
- Workday HCM
- Prioritization Skills
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Project management
- Workday Integrations
- Operations Management
- Workday Talent Management
- Workday Recruiting
Timeline
Senior Workday Consultant
CGI Technologies
05.2022 - Current
Senior Analyst- Workday
DXC Technology
09.2020 - 01.2022
Workday Consultant
Cloudevops EU
06.2019 - 08.2020
Workday Integration Developer
PVH Crop
11.2018 - 02.2019
Workday Consultant
NTT Data Global Delivery Services
09.2017 - 11.2018
Workday Consultant
AMK Technology
10.2016 - 09.2017
Software Engineer
Accenture Services
05.2013 - 10.2016
Bachelor's - Aerounatical Engineering
Auroras Scentific And Technological Insititute
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