Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

Sahithya Reddy Guda

Summary

IT professional with 6+ years of experience as Workday functional consultant and experienced in requirement gathering, end to end configuration, testing and deployment. Expertise in working on various modules such as Core HCM, Recruiting, Security, Talent and Performance management and Reporting.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Specialist Business Analyst

Unisys Corporation
06.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for setting up Talent and Performance related setup to ensure seamless process flow
  • Experienced in configuring and testing of year end and mid-year performance process
  • Configured employee review templates, review sections, organizational goals and mass archiving of goals required for Talent and Performance setup
  • Developed Team Performance dashboard for the managers to support AMP initiative
  • Align with MAP project plan to ensure process timelines are met
  • Supported Goal Setting, Employee Review processes, facilitate calibration as part MAP Process
  • Updated custom reports related to employee review, talent review and calibration processes
  • Developed different types of custom reports such as simple, advanced, matrix reports with complex calculated fields
  • Hands on experience in Mass Operation management process
  • Configured announcement and enabled guided tour as replacement for Walkme
  • Ensure closing in-progress feedback requests of previous years
  • Configured end to end probation setup and probation review process
  • Supported Core HCM, Compensation, Time, and absence related break fixes
  • Responsible for break fix and BAU/maintenance requests, regression testing of mandatory features as part of workday releases
  • Presented Talent and Performance related functionalities like Career hub, Manager Insights hub, Opportunity graph, Check-ins to the business owners
  • Worked on domain and business process security policy changes as per the business requirements
  • Worked on creating custom objects and custom object validations
  • Supported in creating custom report as input to MAP AI Assistant project.

Workday Consultant

Futuremindz LLC
07.2023 - 05.2023
  • Worked in all phases of Workday implementation and support after go-live namely - requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment
  • Created new business processes and notifications required based on designed process flow diagrams
  • Responsible for creation of supervisory organizations, custom organizations, region hierarchies, cost centers, cost center hierarchies, and location hierarchies' maintenance, and modification of Workday business processes and definitions
  • Supported Workday HCM System Testing, End-to-End testing, and UAT through phased rollout of Workday across the organization
  • Created test scenarios for testing all in scope many Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Probation and Employee contracts, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc
  • Worked on EIB's to load new data and update the existing data
  • Configured Workday security role required and grant domains security/business process policy security related access to ensure required level of confidentially and segregation of duties
  • Assign security roles assignments using EIB
  • Developed different types of custom reports such as simple, advanced, matrix reports with complex calculated fields
  • Identify, recommend, and track opportunities for process and operational improvements
  • Configured and tested Goal setting, Employee Reviews, Feedback templates in Workday Performance and Development.

Workday Analyst

Tech Mahindra
06.2016 - 12.2019
  • Worked on Workday HCM, recruiting related configurations by collaborating with other workstreams to maintain a cohesive and effective support team
  • Worked closely with all Workday Leads, product managers and business stakeholders as needed to configure and support Workday HCM (as well as other workstreams)
  • Responsible for requirement gathering and creating advanced custom reports, calculated fields
  • Configured/scheduled custom reports and alerts on a recurring basis as needed
  • Assist with ongoing day to day Workday Talent and Performance Support
  • Responsible for maintenance and setup configuration (creation of job profiles, cost centers, cost centers, locations, location hierarchies, supervisory organization etc.) of HCM elements in Workday by working with business subject matter experts Leads and participates in cross-functional project teams to provide and implement effective system solutions
  • Worked on several security groups in creating, modifying, and assigning as per requirement
  • Created new security groups and roles as needed
  • Also worked on domain and business process security policy changes as per the business requirements
  • Research and understand release impact against current state system
  • Proactively remain informed about Workday releases (bi-annual release items)
  • Experienced configuring business process definition and notifications during process flow steps, such as action, review, approval, approval chain and checklist, route to respective security groups
  • Created step conditions and advanced routing as per requirements.

Education

Masters in Computer Science -

Lamar University
Beaumont, TX
05.2022

Skills

  • Workday Modules: Core HCM, Recruiting, Talent and Performance
  • Reporting Software: WD Report writer
  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Timeline

Workday Consultant

Futuremindz LLC
07.2023 - 05.2023

Specialist Business Analyst

Unisys Corporation
06.2023 - Current

Workday Analyst

Tech Mahindra
06.2016 - 12.2019

Masters in Computer Science -

Lamar University
Sahithya Reddy Guda