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Suman Kumar

Work HCM consultant
Edison,NJ

Summary

Summary of Experience: Over 15 years of experience in HRIS and with over 8+ years of experiences in implementing, configuring, analyzing, customizing, reporting, and administering Workday HCM Cloud applications. Supported the implementation of a new client on the workday platform by defining, documenting, and testing functional business processes including Core configuration, Staffing, Recruiting, Time Tracking, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation modules Experience in implementing Recruiting, On-boarding, compensation, performance & absence modules. Experienced and clear understanding on staffing Models with hiring restrictions in Job Management, Position Management and Head Count Management Experience in configuring Business processes, Flow diagrams, creating calculated fields, Custom Reports, Xpresso Reports, and BIRT reports Knowledge to Design business flow diagrams and processes, which included processes in Staffing, job benefits, compensation grades and packages. Modified customized Hire, Change Job, Request Compensation Change business processes to include executive management ‘send back’ notifications. Experience in understanding client business requirements, configure the Workday solution, configurations through the development of prototype systems, and testing the Workday solution Experience in all phases of the Workday implementation lifecycle - Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development and Testing Proficient in Workday transactions with responsibilities to configure and maintain Supervisory organizations, Staffing Models, Company, Locations, Cost Centers, Positions, Job Profiles, Compensation Grades and Plans, Benefit Plans, Payroll calculation Experienced in developing Custom Reports, Advanced Reports, composite Reports, Matrix Reports, Calculated fields, Creating Dashboards and setting up the worklets in workday. Workday Reporting, Advance Reporting and Business Process Configuration. Created Workday reports via Workday Report Writer for inbound/outbound integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB). Experienced in Workday Simple/Advanced/Matrix reports using calculated Fields, modify/troubleshoot existing custom reports. Skilled in assigning Security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially. Research existing functionality for fit-gap analysis for new HCM requirements. Experience in Functional Requirement Analysis, Gap Analysis, Production Support, Training Business Users, Testing, and Documentation. Research existing functionality for fit-gap analysis for new HCM requirements. Assisted in System Integration, Regression, Performance and End-to-end testing of the Workday Applications. Been responsible for the day-to- day HR systems support as well as implementing planned system enhancements in Workday Human Capital Management. Experienced on Workday system Updates. Provided HRIS support to HR, Finance and Payroll colleagues and end-user population. Good exposure to software development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodologies like AGILE, SCRUM. Good Working Knowledge on Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, SQL, SSIS, SS Reporting services, and Tableau. Effective team player and excellent communication skills with insight to determine priorities, schedule work and meet critical deadlines.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Report Writer

  • Developer and helped HR partners to develop reports in Workday
  • Primarily focused in developing complex custom reports and creating calculated fields
  • Created more than 200 Custom Reports for client using Report Writer tool provided by Workday
  • Expertise in building advanced, matrix and composite custom reports and through understanding of Workday data sources, which plays a key role to get desired output for a report
  • Building reports in different functional areas such as Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence Management, and New Hires
  • Created custom reports for integrations team which are used as an input to build different integrations such as EIB, Core Connectors and Studio
  • Understanding PeopleSoft reports, conditions and using these conditions to create custom reports in Workday
  • Frequently used filter, sub filters and prompts tab to get desired report output while creating custom reports in Workday
  • Optimizing report performance by eliminating unnecessary calculated fields in the report
  • Moving custom reports within different Workday application tenants and validated data for all tenants
  • Scheduled custom reports and developed alerts for custom reports created
  • Built various calculated fields using functions Lookup Related value, Evaluate Expression, True/False Conditions, Extract single and multi-instances and Formatting date, text and number calculated fields
  • Primary focus is to understand how reports are created in PeopleSoft and create reports in Workday with optimized results
  • Understanding Workday data sources, business objects and related business objects which play a significant role in developing custom reports in Workday
  • Thorough understanding of calculated fields and efficiently using calculated fields in custom reports to enhance report performance
  • In depth experience in bringing report fields to single business object using multiple calculated fields
  • Scheduled Custom reports to run Weekly, Bi-Weekly and Monthly based on requirement
  • Used solution migration to move reports from Gold to Production tenant
  • Configured Workday tenant to meet each client's unique business requirements
  • Understand complex business processes, requirements and rapidly find robust and innovative development solutions respecting systems architecture
  • Involved in data validations while loading data from PeopleSoft to Workday
  • Involved in Go-Live process of Workday
  • Involved in QA/ UAT Testing of reports and helped client to determine errors before going live
  • Helped client in understanding custom reports and participated in knowledge transfer sessions with HR partners by educating and showing step by step procedure to follow and develop custom reports
  • Environment: Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Report Writer, BP configurations, iLoads, XML, XSLT, XSD, SOAP, Web Services, HTML, Excel, SQL, Eclipse, Java, J2EE
  • Experience prior to Jan 2017

Workday HCM & Reports Consultant

Capital One
09.2021 - Current
  • Core HCM, Recruiting, Benefits & Reporting
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Working in the HR Technology and Services area for designing and building Workday Custom reports
  • Involved in Requirement Gathering, Design, Configuration, Development, Enhancement, Migration, Conversion, Upgrade, Support and Testing of Workday HCM ERP Applications
  • Involved in HR processes such as recruiting, Hiring, offer letters, employee record maintenance, payroll, Benefits, Training, Pay Planning, Performance Management/Talent Management, Applicant Tracking / On-boarding, Manager / Employee self-service etc
  • Involved in creating and developing the Workday Organization Structure, Hierarchies, Business Processes, Calculated Fields, Compensation grade profiles, salary plans, Allowance plans, Eligibility Rules, and Base Comp Packages, Inbound and Outbound EIB’s
  • And also, in configuration of Security, Business Processes and Integration with other modules
  • During the implementation process, I have Develop and maintain simple to complex custom Workday reports (Advanced, Matrix, Trending, Transposed and Composite) using Workday Report Writer and Report Designer
  • Create and maintain standardized, real-time dashboards to display key metrics and insights for HR and business leaders in a visually appealing manner
  • Provide support for Workday HRIS application, including researching and resolving problems, unexpected results or process flaws; performing scheduled activities; recommending solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements
  • Served as a Workday support specialist troubleshooting open support tickets in all HCM modules including advanced compensation, benefits absence, and time tracking
  • Reviewed functionality options and identified areas of improvement for existing business processes
  • Troubleshoot and resolve Workday tickets, ensuring timely responses and quality solution documentation
  • Collaborate with business partners to capture and document requirements for Workday reporting enhancements and fixes
  • Continually look for ways to improve regular delivery of standard analysis/reporting through automation, streamlining, and Workday reporting
  • Integral in creating Workday reports via Workday Report Writer for inbound/outbound integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
  • Environment: Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Report Writer, BP configurations, iLoads, XML, XSLT, XSD, SOAP, Web Services, HTML, Excel, SQL, Eclipse, Java, J2EE

Workday Core HCM Consultant

SunTrust Bank
Atlanta, GA
07.2018 - 08.2021
  • Analyzed client’s HR business needs through client working sessions and supported development of new business processes and a future state design
  • Responsible for integrations that send non-secure data to consuming applications within the company via DIME (ETL application)
  • Hands on Workday systems integration experience building custom integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation
  • Participate in the discovery sessions with client and vendors, create the design and mapping documents and submit the same for sign off
  • Involved in data conversion from legacy system and creation of iload files
  • Creating the new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams
  • Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues
  • Creating the new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams
  • Involved in the design phase and prototyping for further discussions with the client
  • Experienced to work with Workday Report Writer and creating custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
  • Created new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation, which uses connector integrations XML Output as its data source input
  • Used delivered ETV/XTT functions from a Custom XSLT file to transform the content into a CSV file format
  • Used sequence generators, generating templates and validating inbound integration system results
  • Created and used calculated fields in reporting, business processes, integrations and other areas within Workday
  • Involved in Data Conversion, Workday BP Configuration
  • Designed and developed a set of integrations to integrate Workday HR with Recruiting system
  • Environment: Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Report Writer, BP configurations, iLoads, XML, XSLT, XSD, SOAP, Web Services, HTML, Excel, SQL, Eclipse, Java, J2EE

Workday Report Writer Developer

Aruba Networks
Sunnyvale, CA
01.2017 - 06.2018
  • Aruba is a networking vendor selling enterprise wireless LAN and edge access networking equipment
  • The company has over 1,800 employees and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California
  • Aruba's core products are access points (APs), mobility controllers, and network management software through their Airwave Management Platform product
  • Responsibilities

HRIS Consultant

ICONMA, Hyderabad
, NJ
01.2012 - 01.2016

Resource Deployment Executive

Integration International Inc
Pune
01.2008 - 07.2010

Sr. Technical Recruiter / Accounts Manager

American IT Resource Group Inc
Chennai
07.2007 - 01.2008

Education

MBA - undefined

KAKATIYA University PG College
2005

BCA - undefined

KAKATIYA University (CAMPUS College)
2003

Skills

  • Workday Skills:
  • Workday Modules: Core HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Staffing, Recruiting, Payroll, Security Groups, Absence Management, Performance, Recruiting, Talent Management and Time Tracking
  • Workday Process: Organizational Setup, configurable Security setup, Tenant setup, Custom field mapping , and system process designs and customized specific roles based on requirements
  • Recruiting processes: Recruiting, Hiring, employee record maintenance, payroll, Benefits, Training, Pay
  • Planning, Performance Management / Talent Management, Applicant Tracking / On-boarding, Manager / Employee self-service etc
  • Workday Reports: Report Writer (Advanced, Simple, Matrix, Transpose and Composite), Creating Custom
  • Object, Calculated Fields and Custom Advance Reports for both HCM and Financials Management, BRIT Reporting, Workday Studio
  • Workday Workflows: Workflow Application, Creating Workflow Maps, Defining Roles and Role Users, and Testing workflow
  • Ticketing Tools: JIRA, ServiceNow, Quality Center

Work Preference

Work Type

Contract WorkFull TimePart Time

Work Location

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany Culture

Timeline

Workday HCM & Reports Consultant

Capital One
09.2021 - Current

Workday Core HCM Consultant

SunTrust Bank
07.2018 - 08.2021

Workday Report Writer Developer

Aruba Networks
01.2017 - 06.2018

HRIS Consultant

ICONMA, Hyderabad
01.2012 - 01.2016

Resource Deployment Executive

Integration International Inc
01.2008 - 07.2010

Sr. Technical Recruiter / Accounts Manager

American IT Resource Group Inc
07.2007 - 01.2008

MBA - undefined

KAKATIYA University PG College

BCA - undefined

KAKATIYA University (CAMPUS College)

Report Writer

Suman KumarWork HCM consultant