Abhishek Gupta
Workday HCM Lead
New Delhi
Summary
A technology leader of astute commercial sense with over 18 years of
successful experience in implementing large-scale, global, full lifecycle projects in ERP HCM technologies such as Workday, PeopleSoft etc.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Workday Consultant
NatWest Group (erstwhile Royal Bank of Scotland)
Gurugram
2017.09 - Current
- Functional Subject Matter Expert for Workday HCM Core and Talent Acquisition area.
- Good exposure to Workday Compensation and Talent functional areas.
- HRIS Talent Acquisition point of contact to provide business support and help in business challenges.
- Collaborated with Workday implementation partner in implementing Workday HCM Core module.
- Currently working in a major HR transformation project to revamp recruiting processes.
- Worked on Workday health and performance projects to reduce user dependency on administrators, remove unnecessary touch points and approvals, resolve data risks, improve business process efficiency and retrofit configuration for deprecated fields.
- Played a pivotal role towards the implementation of Workday Org Studio, Workday Assistant, Skills Cloud, Talent Marketplace, Consolidated Template, Workday Docs and other exciting new features of Workday.
- Analyzed legacy systems, features, implementations and recommended enhancements to solve business needs.
- Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with bank's business goals.
- Facilitate and advise on the evaluation and selection of HR technology systems and enhancements, and lead proof-of-values/concepts (POV/POC) to prove out solution viability from both a technical and business perspective.
- Work with Talent leadership team and other various stakeholders to brainstorm new initiatives and building prototypes for the potential solutions on improving operational and program efficiencies and effectiveness to steer overall talent development strategies.
- Solve complex HR service cases and incidents.
- Collaborate with Solution Designers to review all HRIS designs at Design Control Board.
- Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.
- Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
Systems Analyst & PeopleSoft HCM Consultant
Royal Bank of Scoltand Group
Gurugram
2010.02 - 2017.08
- Provided PeopleSoft Recruiting functional expertise to internal HRIS team, consultants, Business Analysts, Business Support Teams.
- Developed and implemented configurations of PeopleSoft Core HCM, Talent Acquisition Manager, Candidate Gateway, Benefit Administration and Performance modules.
- Implemented PeopleSoft HCM 9.1, 9.0, 8.9 and 8.8 applications for 70k plus workforce in more than 22 countries.
- Replaced existing resourcing applications with new recruitment solutions of PeopleSoft HCM 9.1. This project involved in depth analysis of existing system, developing new designs for third
party integration with PeopleSoft Talent Acquisition Manager and Candidate Gateway modules, providing security solutions and designs. - Worked on GDPR project to meet regulatory requirements of purge and data retention of job applications, candidates, assessments and terminated employees.
- Identified data , process flow and integration points, articulated modification risks and barriers and recommended project approaches.
- PeopleSoft Application and PeopleTools Upgrade pre-planning with business team to re-access current configuration of noted modules and correct any issues that would pose as major obstacles during the upgrade. Identify impacts to system configurations, integrated systems and existing internal and external interfaces.
- System Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Support of customizations using People Tools, People Code, Application Engine, Component Interface, Application Packages, Integration Broker, SQR, PS Query, Tree Manager etc.
PeopleSoft HCM Consultant
Oracle Corporation
Bangalore
2006.11 - 2010.02
- Represented Oracle at various client sites globally (viz. Daimler AG Germany, FedEx Belgium, Royal Bank of Scotland UK, Morrison's UK) and conducted discovery sessions with prospective customers to understand business challenges and objectives.
- Techno-Functional Lead for a wide array of complex PeopleSoft HR projects ranging from development, reimplementation, upgrades to support.
- Upgrade pre-planning with functional team to reassess current configuration of noted modules and correct any issues that would pose as major obstacles during the upgrade.
- Implementation of the various HCM products e.g. Time and Labor,
ePerformance, eRecruitment, Absence Management, Core HRMS, Enterprise Portal 8.9. - Extensively worked on sub-set of activities like User requirement gathering, Fit-Gap analysis, Work Scope creation, Design, Development, Reports & Interfaces, Data conversion, Configuration Management & Object migration, PS Security, Retrofitting, Testing (Test Plan, Test cases, Unit & System testing, UAT support), Production support and Business process/design documentations.
- Technical Expertise in PeopleSoft Development and Integrations tools which includes Application designer, Application Engine, Integration Broker & Web Services, Portal Structure and Content, Portal Pagelets, Data Mover, Process Scheduler, Workflows, File Layouts, Application packages, Component Interface.
Associate Consultant
i-flex Solutions
Bangalore
2004.11 - 2006.11
- Citibank Japan – PeopleSoft Data Warehouse System - EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) 8.8 implementation
- State Street Bank Milan – Data Warehouse project – PL/SQL and UNIX technology
- Requirement gathering, design, and development in an SDLC. Plan, prepare and execute integration testing, functional, unit testing.
- Worked on SQL Loader, Data Mover for the data preparation and ETL.
- Analyzed data to coordinate installation of new systems or modification of existing systems.
- Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.
- Provided guidance and mentored less-experienced staff members.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Government Engineering College Ajmer India
University Of Rajasthan09.2004
Skills
- Workday HCM Core
- Workday Recruiting
- Workday Compensation
- Workday Talent
- Workday Security
- Workday Reporting
- Workday Integrations
- HR Processes
- PeopleSoft HCM
- Oracle SQL
- Agile Scrum
Accomplishments
- Chosen in top 5% of high potential performers of bank through Talent Academy program.
- Selected for bank wide 28 member Colleague Advisory Panel, directly interacting with board directors.
- Living Our Value recognition at NatWest.
- Active participation in community development initiatives.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Professional Scrum Product Owner
- Human Resources Foundation
- HR and Digital Transformation
- DevOps Foundation
- RPA, AI and Cognitive Tech for Leaders
Timeline
Senior Workday Consultant
NatWest Group (erstwhile Royal Bank of Scotland)
2017.09 - Current
Systems Analyst & PeopleSoft HCM Consultant
Royal Bank of Scoltand Group
2010.02 - 2017.08
PeopleSoft HCM Consultant
Oracle Corporation
2006.11 - 2010.02
Associate Consultant
i-flex Solutions
2004.11 - 2006.11
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Government Engineering College Ajmer India
- Certified Scrum Master
- Professional Scrum Product Owner
- Human Resources Foundation
- HR and Digital Transformation
- DevOps Foundation
- RPA, AI and Cognitive Tech for Leaders
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