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Biswabandhu Pal

Biswabandhu Pal

Head Of SAP HCM Competency
Kolkata

Summary

Biswabandhu Pal has extensive experience of 20+ Years in Practice Development, SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Implementation, Business Process Analysis, Project Management, Business Development, pre sales and Post Implementation support and worked as an SME in various projects. Also Certified in SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) and good hold in EC to ERP Integration. He has more than 15 Hands on implementation, support and roll out experience in SAP HR/ Payroll and SuccessFactors

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions. India
09.2014 - Current
  • Managing the HCM Competency Globally for SAP HCM, Payroll, SuccessFactors, and Concur. Managed large scale global Implementation program. Seasoned SAP Architect

Associate Consultant/ Senior Manager

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd. , India
03.2014

Senior Consultant/ Project Lead

Accenture Consulting, Singapore
10.2010 - 09.2013

Principle Consultant/ Manager

Price Water House Coopers, India
10.2005 - 10.2010

Production In charge

PepsiCo Inc. , India
02.2003 - 09.2005

Education

PHD Pursuing - HR And Finance

St. Xavier's University
Kolkata, India
07.2025

Executive Diploma - Human Resources Management

Xavier's Institute Of Management
Jamshedpur, India
04.2023

MBA - Marketing

IIEST
Kolkata, India
04.2001 -

Mechanical Engineering

Amravati University
Maharashtra
06.1998

Skills

Competency Management

Sapskillscertifications

  • Certified in SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • SuccessFactors EC Integration
  • SAP-HCM (Personnel Admin, Org Mgmt, Time (Positive and Negative)
  • SAP-Payroll
  • ESS/ MSS/ Performance Management
  • Travel Management
  • Cross Application Time Sheet
  • Learning Solution

Sapengagementhistory

  • Cognizant. Technology Solutions, 09/27/2014 - Present, Senior Manager, SF to ERP and Non-ERP system Integration, Germany, 09/20 - 01/22, 40+ Payroll and Non-Payroll system integration with SuccessFactors, Offshore, Managing the delivery of the project as Program Manager Onsite customer facing Managing the project – resource, cost, schedule, plan Ensure On time Project Delivery within Budget and Planned Resources Managing Risks, Issues and Escalations Managing Higher Management stakeholders and steering committee Update cost forecasting and resource forecasting Hands on Experience in SF EC and SAP HCM and Payroll configurations like Business Rules, Workflows, XMLs etc People Management
  • Cognizant. Technology Solutions, 03/20 - 08/20, Senior Manager, Concur Implementation for leading Chemicals Company, Netherlands, 03/20 - 08/20, Concur Roll out and Oracle Finance system integration, Offshore
  • Cognizant. Technology Solutions, 04/18 - 01/20, Senior Manager, SuccessFactors Implementation for Leading Paints and Chemicals Company, Netherlands, 04/18 - 01/20, Full suite SF Implementation for 70 countries and parallel two companies and 50+ systems integration, Onsite
  • Cognizant. Technology Solutions, 11/16 - 01/18, Senior Manager, SuccessFactors Implementation for Leading Chemicals Company, Saudi Arabia, 11/16 - 01/18, Full suite SF Implementation for 14 countries and parallel two companies and 10+ systems integration, Onsite
  • Cognizant. Technology Solutions, 07/15 - 09/16, Senior Manager, SAP HCM and Payroll Implementation, Saudi Arabia, 07/15 - 09/16, Complex Time Integration and Payroll Implementation, Onsite
  • Cognizant. Technology Solutions, 09/14 - 04/15, Senior Manager, SAP HCM and Payroll Implementation, India, 09/14 - 04/15, Complex Time Integration and Payroll Implementation, Onsite
  • TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., 03/26/2014 - 09/25/2014, Manager, US Company on Sound Systems, India, 04/02/2014 - 09/2014, Time Management Incident resolution in Time Evaluation and CATS space Incident resolution through ITSM tool Managing stakeholders Managing 3 resources in India and US Incident management and SLO
  • IBM Singapore Pte. Ltd., 09/16/2013 - 12/31/2013, Managing Consultant, Singapore’s Largest Govt. Healthcare, Singapore, 09/16/2013 - 12/31/2013, Managing the project – resource, cost, schedule, plan Effort estimate of the ECPs and change requests Managing a team of 18 members in Singapore and India Managing stakeholders and steering committee Update cost forecasting and resource forecasting Incident management and SLO
  • Accenture Pte. Ltd. Singapore, 10/20/2010 - 09/11/2013, Consultant, World’s one of Largest Cement Manufacturer, Philippines, 09/20/2012 - 09/10/2013, SME for Payroll/HR process Improvement Discussion with different stakeholders and find out the process improvement areas Provide short term and long term recommendations and Payroll Roadmap Provide financial analysis and cost benefit analysis Project management for Short and Long term implementation of Payroll- Philippines and Time Integration Project Manager and SME of SAP-Payroll, Time Management and ESS Implementation project worth 1 Million USD + Managing Project financials
  • Accenture Pte. Ltd. Singapore, 10/20/2010 - 09/11/2013, Consultant, World’s Leading Airlines Company, Singapore, 11/01/2010 - 04/10/2011, Project lead for Travel expense management Lead for functional and technical team Project plan build up and monitoring Preparing approach document and review Functional specification preparation and review Coordinate with offshore ABAP team Hands on configuration and review travel management configuration Integration of travel expense and payroll configuration Integration of travel expense and finance module Interfacing SAP with other non-SAP system Client expectation management Ensuring sign off and project milestone
  • Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC-India), 10/03/2005 - 10/18/2010, Manager, Leading glass manufacturing company, India, 02/2010 - 10/2010, Project Manager, Leading electronics and semiconductor company, India, 08/2009 - 01/2009, Project Manager/ SME, Heavy mechanical manufacturing company, India, 11/2008 - 07/2009, SAP-HCM/ Payroll SME, State Oil Corporation, Azerbaijan, 01/2007 - 09/2008, SAP-HR/ Payroll senior consultant, Construction / Manufacturing Company, Dubai, 09/2007 - 12/2007, Advisory Consultant, Leading Construction / Manufacturing company, India, 10/2006 - 07/2007, SAP-HCM/ Payroll/ ESS consultant, Leading Health care major, India, 10/2005 - 08/2006, SAP-HCM/ payroll/ ESS consultant

Experiencesnapshot

First POC for India and Middle East SuccessFactors practice, Resourcing of Offshore India and Middle East, Maintaining resource tracker and liaising with TAG team for hiring, Business development and lead for RFPs as Solution Architect, Lead the initiatives like Promotion job moves, Role based organization etc., Liaising with other practice lead globally and project resourcing from offshore, SPOC for India Offshore to the other geography leads, Maintaining the resource utilization and ensure zero bench strength, Train the College pass outs to SuccessFactors and utilize them in projects, Maintaining the competency tracker and certification for resources, Lead the certification and hiring drives, Managed large scale SuccessFactors Implementation spanning 71 countries, Managed project with complex integrations e.g. SuccessFactors integrated with three SAP systems and two Microsoft Dynamics system. and Recruiting and Learning system integrated with third party systems like SHL, Skill soft etc., Managed Project with SuccessFactors Integration with 32 different external systems where 7 Payroll systems, Have hands on experience of SuccessFactors EC configuration, integration with backend SAP and Employee Central Design, Have done process harmonization of decentralize HR systems and processes across 9 SBUs to one single HR system and process, Implemented Payroll in 4.5 months with Payroll accelerator, which normally takes 7-8 months, Implemented complex Time Mgmt. and Payroll integration with biometric system, Been part of World’s largest HR/Payroll Implementation of 34 Countries Gone Live One Big Bang with single cutover, Done consulting engagements like HR Process and Systems Health check and suggestion for improvement. With defining the future HR roadmap by Cost Benefit Analysis for system selection, Done more than 10 SAP End to End Implementation and Roll Out Projects, Done various Payroll implementations for country version India, KSA, Philippines, Singapore, and Azerbaijan etc., Worked in multi-vendor, cross country, multi time zone and multi-cultural environment, Delivery governance of the offshore projects

Timeline

Associate Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions. India
09.2014 - Current

Associate Consultant/ Senior Manager

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd. , India
03.2014

Senior Consultant/ Project Lead

Accenture Consulting, Singapore
10.2010 - 09.2013

Principle Consultant/ Manager

Price Water House Coopers, India
10.2005 - 10.2010

Production In charge

PepsiCo Inc. , India
02.2003 - 09.2005

MBA - Marketing

IIEST
04.2001 -

PHD Pursuing - HR And Finance

St. Xavier's University

Executive Diploma - Human Resources Management

Xavier's Institute Of Management

Mechanical Engineering

Amravati University
Biswabandhu PalHead Of SAP HCM Competency