Karthikeyan Mohankumar

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering from Product Management Team by Grooming sessions.
• Understanding Legislative changes/Enhancements and Customer bugs raised by Global Support Team.
• Identify impacted areas within and outside HCM by doing impact analysis thoroughly.
• Discuss impacts with stakeholders by carefully showing before and after change observations.
• Developing phase followed by Unit Testing.
• Sharing ADS Package or Rules/Non-Rules package for QA Team to start with their testing.
• Coordinating with Quality Assurance Team for Testing once development is completed.
• Coordinating with Global support Team for assisting Customer.
• PUM Image Migration and Documentation.

Projects Worked:

• Moved latest 2024 Australian legislative changes for ACT Payroll tax surcharge changes.
• Legislative Change Australia - Monthly Threshold ($450) for SUPERANNUATION GUARANTEE is removed effective from July 1st, 2022.
• Legislative Change Malaysia Form E.
• Legislative Change Australia - STUDY & TRAINING SUPPORT LOAN (STSL) Rates change effective from July 1st, 2022.
• Rolling out Single Touch Payroll functionality for new foreign employer set called CLOSELY HELD PAYEES. [IBM – Australia].
• Worked on various enhancements and GP bugs for Australian Department of Defense, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Sydney Catholic Schools & University of New South Wales (UNSW).
• Currently working on Malaysia Legislative change for year 2023.
• Worked on fixing and regulating Australian Marginal Tax.
• Worked on new Oracle product framework called Notification Composer.

Responsibilities:

• Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
• Offered input on technical and platform-related strategic planning initiatives.
• Installed system updates to address vulnerabilities and reduce security issues.
• Understand current methods for recording absences in external system.
• Identify leave policy and segregate by country regulations and internal policies by forming a leave matrix and walkthrough with all stakeholders including M&A team.
• Prepare and walkthrough FDD with all policies incorporated.
• Manage creation of new entities including company, department, job code, location setups until ID creation.
• Prepare and review project plan by clearly plotting dates for Development, Unit Testing, SIT, UAT and rollout.
• Identify and manage functional changes as part of rollout.
• Help business users identify functional use cases for UAT.
• Identify and integrate fields required for payroll reports.
• Manage EAM requirements across all 45 countries where EAM is enabled.
• Gather requirements for each country and identify it as Country Regulations, Internal Policy, Compliance, Enhancements.
• Alert Customers on any foreseen issues in application and recommend solutions.
• Reduce Customer impact by providing interim solutions.

Projects Worked:

• EAM Finance Accrual Flow Automation for Canada – Cognizant Finance Team requires monthly accruals for Canadian associates for their finance accounting, encashment processing and for internal/external auditing purposes. This project is focused on supporting Business with automation process that does all validations which was handled manually earlier and comes out with essential all-purpose report.
• EAM rollout for TMG (Acquired US company).
• AM Rollout for Canada Non-exempt with spanned experience accrual logic.
• Forfeiture lapse calculation in automated report as requested by US Finance team.