Kedar Kulkarni
PUNE,MH
Summary
Meticulous Technical Lead strictly adheres to both client-provided technical requirements and internal business goals. Balances project prioritization to fulfill both contractual obligations and internal revenue requirements. Provides foresight and management designed to grow satisfied customer bases and revenue figures.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Technical Lead
Arctera.io Pune
05.2025 - Current
- Acting as a technical lead for the global workday practice
- Managing 2 technical resources to ensure effective utilization to support and enhancement efforts with global scope.
- Responsible for configuration, testing, and deployment in the areas of onboarding, Staffing, Absence, Compensation, Recruiting, PECI, EIB, Core Connector, Reporting, security, etc.
- Lead global implementation for the PECI project for the payroll vendor - Neeyamo.
- Assessed business requirements to create focused solutions.
Workday Practices Lead
LogicMonitor Inc., Pune
06.2023 - 05.2025
- Leading Workday practices in collaboration with people operations team globally.
- Being in charge of both support and enhancement efforts for all the projects in an agile environment.
- Managing vendor resources for the ongoing re-implementation projects ensuring cent percent adherence to the goals and utility of resources with greater engagement & timeliness.
- Responsible for configuration, testing, and deployment in the areas of onboarding, Staffing, Absence, Benefits, Compensation, PECI, EIB, Core Connector, Reporting, security, etc.
- Managing Workday’s bi-annual upgrades for both functional & technical aspects by regression testing for forcefully available changes and collaborating with respective stakeholders for the adoption planning of changes that need configuration changes.
- Acting as security lead for any security changes tenant-wide
- Actively collaborating with IT, Finance, Payroll, FP&A, Security, and legal teams at the global level for all ongoing global projects.
- Being named support contact and security lead for the organization’s community account and leveraging customer support for all needs organization level.
Freelancer
Techsaga CorporationsTechnology, Noida (Free-lancing)
05.2023 - 06.2023
- Supported Workday’s re-implementation for various modules – HCM, Absence, Onboarding, Business processes, Reporting, Security, etc for a leading organization in the construction industry.
Workday Consultant
PTC Software, Pune
03.2023 - 04.2023
- Workday Consultant – supporting configuration & maintenance of Workday HCM
Workday Analyst
Alfa Laval, Pune
12.2022 - 02.2023
- Workday Analyst – supporting configuration & maintenance of Workday HCM
Senior HRIS Analyst
TIBCO Software India, Pune
03.2016 - 12.2022
- Demonstrate strong working experience being a part of the Workday HR operations global team of TIBCO and gaining good exposure to a cross-cultural, global work environment.
- Undertaking HR operations in Workday for IND, APJ & EMEA regions to support Job changes, Position Management, Organisational changes, Compensation changes, Review Talent Profile, Onboarding, Off-boarding, Workflow management for HCM transactions, Absence Management etc.
- Collaborate with HR Business partner, Staffing, IT, Finance organization members to ensure good level of data accuracy throughout HR data flow.
- Administrate Workday for the entire employee life-cycle covering hire to retire with the help of the Jira ticketing system and support data manipulation in Workday via both manual business processes & EIB loads.
- Working closely with IND, and APJ HR team for process improvement & re-engineering the existing processes to ensure smooth delivery of HR operations.
- Act as a facilitator to educate HR members about the new features, process enhancements, access enablement etc.
- Demonstrate expertise in Workday tools such as BP configuration, Security, Report writing, Calculated Fields, Integrations (Inbound-Outbound EIB), Tenant settings, Dashboards, etc. for enhancement of existing HR processes in WD.
- Acting as a facilitator to bring appropriate changes from Workday’s bi-annual Workday upgrades.
- Active participation in global activities for acquisitions/mergers from a Workday standpoint.
- Handle background verification queries for the India region as an ad-hoc responsibility.
- Projects led:- PICOF enhancement project for IND.
- - Successful integration of third-party “absence management tool” for IND
- - Digitalization of onboarding experience for IND & APJ regions
- - Termination/Separation automation for IND & APJ
- - WD ~ Oracle integration for EMEA and LATAM region to capture time-off data in WD
HR Operations
Accelya Kale
08.2015 - 12.2015
- Looking after the HR operations for Pune location with the headcount of 500+.
- Being location HR, need to handle all employee queries & grievances across the location by using micro approach towards trouble shooting.
- Extend support in recruitment & selection to other team members as per need.
- Initiation & coordination with vendor for timely completion of background check process.
- Educating the new joiners about company policies & importance of adherence to the same.
- Execution of exit formalities & full final settlement with exit interviews for smoother separation.
- Handling compliances for Pune location including PF, ESIC, ER-I & II, gratuity etc.
- Maintenance of MIS with the help of “eConnect” a tool developed internally.
- Providing Payroll inputs for the employees based out in Pune region with 100% accuracy. Acting as guide to execute quarterly performance review with upgraded measures.
- Handled audits initiated by both internal as well as external stakeholders to maintain good level of governance with stipulated policies
- Partnering with business leaders to identify, plan & implement new strategies to utilize the full potential available within the organization.
- Initiation & execution of “Community of Interest”- an employee engagement initiative. Handled task of Policy review & initiated appropriate changes required to be made in policies in this policy revision cycle.
- Assisted in implementing crucial decisions made by the top management like retrenchment.
Recruitment
Sakal Media Group, Pune
12.2014 - 07.2015
- Looking after the recruitment part for PAN India at SMG.
- Acting as HRBP to identify, plan & implement new endeavors to boost up the business from the corporate level.
- Handling employee life cycle including all the processes from hire till retire, onboarding, F&F, PMS, employee engagement, L&D, etc.
- Handling Payroll for the employees based out in the Pune region with the use of SAP.
- Follow-up with various vendors & agencies for the timely delivery of work.
- Initiation of an “HR one-to-one Program” to establish HR connections with employees, which resulted in the retention of talent.
Recruitment
Nityo Infotech Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2014 - 12.2014
- Handling end-to-end recruitment for clients in the UK region.
HR Activities
Lear Corporation Pune
09.2013 - 04.2014
- Handled various HR activities such as recruitment, operations, and L&D.
Education
MBA - Human Resources
Pune University
04.2001 -
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Timeline
Technical Lead
Arctera.io Pune
05.2025 - Current
Workday Practices Lead
LogicMonitor Inc., Pune
06.2023 - 05.2025
Freelancer
Techsaga CorporationsTechnology, Noida (Free-lancing)
05.2023 - 06.2023
Workday Consultant
PTC Software, Pune
03.2023 - 04.2023
Workday Analyst
Alfa Laval, Pune
12.2022 - 02.2023
Senior HRIS Analyst
TIBCO Software India, Pune
03.2016 - 12.2022
HR Operations
Accelya Kale
08.2015 - 12.2015
Recruitment
Sakal Media Group, Pune
12.2014 - 07.2015
Recruitment
Nityo Infotech Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2014 - 12.2014
HR Activities
Lear Corporation Pune
09.2013 - 04.2014
MBA - Human Resources
Pune University
04.2001 -