Purva Chaudhary
www.linkedin.com/in/purva2295
Summary
Workday Senior Lead with extensive experience across Core HCM, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent &Performance, Payroll and Learning, with a proven track record in global implementations, post-acquisition rollouts, and AMS/HyperCare support. Skilled at driving process automation, ensuring compliance, and delivering high-impact solutions, while collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring colleagues to optimize Workday adoption and performance.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Lead - HR Systems
Ameriprise Financial LLC
Hyderabad
11.2025 - Current
- Work as a Workday Product Owner, supporting Benefits, Payroll, and HCM.
- Lead and support Open Enrollment activities, partnering with vendors and payroll to ensure benefit elections and payroll deductions are accurate.
- Conduct weekly audits to maintain data accuracy and compliance, including:
- Identifying US employees with imputed income and loading correct benefit rates
- Reviewing vendor integration (INT) files to catch and resolve personal data issues
- Finalizing open enrollment and vacation purchase rates for new hires - Partner with the technical team to build a boomerang integration for a new benefit, automating payroll input creation, and end-dating based on benefit elections.
- Support the production environment by guiding Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams on escalated benefits issues, and helping to resolve complex cases.
Senior Consultant
HR Path India
Remote
09.2023 - 10.2025
- Worked as a Core HCM team member for a Fortune 100 search engine technology firm, delivering two Phase X implementations focused on Document Generation to automate legal and compliance letters, eliminating manual effort, and saving approximately 2,000 hours annually, while owning reporting, alerts, BP changes, and partnering with internal teams to ensure end-to-end process alignment.
- Served as Benefits Lead for an American electrical equipment firm, managing HyperCare and AMS support, configuring passive and enrollment events, leading Open Enrollment through benefit plan setup, rate updates, plan year configuration, and building custom reports to support ongoing OE operations.
- Inducted as a Project Manager for a French pharmaceutical firm, acting as the primary point of contact between business and consultants, driving solution design decisions, identifying risks early with defined migration and rollback plans, and strengthening client relationships through structured weekly stakeholder updates.
- Supported a Core HCM Phase X implementation for a German food delivery firm, enabling Workday adoption for a newly acquired organization through the configuration of HCM business process frameworks and offer letter documents.
- Worked as an AMS Support team member for a Japanese electrical manufacturing firm, supporting Core HCM, Recruiting, Reporting, and Learning, with responsibilities spanning release management, advanced and matrix reporting, BP enhancements, and EIB processing.
Senior Consultant
PwC India
06.2021 - 10.2023
- Led Workday Help and supported Workday Learning implementation for an Indian healthcare services firm, facilitating demos and design sessions, delivering prototypes, managing UAT, and preparing for Go-Live, while also supporting Core HCM implementations across India and the US, and providing HyperCare support for Jamaica and the Philippines.
- Delivered a Workday Recruiting implementation for a U.S. petroleum refineries company across 12 geographies, leading design workshops, configuring through three prototype cycles, executing advanced data loads, resolving SIT defects, and acting as module Scrum Master by managing user stories and defect tracking in JIRA.
- Served as an AMS Recruiting Support team member for a UK BPO and professional services firm, delivering ongoing enhancements aligned with Workday releases and evolving business needs, including major change requests such as vaccination tracking, remote job support, and candidate self-scheduling.
Learning Consultant
Cognizant India
08.2020 - 06.2021
- Spearheaded HRD for a population of 3000 associates of India Geo.
- Collaborated with talent delivery business partners to understand the internal client landscape and gather training needs to prepare the annual learning plan at an Account/BU level.
- Partnered with the Solutions Design team to create corresponding proposals, define and agree with the by defining the short term (yearly goals) and long term outcomes of the initiatives.
Brand Analyst
eClerx Services India
09.2017 - 05.2018
- Handled Brand Compliance for a South Korean multinational electronics company in collaboration with the Online Retail team. Activities included audit and analysis of partner websites selling electronic products of the company and conducting market research to check the impact of aesthetics on purchase conversion rates.
Education
Masters - Human Resource Management
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur06.2020
Bachelors of Engineering - Information Technology
University of Mumbai
05.2017
Skills
- Workday Core HCM
- Workday Benefits
- Workday Talent & Performance
- Workday Recruiting
- Workday Learning
- Workday Payroll
- Agile Methodology
- JIRA
- ServiceNow
- Visio
Certifications And Skills
Workday Core HCM, Workday Benefits, Workday Talent Optimization, Spanish Language A1, Agile Methodology, JIRA, ServiceNow, Visio
Languages
Spanish
Beginner (A1)
A1
Timeline
Senior Lead - HR Systems
Ameriprise Financial LLC
11.2025 - Current
Senior Consultant
HR Path India
09.2023 - 10.2025
Senior Consultant
PwC India
06.2021 - 10.2023
Learning Consultant
Cognizant India
08.2020 - 06.2021
Brand Analyst
eClerx Services India
09.2017 - 05.2018
Masters - Human Resource Management
Indian Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Engineering - Information Technology
University of Mumbai