VEERAN HARI BALU
Summary
Scaling new heights of success & leaving a mark of excellence in assignments involving knowledge & skills in the field of Workday and contribute to the organization's growth
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Hexaware Technologies Limited
11.2014 - 11.2019
- Working on AMS activities to manage tickets on HCM and Recruiting configuration and data issues
- Maintaining and enhancing the existing system based on client's need
- Getting the requirements from business and breaking down into possible solutions
- Responsible for the post go-live and AMS activities for any implementation
- Responsible for managing business processes and rectifying the issues related to its regard
- Responsible for maintaining Condition rules and validation rules of the business process and also managing rule-based business processes
- Setting up business process steps, such as action, approval, approval chain & checklist and how they work and integrate with security groups
- Responsible to manage any issues during the global roll outs and during hyper-care period
- Creating custom workday reports, modifying / troubleshooting existing custom reports
- Responsible for all the maintainable activities for yearend like extending the period schedules in Reports, Auditing the security groups
- Managing workday upgrade project for the client by providing detailed analysis of the impacted features and new enhancements and guidelines to implement the new workday features
- Responsible for process monitoring all the scheduled reports and integrations related to HCM
- Managing meetings and escalations in Workday HCM related production issues
- Provided technical support in the implementation of the Recruiting module in both prior and post go-live phases
- Data gathering, system configuration, UAT and other components of the Global HR Workday implementation & configuring Workday for business processes such as HCM and Recruiting
Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Services LLP
11.2019 - 04.2021
- Responsible for providing L3 support to HCM configurations and handling the related data issues
- Responsible for taking up enhancements in HCM and Recruiting, executing it through agile methodology
- Experience in providing knowledge transfers on the new features in Workday to the team and interns
- Responsible to take minor implementations and provide post go-live support for it
- Involved in requirement gathering and design phases of the minor implementation and experience in planning the execution of the project
- Contributed in creation of custom reports (advanced and matrix) to enhance the data analysis
- Experience in working with discovery boards and Worksheets
- Supported in enabling these feature to employees
- Experience in Leading the Workday Upgrade(2020R1) and explain the new features to the customers and performing impact analysis
Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Services LLP
11.2019 - 04.2021
- Involved in interacting with the recruiters globally and identifying the pain points they encounter with the Recruitment module
- Responsible for finalizing the Optimization items and devising a plan for executing the optimization
- Experienced in enabling the consolidated offer letter operations through worksheets
- Responsible for preparing the SOP document for the optimization items
- Involved in preparing presentations to the end users about the enhancements and providing post go-live support as well
- Experience in creating Recruiting related reports, Recruiting Dashboards and Recruiting KPI reports
- Resourceful in enabling the Recruiting Hub experience for the Recruiters and hiring Managers
Senior Consultant
Hitachi Consulting Services
04.2021 - 09.2022
- Part of discovery and design sessions during the implementations of Recruiting module to various Companies
- Experience in interacting with the Recruiters to understand the Recruiting process in their legacy system and explaining the compatibility of Workday Recruiting
- Support Recruiters and the HRIT team for their smooth transition from their legacy ATS to Workday Recruiting
- Performing Fit/Gap analysis in the system and interacting with Business Analysts to figure out the process flow in HR various business processes
- Experience with GDPR guidelines and aligning the Recruiting system according to it using purge
- Expertise in using the Workday's latest offer management tool called document generator
- Participating in the meetings with SME (subject matter experts) and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage
- Experience in enhancing the onboarding business process in simplified and global view
- Experience designing the steps to handle various documents during onboarding stage
- Experience in synchronization of Docu-Sign with Workday during Onboarding and Offer
- Responsible for taking up Recruiting enhancements which were identified after the phase-1 implementations
- Provided technical assistance to support team in identifying issues raised by Recruiters
- Responsible for maintaining the Recruiting translations
- Experience in maintain the various configurations in Recruiting and managing Recruiting security
- Experience in managing the Recruitment Data that is being transferred to third party
- Manage Workday upgrade releases and suggest suitable features to get accommodated in the system
Lead Configurator
PayPal
10.2022 - Current
- Accomplished the saving of 1.5 million USD by migrating the offer and onboarding functionalities from a third party system to Workday
- Responsible for leading the discovery and design sessions to achieve this migration
- Responsible for providing consultation to the stakeholders on the best practice to be followed
- Responsible for taking up customizations and accommodating into Workday
- Helped stakeholders to achieve customizations on DocuSign
- Responsible for handling Workday docs in managing offer and employment agreement letters
- Responsible for accommodating journeys to give a better onboarding experience
Configuration Engineer
PayPal
10.2022 - Current
- Responsible for handling workday enhancements in Recruiting and HCM modules
- Experienced in designing the job posting templates with Pay Transparency
- Resourceful in redesigning Recruiting security
- Experienced in deploying the enhancements with Agile methodology
- Responsible to maintain the synchronization between Workday and other third party systems like LinkedIn and Eightfold
- Responsible for providing technical support in time tracking and absence module
Education
B.E. - Electricals and Electronics
Kumarasamy College of Engineering
Skills
Workday HCM
Security
Onboarding
Recruiting
EIB
Journeys
MS PowerPoint
MS Excel
MS Word
Windows
Executiveprofile
Scaling new heights of success & leaving a mark of excellence in assignments involving knowledge & skills in the field of Workday and contribute to the organization's growth, A competent professional with over 10 years of experience in Workday with in-depth knowledge of HCM modules like Core HCM, Recruiting, Performance, Onboarding and Security, Proficient with Workday HCM, Workday Recruiting and Onboarding including requirements gathering, gap analysis, functional design documentation, user acceptance testing, training and deployment activities, Expertise in optimization of Recruiting and HCM enhancements after go-live to improve the end user experience, Resourceful in configuring custom reports, Workday HCM & providing support to a global workforce and HR business community with knowledge of HR processes such as Employee Data, Recruitment Process & Security, Expertise in analyzing client's business needs with proficiency in working on Workday HCM Global roll-outs with understanding of Workday Architecture & Business Process Framework, Provided SME support in core Workday areas., Acted as subject matter expert for various reporting tools like discovery boards and worksheets.
Timeline
Lead Configurator
PayPal
10.2022 - Current
Configuration Engineer
PayPal
10.2022 - Current
Senior Consultant
Hitachi Consulting Services
04.2021 - 09.2022
Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Services LLP
11.2019 - 04.2021
Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers Services LLP
11.2019 - 04.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Hexaware Technologies Limited
11.2014 - 11.2019
B.E. - Electricals and Electronics
Kumarasamy College of Engineering
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