Sai Phani Teja Hari

North American, Indian Payroll, and Data Analysis:

• Onboarding Process: Working on onboarding workflows for North American and Indian, integrating digital forms and e-signatures verifying W2 and W4 forms ( for NA employee ) to enhance the efficiency of new hire documentation and compliance checks.
• Data Management and Reporting : Managed employee databases, Created employee profiles, job and compensation changes and positions and generated reports on payment, Job Relations providing actionable insights for management decisions.
• Payroll Operations and Payroll Simulations : Working on end-to-end payroll processing for US and Canada Regions with an expertise in payroll running ( Payroll Freeze and Exit ) and Remuneration statement processing. Also, ensuring accuracy of payroll operations with 100% quality audit.
• Team Leadership: Led a team of 5 payroll specialists, providing training, guidance, and performance / Quality evaluations to enhance productivity and engagement.
• Process Improvement: Implemented and streamlined payroll processes, reducing processing time by 21% and increasing overall efficiency.
• Compliance Expertise: Ensured adherence to labor laws and payroll regulations,conducting regular audits to mitigate risks and maintain compliance.
• Payroll Preparation : Preparing Final cut JV’s and other deduction files. Auditing Paysheet vs Consolidation Files.
• Monthly Compliance : Processing monthly compliance payments like PF , PT , IT , LWF
• Data Reporting and Analysis: Prepared comprehensive financial reports and payroll analyses for management, providing insights on trends and discrepancies through Excel and ServiceNow Dashboards.
• Budget Management: Monitored payroll budgets and forecasts, identifying cost-saving opportunities while maintaining service quality.
• Fund Management : Managing PO creations and Fund allocation for vendor’s ensuring timely payments.
• Vendor Management: Managed relationships with external payroll and compliance vendors negotiating contracts and ensuring service level agreements were met.
• Training Materials : Prepared Process documents and Maps ( Visio ) for KC , KT transitions for effective staff development, improving payroll accuracy and efficiency.
• Quality Assurance: Implemented quality control measures to verify payroll accuracy before final distribution, significantly reducing errors.
• Employee Relations: Acted as the primary point of contact for payroll inquiries, resolving employee issues related to payroll, deductions, and benefits.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborated with Finance, and IT departments to enhance payroll functionality and integration with other systems.

• Handling HR queries and Pay Requests through Service Now
• Auditing and approving DTP's and Process Documents through Knowledge Management in SERVICE NOW
• Analyzing and providing the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for the Escalated Requests to the Stakeholders
• Handling Overpayments for PepsiCo North American Employees through SAP and SERVICE NOW
• Processing Union Payments and also handling employee documentation for PepsiCo Beverages North America
• Performing UAT and testing Kronos Mobile Application (UKG App) for PepsiCo employees
• Processing the User Access Requests for new joiners as well as for the rehires in Myidm (Access tool)
• Processing Pay Changes, Job Relationship Changes and Manager Changes for PepsiCo Employees in the Employee Central ( Success Factors ).
• Processing Position Changes for PepsiCo Employees (North American HR Salaried employees) in the Employee Central ( Success Factors ).
• Handling requests from Hire to Retire in the back end system for North American and Canadian employees.
• Processing termination requests in Success factors and SAP for the employees.
• Auditing the missing timecards of the associates in SAP
• Processing Holiday Pay Reports for all the North American PepsiCo employees
• Auditing employees Pay Slips who has received higher or lower amount on a weekly basis in SAP
• Contributed to the transition process for a new sector (PepsiCo Beverages North America) through virtual participation and played a pivotal role in capturing and sharing vital knowledge.
• Processing Pay transactions and Pay Benefits for PepsiCo employees through SAP

• Resolving employee timecard issues using KRONS by comparing them to associates timecard
• Responsible for generating accrual reports using KRONS
• Track and work on solutions to back log items using trouble ticketing tool
• Work closely with HR Specialist on auditing errors which related to payments.
• Responsible for training new hires and conduct knowledge transfer sessions
• Developed Excel Macros to automate daily audit reports
• Responding to enquiries regarding policies and programs including employee benefits Timecard corrections and attendance payroll deductions and queries (North American and Canada payroll).

• Adhere to defined processes and ensure delivery in accordance with set quality standards through knowledge of policies and processes for multiple customers group
• Ensure the services levels are always achieved for HRS processes
• Integrity and discretion in dealing with sensitive information and always ensure data privacy
• Take ownership for query resolution and individual metrics
• Used ADP Pay-Force tool to audit and resolve underpayment issues related to North American associates
• Used ADP DAY-FORCE tool to audit and resolve underpayment issues to Canadian associates.