SUNIL KUMAR

Professional Synopsis

- Certified Success Factors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) & SAP HCM Lead Consultant with overall 14.6
years of IT experience including 11 years of SAP HCM.
- Currently working in USA as Employee Central Payroll (ECP) and EC Principal consultant and onsite
coordinator handling a team in India.
- Visited Countries Netherlands, Germany, Finland & USA for client discussions, RFP’s, Implementation,
Go-Live & Support activities.
- Expert in Agile Methodology way of working.
- Excellent communication skills and very good logical skills suitable for process design, development,
implementation, and well-developed aptitude for meeting deadlines
- Extensive experience working in Payroll (GB/UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, USA, Mexico, and
Indian Payroll) and Success Factors Employee Central Payroll (ECP).
- Having Experience in Four Support and Two Full Life Cycle implementations including analysis,
conceptual design, blue printing and detailed realization for the project.
- SAP HCM/Success Factors Functional including: Personnel Administration, Organizational Management,
Time Management, Payroll, Benefits, and Success Factors EC & ECP.
- Expertise in Employee Central Payroll (ECP) implementation of Point to Point (PTP) Integration & Payroll
Control Centre (PCC), 3rd Party Integrations to Bank, Tax office etc.
- Worked on Implementation of custom changes in Point to Point for additional Infotypes & PCC to run the
payroll simulation with previous period T&A data.
- Experience working on Spinifex reporting tool to build the reports using the data from EC and ECP to
avoid the manual work.
- Experience working on different cloning tools like Accenture clone & test, EPI Use Sync and other custom
cloning tools.
- Worked on BSI and TUBS- cyclical and regular updates and BSI upgrade from 10 to 11.
- Expert in Payroll & Benefits and Time management schemas
- SME on SAP HCM, ECPY, Payroll and Time Management & SuccessFactors.
- Success Factors PMGM & Employee Central Certified Consultant.
- Extensive knowledge on EC Time off
- Project Management experience, including team Management, kick-off meetings, code reviews, project
coordination, scheduling, testing and documentation, Project Methodology.
- Taking care of Mid-Year Go live

Organisational Experience

PROJECT Details:

Client Role Duration

SAP SF ECP Principal
Ahold May 2020 to Till Date
Consultant
Federal Mogul/Tenneco SAP HCM Lead Consultant Jan 2016 to Apr 2020
Xerox SAP HCM Consultant Jul 2015 to Jan 2016
Nokia Siemens SAP HCM Consultant Mar 2013 to June 2015 
Service Birmingham SAP HCM Consultant Feb 2012 to Nov 2012 
Wipro HR Executive Dec 2007 to May 2011
Client : Ahold Delhaize ECP Implementation and Support May 2020 to Jan 2023

Roles & Responsibilities

Payroll Control Centre: -

 Worked on end-to-end Payroll control center Implementation in ECP.

 Created data source types of parameter types etc.
 Mentored the technical team on creation of the custom tables, classes for PCC configuration.
 Customized payroll data source classes, folders.
 Worked on Configuration of policies and KPIs for Payroll.
 Worked on Configuration of payroll process step templates and process.
 Mapped monitoring and productive processes.

P2P integration Cloud Integration (EC to ECP):-

 Mapping the data from EC to Employee Central Payroll (ECP) point-to-point replication of data.
 Worked on End-to-End Implementation of Point-to-Point Integration for ECP.
 Worked on Configuration Compound Employee API Query.
 Maintained properties of code value mapping
 Worked on configuration of cost center, Company code, personnel area mapping etc..
 Mentored technical teams on Custom tables, classes for achieving the mapping codes which are not supported
by SAP.
 Maintained countries for IT0185 replication.
 Worked on configuration of required and mandatory Infotypes for in ECP for running the payroll and
configured the data mapping between EC and ECP for all the Infotypes.
 Configuration Check for Code Value Mapping and Properties
 Implemented and interface to develop interact custom ui5 screens to interact with the sap data and integrated
in the PCC solution

Payroll Activities:-

 Worked on End-to-end configuration of Payroll related things in the ECP.

 Mentoring and helping EC consultant to configure ECP things in EC and Provisioning system.
 Configuration of Infotypes like Basic Pay, Pensions, Taxes, Cars etc. for Payroll in ECP.
 Configured Personnel Administration and other thing for running Payroll in ECP.
 Worked on Identifying solutions for various Payments, deductions for the wage types maintained in EC to
process in ECP.
 Worked on Schemas and PCR’s to process Payments, deductions.
 Working on Support pack plan for ECP in sync with the SAP release calendar.
 Configured End to End HR – FI setup in ECP to carry out the Finance posting, DME, Tax submissions, etc...
 Worked on the Integration between 3rd party portals and ECP.
 Worked with Finance team in setting up the HR – FI things as part of the Payroll
 Working on multiple Interface’s Pension fund, PIPS, employee Discounts etc.…
 Worked with Finance team in setting up the HR – FI things as part of the Payroll

SAP HCM USA Payroll

 Analyzing the HRSP & Tubs using Synchronize Payroll tax data and working on changes in the system
accordingly whenever applicable
 Analyze the discrepancies during HRSP Payroll Parallel.
 SUI Rate updates and the creation of new authorities (local/states).
 Manage year end processes and tax obligations including W-2 Reporting, 1099-R Pension Forms, and SUI for
individual employees and Misc. reporting.
 Complete benefits analysis, Payroll Reconciliation, report preparation, review and evaluate specific
deductions/benefits, and assist in the maintenance of general or subsidiary ledgers.
 Worked on Benefit’s Area & Enrollment’s, Health & Insurance Plans, Savings.
 Configure Garnishments, Benefits, and remunerations statements, W-2 Forms & SUI Forms.
 Worked on Personal Calculation Rules (PCR) & and knowledge on Schema etc.
 Payroll Data, Processing Classes, Absence Valuation, Cumulation, Deductions,
 Gathered the requirements around RROP for the hourly EEs and SNE employees.
 Designed, Configured, and Tested and implemented RROP- FSLA set up.
 Worked on setting the shift differentials- design and configuration in ECPY- configuration and Schema
changes
 Developed several Functional Design specifications and worked on the vendors set up like Benfocus, ADP etc
 Worked on the FSLA Calculation- various requirements scenarios write up and testing
 Worked on IT2010 and integration with Payroll.
 Worked on the Kronos interfaces.

Activities as a Employee Central Payroll (ECP) lead:-

 Regular interaction with all the teams to identify the Gaps in the implementation.
 Weekly and Monthly meeting with Internal teams and Clients to discuss the status of the project.
 Follow up with SAP on regular basis about the Issues and status of the Incidents with respective to ECP
Implementation.
 Validating the Functional and technical Spec’s which are part of the Implementation plan.

Employee Central Implementation and Support :-

 Design and Build: Build and maintain the Company Structure, Configuration of Foundation Objects & Generic
Objects, Update/Maintain Associations, Event Reasons, and Translations.
 Adequate knowledge on Provisioning Settings.
 Gathering requirements from the client for localization of different countries for SuccessFactors.
 Configured all Data Models (Corporate, Country-Specific Corporate, Succession, and Country-Specific
Succession data model).
 Configured Associations, field criteria, search criteria, and object security permissions for new country- specific
MDF Objects.
 Customized workflows, Dynamic roles, and Dynamic groups as per client requirements.
 Configured client specific custom emails templates using Document Generation.
 Configured client specific official letters in different languages using Document Generation.
 Extensively worked on Custom MDF Object.
 Delivered Standard Time off Configuration.
 Extensively worked on MDF picklist and Picklist management. Now called as Picklist Center.
 Designed and delivered RBP framework to provide appropriate permissions across the organization.
 Configuring HRIS sync mappings and worked on setting up Employee profile as per Talent modules
requirements.
 Configured Company Logos, Home Page, Welcome Menu, Password security, Label text changes, and
Company info.
 Extensively worked on EC Global Benefits end to end Implementation.
 Worked on translations for customer specific labels using 3-tier language tool.
 Worked on Position Management Settings.
 Worked extensively on position-based EC project which includes position creation/updating and
synchronizing both ways (Job to Position /Position to Job), Position to RCM requisition integration scenarios.
 Worked on the Employee Profile project as standalone to support other Talent modules.
 Worked closely with client for legacy data processing and preparing data templates for importing EC/MDF
data.
 Extensively worked on Data Migration and Templates.
 Actively participated on Iterations, UAT and Go-live Support.
 Prepared Knowledge sharing and customer deliverable documents for post Go Live reference.

Client : Federal Mogul/Tenneco (Implementation and Support) Jan 2016 to Apr 2020

Role & Responsibilities as Merger Project

 Working on the HCM System Merger Project as per the Tenneco and Federal Mogul Merger.
 Merger/Consolidation of two landscapes (VPC & V6P) as single landscape and building a Global Interface to
send required data to the Tenneco system.
 Changing the configuration from Personnel area until Payroll with the new Tenneco values, as we need to
send the data to the Tenneco system through Interface with specified values.
 Building the new Custom Infotypes similar to the Tenneco to make sure that the data going to Tenneco will
not have any issues and used for the reporting purpose.
 Updating the Features, PCR’s & Schemas with new values and make sure that this will not create any retros
and wrong calculations.
 Used custom tools for Tables migration from one landscape to other landscape.
 Used custom tools for converting all the existing employee numbers to the new number series and make sure
that there is no issue with the integration with the Kaba and the Time & payroll is running correct for all the
employees.
 Expertise in creating LSMW’s as part of the data migration.
 Working on the Support pack and the upgrades to make sure that the both the landscapes has no
inconsistences for the Merger.
 Working and leading the other technical team ABAP, PI, Basis, Security, Kaba, Microsoft in coordinating for
the smooth flow of the project.
 Extensively worked on PCRs customization and schema for time management and UK payroll
 Configured all the required Feature’s for the new system.
 Worked on HMRC gateway connection interface related issues
 Worked on Master data migration with standard Idocs related to FICO (Cost Centres, GL Accounts, Bank
Keys, Cost Elements, etc)
 Converted personnel numbers from 4 digits to 8 digit characters and converted employees numbers from
historical data.
 Copied FI posting history from multiple system to one system with historical data posting data.
 Successfully merged payroll countries of USA, Mexico, Germany and UK in to one system.

US Payroll: - Federal Mogul

 Worked on the processing of the hourly payments based on the Unions and Contractual agreements
 Designed the hourly payments based on the position for the union decided hourly payments
 Worked on the BSI 9.0 configuration on the payroll and the payroll schema
 Worked on the Taxes Configuration- Tax Authority models, Tax Models and Tax Combos.
 Extensive custom Personnel Calculation rules configuration for custom Payroll schema of U000
 Written custom PCR's in payroll for hourly based payments, premiums payments and recurring payments and
deductions.
 Worked on the configuration of Off Cycle payments
 Worked on the special processing of on call pay and call out pay.
 Worked on the configuration and GTL calculation for the Imputed Pay – Fringe benefits.
 Worked on the configuration of Benefits Integration with payrolls
 Configured deduction models and
 Worked on the Garnishments Configuration
 Worked on the FICO- Payroll Integrations- G/L mappings, postings
 Worked on the month end accruals
 Responsible for reviewing the developer Technical Design Document to ensure all requirements have been
met.
 Gave design direction for time interfaces, time quota configuration, time reporting.
 Worked on the preparation of blueprints on PY, Time Management and Benefits
 Designed Stay pay specification document for their Payroll/Time Union agreements
 Automated IT0221 Adjustment process using subtypes to process employees stock options
 Extensive custom Personnel Calculation rule configuration for custom Time schema Z001 (without clock time)
like Holiday rules, Extra Maintenance hours, Quota based on Attendance and Absence, FLSA Overtime rules
etc.
 Written custom PCR's in both time and Payroll for Overtime, Shift differential, Extra hours, Holiday pay,
Quota accrual pro-ration time, Regular hours and paid/Unpaid absence hours
 Responsible for reviewing the developer Technical Design Document to ensure all requirements have been met
 Worked on Creating wage types, new processing classes and processing class specifications
 Gave leadership and design direction for time interfaces, time quota configuration, time reporting and project
milestones to project management
 Configured CATS profiles for Position override, Cost centre and WBS elements
 Written Functional documents to store the values in 25 custom fields from Third party interfaces to CATSDB
 Working on Quota accruals, Carryovers using custom PCR’s.
 Worked on the functional specs on various requirements in Payroll
 Payroll and wrote the functional specs on workflow.
 Worked on the designing the solution for Payroll.
 Worked on writing functional specs the Interfaces and custom objects.
 Worked on the custom payroll function for position-based payments
 Worked on the configuration of Tax combos and models and BSI configuration.
 Worked on the off-cycle work bench configuration
 Extensive custom Personnel Calculation rules configuration for custom Payroll schema of U000
 Written custom PCR's in payroll for hourly based payments, premiums payments and recurring payments and
deductions.
 Worked on the payroll integration with Finance.
 Provided end user training and prepared the end user training.
 Worked on the Health Plans, Insurance plans and Savings Plans and Flex Accounts etc., configuration-
Coverage Variants, Costing etc.,
 Worked on the Payroll Integration with the Benefits and Legal aspects
 Worked on various user exits and custom enhancements and Interfaces between CATS and various third-party
systems
 Worked on Functional and Technical Design Documentations during the blue printing phase

Role & Responsibilities as Support Lead Functional Consultant (Federal Mogul)

 Working on Payroll & Time Management for Great Britain, USA, and Mexico.
 Taking care of all the HCM related activities with respective to Tickets, Changes requests, ISWR’s, Monthly,
Quarterly & Year end activities.
 Conducting Weekly & Monthly review meetings with client to discuss on the status of the Tickets, ISWR’s,
SLA’s and upcoming activities
 Working on the Payroll Tickets for the Great Britain, Germany, and Mexico with related to the Payroll,
Interface, B2A, Time management and all other issues
 Coordinating with the Business in the Payroll cycle and Providing training, SOP’s and User documents for the
Business.
 Working on the Support pack, LCP, CLC and all the other Legal and year-end activities from planning until
Go-Live.
 Working on the statutory activities for Great Britain like RTI, PAE, NI, Pensions, APF (Auto Pension
Enrolment), Company Cars, Bacs
 Extension of pay periods, Holiday calendars, WSR etc... for Mexico, UK and USA.
 Worked on the Mexico statutory issues of SDI, CFDI, UMA Changes, Risk Premium, and union memberships
 Uploading employee salaries on yearly basis based on increment and taking acre of other year end activities.

Client : Xerox (Support Project) Jul 2015 to Jan 2016

Role & Responsibilities as Functional Consultant

 Worked on end to end Payroll Great Britain & exposure on Ireland.
 Successfully implemented PAE (Pension Auto Enrolment) and RTI (Real Time Information).
 Good knowledge and understanding on GB and IE statutory like Court Orders, Tax, Pensions etc.
 Maintained GB & IE payroll schema's (G000 & IE00) and personnel calculation rules.
 Worked on PCR and Schemas for Payroll and Time Management for the client requirements as (PAE)
Calculation, Profit Sharing, Pension Calculations, Per dims Calculations etc...
 Configured custom cumulation classes for the Auto Enrolment and Pensions.
 CATS testing for the Year end upgrades.
 Year-end support LCP and CLC for GB & IE according to the client system.

Client :Nokia Siemens Networks (Implementation) Mar 2013 to Jun 2015

Role & Responsibilities as Functional Consultant

 Taking care of Reports development of 120 Programs related to ECM, MGE, PA, OM, Time, Payroll and
country specific reports.
 Project preparation, Considering with man power and work involved regarding development of the reports.
 Requirements gathered at client place, client is upgrading to new system due to the lot of customisation and
process delays in current system.
 House of Quality requirement, understanding the customer requirements sitting with customer client place
in ESPOO Finland for one month.
 Blue Print Preparation, Prepared blue print preparation and shared with customer and taken formal approval
 Prepared Functional specification nearly 65 reports and coordinated with technical team to complete the
activities in time.
 Created 15 Adhoc reports in global area and transported to testing system and quality system.
 Presented KT to client and took level 2 & level 3 sing of with formally.
 Provided KT to testing team in quality system and provided assistance in needed.
 Analysing the business requirements and preparation of the Function Spec.
 Responsible for Functional specs for PA, and Time Management.
 Customising Time Management, PA, ECM & OM.
 Analyse customer needs and participates in designing the business process requirements and is responsible for
completeness and quality of functional design.
 Analyses gaps and does impact analysis after understanding customers’ requirements
 Close interaction with Technical team.

Organizational Management:
 Configuration of:
- Configured Organization Structure (SPOCK)
- Assigning Relationships between different objects like Organization units to Organization units,
Position to Organization units, Jobs to Position and configured Reporting Structure.
- Maintained the relationships among the objects.
- Maintenance of Plan Versions & Number Ranges for objects.
- Integration with Personnel Administration
Time Management:
 Configuration of:
- Configuration of public holidays, holiday calendar. Creation of Personal Sub area groupings for Daily
Work schedules, Employee Sub group groupings for Work schedules.
- Maintenance of Employee work schedules includes Break schedules, Daily work schedules, Period
work schedules.
- Setting up Public Holiday calendars.
- Maintenance of leave quotas for absences.
- Defined Absence types and counting rules. Assign Counting rules to different absence types.
- Assign Deduction rules to different absence types.
- Defining rules for base entitlements for different employee groups.
- Quota generation using the schema TQTA.
- Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance testing.

Personnel Administration:
 Configuration of:
- Configured the Enterprise Structure (Personnel areas, and Personnel sub areas) and the Personnel
Structure (Employee group, Employee sub group).
- Configuring Info types menus in the master data screens (PA30) as per the requirements.
- Maintaining internal number range (Feature NUMKR) allocation for the employees.
- Customizing personnel actions and the reason for change in personnel actions.
- Setup Info type menus.
- Setting up of info groups for personnel Actions like Hiring, Organization Reassignment, Termination,
- Screen and Header modifications

Client : Service Birmingham (Support Project) Feb 2012 to Feb 2013

Role & Responsibilities as Functional Consultant

 Handling the Level 2 and 3 tickets in HR
 Knowledge on E- Recruitment & LSO Support tickets
 Working and configuration of EIC (Employee Interaction Centre)
 Analyze and troubleshoot problems and solve tickets on daily basis.
 Checking the Tickets on a regular basis in the tool and segregating based on Parameter change or Direct
Resolution and provide application support or maintenance based on the requirement
 Working on change request as per the new requirement of the client.
 Work with the Applications Management teams, Development teams and Help Desk teams to ensure that
services meet the terms of the SLA with Client.
 Working with PA, Payroll, Time Management & PDR issues.
 Taking care of the user acceptance testing and preparing the test plans.
 Preparing the functional specifications for enhancements and configuration.
 Coordinating with the ABAP Team for bug fixing issues in HR domain.
 Working with Basis team for movement of transport requests between the clients.
 Rendering guidance to the user on the month-end and year-end related activities on need basis.
 Analysed, designed, evaluated, configured, tested and implemented the change requests as well as trouble
shooting of application issues.
 Achieved the SLA Service Level Agreement) & TAT (Turnaround Time) as per the client requirements.
 Documenting the change request and solution provided for future reference.
 Configuration of Travel Management end to end with in a short span of time.

Company : Wipro Wividus Dec 2007 to May 2011

Role & Responsibilities
 Manually updating the Absence & Attendance date in SAP.
 Processing Wipro Benefits Plan claims.
 Processing Furniture and Expenditure claims to employees.
 Taking care Wipro Company Lease Accommodation.
 Coordinating with Finance team and Vendor creation team for speedy process of payments to employee.
 Preparing company lease agreement behalf of company and land owner.
 Updating to payroll process team to stop HRA component amount and diverted same to the land power.
 Initiating brokerage amount behalf of the company.
 Processing Medical bills and taking year end activities.
 Processing fuel and maintained bills as per the employee eligible criteria.
 Taking Month end and year end activities.
 Resolving user queries regarding claim status and payment status on timely manner.

Achievements & Certificates

 SAP HR Certification C_THR12_65 Cleared with 100%
 SAP Success Factors Employee Central (C_THR81_1702)
 SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Goal Management (C_THR82_1702)
 Won Feather in My Cap Award in Wipro for Best Employee Service.
 SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Success Factors Employee Central Payroll.

Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) – Human Resources 2007

KKECS Institute of Management, Bangalore (Bangalore University)
IT Skills
 E.R.P. System : SAP HCM ECC 5.0 & 6.0, EC & ECP
 Cloud : Success Factors
 Software :  MS Visio, Microsoft Office Tools.
 Other Tools: Remedy, Service now, Top desk, USD 6, SDM 12, SAP Solution Manager

Personal Details

 Date of Birth : 14th Feb 1982

 Residential Address: 1604, Fox Run Dr, Plainsboro Township, NJ 08536
 Languages Known : English, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu

Date: Yours Truly

Place: New Jersey