Sai Praveen

Workday Techno Functional Consultant Having 5+ years of experience with expertise in workday HCM, Payroll, Absence Management, Time Tracking, Business Process, Security and well-versed in all aspects of HCM with successful implementations, Production Support, and enhancements. Expertise in Workday modules, including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence Management, Recruiting, and Time Tracking, Security, Payroll, Business Processes ensuring streamlined HR processes. Strong hands-on experience with Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, and Document Transformation for developing integrations with third-party systems.

Skilled in creating all kind of calculated fields and custom reports like Advanced, Matrix, Composite, Trending, Transposed, Search and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making. Adept at configuring and managing Workday business processes like Job Changes, Hire, Onboarding, and Terminations to align with business requirements. Strong hands-on experience with Workday Security Groups, including User based, role-based, Location Member ship, Aggregator, Service based, Segment based, Integration System access control to the domain security policies, and security group configurations.

Experience in conducting Workday Release Impact Assessments to ensure seamless adoption of new features and updates. Strong hands-on experience with Configuring ISU and ISSG groups and assigning domain and web service level permissions. Experienced in developing inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, XML, XPATH, and XSLT, SOAP API's, REST APIs.

Effective in collaborating with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions. Strong experience in managing Change Requests (CR) and migrating changes to production environments. Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, gather requirements, and translate them into technical specifications for implementation.

Well-versed in Workday testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, and UAT. Strong expertise in Workday Integration testing, UAT, and production support to ensure system reliability and data accuracy. Well-versed in Agile methodologies and tools like Jira, enabling efficient project tracking, collaboration, and timely delivery.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with individuals at all levels. Consistently meet goals, objectives, and target dates.

Workday Technical Consultant - NEXT CLOUD WAVE SOL PVT LTD

(2024-04)

Configured and optimized Workday Time Tracking & Absence for 10,000+ employees to automate leave accruals, overtime, and compliance.

• Configured Time Tracking and Absence Plans including accruals, carryovers, and validation rules.
• Designed Work Schedules, Time Entry Codes, and Overtime rules based on labour policies.
• Integrated external time systems using EIBs and resolved integration errors.
• Integrate Workday with external systems using SOAP and REST Web Services, ensuring secure and compliant data exchange.
• Use Workday Public Web Services (WWS) for real-time employee, position, organizational, and transaction data retrieval.
• Create custom transformations using XSLT to convert Workday XML outputs into required target formats.
• Developed audit and compliance reports for attendance, leave balances, and overtime tracking.
• Conducted UAT workshops and delivered user training to HR administrators.
• Ensured compliance with workforce regulations and organizational policies.
• Maintain HR knowledge articles, automate HR processes, and manage role-based access for HR agents and end users.
• Support HR operations on case resolution, employee inquiries, and data validation related to Workday → HRSD synchronization.

Workday Reporting Consultant - Cleveland Clinic

(2022-09 - 2024-03)

• Developed and supported custom, advanced, and matrix reports using Workday Report Writer.
• Built and maintained calculated fields to enable complex logic for reporting requirements.
• Handled production support and enhancements for 100+ business-critical reports.
• Created and optimized composite reports and dashboards for leadership and HR analytics.
• Designed reports for audit, compliance, and exception tracking (e.g., missing data, eligibility issues).
• Configure and support Core Connector integrations including CCW, PICOF, and PECI for HR, Payroll, and Benefits data exchanges.
• Create reusable integration templates using XML, XSLT, XSD, and Workday Data Source Framework.
• Troubleshoot integration failures using Workday error logs, integration events, sequence generators, and transport connectors.
• Implement and optimize Report-as-a-Service (RaaS) for integrations that consume Workday reports as data sources.
• Managed report access and security configurations, ensuring data privacy and role-based access.
• Participated in Workday release impact analysis, updating affected reports and calculated fields accordingly.
• Build HR service catalogs, case workflows, assignment rules, notifications, SLAs, and HR task routing.
• Customize HR templates, user criteria, topic categorization, and HR profiles to align with organizational policies.
• Collaborated with HR and business users to gather reporting requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Created and scheduled report distributions and alerts for key stakeholders.
• Performed data validation, testing (SIT/UAT), and documentation for all supported reports.
• Supported ad-hoc reporting requests and delivered quick-turnaround solutions with accuracy.
• Trained end users and HR teams on self-service reporting features and custom dashboards.
• Participated in daily support calls and ticket resolution (ServiceNow or JIRA) for report-related issues.
• Integration Monitoring, Error Handling, Debugging, Deployment to Prod/Sandbox, Tenant Migration, Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, Post-Go-Live Support.

Workday Support Consultant - Procter & Gamble (P&G)

(2021-03 - 2022-08)

• Resolved L2/L3 issues related to Core HCM, Job Changes, Terminations, and Org Hierarchy corrections.
• Performed data validation, cleanup, and conversions using EIB and calculated fields.
• Developed audit reports to validate HCM and Absence data accuracy during cutovers.
• Led UAT coordination, documented test scripts, and tracked defects with HR teams.
• Supported Workday release testing and post-deployment validation.
• Generated SOX/GDPR compliance reports and maintained change documentation.

B.Tech. - CSE - JNTU University, Kakinada