Sai Suddala

Workday Project Manager at Iowa OCIO
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(386) 825-5501
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Ames, Iowa, United States, US

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Roopa Mandava MBA, CSM, CPM

Sai is an experience developer and a great team player to work with. Sai and I worked together during the Workday implementation project. She is on time with all the tasks and responds quickly for all communications.

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Experience

    • United States
    • Government Administration
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Workday Project Manager
      • Aug 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • Government Administration
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Workday HCM/ FIN Consultant
      • Mar 2020 - Jun 2022

    • United States
    • Government Administration
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Workday Lead Financial Consultant
      • Mar 2019 - Mar 2020

      • Workday Foundation Data Model (FDM), Workday Composite Reporting, Workday Business Processes, Workday Data Conversion, Workday Budgeting, General Ledger, Cost Allocations, Interfaces, Project Accounting, Report Writer, Financial Statements, Accounting procedures, Accounts receivable and accounts payable. • Developed, monitored, and adjusted project budget to ensure profitability & performed Foundation Data Model (FDM) lead role in multiple implementations, analyzed business needs to assist clients in designing, testing, and refining software build. • Provided shadowing and mentoring for associate consultants & support to identify new outsourcing opportunities in the Finance Planning and Analysis (FPA) area specifically in procurement and reporting. • Creation of New Company, Cost Center, Supervisory Organization, Pay Group, Compensation Elements, Recruiting and updating job descriptions. • Built Integrations in Workday Financials data module which includes data relative to Accounts, Accounting, Business Plans, Financial Reporting, and Tax & Created Custom GL Integration from Workday using Journal Lines data source to send the Post Payroll result to Lawson system. • Led Workday Delivery Assurance (DA) reviews in the Financial Accounting, Reporting, and Budgeting areas. • Proficient in Workday with hands-on experience in large-scale, global, full-life cycle, domestic and international implementations. • Worked on implementation of Different Financial Modules & as Senior Consultant on the implementation of Business Assets, Customer Accounts and Revenue Management, Banking and Cash Management areas within workday Financials. Show less

    • United States
    • Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Workday Finance Integration and Payroll Consultant
      • Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

      • Responsible for leading Business System Analysis for Global Workday Compensation, Benefits, Stock, Bonus, Merit using workday advance reports. • Developed data solutions in conjunction with key initiatives within the organization. • Experience in creating Security groups for the integrations like Benefits and Payroll and maintained them with other groups like Employee as self and Intersection type security groups • Coordinate Data Migration / Transformation / harmonization as needed • Ensure appropriate, full coverage test cases are completed by the vendor / implementation partner. • Currently responsible for Managing Payroll and Benefits process for Pfizer US and Puerto Rico headcount and working as Business As Usual Technical for HR reporting and Analytics to design and develop Workday reports. • Involved in creating Benefit plans, Benefit groups, Benefit eligibility rules as per the client requirement, add them into enrolment plans, and manage the enrolment rules. • Managed North American Payroll teams consisting of US, Canada Payroll Operations and tax, and HR Shared Services in Brazil. • Created Payroll schedule, processes and SOP documentation for all pay groups • Managed Test Lead to coordinate Integration testing, Payroll parallel testing, and user acceptance testing. • Worked on Recruitment process go live by migrating third party Taleo to Workday. • Worked alongside the integration team to configure and test integrations between the Workday solution and the client's selected Payroll and Benefits providers. • Responsible for testing Workday connector to send payroll data to third party vendor. • Created test scenarios and test data for end to end testing from Business process to Integration to Payroll. Show less

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lead Workday Integration Consultant
      • Nov 2016 - May 2018

      • Worked on designing Workday integrations using PICOF. • Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework. • Worked extensively on Payroll Interfaces and have designed and developed integrations in both Workday Studio and EIB. • Extensively worked on inbound/ outbound integrations Using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports, XML, XPATH and XSLT. • Expert in designing/development of Interfaces with legacy and third party systems. • Getting requirements from client/vendor and working on providing the solution for the same. • Worked on many Payroll, Benefits and HCM integrations. • Worked on various custom integrations of which some were complex Studio integrations. • Worked on configuring some BP's like Termination and End Contingent Contract. • Responsible for coordinating with the client/vendor during the different phases of the project. • Developed outbound integrations using EIB, Web services, Document Transformation and Workday Studio for several integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems. • Developed integrations using web services on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll Integration, ADP Inbound/Outbound, Active Directory Inbound. • Fixed issues with Time Off plans/Time Off, Accruals, eligibility rules etc. • Created new Workday Studio Integration to bring in the time-clock from a time clock system for Puerto Rico and then another Workday Studio integration to send the approved time to ADP for Payroll processing. • Created Payroll Integration for Canada , New Zealand and Singapore Payroll Interfaces. • Created ONE TIME PAYMENT Studio Integration. • Created different staffing models, defining hiring restrictions to Job Management, Position Management and Headcount Management. Show less

    • United States
    • Retail Apparel and Fashion
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Workday Consultant
      • 2016 - Oct 2016

      • Worked with a team that is responsible for building Workday Integrations to integrate Workday with various third parties. • Lead project related to Workday that support the company's operations across Payroll, Absence Management, and Time Tracking, Base Compensation with integrations and configure Workday component interfaces • Optimize Human Resource processes including managing existing positions, tracking and hiring applicants, creating positions, proposing compensation, benefits planning, and event management. • Lead Workday recruiting implementation and collaboration with Workday professional services. • Worked with end users/business analysts to gather business requirements, understand business problems and effectively apply technology to solve the problems. • Design/Architect Workday integrations using Workday Studio, Report Writer, SaaS, EIB, XSLT and Core Connectors. • Integrate Workday with various third party applications like Active Directory, ADP, SunTrust and various Benefit vendor systems. • Handle the benefits program from helping determine which benefits to offer and entering the payroll deductions. • Hands on experience in inbound/ outbound integrations Using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports. • Worked on creating Compensation module like Creating Salary Plans, Allowance Plans, and Compensation Grades & Packages. • Fixed issues with Time Off plans/Time Off, Accruals, eligibility rules etc. • Analyzed client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and supported development of new business processes and a future state design. • Created new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation, which uses connector Integrations XML Output as its data source input. • Involved in Generating templates and validating inbound integration system results. Show less

    • United States
    • Retail Groceries
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Sr. Workday Consultant
      • 2015 - 2016

      Reports/Report Writer, Workday data conversion, I loads and Workday integrations. • Develop and execute custom configured reports in Workday, and other systems, and provide detailed analysis and recommendations as needed. • Configured various aspects of workday HCM components such as compensation, Business Processes, Payroll, Benefits and Reports. • Collaborated with Business, Development and Test teams to ensure the risk register and quality control systems updated and ensure the risks, issues, and resolutions were communicated to all stake holders. • Played a key role in gathering requirements from design partners, designing and developing the Workday Time Tracking product. • Worked on Workday Time Tracking from the concept to the general availability of the product. • Maintained and supported all the HR Business processes like compensation change, Hiring, Performance and talent management, change job, Expense events implemented on workday. • Supports Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance in the complaint handling process through testing and evaluation of returned goods. • Record employee information, like exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain update payroll records. • Issue record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases. • Keep informed about changes in tax deduction laws that apply to the payroll process. • Provide information to employees managers on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions. • In-depth IT experience in support of human resource processes such as employee data management, organizational structure management and payroll. • Advanced reports design and development, Configuration of Dashboards, Worklets and advanced analytics. • Experience in documenting Business Process Procedures and End User Training. • Provide input to planning of work activities as well as manage execution of day to day activities related to HCM operation. Show less

    • Workday Integration Consultant
      • 2013 - 2014

      • Responsible for Requirement Gathering, Configurations, Setups, Gap Analysis, Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End User and Super User Trainings, and Post Production Support. • Involved in the design phase and prototyping for further discussions with the client. • Ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholders and team members. • Responsible for gathering and documenting customer requirements, designing, tracking, reporting and analyzing key organizational and operational reports. • Supported the Head of Quality Control in the purchasing of laboratory supplies and requisitions using SAP, and review the analysis results. • Hands on Workday Systems Integration experience building custom integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation. • Designed and developed sets of integrations to integrate Workday HR with recruiting systems. • Experience in developing simple and advanced matrix custom reports for integration. • Actively involved in sales cycle for signing up with new third party vendor’s payrolls, time tracking and performance. • Designed the customizations to suit the business requirements and wrote the technical specifications. • Distribute collect timecards each pay period. • Complete, verify, and process forms and documentation for administration of benefits like pension plans, and unemployment medical insurance. • Prepare balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements. • Coordinate special programs, like United Way campaigns, that involve payroll deductions • Process paperwork for new employees enter employee information into the payroll system. • Keep track of leave time, like vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employee. • Creating the new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams. Show less

  • Freelancer
    • Hyderabad Area, India
    • Workday Consultant
      • 2012 - 2013

      • Worked as a Workday Integrations consultant. • Understanding the client requirements and involved in data migrations from PeopleSoft into workday. • Data configuration in Workday using Core Connectors • Proficient in Workday report writer tool and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), and created custom transformations using XSLT, Workday Studio. • Report generation using Calculated fields • Developed complex custom reports and also leveraged the Workday built in report. • Involved in design, development and End-to-End of integrations testing. • Designed and built both inbound and outbound Enterprise Interface Builders for pushing and pulling data from the legacy system. • Very Strong experience in Creating XSLT's, XSLT Mappings and using name spaces and XML files. • Responsible for deploying the objects to Production Tenant. • Involved in mass data load from PeopleSoft HCM into Workday HCM during migration. • Assisted in the transition of the customer from professional services to Workday customer support • Worked on translating customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents. • Developed stored procedures and triggers to facilitate consistent data entry into the database. • Developed custom dash boards for executive management. • Developed Workday Custom Reports and utilized Report as a Service (RaaS) ability to use in integrations. • Developed integrations using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound. • Lead detailed integration discovery/design sessions with cross-functional client teams and senior business executives. • Developed several inbound EIB’s to clean up data post conversion due to a phased roll out. • Documentation of standard processes and procedures and preparation for Go-live Show less

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