Deepak Bellara
Deepak Bellara
Possess 15 years of Experience as SAP HR/HCM Functional Consultant which includes 5 years of experience as SAP
HR / SuccessFactors Lead and Project Manager
Expert in HR business process and in the areas of Personal Administration (PA), Personnel Development (PD), Organization
Management (OM), Learning Solutions(LSO), Payroll, Time Management (TM), Training and Event Management (TEM), E-
Recruitment & ESS and MSS.
Experience working on SAP BW InfoCube, ODS, BEx Queries, Extractors, Transfer Rules and Update Rules and BEx
Reporting within HR.
Experience Managing BI HR projects for Analytics and Learning Management.
Effective in Design and Delivery of cost effective solutions.
Worked on SAP R/3 versions 4.5B, 4.6B, 4.6C & 4.7 Enterprise, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0.
Configuration of the SAP HR System and working with Business teams and peers for the analysis and requirement gathering.
Involved in Business Requirement Gathering and working with stake holders to make a clear understanding of the current
situation (AS-IS) and setting expectations for Future (TO-BE).
Involved in working with business from scratch starting with Implementation to Deployment from Business Perspective as
well as Technology standpoint.
Involved in 2 Global implementation/support /upgrade projects.
Worked on different enhancement pack of ECM for SAP HR from EHp4.0, EHp5.0 and EHp6.0.
Experience on ASAP methodologies.
Experience in SAP Launch Methodology of SuccessFactors.
Converting the BRI in to Functional Design Document, Technical Design Specification, coordinating/conducting the
developments/configuration, preparing test cases and preparing documentation for custom configuration / development.
Extensively experienced in system study, analysis, design, coding and developing interfaces for new applications from
scratch in ABAP/4 and ABAP HR.
Experience working with different vendors and systems i.e. Fidelity, Workspace, Watson Wyatt, Peopleclick, ADP, and
Kronos.
Experience working with Taleo and TCC
Experience working on SuccessFactors: Performance, Goals, Calibration, 360, Workforce Analytics, ORD Reporting and Ad
hoc reporting and Succession planning.
Experience working on SAP HR Security for new role designing and creation.
Experience working on Waterfall model and Agile methodology.
Lead the SuccessFactors track onsite working with client for PM/GM, 360 & Calibration, Employee Profile from both
Investment side as well as Enterprise side.
Participated in requirement gathering workshops for Recruiting Management and Onboarding
Drafted the Operational Model for Capital group which included various functions which could performed along with
delineation between SuccessFactors and implementation partners.
Liaise with Business users and HR Technology team for their Demand Requests, Enhancements, Testing, Planning and
Execution of UAT to sign off.
Worked with HR Business Partners & Business users from Capital Group in order to work on enhancements in PM /GM and
planning the same for the bi –weekly release.
Leading and liaising with HR Business users and HRT for all meetings concerning their Demand, Solution Design and
Recommendations.
Assisting HRT in QM testing along with QM Team for sign off
Leading the change management client BSA’s to present the Demand items in Release for sign off.
Lead the Quarterly Release process with client for Universal and Opt-ins and performing Impact Analysis.
Working with SuccessFactors on any issues on case by case basis and keeping the team informed about the updates.
Configuring the system for Pick lists, Performance Forms /360/Calibration Changes, RBP , Email Template notifications ,
Rating Scales, Competency and custom processes for Investment Group for 360 .
Designed the process flow for Requisition, Application Management, Job offers.
Configured the Requisition templates, Route Maps, Candidates, Pick list, Job offers.
Mapping of RCM with Onboarding.
Configuring Emails, SMS text and outlook integration with RCM.
Designed the interfaces between RCM to SAP and Onboarding to SAP for all new hires, job codes, job families and roles.
Involved in Configuring agencies, applicant statuses, replacement text.
Configured the RBP Design for Recruiting and Onboarding for US, International.
Involved in cut over activities to migrate all objects from QA to Prod.
Worked on creating custom Ad hoc Reports for the client which can leveraged in performance cycle.
Worked on various employee data files, manage the data user records, Role based permissions.
Assisted the client by planning for review cycles, configuring the performance review process, goals management process
and calibration process.
Handled Implementation of enhancements and part of Cutover planning for the client.
Assisted the PMO group from Investment group perspective for Analysis of all the forms and gearing up at the end to
complete the process and reporting to stake holders about completion process.
Lead the Configuration for SSO provisioning via Okta, liaising with Middleware team for Okta Configurations,
SuccessFactors for Akamai URL’s.
Worked on different Ad-Hoc and ORD Reports on 360 and Performance Management.
Assisted client during the cycles and preparing them for the coming up SuccessFactors Releases and Analysis.
Performed the Impact Analysis for each and every Enhancement from SuccessFactors with a thorough UAT plan and
deployment to production.
Assisted the client in Cloning and Data Scrubbing Activities.
Reporting the status to key stake holders of the tasks/ milestones completed weekly.
Monitoring the progress of the enhancements and working towards milestones for completion.
Client: BEHR PROCESS CORP Santa Ana, CA Oct 2010 to Feb 2011
Designation: SAP HR Consultant
Modules: PA, OM, Benefits, ESS, MSS, Payroll
Responsibilities:
Understanding business requirements, analysis, interpretation and preparing Functional Specification of Benefits Inbound
Hartford interface for Supplementary Life insurance Plans for Employee, Spouse/Registered Domestic Partner, Dependent
Optional life.
Beneficiary Project for ESS: - Legal Requirements to make Spouse as Designated beneficiary to 100% Primary, Charities &
Trusts IT 0219 as Beneficiary Contingent along with other dependents, this would be for both 401 K plans as well as Basic
Life Insurance plans, which would also be part of both Open Enrollment as well as Anytime which involved creation of
custom RFC’s for Visual Composer.
Configuring Absence Quotas for Puerto Rico to load Vacation and Sick Balances.
Configuring Behr Paint Sales sub area and including benefit plans for the same.
Configuring the Life Insurance Plans, Savings Plan (401k) and handling all deductions in SAP in benefits which is then
passed to ADP for payroll deductions.
Handling ESS/MSS Scenarios for Benefits.
Making EEOC available via ESS for Employees to select their ethnicity, race and military status when they joining the
company which involved creation of custom RFC’s for Visual Composer.
Involved in Payroll Design where in the whole earnings, deductions and whole data for biweekly as well as Quarterly data
were stored in custom info type for reporting purposes and then the same could be fetched from portal .
Creating Specifications for External Organization IT0219 and their subtypes such as Trust and Charity through portal using
Visual Composer which is part of anytime.
Design for W2 statements in ESS/MSS.
LSMW to Load the IT0008 Pay scale ranges effective for the current year and default the 401k plans as well as catch up to 0
for all employees.
Configuring the open enrollment process and handling file feeds from Hartford by sending Outbound Demographics and
receiving inbound contributions for Supplemental life insurance.
Testing the Hartford Interface end to end starting from Hartford to SAP and from SAP to ADP interfaces which takes the
deductions amounts for the employees.
Functional Specification and testing for the IT0210 for Defaulting the tax Areas for IL as well as IN employees to Single and
0.
Client: Farmers Insurance Group, Los Angeles CA Aug 2008 till Oct 2009
SAP HCM Lead.
Global Implementation Project
Modules: Recruitment, Time Management, PA, OM, ESS/MSS, E-Recruitment, Compensation, Payroll
Responsibilities:
Participating in the Business Meetings and Requirement Discussion as a bridge between Business and IT for Consulting on
Business and Technical aspects.
Worked on amalgamation of different companies in to SAP HR such as Bristol West and 21 st Century Insurance and design
from end to end for Conversion from these companies to SAP to the entire downstream for Payroll.
Served as a liaison for HR users to identify process improvements.
Analysis, creation and testing of different Personnel Actions in PA40 and also suggesting the changes as per the needs of the
business process.
Configured the Info groups for each of the Objects like Organization Units, Jobs, and Positions etc.
Configured the Enterprise structure (Personnel Area, and Personnel Sub Area) and the Personnel Structure (Employee Group,
Employee Sub group) using T001P, T500P, T501 and T503K.
Configuring the Dynamic Actions as per the requirements.
Configured the Info groups for each of the Objects like Organization Units, Jobs, and Positions etc.
Worked on ZPA48 enhancement of PA48 in E-recruitment for New Hire.
Configured Job Code, Job Code groups, Pascale areas, Pay scales groups. Related to Compensation.
Worked on Adhoc queries and Quickviewer to get the data in report format.
Troubleshoot SAP HR configuration functional issues related to PA, OM, and ESS/MSS.
Involved in analysis, implementation and changes on Peopleclick interfaces using Informatica.
a) Requisition Import: SAP to Peopleclick.
b) Job Code: Peopleclick to SAP for balancing both systems.
c) New Hire Export: Peopleclick to SAP ZPA48 enhancement of PA48 for E-Recruitment. And
configured Dynamic actions
Analysis of ZEM (Zurich Enterprise Model) for SAP Interfacing over Informatica in areas of cost and performance.
Creating the Change Request Documents and Defects for new Interfaces and Reports in Mercury Quality Center based on
analysis and requirement gathering and discussion with business.
Developed and produced infoset/ad hoc queries/reports for executive management
Audited HR data entry to maintain data consistency/integrity
Responsible for translation and dissemination of technical information to executive management.
Realizing the Global Implementation.
Implementation of the Time Keeping process (Negative Time) for Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees through ESS and
activating necessary workflows for leave Requests adhere to the requirements of the employees . This also involved analysis
and implementation of the standard solutions of partnering companies who had time keeping solution implemented as to go
on one global platform using CATS in ESS.
Configured different data entry profile for CATS in ESS.
Functionalities worked on Leave Request, Record working time, Time Statement & Time Accounts.
Implemented the Program to notify managers after the working time has been entered by the employees, program scheduled
to run on specific time in night which generates UWL entries and mails for manager or substitute.
Handled workflows related to Leave Request, customized it as per the client requirements.
Performing Conversion using LSMW along with Zurich Global to load data from acquired companies such as Bristol West
and 21Century.
Co-ordinated the development of IDOC’s for various interfaces from SAP to Informatica and visa-versa with Zurich Global.
Conducting UAT and end to end testing using multiple scenarios based on user requirements to test Functionality both
Functionally as well as technically.
Assisted in development and administration of user training for changes and enhancements by creation of BPP’s (Business
Process Procedures).
Worked on Travel management with different configurations and also with different infotypes 470 - Travel Profile
471 - Flight preferences, 472 - Hotel preferences, 473 - Car rental preferences, 474 - Train preferences, 475 - Customer
programs, 017 - Travel privileges
PAYROLL
Implemented the Payroll Process by decommissioning the payroll process from Mainframe and then implementing payroll
for different countries.
Configured and implemented Payroll module to include wage types, schemas, rules, features, taxes, financial posting, and all
other subsequent activities.
Mapped Legacy wage types to SAP wage types.
Defined the payroll periods and pay dates for each payroll area.
Created wage type and check wage type group for Basic pay, Additional payments, and Recurring payments.
Created the Process Model for Weekly, Bi-Monthly, and Off-Cycle processing.
Experience working with Payroll Driver RPCLACU0 and Schema U000.
Configuration of tax Authorities and Tax Models, mapping of wage type for PY to FI Posting.
Generated Payroll periods, Configured wage types for the new business requirements and mapped them to the G/L Accounts.
Customized Payroll schemas and PCR’s related to Payroll run.
Provide support for running Payroll and maintaining the Control Record for the new users.
Configured the Processing Class and Evaluation Class for Wage Types as needed.
Configured Gross-Up Wage types as per the business requirements.
Created and coordinated year end/tax reporting work plan and delivery of year end activities, Federal, and state (provincial)
quarterly/yearly tax reporting form for US
Client: Southern California Edison, Irwindale, CA Feb 2008 till May 2008
SAP HR Lead
The Project is a huge implementation project on E-Recruitment, ESS/MSS and
SAP LSO (Enterprise Learning Solutions) and Enterprise Compensation Management involving RICEFW (Reports , Interfaces,
Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow) objects with multiple releases .
Responsibilities:
Co-ordination with the client and Process Teams.
Configured system changes as needed.
Provided advice and counsel to the organization in area of expertise for overall functional strategic planning.
Involved in working of ASAP methodologies and also ZDEVELOP tool developed by Infosys for tracking of objects and
configurations.
Worked as per the ASAP methodology (Project management methodology) to get the implementation completed successfully
completed.
LSO
Configuring the Course Groups, Course Types, Curriculum Types for LSO.
Configuring the Follow up Process for e-learning.
Configuring the Web Based Training and Follow up.
Configuring the Workflow customizations for Qualifications, Participations.
Configuring the set ups for Time Schedule, Course Locations, Training Providers, Delivery Methods
Configuring the Resource Management, Rooms for training, External Instructors.
Configuring Day to Day activities such as booking, pre booking, participant checks, booking priorities, approvals, workflows.
Configuring Recurring Activities, appraisals.
E-Recruitment
Configuring the OM objects (Jobs, position, OrgUnit structures) and PA Infotypes related to E-Recruitment.
Configuring User Interfaces, Start Pages, Context, and Container Sequences, Candidate Job Postings, and Requisition Search
Profiles, EEO and Job Related Questionnaires
Experience with Career and Succession planning.
Deep Understanding of the 5000 Series Infotypes.
Defining Number Ranges, Setting up Business Workflows, Setting up SAP Business Partner for E-Recruiting, Defining
Number Ranges, and Defining Task Filters Understanding about TREX.
Master Data in E-Recruit: Candidate, Requisition, Job Posting, Publication, Candidacy, Application and Talent Group.
Setting the link between ECC and E-Recruit box
ECM (Enterprise Compensation Management)
Configured Merit plans in Compensation.
Configured Budget types, periods, currencies, Budgeting indicator.
Configured the Compensation Area, Features, Eligibility, Guidelines and compensation programs, plan attributes related to
SCE Merit plans.
Configured Compensation Plans, Review, Review Items and Attributes.
Worked on EHP4.0 environment.
Technical
Sending Course Completion data to legacy System (Outbound) through Proxy via Message Interface.
Receiving the Qualification data from the Legacy system (Inbound) which is sent by XI through Message Interface.
Sending the Delta Qualification which are changed from SAP to Legacy system (Outbound).
Sending the input parameters to XI web service related to Date, Time and Legacy system Course ID which will in turn call
the Web service on the legacy side which in turn will return the data related to the Input parameters and then this data will be
stored in appropriate custom tables related to courses and Exam Interactions for Web Based trainings (Outbound and
Inbound).Involved creation of custom tables, data elements, domains in SE11 and also to view the results via SE16N
transaction.
File based interface for loading data from file on the application server in to following Info types 0759, 0760,
1520(Calculating budgets based on Org units) and the Custom Table.
Functional Specifications for Smart form from the SAP standard related to position
(HRRCF_DATA_SUMMARY_POSITION) and Jobs (HRRCF_DATA_SUMMARY_JOB) for a Org Unit in E Recruitment
and also tested the functionality of smart form in the E Recruitment box
Changed the standard smart form by copying the standard forms for: i) Talent Pool participation ii) Rescind offer iii)
Rejection and iv) Interview invitation letter.
Enhancing the standard workflow of Booking Course Participation in LSO which uses standard Business Object
LSO_PARTIC and event BOOKREQUEST.
Enhancement to add score field to LSO_PV15 for the Instructor Led training to update the Follow up functionality.
Enhancement to determine the start and expiration dates of the qualification that is imparted when a Course Program is
Followed Up (completed).
Business Warehouse
Performed initial configuration of new BW 3.1 landscape including defining source systems for R/3.
Implemented 12 ODS and 4 infoproviders to support payroll, benefits and salary history reporting requirements along
with Personal Data.
Developed numerous custom data sources using database views and custom function modules.
Developed 16 process chains to automate the initialization and delta updating of all data
Created over 20 BEX queries.
Experience working on Extractor Function Modules within LSO and sending the test Results and scores to BI based on
combination of multiple TAC, SCORM results.
Environment:
ERP : SAP ECC 6.0 HCM
Platform : Windows XP
Portal : Enterprise Portal with ESS/MSS, E Recruitment & LSO