Pavan Kumar-Workday Consultant
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Experience
Workday Consultant
Kognitiv Inc
- Led business requirements workshops and interactive prototyping sessions across global workstreams, translating complex HR needs into functional specifications and updated implementation workbooks.
- Partnered with cross-functional project managers, business analysts, and third-party implementation partners to drive strategic digital HR transformation and enhance end-user experience across matrixed organizations.
- Participated in gathering Business requirements through Walk through work sessions and prototyping business solutions helping business in updating the workbooks.
- Maintained and optimized the Workday HCM suite to ensure peak system performance.
- Implemented Absence,Time Tracking,HCM Core support for countries like US, Philippines, Germany, Portugal, Chile, Mexico, Azerbaijan etc.,
- Create new time off plans, accruals. Implemented Time and Absence for Created/updated Time Offs, Time Off Plans, Time Off Accruals, Leave of Absences.
- Create advanced reports using calculated fields.
- Managed and Implemented new Application Tracking system GreenHouse Implementation.
- Acted as SPOC and configurator for Greenhouse Implementation.
- Evaluate Workday release items, test and implement the new features.
- Engineered and optimized complex Workday Business Processes (BPs) with advanced condition rules, dynamic approval routing, and step delay logic to streamline the entire worker lifecycle (Hire, Job Change).
- Executed large-scale bulk data loads using Enterprise Interface Builders (EIBs) for global worker data updates, maintaining 100% data integrity, audit readiness, and strict GDPR compliance.
- Served as the functional SME for Core HCM, collaborating closely with upstream/downstream module owners (Time Tracking, Absence, Compensation, Payroll) to ensure seamless data flows and zero-downtime hypercare support.
Workday Consultant
Alight Solutions
- Provide support researching, resolving issues and enhancements related to Workday HCM, Time, Absence.
- Created/updated Time Offs, Time Off Plans, Time Off Accruals, Leave of Absence.
- Created Time entry codes, Time entry templates, Time calculations, Time entry validations.
- Mass uploads of Accrual adjustments, pay inputs etc using EIBs
- Assess and implement new functionality from Workday as part of the Release Management
- Supporting Existing Integrations based on the client requirements..
- Developed Integrations by creating reports to fetch the data from workday and populate in the Outbound File.
- Created ISU's and ISSG's(Security) for all the inbound and outbound integrations based on the functionality.
- Scheduled the integrations to deliver the files to sftp location based on the internal and external vendor requirement.
- Work with HR teams and other stakeholders for UAT and document the configuration/testing.
- Create and Manage the Knowledge base for the end users.
- Assist in training the HR teams in providing necessary training to the new team members or as needed for specific topics.
- Use ServiceNow / Jira to respond to HR issues and log configuration defects.
SAP and Successfactors Analyst
Wipro Technologies
- Discussing with business and gathering requirement
- SPOC for Onsite & Offshore Leave Module
- Enabled leave policies for GEOs like Offshore, APAC, Middle East, Americas & Europe
- Preparation of Scope document for the requirement and getting signoff for the same
- Responsible for troubleshooting problems in Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Time Management and Portal Issues.
- Creation of Holiday Calendar for each location as per the requirement.
- Created specific period work schedules, daily work schedules, break schedules and work schedule rules.
- Maintained the feature SCHKZ for defaulting work schedule rule.
- Define Attendance, Absence Types, Substitutions, Counting rules and Deduction rules.
- Configured absence quotas, defined base entitlements and Generation rules for quota selection.
- Configured the Public Holidays and Holiday Calendar according to client requirements.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Information Technology and Professional Services.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Human Resources and Information Technology.
Summary
- HR Consultant with 12 years of experience in Implementing and supporting Workday Absence, Time Tracking, Workday Integrations and SAP HCM.
- Experienced in Requirement gathering, Documentation, Configuration and Testing.
- Experienced in Workday Report Writer - Advanced reports, Calculated Fields, Data loads, EIB, Integrations like CCW,CCB etc..
- Experience in updating business processes by adding condition rules, step delays, notifications etc
- Have knowledge in various HR processes like Employee record maintenance, Benefits, Job changes, Payroll.
- Experience defining HR Business and Systems strategy, Project Management, developing system requirements, designing, and prototyping, training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.
- Experience handling day to day support activities and work on rollouts and enhancements.
- Configured and maintained core Workday HCM structures—including Supervisory Organizations, Custom Organizations, Cost Centers, and Location Hierarchies—to support dynamic business restructures across international regions.
- Performed Unit testing, Functional, Integration, Regression Testing and coordinated User Acceptance testing.
- Experience working with different stakeholders from HR, Payroll, Finance, and external teams.
Skills
- Workday Time Tracking And Absence Management
- Workday Hcm
- Workday Integrations
- Workday Report Writer
- Servicenow, Jira,Zendesk,Zoho
Languages
Certifications & licenses
Absence Core
Orchestrion
Studio
Workday HCM Core
Workday Integrations
Statistics
Experience
Expertise
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Frequently asked questions
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Pavan is based in Oberursel, Germany.
Pavan speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), German (Elementary).
Pavan has at least 16 years of experience. During this time, Pavan has worked in at least 2 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 5 years and 2 months. Note that Pavan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Pavan would be well-suited for roles such as: Workday Consultant, SAP and Successfactors Analyst.
Pavan's most recent position is Workday Consultant at Kognitiv Inc.
In recent years, Pavan has worked for Kognitiv Inc and Alight Solutions.
Pavan is most experienced in industries like Information Technology and Professional Services.
Pavan is most experienced in business areas like Human Resources and Information Technology.
Pavan has recently worked in industries like Professional Services.
Pavan has recently worked in business areas like Human Resources and Information Technology.
Pavan has 5 certificates. Among them, these include: Absence Core, Orchestrion, and Studio.
Pavan is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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