ANAND BALAJI

Chennai, India
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-balaji-4a249728/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Overall 20+ years of experience with 12+ years of experience in Workday ecosystem. • Consulted and Lead many successful Implementation of E2E/Multi-Wave Projects. • Handled few AMS projects with Agile Ways of Working (Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Retrospective). • Performed different roles such as Solution Architect, Project Management, HCM / Payroll Functional Consultant, Security Lead, Reporting Consultant and Testing Lead. • Handling HCM / Payroll Center Of Excellence for capacity building, delivery and sales enablement. • Trained and Mentored many younger talents on several Workday related areas. • Created and Leveraged few Assets and Tools which simplifies the overall process. • Worked for various Industries such as Automobiles, Pharma, Media, Aerospace, Financial Services and Manufacturing. • Involved extensively with clients for Design workshops, SIT, UAT, Customer confirmation Sessions, DA Reviews, Cutover activities, Data catch-up and Hypercare. • Received many Appreciations and Awards such as Most Valuable Player, Manager's Choice Award and Eminence Excellence Award.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Solution Architect
04/2021 - Present
IBM
• Plan, lead, and facilitated from Requirement gathering, Design Workshops, CCS, Unit Testing, E2E Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing until Deploy.
• Assess and recommend the best solutions to address client needs on decommission the existing legacy systems.
• Centrally coordinate the development of new or enhanced cloud capabilities based on customer need and firm standards.
• Providing consulting / architect advises on Successful E2E and Multi-waves implementation of HCM, Recruitment, Talent, Advance Compensation, Benefits, Reporting, Learning, Time & Absence and do impact analysis for Integrations.
• Translate customer business requirements into solutions and assist in the creation of the delivery roadmap, estimates, and project timelines.
• Driven and Lead Overall Cutover Plan/Checklist for many deployments.
• Provided expert advice and leveraged IBM’s Implementation Methodologies, Tools and Accelerators.
• Trained and Mentored consultants for successful transition from Deploy to Post-Production support.
• Review SOP Documentations are up-to date as per the requirement and maintained on regular basis.
Senior Advisory Consultant
01/2019 - 03/2021
IBM
• Resolved Incidents related to Recruitment, Compensation, Staffing, Absence, Reporting and Security within SLA and high Quality.
• Proposed and Implemented Security Framework Redesign based on consulting experience and best practices.
• Managed Offshore Project Team (Functional and Integrations) to resolve Incidents and Change Requests within SLA and Top Quality leads to high NPS Score from Client.
• E2E Implementation of Advance Compensation Salary structure based on CTC Top-Down Approach for APAC Countries.
• Driven Regression Testing on all Workday HCM module Feature release upgrades.
• Execute the day-to-day activities of Workday HCM project support for a variety of customer contracts including ad-hoc support and implementation.
• Provide subject matter expertise on Workday best practices.
• Conduct sessions with customers to analyze business requirements and provide solutions to complex business problems.
Associate Manager / Payroll Consultant
11/2015 - 12/2018
ACCENTURE
• Consulted and Implemented US Payroll and post-production support.
• Configuration of pay components such as Earnings, Deductions, Taxes, Withholding Orders, Payment election Rules, Options etc.
• Created different calculations such as Arithmetic, Conditional, Logic, Instance value based on client’s requirement.
• Performed Cross Module Touchpoint with Compensation, HCM and Time/Absence.
• Process Payroll - Run Pay calculation, Audit, Reconciliation, Retro Pay and Run Pay Complete.
• Process payrolls and HRIS tasks/activities by meeting the obligations such as TAT & accuracy levels.
• Employee Data (Ex – Payroll Input) load via EIB to validate and process.
Senior / Compensation Consultant
12/2014 - 11/2015
DELOITTE
• Created and configured Merit Plans, Custom Business Processes, Compensation Matrix, Merit Eligibility Rules, Compensation Grid, Coordination Rules and Merit Related Reports.
• Implemented Compensation Review process includes creation of new Merit Plans, waiting period rules, proration rule, Compensation scorecards, Merit Eligibility Rules, Compensation matrix, configurable grid, coordination of events, compensation statement and Merit Related custom Reports.
• Create new security groups to perform different set of tasks relates to Merit Processing.
• Resolve Incidents related to Merit Processing and fix as per SLA.
Consultant
06/2013 - 12/2014
INFOSYS
• Creation of Functional Specification and Design documents for all configurations and Integrations.
• Production support for all Go-Live countries within Workday includes Enhancement, Testing, Security and Business Process definitions.
• Business Process Framework configuration based on business requirements.
• Gathering of requirements including iLoad for data conversion and upload to Workday.
• Coordinated with Technical team on successful delivery of all the Integrations and Reports to third party system.
• Create custom reports based on requirement with business object's structure/calculated fields and integration methodologies within Workday.
Senior Business System Analyst
05/2011 - 06/2013
FLEXTRONICS
• Co-ordinate with HRIS, Business (HRSS) and Vendors on any critical production issues with the current Configurations, Integrations and Reports.
• Created Functional Specification and Design documents for any new configurations and Integrations.
• Involved in implementation of Absence setup for APAC countries and Goals across Global.
• All module Business Process changes based on business requirements.
• Involved in regression testing during 'Workday Release Update'.
• Coordinated with Technical team on successful delivery of all the Integrations and Reports to third party system.
• Created many complex custom reports based on requirement with business objects structure/calculated fields.
• Using AIM Methodology for all the IT Projects through 5 phases - Initiation > Plan > Design > Build > 'Deploy and Run'.
Associate Consultant
09/2010 - 05/2011
CAPGEMINI
• Worked as an HCM Business Analyst and Lead HCM Team which involves Core HR and ePMS.
• Configuring the application for Core HR, ePMS, e Compensation, Employee Self Service (ESS) and Manager Self Service (MSS) Application.
• Involving in UAT and Functional testing.
• Assisted client with impact analysis, decision-making, workarounds, and designs related to the functionality being implemented.
• Analyzed all functional requirements and translated into functional fits and gaps.
• Detailed legacy application conversion planning and data mapping to the PeopleSoft Products/Applications.
HR Operations Coordinator
05/2005 - 09/2010
HEWLETT PACKARD
• Configuring the application for Core HRMS, Employee Self Service (ESS) and Manager Self Service (MSS) Application in PeopleSoft.
• Assisted client with impact analysis, decision-making, workarounds, and designs related to the functionality being implemented.
• Created many HR Reports via Business Objects.
• Analyzed all functional requirements and translated into functional fits and gaps.
• Designed detailed functional solution specifications for logically grouped requirements.
• Assisted project management with overall project planning.
• Created detailed test scripts for Functional Unit Testing and System Testing.

EDUCATION

MASTER'S DEGREE
01/2020
Indira Gandhi National Open University
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
01/2005
University of Madras

SKILLS

CERTIFICATIONS

Workday HCM
Workday Core Payroll and US Payroll
Workday PM
Workday Launch