Aravind Kumar

Phone: +919849352386
Email: aravind1982@gmail.com
SUMMARY

Having a total of 7+ years of experience, out of which 3 years of experience as a SAP HR Consultant.
Was involved in 2 SAP HCM Implementations and 1 SAP HCM Support project.
Expertise in SAP Payroll, Personal Administration Organization management and Time management.
Identifying and analysing the existing business process/requirements of the client and mapping into the
SAP system and Co-ordinate with the Technical Team.
Effective communication skills and team building capabilities.
Enthusiastic about learning new things and quick adaptability to new concepts.
Strong track record of people relations, coordination skills and user trainings.

EXPERIENCE
XI Links IT Solutions
SAP HR Consultant

June 2009- Till Date

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL)

HR and Technical Support

Nov 2005 Nov 2006

Unicare Pharmacy Retail Chain in Ireland

Sales Associate

Apr 2002 - Sep 2003

STRENGTHS

Excellent communication skills. Good at providing user trainings.

Hard working and process oriented. Worked while pursuing MS in Ireland and fully supported myself
financially.
Quick learning and ability to think out of the box.
As I worked in Dublin, I have a wide exposure to various work environments.
Strong fundamentals in HR Management and passionate about Human Capital Management (HCM).

SOFTWARE SKILLS
OS
Database
ERP Software
SAP HCM

: MS Windows,
: Oracle
: SAP ECC 6.0
: PA, OM, TM, PY, Basic PCR Modification Skills.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Intensive training in SAP HCM for 6 months. Nov 2010

MS in Computer Science from Griffith College Dublin Ireland. Aug 2005.
BCA from Osmania University. Feb 2002.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Company
Role
Project
Duration
Client
Modules

: XI Links IT solutions
: SAP HR Consultant
: III (Implmentation)
: May 2011 till date
: Tamil Nadu Paper mills.
: Personal Administration, Payroll.

Client Description: Tamil Nadu Paper Mills Limited is one of the biggest pulp and paper manufacturing plant
in India. The company was incorporated in1964 at Madhurai; Tamil Nadu. The TNPM was formed with infusion
of funds and high calibre management of the well-known industrial house of bangurs of Calcutta, who interest
in textile manufacturing, tea plantation, wind energy generation and trading and investment business. One of its
most important guidelines of TNPM is the Eco-friendly Process, where in more trees are planted than that are
destroyed for the paper production. Innovative Value Engineering, Human Engineering, Technology for better
Quality and cost effectiveness, Customer satisfaction for untainted growth and business are some of the
guidelines. The company provides direct employment to over 4000 families.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Analysis of the given Business Case in the AS IS phase.

Evaluation of the Business GAP and TO BE process.
Identifying business process from the Case and prepared Business process Master List.
Prepared Key Data Structure for Configuration as per the Business Process.
End to End implementation of PA, and PY (India).
Preparation of Configuration documents & User Training Manuals, Unit Test and Integration Test
Plans.

Personal Administration

Defined Employee Attributes, Administrator Groups and Administrators using the PINCH Feature.
Identified and created various personal actions like hiring, transfer, deputation, separations, promotion
etc and the reasons for these actions.
Maintained Infotypes (IT0000, IT0001, and IT0002), created Info Groups and Info type Menus, using
Customizing Procedures.
Configured Organizational Key and Defaulted in IT0001 using the VDSK1 feature.
Formulated Dynamic Actions & Additional Actions.
Use of T_Codes PA40, PA30, PA20 and PA10 from End-User perspectives.
Modified the screens for certain infotypes using Table T588M as per client specifications.
Designed Header Note with various fields and defaulted in PA30.

Payroll

Creation of EE Subgroup Grouping for Personnel Calculation Rule and CAP.

Conversion of Pay Scale for Basic Pay and define reason for change.
Check assignment of Pay Scale Structures and determine default for Pay Scale data.
Creation of Wage Type Catalogue and Wage Type group Basic Pay.
Defining Employee Subgroups and Personnel Sub-area for Primary Wage type.
Defining Wage type Permissibility for each PS (Personnel Sub area) and ESG (Employee Subgroup).
Creation of Recurring Payments, Deductions and Additional Payments.
Monitoring the configuration of Payroll Area & Control Record, generating Payroll Periods,
configuring wage type, payroll status, payroll clusters, and payroll process and posting process.
Configured the features LGMST, TARIF and ABKRS to default the basic pay wage type, pay scale
type and area, and payroll accounting area, respectively while creating the basic Infotypes.
Creation of various Customer specific Wage Types from the Model Wage types for paying out basic
pay and effecting deductions and additional payments to the employees.

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Organizing payroll run, retro accounting and posting to finance.

Project
Duration
Client
Modules

: II (Support and Implementation)

: March 2010 to May 2011
: Texport Syndicate
: PA, OM, Time Mgt, Payroll.

Client Description: Texport Syndicate (TS) is Indias one of the largest exporters of Readymade Garments. TS
clientele includes K-Mart Wal-Mart, GAP, Boom Club, Nautica, and Bugle Boy and so on. TS have 1 head
office, 3 Branch offices and 17 Manufacturing plants. Texport Syndicate (TS), a progressive international class
textile export house. Over 5000 skilled workforce across our factories are permanently employed with all
requisite welfares.
Time Management

Creation of Public Holiday Calendar and Assign it to Factory Calendar.

Grouping of Personnel Sub Areas for the Work Schedule and Daily Work Schedule.
Creation of daily work schedules and period work schedules.
Define Day types and special Days.
Define Work Schedule rules and Work schedules.
Configured Attendance/Absence types and Time quotas.
Configured Counting rule and Deduction rule as per the client requirement.
Calculated Absence entitlements by setting Base entitlements and Generating Rules for Quota type
selection.
Maintained features like QUOMA, TMSTA, SCHKZ etc.
Maintained Tables T555A and T555Y as per client requirement.
Time Wage Type Generation using T510S Table.
Performed Time Evaluation for generating Absence Quotas using the Report RPTIME00.

Payroll
Defined period parameters and date modifiers.
Created wage types by copying appropriate model wage types.
Created Control Record by generating Payroll Periods, Period Modifiers and Payroll Past Retro
Accounting Period for different employee subgroups and personnel sub areas.
Defining Wage type Permissibility for each personnel sub area and employee subgroup in Basic pay,
Recurring payments and Deductions and Check Wage type characteristics.
Define pay scale group, wage type model (feature LGMST) and allowance groupings.
Defined valuation of base wage types using Indirect Evaluation Module INVAL and PRZNT.
Configured pay scale grouping for allowance, Basic salary for India, Raps, statutory social
contribution, ESI, PF, Terminations, Bonus, and Retirement Benefits, Posting payroll results to
Financial Accounting.
Prepared and customized the forms for Remuneration Statement.
Organizational Management
Creation and maintenance of various objects like Organization units, jobs, positions, task catalogue,
cost centers and work centers etc.
Also created the reporting structure and the various relationships between the objects.
Understanding and maintenance of Plan Version in OM.
Activation of integration switches between Personnel Administration and Organization Management.
Maintenance of Number ranges, Relationship, and Evaluation path.

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As a part of Production support:

Handled new developments as per business requirements i.e. configuring new elements like PA, PSA
etc.
Develop documentation and delivering end user training for the new changes in functionality.
Regular interaction with the users and power users for process developments and modifications.
Handled many L3 (assigning of employees to cost centers) and L4 (Admin group change, New
holidays, DWS modified.) tickets. To add additional infotypes.
Attended KT sessions & updated knowledge with the new issues.
Configuring and testing the requirements of the client, preparation of test scripts for the users.

Project
Duration
Client
Modules

: I (Support)
: June 2009 to Feb 2010
: Airbus
: PA, OM, Time Management.

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer whose customer focus, commercial know-how, technological
leadership and manufacturing efficiency have propelled it to the forefront of the industry. Headquartered in
Toulouse, Airbus is owned by EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defence related services. This group which
is comprised of Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter, in addition to Airbus has a presence on every continent,
and employs a total workforce of more than 119,000.
Airbus itself is a truly global enterprise of some 52,500 employees, with fully-owned subsidiaries in the United
States, China, and Japan and in the Middle East, spare parts centres in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Washington, Beijing
and Singapore, training centres in Toulouse, Miami, Hamburg and Beijing and more than 150 field service
offices around the world.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Working with the Client Help Desk to facilitate problem resolutions.

Conduct configuration changes according to the Support Request Forms.
Providing the effective solutions with in the resolution time based on the severity levels.
Preparing task sheets containing the entire issues handled/ job completed.
Coordinating with the user team regarding the approval issues.
Analyse SAP configuration-related problems and establish the root cause to prevent recurrence.
Regular updating of the statuses to the team lead and the user team.

Non SAP Experience:

VSNL
Worked in Videsh Sanchanr Nigam Limited as tech support executive in the email process from 2005 Nov to
2006 Dec. I also played the role of a trainer. The Job included:

Replying to emails related to corporate dial up and broad band connections.

Attended the process training for dial up and broadband connections.
Created drafts to enable the agents answer the emails quickly and effectively.
Conducted the written test and interviewed the candidates to have an idea on their potential to learn.
Handled a batch of 16 candidates entirely for the training and bridge period.
I dealt with their Quality Analysis part of each trainee and provided the necessary feedback for their
improvement.

Education details:

Msc computer sciences from Griffith College Dublin, Ireland in 2005.

BCA from Osmania University in 2002.