Salman Abdul Karim Karmale

About the Candidate

Seeking a position in an organization that ensures genuine opportunities and dynamic challenges.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

·         15+ years of experience as an Application Consultant & Analyst with Human Resource domain experience in various industries

·         6+ years of diversified experience in SAP as HCM Consultant

·         SAP SuccessFactors and SAP ECC 6 EHP 6 Certified

·         Master’s degree in computer science from University of Mumbai

·         Business Analysis course completed from IIBA (Internation Institute of Business Analysis)

·         Presently worked with TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) India’s top most IT Consultancy Organizations

·         TCS implemented SAP and SuccessFactors in 2 British and 3 Indian companies

·         3+ years of experience as a SAP SuccessFactors Consultant

·         4 E2E implementations in various industries such as Tourism; Financial, Hospitality; Energy and geographical locations viz. England and India

·         Worked and supported on SuccessFactor project for England based Energy company in areas like Employee Central and Recruitment modules

·         As an Integral team member of the Service Delivery team to deliver the required solutions

·         Performed a vital part in delivery team interacting project stakeholders to understand and document the business and functional requirements converting into design specifications along with the required enhancements

·         Have techno-functional implementation and support experience in .NET/SQL Server.

·         Excellent command in English and Urdu

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

MSc [Computer Science]                                                                                              2005 – 2007

R. D. National College of Science, Arts, Commerce

Affiliated to University of Mumbai

BSc [Computer Science]                                                                                                2002 – 2005

Rizvi College of Science, Arts, Commerce

Affiliated to University of Mumbai

SAP CERTIFICATIONS

SAP SF – THR84_2111 – Recruiting – Candidate Experience                         April 2022
SAP SF – THR81_2111 – Employee Central                                                           May 2022

SAP ERP HCM – ECC6 EPH5 – SAP AG Germany through ATOS India (Formerly Siemens)

(15th April 2013 – 10th May 2013)

1) Personal Administration [PA]

2) Organization Management [OM]
3) Time Management [TM]
4) Payroll [PY]

SAP & SuccessFactor Skills

Ø  Tata Consultancy Service (TCS)                                                 May 2014 – March 2024

1) EDF Energy– SAP SF (EC, Recruiting) Functional Consultant – (2021-2024) [UK based client]

·         As part of the Agile team, implement the solutions relating to EC, RMK & RCM and support

·         Managing and maintaining the respective incidents raised for respective modules to keep track of processes under critical timelines ensuring the SLAs are met consistently.

·         As part of the delivery team, develop Functional documents, configuration documents for the respective modules.

●     Support all the phases of testing: System Testing (ST), User Acceptance Tests (UATs), Performance and Negative testing, also prepare the subsequent documentation for the testing.

·         End-to-end testing and negative testing of various actions and documenting the same.

·         Provide support and engage the stakeholders; build and maintain relationships with respective process owners.

2) Mitchells & Butlers – SAP Functional Consultant – (2017-2021) [UK based client]

·         Design and implement solutions as per Business Requirements in the system and support thereupon.

·         Largely handling WFA (workflow authorizations).

·         Creation and maintenance of profiles for users, using the profile generator.

·         Handling ESS and MSS as well as authorization related queries.

·         Feasibility of new Change Requests, analysis, along with unit testing and deployment.

·         Working majorly on WFA, ESS, MSS, PA and OM.

·         SuccessFactors Onboarding – Requisition creation and posting.

·         Adding new Hire, New Employee setup.

·         Manage Onboarding and Offboarding dashboards and Job Requisitions.

·         Onboarding Integration Setup.

3) TRF – Support profile – 2016-2017

·         Handling supports related issues, previous as well as new developments and configuration.

·         SPOC between the user/client for discussions and new requirements.

·         Providing updates on the calls locked and updating status in Call Tracking System.

·         Interacting with the ABAP team for new or old developments.

·         Interacting with the PM as well as the user, understanding the requirements converging in business process.

4) Madhya Pradesh State Tourism [MPSTDC] –   Implementation and support team          2014-2016

Contributed and assisted in:

·         Various phases of ASAP Implementation Methodology.

·         Understanding of business process through workshops discussion and presentation

·         Blueprint Finalization

·         Realization & configuration of modules being implemented.

·         Preparing Data Conversion Plan and Strategy

·         Facilitate communication with the Project team, resolving issues and questions impeding progress.

·         Interacting with the client and understanding the process and providing inputs to integrate with SAP.

Personnel Administration – [PA]

·         Defined and Mapped Enterprise Structure, Personal Structure and Organization Structure as per the Clients requirement.

·         Created Public Holiday Calendars

·         Creation of Pers. Area, Sub Area, Emp Groups & Emp Subgroup

Organization Management – [OM]

·         Customized Organizational structure in simple maintenance and configured to include the present structure with one plan version with PA integration. Created Tasks and assigned them to Positions. Cost center assignment to positions.

·         Creation of dept and mapping of emps.

Payroll – [PY]

·         Configuration of Indian payroll. Creating payscale structure, payroll areas, wage types, wage type characteristics.  Assigning wage type to ESG and PSA, Initial Payroll process through the INLK process and later by the standard ZN00 process.

·         Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area for the primary wage type and defined wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay.

·         Creation of Payroll area [PA03]

·         Creation of Allowances [ V_T512T]

·         Creation of Payscale Types, Levels, Area and CAG

·         Creation and maintenance of IT – 0008/0014/0015

·         Created Control Record.

Ø  Cnergyis Infotech Pvt Ltd, Mumbai                                                                              Nov 2011 – Mar 2013

Assistant Manager – Implementation

q  Handle end-to-end implementation of clients. Understanding the client requirements and how they can be integrated into the system, doing a GAP analysis, workarounds are provided for the ones which are not feasible are offered customization. Giving demos and training to the process owners/stakeholders with respect to the product and the process flow. Post-implementation support is provided along with solving client queries.

q  Project management [PMO] is also a trait which is also handled at our end, which is done on a client basis to follow and track the phase in which the project is and calculate the success rate. There would be different clients in various phases and hence, we would handle some clients which would be in the development, implementation, and support phase.

Ø  IndiaInfoline Ltd. [IIFL], Mumbai                                                                                  Jul 2009 – Oct 2011

Jr. Business Analyst

q  My profile was monitoring the integration and implementation of two HR software and having a phase wise roll out of the modules. Also provide review reports, related to the system and processes. Provide an overview with respect to the BRD’s and FRD’s of the current projects online. I was also designated to investigate the implementation of the appraisal system which requires mapping the HR appraisal process of the company to appraisal software. Vendor management was also a part of my profile, as I had to co-ordinate with the IT Team and the Software vendors for any updates, upgrades or customization related to their products.

Ø  Adrenalin eSystems Ltd. [A Polaris Software Group], Mumbai                           Jul 2007 – Jul 2009

Implementation – Executive

q  Implementation of an automated HR Software named – Adrenalin wherein I was designated to understand client requirements through kick-off meetings, do a GAP analysis, install the product, configure the product according to the client’s requirements, complete end to end testing, provide training, assist in UAT with respective process owners/stakeholders, take up customization requests which were provided in kick-off meetings and GAP analysis, later providing delivery with initial support post-go-live, finally moving it into the disposition phase.

IT Skills

q  SAP Success Factors.

q  SAP ERP HCM – EPH5 Version.

q  Elicit, understand, and gather the requirements and document the same by conducting detailed interviews with business users, stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

q  Knowledge on SAP SF EC PY

q  Knowledge on SAP SF Onboarding

q  Conversant with MS Visio tool, Basics of SQL Server (RDBMS knowledge), SQL Server 2005 /2008, Proficient in MS Excel and PPT and Internet Application.

q  Exceptional communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner.

q  Completed [CCBA] in Business Analysis, certified by the IIBA [2012].

Personal Information

Date of Birth       :               28.12.1984

Place of Birth      :               Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Linkedin              :              http://in.linkedin.com/pub/salman-abdul-karim/22/a72/6ba
Address                 :               Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Phone                   :               050 539 531 285