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Leeladhar Mangali

Atlanta,GA

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Sr. Workday Consultant

Summary

Dynamic Workday BA with extensive experience in full lifecycle implementations at Trimble. Expert in requirement gathering and process redesign, delivering impactful solutions. Proven track record in SIT and UAT testing, ensuring data integrity and seamless system integration. Strong project management and collaboration skills drive continuous improvement and client satisfaction.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Workday Consultant

Best Buy
08.2022 - Current
  • Involved in full Lifecycle implementations, which included Discovery Phase, Planning, Gap Analysis, Development, Testing, Reporting, Go-live and Post Go-live support of Workday modules (HCM - Benefits, Compensation, Talent Management, US Payroll)
  • I was the subject matter expert and have coordinated system migration, conducted system analysis, troubleshot and resolved HRIS issues to completion with a focus on continuous improvement, and resolved issues in WD implementation
  • Used Agile development for resolving issues in Production and based on priority, development, and QA estimates for delivery
  • Responsible for creating EIB loads for data load in the migration process, including ensuring that data is complete and accurate before completing the loads
  • These included mandatory increase EIBS, acquisition data loads, and reorgs
  • Used SharePoint integration tools and Office365 for effective documentation of workflows, design of prototype models for visual graphs using MS Visio, demonstrated PowerPoint presentations, generated custom reports - Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports to meet client requirements within Workday tenant
  • Worked with SMEs to understand the client business requirements, configured and tested the end-to-end business processes
  • Subject Matter Expert and coordinated Testing efforts for the HCM, Payroll, and Absence application
  • Configured QA system with Workday roles like Employee, Manager, Partners and Admin account to manage user security to the system and configured system to meet Trimble HR and HCM needs
  • Documented system and API requirements for integrations, use EIB loader for data and workflow migration from legacy system
  • Gathered user and business requirements through open-ended discussions, brainstorming sessions and Change requirements
  • Participated as part of the team responsible for Trimble's Workday support helpdesk which services employee questions, data requests, report requests, access issues, including global WD accounts and supervisory organization maintenance
  • Worked closely with development and functional QA teams, coordinated UAT testing across WD business process workflows
  • Worked closely with theenvironments team to ensure efficient and stable builds are delivered for testing and implementation
  • Diagnosed functional issues, report bugs, and take ownership of issue resolution, and worked with Production Support teams
  • Developed strategies with theQuality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in the test manager for User Acceptance Testing
  • Managed incoming case queue, resolved customer cases quickly and effectively in line with our service level agreements
  • Effectively managed multiple high-profile projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery of quality solutions in line with budget constraints.

Sr. Workday BA | Financials

State of Oklahoma
01.2020 - 07.2022
  • Participated in Workday Financials projects involving strategy, implementation support and data integrity for the Workday applications
  • Data Conversion from legacy systems to Workday systems
  • Worked with Configuration of the Cost centers & Journals for the organization in the ERP system
  • Created financial accounting setup necessary to satisfy the Clients requirements
  • Deliver timely and prioritized solutions to requests - data/reports, issues and data requests etc
  • Created financial management by using four main components: account types, account sets, accounts, account summaries to build a hierarchical relationship to each other and established the chart of accounts for a company that can be used for financial reporting purposes
  • Developed Custom Advanced Reports by using Calculated Fields, Sorting, Filtering Report Fields, providing Advanced Filtering Option, Creating Sub-Filters and by using related Business Objects
  • Involved in Adding security groups
  • And assigning roles and defining eligibility rules
  • Expertise in creating various journal types like accounting journals, adjustment journal, Pro Forma Allocations, Recurring journals, Reversing journals
  • Configured business asset to manage asset roster, depreciation and lifecycle accounting
  • Provide support to key accounting users in mastering Workday for their activities

Workday Techno Functional BA

The Walt Disney Company
01.2018 - 05.2020
  • Worked as Techno Functional consultant in the implementation of Different Financial Modules
  • Worked as senior Developer on the implementation of Business Assets, Customer Accounts and Revenue Management, Banking and Cash Management functional areas within workday Financials
  • Workday implementation experience from requirement gathering to post deployment product support for payroll GL, procurement, expenses and Business assets
  • Developed many custom reports for the Financial modules like Procure to pay, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable, Business assets, endowments and Gifts, Financial Accounting, Non-sponsored AR and Banking and Settlements
  • Worked on the new Workday Feature Cost center security and introduced a way to apply the Cost center security to many Distributed reports and integrations within the Yale Financial Management
  • Worked with the Clients and their teams in end to end testing, preparing testing cases for client specifications
  • Worked in preparing many Specs for the different financial modules
  • Worked on the Signoff of testing for Business Assets, Customer Accounts and Revenue and Banking and Settlement Functional Areas
  • Prepare and record journal entries related to Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Payroll, Cash, Assets, and Accruals
  • Experienced on Workday 28 new feature Multiple Funding sources (MFS) and developed many reports on MFS
  • Worked closely with the Implementation Partners (Deloitte) to fix the issues in the specs and assisted other developers in building the financial reports and integrations
  • Created many functional Specs for Reporting in Business assets, Procure to Pay, Accounts payable and Gifts and endowments
  • Developed many composite reports, BIRT layout reports, Custom Dash Boards and Trend reports
  • Involved in designing the Workday 29 release requirements for Yale Universities and Resolved outstanding tickets
  • Worked on Data Conversion and mapping using EIB and iLoad for Assets, Conversion assets, Composite Assets, Customer Invoices, Bank Account Conversion Data from Oracle system into Workday
  • Involved in testing the step-up authentication for domains having sensitive data
  • Involved in post-production support in HCM, payroll and benefits and fixed many tickets and involved in the enhancements of reports and Integrations
  • Worked as security administrator, maintain the user access to implementation tenant and configured maintained user based and role based security for professional, academic and contingent workers
  • Analyze User Sign-on Audit reports for the tenants and review the reports project managers
  • Built advanced reports for security audits
  • Experienced to work with Workday Report Writer and creating custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connector and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
  • Created new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation which uses connector integrations XML Output as its data source input
  • Created Custom G/L Integration from Workday using Journal Lines data source to send the Post Payroll result to Lawson system
  • Worked on Financials modules like General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Procurement Suppliers Invoices, and Accounts Payable
  • Financials EBS implementations, responsible for all development work including integration, reporting, data migration, testing and rollout
  • Built Integrations in Workday Financials data module which includes data relative to Accounts, Accounting, Business Plans, Financial Reporting, and Tax

Workday BA

01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Worked on Workday HCM/Financial Management with Substantial functional and Technical expertise in Financials solutions and HR Business Processes
  • Worked in all phases of the Workday implementation and support after Go live
  • Function as Business Analyst producing artifacts using BA standards/Tools
  • I.e
  • Scope doc, BRD, FRS, Workflows, and Interface prototypes
  • Conducted JAD / brainstorming sessions with HR Business partners, SMEs, HR Coordinators, Benefits administrators, and Third-Party Service providers, to elicit Functional, Non-Functional, Business Rules and then subsequently model them
  • Translated customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, and lead the efforts including programming and testing of the new design features
  • Worked on various modules such as Core HR, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, Compensation, Time and Absence Management and provided frequent demos to the business teams
  • Provided troubleshooting support for functional and technical production issues, coordinated with Workday using their cas management system
  • Part of an 8-member workday team in developing and implementing quality-assurance and quality-control methodologies for Confidential to ensure compliance with QA standards and customer specifications
  • Provided client developer teams with detailed reports on quality metrics, identified bugs/flaws and recommended fixes
  • Worked closely with Product Owner, Functional and Development teams to make sure test scenarios captured have adequate coverage of the requirements
  • HR - Designed and Executed Test Scenarios/cases for Recruiting, IAM and SSO Inbound/Outbound Integrations
  • Benefits- Designed and Executed Test Scenarios/cases for Benefits (Vision, Medical and Dental) Eligibility and Deduction Files
  • Payroll - Created various test cases for Payroll Integrations which involved different Staffing Events and data changes for the employee records
  • Hands on Experience in Payroll Processing - Retro, Run Pay Calculations and launched Integrations after Payroll Settlement step
  • Compensation - Designed and Executed Test Scenarios/cases for Allowance and Bonus plan Reports
  • Tested Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing
  • Finance - Worked on multiple Finance Inbound Integrations between OnBase sales application system and Workday
  • Validated Supplier Invoice data and approved payments through Settlement Run process
  • Tested Journal Ledger Inbound integrations with Import Journal Ledger and Submit Journal Ledger Web services
  • Created Advanced, Matrix and Composite Custom Reports using Report Writer

BA

Oracle
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Identified business requirements & detailed solution design for GL, AP and Purchasing modules
  • Conducted workshop sessions with GL and AP Finance users to discuss business requirements & map business design with Oracle GL & AP configuration (12.1.3)
  • Identified & documented Gap Business Requirements for Oracle GL, Purchasing & Oracle Payables applications
  • Drafted extensive sets of requirements, questionnaires and gap analyses
  • Prepared detailed data translation mappings between legacy data & Oracle Applications data
  • Designed and developed Oracle I Procure and Purchasing Inbound & Outbound Integration with Lawson Legacy Systems
  • Configured Oracle i-Procurement (12.1.3) for expense items & Oracle Purchasing for process Items
  • Integrated PO and AP modules for Invoice and PO matching
  • Set up Suppliers, created Purchase requisitions and PO in Oracle Purchasing
  • Matched the AP Invoices (3-way) to the purchase orders in PO modules
  • Developed functional design documents to support to-be business processes
  • Created& updated BR100/setup documents for GL, AP, PO & iProcure
  • Configured HR information to support Purchasing Documents Approval to define Employees, Jobs and Positions; defined and assigned Approval Groups to support Job Position Hierarchies; also supported Employee/Supervisor Hierarchy for PO Approvals
  • Designed and configured charts of accounts, calendar and currency
  • Set up PO matching options, Invoice tolerances, Distributions options, Payment terms and Holds
  • Developed new FSG reports and customized various standard FSG reports
  • Interacted and worked with the development team to resolve issues faced in the test scenario run
  • Prepared Integration & Customization Unit Test Plans & supported Business / Functional users in testing Integration with Oracle GL, Purchasing & Oracle Payables Applications
  • Conducted CRPs and worked on open items to accomplish within the timelines
  • Created and updated test plans and test scripts for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) in TE040 documentation with detailed testing of all the above modules
  • Coordinated with Oracle support for high priority open issues to facilitate speedy resolution

BA

Oracle
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • As a Cloud Fusion Financials Functional Consultant implemented the Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials modules -General Ledger, Intercompany Accounting, Payables, Receivables, Payments, Cash Management, Tax, Expenses, Assets
  • Configured the Enterprise Structure for financials including the setup of the enterprise structure, bank, branches and accounts, ledgers, business units, financial reporting, payables and payments, expense reporting, receivables and payments
  • Worked on the AP Invoices, AR, Billing, Advance Collections and Fixed Assets work areas
  • Used the Functional Setup Manager to perform all the setups for the financials modules
  • Worked on the common financials' configurations - managing geographies, file import activities, setting up enterprise structure, created the chart of accounts, legal entities and business units
  • Worked on the Revenue Recognition process in AR Module - setting up Accounting and Invoicing rules, defining the daily revenue rules, setting up Customer Acceptance process, deferred revenue, deferred COGS process, etc
  • Worked on the expense configuration - defining the expense system options, defining the expense report templates, setting up expense approval rules, defining conversion rates and polices, etc
  • Worked on the Fixed Assets configurations - defined asset categories, locations and asset books
  • Worked on the Receivables Configuration - defined the common AR configuration, defined the receivables system options, defined customer billing configuration, define customer payments, defined funds capture, defined customers, etc
  • Prepared MD050 and performed functional testing for custom report enlisting compensation details along with YTD summaries for each salesperson
  • Prepared and implemented smoke test scripts to test each upgraded instance
  • Assisted in rigorous testing of the upgraded instance to identify FITS and GAPS
  • Assisted in End User Training and conducting Training Workshops
  • Actively involved in preparing cut-over activity tasks, practice upgrades & dry runs

BA

Oracle
01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Created users and granted responsibilities to the defined users
  • Set up legal entity, business group and operation unit
  • Set up AP payable system options, financial options, payable options, suppliers and operating units
  • Defined invoice attributes, payment attributes - Approve, hold and release, special calendar, payment formats, pay group, payable document
  • Worked on Payment process profiles, defined banks, bank accounts & documents
  • Supported month end closing for AP
  • Configured HR information to support Purchasing Documents Approval to define Employees, Jobs and Positions; defined and assigned Approval Groups to support Job Position Hierarchies; also supported Employee/Supervisor Hierarchy for PO Approvals
  • Designed and configured charts of accounts, calendar and currency
  • Set up PO matching options, Invoice tolerances, Distributions options, Payment terms and Holds
  • Assessed the 12.1.3 upgrade by developing complex test cases across Procure to Pay modules in delivering the upgrade testing required
  • Performed complex data analysis, configurations and complex design solutions in partnership with program stakeholders
  • Involved with UAT testing of the systems and made sure that all the processes worked before moving to production
  • Designed and developed production checkout strategies and steps in readiness for production go-live
  • Worked closely with the technical teams involved with the conversion process
  • Provided direction on the various approaches to the conversion process and ensured that all conversion items were completed and balances reconciled with the legacy system
  • Provided support for production issues, ensured that issues were closed out in a timely manner, and followed up with Oracle Support in case of any SR raised

Education

MBA -

Eberly College of Business And Information Tech, Indiana, PA

Master of Science - Information Technology

University of The Cumberlands , Williamsburg, KY

Skills

  • Project management
  • Requirement gathering
  • Process redesign
  • Fit/Gap analysis
  • Configuration and Setup
  • Business Process documentation
  • End user training
  • SIT and UAT Testing

Timeline

Sr. Workday Consultant - Best Buy
08.2022 - Current
Sr. Workday BA | Financials - State of Oklahoma
01.2020 - 07.2022
Workday Techno Functional BA - The Walt Disney Company
01.2018 - 05.2020
Workday BA -
01.2016 - 01.2017
BA - Oracle
01.2015 - 01.2016
BA - Oracle
01.2014 - 01.2015
BA - Oracle
01.2013 - 01.2014
Eberly College of Business And Information Tech - MBA,
University of The Cumberlands - Master of Science, Information Technology
Leeladhar Mangali