Manjunath M Email & Phone Number

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Currently working as Associate Director Data Solution Architect at Kyndryl Solution India Pvt Ltd.As part of spin-off from IBM to Kyndryl on 1st November 2021, I got involved in Enterprise Solution Architect for the Global HR application portfolio. Worked with Bain consulting company to strategize 139 Global HRIT applications which got transition from IBM to Kyndryl. With my expertise and domain knowledge , i recommended to streamline application to the Strategic Enterprise application solution. Brought down 139 application to 10 strategic enterprise application. I am involved in various TSA (Transition Service Agreement) project for the smooth transition.Kyndryl went live as separate entity in Workday. I was given an opportunity to setup Workday Center Of Excellence Tier 2 support and manage the workday operations. As a Workday CoE program manager I have recruited 20 resources for supporting AP, Europe , US and Latin America time zones.I trained the team on Workday End to End Business Process and collaborated with Integration development to provide KT session for Global and Local integrations. Manage steady state changes as well as new releases.Apart from the workday operations, i got involved in payroll S4Hana project. The project is integrate to payroll General Ledger posting to S4HANA finance system.Successfully implemented S4HANA integration for 65 payroll countries with various payroll service providers.Successfully implemented ADP Payroll Admin Console for 26 countries. This project was to exit SAP GUI provided by IBM to ADP web based solution PAC.Manage the TSA exit project for Cross Border Travel Assessment tool which is supports Global Mobility process.Manage the TSA exist project for Dined Party List application (a third party application) implementation. Manager the TSA exist project for the Global Payroll Interface Handler an IBM middleware tool. To sunset and move to kyndryl strategic middleware solution.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Transition the Ongoing support team from China to India. Built RPA delivery team in India and Budapest. The team is diverse with 11 female employees and 5 male employees (mix culture and race, like employees from European culture, New Joinees from other companies, graduate hires, interns).RPA on going support team maintain and supports 180 robots. The robots supports payroll, compensation, benefits, accounting business process. The robots are interfaced with workday, SAP HRMS, ADP Payroll and other payroll systems.Roles and ResponsibilitiesAs the TO and OGS lead, I have responsibility to secure the application, approve the access to the application, review and approve CRs and conduct quarterly compliance review of the application and deliver new robots.Regular cadence call with the business team, update the stake holder with incident report and CR delivery plans. Also get feedback from the client for any improvements for the team.Weekly call with program executive to give an update on the production support and project status. Daily stand-up call with team to get the incident and CR status, retrospective meetings after every iteration. Recognize and appreciate the team who contributed best.Encourage the team showcase their ideas and innovation to other team members and squad.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

As Integration Lead Architect for Workday project. I was responsible of integrating upstream and downstream applications with Workday in compliance with IBM Enterprise Architecture Standards. I managed the team of 12 BAs. Worked closely with Business stake holder and workday integration consultants. Successfully implemented 300+ integrations both global and local covering North America, Canada, Latin America , EMEA , AP region. The integration comprises of Web API, CCW, EIB, Studio & Connectors ( Kennexa- ATS and ADP connector). Worked with various third part vendors for integrating benefits and payroll. AON for the Global benefits and ADP being major partner for the payroll process. Sound functional knowledge on the Workday Core HCM , Compensation, Advance Comp, Time and Absence, Benefits and Payroll. Good knowledge on PECI/PICOF integration and implement with vendor payroll system. Key Responsibilities:• Study the As-Is process and To-be process• Provide Architecture solution for To-be process• Work closely with HR process owner and HR Leaders (Globally and Locally)• Actively involved in the workshop right from the Harmonization phase, Blue printing phase & Realization Phase.• Dealing with vendor for system integration and DOU.• Work with other stake holders for E2E Interfaces.• Setup weekly cadence call with all the stake holders.• Review the open items, Risk and Issues.• Work with project manager for key milestones• Interact and work with Data migration team for the data mapping between legacy applications to Strategic application.. Review sign-off the design document .• Work with test manager for the E2E test plan for the interfaces.• Support E2E Testing (SIT & UAT)• Work with Cutover manager for cutover plan & key tasks.• Design process for the steady state support for post deployment.Challenges:Working with outsourced vendors and getting their change management align with our workday release milestone.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Title Global Interface team lead for SAP HRMS project:As an Integration Lead take care of the extended team.I manage life cycle of HRMS (SAP deployed countries). I lead a team of 12 members spread across US, Brazil, India, and China. As an integration lead my key role is to manage SAP integrated with partner systems (both in-house and outsource), dealing with stake holders from business, development team and out-sourced Vendors.The integration covered HR Onboarding, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Time management and Organization Management.The big mile stones were working with vendor system for Benefits, payroll and Time management process. The key vendor integrated interfaces are Employee stock purchase, Employee healthcare, employee group insurance(Benefit process), Interfacing with ADP vendor for Payroll and Time management.Key Responsibilities:•Conduct workshop , Gather Business Requirement,•Elicit requirement from the stake holders.•Document business Blue Print,•Prototype demonstration.•Document Functional Specification,•Transforming Legacy functionality to SAP HCM functionality•Legacy Field mapping with SAP HCM Info types fields.•Get involved in solution workshop•Brief Development team on the requirement•Bridge/Translate requirements between business and development teams.•Work with Partner system for system integration•Document DOU and get sign-off from the partners,•Review Technical Specification,•Review test cases writing by BAs•Review Test Results,•Document Cutover Activities for deployment and execution.•Post Deployment Maintenance Support. (Hyper Care support)•Get the sizing for Release CRs and Follow approval process with Global Change Management Board. •Training end user on the application and interfaces.Production support and Maintenance . The team globally spread.Life Cycle Management of the Global and Local integration. SAP Service pack upgrade, ongoing enhancement , bug fix , daily interface monitor.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

As a Business Analyst managed the steady state on premises application changes for AP HRIT applications.Responsibilities :• Requirements gathering through workshop or through conference calls. • Documenting Requirements • Define Current and Future Operational & Functional scenarios • Prepare use cases, proto type and process designing.• Brief the Requirements to Development team.• Review & Sign-off SRS prepared by the Development• Prepare Testing plan,• Document Test Cases.• Brief the Testing Team on the scope• Coordinate for UAT defect and get it fixed.• Attend Defect Management calls and ensure the closure of the Defects.• Review ASCA (Application System Controls Auditability ) Documents before facing the auditor. • Represent HRIT for ASCA reviews• Educate end user on the Newly Developed Tool or Enhanced Changes• Over seeing the post Production activity.Achievements:Implemented 128 application control exposure changes in one year to go through an application audit compliance.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Asean/SA Expertise management Lead. Leading team of 4 members in ASEAN.Key Role:• DBA for the Expertise Management db on Mainframe hosted in Sydney.• Drive Individual Development Plan for ASEAN/SA,• Personal Skills update for AP,• Work closely with Learning Leaders• Work closely with Global Expertise Taxonomy Team.• Web master for ASEAN/SA countries "Your Career" Site.• Move the updated pages to production using Content Management Tool.• Work close with Learning Team member for publishing the content.• Extract reports on status of IDP closure for each Region.• Follow-up Expertise Management activity with other team member from ASEAN and Japan.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

SPOC for the Amex project. Key role was to administrator servers, Network and Project support both off-shore and Onsite branch office.If required more details will be shared

Postgraduate Degree, Information Technology, A

Activities and Societies: Corporate Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Postgraduate Degree, Human Resources Development, A

Activities and Societies: Corporate Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

Diploma Of Education, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Pre-University, Science