SAP HCM Senior Consultant @ Reviewing project requirements for rolling out HR/Payroll to non-UK countries. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Aberdeen, United KingdomSAP HCM Senior Consultant @ The project involves working with a client who has significant global operations in the oil and gas sector, to refresh their SAP HCM system by reverting back to SAP standard and using the latest functionality and best practice to achieve process efficiencies. My role as functional consultant for Payroll, Time Management and Reward (Comp & Bens) has involved the following: - Conducting workshops for process review, design and mapping - Developing three blueprints covering my areas of responsibility - Development of functional specifications for system enhancements - Design and configuration of functionality: . to support a global grading structure . for Time Recording (Work Schedules, absences, attendances, quotas and substitutions) . for the Time Evaluation schema to provide time payment wage types to payroll and payment data for interfacing to non-SAP payrolls . to introduce major change to three UK and one international SAP payroll to automate all time based calculations, implement P11d's & Absence Management and restructure wage types to make use of the latest functionality. - Preparing for system integration testing - Conducting "Show & Tell"​ demonstrations to show global process owners how the new functionality will work and assist them in writing BPP's and UAT scripts - Conducting knowledge transfer sessions for local staff - Regression testing and Payroll reconciliation for in scope / out of scope payrolls - SIT - UAT - Mock cutover + reconciliations - Go live cutover + reconciliations - Post go live support to an international group of users Project : Delivered From November 2014 to September 2015 (11 months) SAP HCM Functional Consultant (Global Rollout) @ This role builds on the proof of concept development undertaken in the previous assignment to enhance the current minimal use of SAP HR to support Finance business processes to become the corporate HR system in around 118 countries - this involved: - Requirements gathering - Impact analysis - Detailed blueprint/design document - Configuration in OM/PD/PA to support design and supporting documentation - Creation of functional specs to support customisations - Design, specify and test functionality to use work schedule substitutions for dealing with part time staff - Review/specify changes to over 440 authorisation roles that affected all staff - User training - Develop test scripts and execute functional testing and UAT - Implement changes - Develop data cleansing process that involved Microsoft Access databases and LSMW load routines - Knowledge transfer to offshore support team - develop proof of concept for using Adobe forms and workflow for data capture From January 2014 to October 2014 (10 months) London, United KingdomSAP HCM/Time Management Functional Consultant (Global Rollout) @ This assignment which includes multiple contract extensions has turned out to be a varied role that has included the following so far: - Incorporating a number of enhancements to the Polish Time Management Solution implemented on an earlier assignment - Building and implementing a Time Management solution for the Global Finance Change Project Team - Enhancing and rolling out Managers Desktop for Time Administrators and for Line Manager reporting - Developing a proof of concept business process for incorporating Corporate expense and departmental purchase cards in the Global SAP Travel and Expenses solution - Developing a proof of concept business process for extending the use of HR Mini-Masters to become the corporate HR solution for over 118 countries. From June 2013 to January 2014 (8 months) Manchester, United KingdomSAP HR/Time Functional Consultant @ For this role the business requirement was to be able to capture employee time and provide detailed analysis to assist key users in Poland to comply with the strict Polish employment legislation and with particular focus on the European Working Time Directive. This included: - Requirements gathering and blueprinting - Business process mapping - Grouping employees for positive and negative time recording - Configuring CATS profiles to suit each group's requirements - Interfaces to FI/CO for cost recovery and HR for time analysis - Extensive configuration around time recording for work schedules, absenses, attendencies etc. - Managing annual leave quotas - Configuring Time evaluation to analyse the time entered and provide analysis reports - Flexi time analysis - Time Statement for employee notification of time spent and time balances outstanding - Standard CATS/Time/Payroll reporting for analysing time spent - User documentation - User training - Knowledge transfer to offshore support team - Prototyping Managers Desktop for distributed reporting From February 2013 to May 2013 (4 months) SAP T&E Functional Consultant @ Working as a SAP T&E Functional Consultant designing and implementing significant change to their global ECC6 system in order to comply with various country statutory and business requirements. The key features of this project are: - Splitting the global workforce into groups - Apply policy changes to each group as applicable - Affects employees based in 116 countries - Over 500,000 configuration changes implemented - Developing LSMW & eCatt routines used for mass change of configuration - Developing and deploying Access databases to generate and reconcile the configuration changes - Developing and executing test scripts for Unit and UAT testing - some using eCatt - Reconciling Non SAP HR system to SAPHR Mini Masters and identifying data issues for cleansing - Testing workflow permutations covering ESS/MSS and SAP Business Workplace/ Travel Expense Manager users - Electronic capture and viewing of receipt details anywhere in the world - Knowledge transfer to offshore support team - Post implementation support Created a proof of concept system to demonstrate SAP features for time capture and reporting to comply with the European Working Time Direct in EU countries and this includes: - CATS Timesheet configuration - Work Schedules - Absences/Attendances - Quotas for holidays and time off in lieu - Reporting From July 2012 to February 2013 (8 months) Manchester, United KingdomSAP T&E BA Lead @ Working as Business Analyst Lead involved in a global implementation of SAP Travel & Expenses for a major global financial institution. This project is focused on replacing a highly customised Concur T&E system in the UK and US (30,000 users) with SAP T&E and includes: - Catering for numerous T&E policies - Multi-currency - Receipt image capture via fax and email - Comprehensive workflow for line managers and business managers - Extended configurable rules for validating expense data - Major extentions covering capture,pre-approving, monitoring and reporting on expenses to do with gifts and business entertainment in order to comply with various country anti bribery and corruption legislation and FINRA in the US - Further additions to provide incentive plans for Financial Advisors - Extensive reporting using Business Warehouse - Amex feeds for both card numbers and receipt transactions - Customised front-end (SAP Portal not being used) - Integration with SAP FI/CO and AP for payment - Using SAP BW for decommissioning the legacy system - Functional testing planning, content and execution - System integration testing planning, content and execution - User Acceptance testing support - 2 pilot implementations for US and UK - 2 go-lives for US and UK with global approvers - Post implementation support - Process documentation - Knowledge transfer/training From September 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 10 months) Managing Consultant (SAP HR/Payroll) @ Joined HCL Axon in a senior managing consultant role and working on their major SAP Transformation project win at the Royal Mail as Functional Payroll Lead but also covering, Benefits, Enterprise Compensation Management & Travel and Expenses all on ECC6 in a ESS/MSS environment. From July 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 2 months) SAP Payroll Business Support Manager @ Providing SAP business and technical support to the Payroll Department during a period of multiple go-lives and beyond. Main activities include: Business process improvement Documenting business processes and procedures User training Best practice implementation Year end reconciliation Implemented e-filing User support From April 2008 to June 2009 (1 year 3 months) Senior SAP Payroll Consultant @ Working on two full life cycle SAP Payroll implementations for a major travel company and a public sector organisation in the capacity of Lead Data Migration Consultant and Lead Payroll Consultant respectively. From December 2006 to April 2008 (1 year 5 months) Senior SAP Payroll Consultant @ Working for two large public sector organisations with roles covering: Functional Payroll Consultant Data Migration Manager responsible for all aspects of migrating 2 fortnighly payrolls, 8 weekly payrolls, two teachers monthly payrolls Programme Manager for overseeing year end activities across all of a shared service centre's departments Implemented E-filing General consultancy User training Issue resolution From September 2004 to November 2006 (2 years 3 months) SAP HR/Payroll Business Analyst @ Working with SAP to pilot functionality of Absence phase 2 and XDEC in a Public Sector organisation. Implemented absence phase 2 and Xdec Upgraded SAP HR/Payroll system from 4.6b to 4.7 Re-implemented actual work schedules to improve system accuracy in pay reduction Worked with Epiuse to get DataSync Manager working in a 4.7 multiple employment SAP system Year end activities Integration to FI/CO General HR/Payroll support From August 2003 to September 2004 (1 year 2 months) SAP Data Migration Lead @ Responsible for migrating data from Unipay, Unipersonnel and a PC system covering over 20,000 employee records. Functional Design Managing the parallel run process including full reconciliation One-to-One user training From April 2002 to January 2003 (10 months) Lead Payroll Consultant @ General consultancy role covering: Reorganisating the payroll department Documenting processes and procedures Migrating over 7000 employee records from SAP to Unipay both being managed by separate outsourcers Design of interface between Peoplesoft HR and Unipay From February 2001 to November 2001 (10 months) SAP Payroll Project Manager @ Hands on SAP Payroll Project Manager with responsibility for: Functional Design Data Migration Reconciliation User Acceptance Testing User Training (over 200 users) Parallel Run Issue monitoring and resolution Two go-lives covering 23,000 employee records from two legacy systems Post implementation support From August 1999 to December 2000 (1 year 5 months)

Kered Lofthouse is skilled in: SAP PA, SAP PY, SAP OM, SAP TV, Data Migration, Payroll, Reconciliation, Business Analysis, Project Management, User Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing, Functional Design, functional testing, Functional Specifications, Process Improvement