Amarnath Pippalla, Senior Specialist - HCIS

Amarnath Pippalla

Senior Specialist - HCIS

Mubadala

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, India
Experience
19 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 8 Months

Senior Specialist - HCIS at Mubadala
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since December 2015

Responsible for the management, development and ongoing maintenance of HR Systems. Provide leadership and ongoing management of HR systems, to maximize technology and deliver high standards of service delivery.
Provides both strategic thought as well as hands-on support necessary to ensure the effective delivery of an integrated HR system.
Project lead and liaison between HR, Payroll and IT, facilitating system modification, interface development, problem resolution, as well as end user training and system acceptance.
Subject matter/HRIT expert on HRMS functionality including defining requirements, configuring solutions, managing testing and validation, documenting process change and training users on new processes and tools.
Vendor delivery management though weekly status reporting and delivery quality trend analysis
Prepare, implement and maintain procedural and process documentation.
Preparing project management methodology for medium to large scale projects
Develop and lead a customer focused effort, constantly improving processes and procedures to meet changing technical and customer requirements in a pro-active manner.
Manage communications of the HRMS, ensuring timely communication of and training on process changes, system improvements or any other important information to all users, at all levels in the organization.
Manages integrations with HR and other systems requiring data from HRMS
Responsible for development and maintenance of variety of reports or queries utilizing appropriate reporting tools. Develop and enhance standard reports to address ongoing HR business needs.
Develops audit and quality control processes for maintaining data integrity and security.

Senior Specialist HCM at Averda International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2014 to December 2015

Role:
Senior Specialist for Oracle HCM Systems.
Subject Matter Expert for Core HR, SSHR, Talent Management and Oracle Payroll Modules.

Currently working as implementation specialist for oracle Core HR, SSHR, Oracle Payroll and Taleo for all GCC Countries.

Responsibilities
• Requirement Gathering and solution design as per the requirements
• Leading CRP sessions; discussing, analysing the as-is processes and To-Be processes. Involved in designing process changes and studying Gap Analysis.
• Handling Implementation and post go live support for Oracle SSHR and Payroll with respect to all Absence types
• Reviewed Test scripts and involved in Application Integration Testing and System Testing
• Managing the Key User Training and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across the Organization
• Creating of Absence Types, defining accrual plans and writing fast formulas

Assistant Manager IT - HR Systems at Landmark Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2010 to December 2014

Role:
Business Analyst for Oracle HCM Systems.
Subject Matter Expert for Core HR, OLM, iRecruitment, Talent Management and Oracle Payroll Modules.
Experience includes Implementation and After Go Live Support of Oracle R12 HRMS covering Oracle Core HR, SSHR, Talent Management, iRecruitment, Learning Management modules and Oracle Payroll

Responsibilities:
• The responsibilities were more of functional in nature and business facing where incumbent had to work closely with HR team stake holders, key users of HR and Payroll departments and the service provider.
• Involved in payroll Requirement gathering sessions
• Leading CRP sessions; discussing, analysing the as-is processes and To-Be processes. Involved in designing process changes and studying Gap Analysis.
• Reviewing of AIM documents developed by the service provider
• Reviewed Test scripts and involved in Application Integration Testing and System Testing
• Handling Implementation and Production Support (day to-day activities) for Core HR, SSHR, Talent Management, iRecruitment, Learning Management and Payroll of Oracle Apps
• Oracle HRMS implementation and support of Oracle HRMS application and facilitate business process changes.
• Mapping and re-engineering new and existing process flows
• Developing Functional Requirements Solution Documents, Test Scripts and Setup Documents. This includes analysis, design and documentation of the functionality, customized reports.
• Continually creating, updating, and maintaining standardized documents and templates, throughout the life cycle of the project to help support project deliverables and tasks within scope, on time and on budget.
• Managing the Key User Training and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across the Organization
• Holding regular meetings with HR and updating plan activities, and expedite issues until the client's “Go Live” date.
• Analyzing, designing, and configuring fully automated processes in Oracle Human Resources.
• Interacting with line managers, as well as consultants while effectively managing crisis, handle issues, resolve conflicts, and most importantly, be a productive team player.
• Providing support for a variety of tasks related to Human Resources modules deployed by the organization.
• Implementation of New Business Groups within Landmark Group
• Writing Fast Formulas required for new payroll requirements
• Logging, updating and resolving TAR’s on Metalinks
• Developing/updating new reports using Oracle Discoverer

Product Certifying Engineer/ Project Leader Oracle HRMS and OWS at Oracle India Pvt Ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • June 2006 to May 2010

Roles:
- Product Certifying Engineer/ Project Leader Oracle HCM and Oracle Workforce Scheduling(OWS)
- Integration System Test Lead for OWS and Peoplesoft Time and Labor
- Optimization Test Lead for Optim Features of OWS

Responsibilities:
• Involve in functionally identifying Customer Scenarios and requirements and certifying the customer requirements in co-ordination with the Product Management and the Development team.
• Initiating Analysis of the requirement model, Functional design, Prototype configuration and implementation of the product, Post production support, Support documentation team by reviewing User guides and Implementation guides.
• Handling Analysis of the requirement model, Extension and Enhancement of the Product.
• Initiating System Testing, support, Prototype Configuration, Implementation of the Product, Defect Reporting and tracking.
• Configuring the test environment for Optimization and Integration Testing
• Participating in reviews of other development document deliverables such as requirements, functional designs, technical designs, functional test scripts written by other Quality Assurance team members, iHelp documentation and curriculum.

Product Executive at Ramco Systems Ltd Chennai India
  • India - Chennai
  • September 2004 to May 2006

Role:
- Requirement Engineer for Ramco Systems e.applications HR System ( Client :Alsalam Aircraft Company - KSA)

Responisbilities:

• Studied the Requirement Specifications for the Business Process Chains such as Payroll, Time Management, Employee Induction, Performance Evaluation and Government Relations and Security Clearance, which are Specific to Alsalam Aircraft Company.
• Transforming the requirement & product feature specifications into simple Business rules. Also Developed detailed business logic for Saudi Statutory requirements.
• Customizing and designing UI's for new functionality.
• Preparation of Test plan & Test Case for System Testing & Integration Testing for Payroll, Time Management and Government Relations.
• Performed System Testing for Payroll, Time Management and Government relations tailored for Alsalam.
• Was the only Functional Consultant in the offsite team, responsible for supporting the onsite team and handling the new requirements
• Responsible for Configuration management for all the identified configurable items.
• Define the access permissions for the Source Safe for various roles/ members of the team.
• Generate and disseminate information concerning status of Baselines, Change Control, Releases and configuration Audits to affected groups.
• Participated in CMMI Level 5 Assessment by KPMG

Education

Master's degree, India
  • at ICFAI Business School
  • May 2004

Master in Business Administration specialization in IT & Systems

Bachelor's degree, Computer Applications
  • at Andhra University
  • August 2001

Bachelors in Computer Applications, Godavari Degree College, Rajahmundry, India

Specialties & Skills

Oracle HRMS
Business Intelligence Tools
Project Management
Business Analysis
Oracle Payroll
System/ Integration Testing
Requirement Engineering
Oracle HRMS/ HCM
Business Analysis
Project Management

Languages

Hindi
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2019
Valid Until:
October 2020
ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
Valid Until:
April 2013