RANI DHANEKULA
Aylesbury,buckinghamshire
Summary
Over 13 years of experience in various IT technologies with 9+ years of experience in Workday. Subject matter expert in Workday with hands-on experience in large-scale, full-life cycle, domestic and international implementations. Substantial technical and functional expertise in Workday various modules Implementation and support, business process analysis, mapping solutions to the processes, and determining best approaches based upon leading and emerging business practices. Takes on challenging new role harnessing interpersonal skills, collaboration and problem-solving. Driven to deliver high-quality service and consistent results.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Solutions Architect, Workday HCM
Clarion Events
London
07.2024 - Current
- Lead architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise Workday HCM solutions supporting global HR operations
- Architect scalable solutions across Core HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, and Absence modules
- Designed and configured Workday HCM solutions aligned with complex business and compliance requirements.
- Lead Workday integration architecture using Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and APIs for payroll, identity management, ERP, and third-party HR systems.
- Gathered functional and technical requirements and translated them into scalable architecture designs
- Built Workday Absence module from scratch for US region and enhanced Absence configuration for other countries.
- Optimised Workday Benefits configuration for US region to meet evolving business needs.
- Design and optimize business processes, approval workflows, condition rules, and security frameworks.
- Manage tenant strategy, release management, testing cycles, and production deployments.
- Facilitated post-production enhancements and issue resolution, ensuring system stability and ongoing optimisation.
- Collaborated with HR users to troubleshoot system issues, implementing effective process improvements.
- Worked closely with implementers for Workday 3rd party payroll Integration solutions.
Workday Consultant
MUFG Bank & Securities
London
02.2020 - 06.2024
- Implemented self-service process in Workday by configuring Employee Reference letters, UK Benefits and Pension letter, Job description attestation, Termination Exit Survey, letters attestation and questionnaires
- Received award for proposing and implementing solution for Job Description attestation
- Greatly commended by HR Business Partners and Supervisor for identifying and implementing several Automation initiatives and System Enhancements in Workday HCM
- Worked on Workday internal projects and shared knowledge with Team towards optimizing Workday implementation methodology
- Worked with HR operations to perform data cleanup in Workday
- Developed and managed mass update of EIBs.
- Updated employee Compensation data, Promotion, Organizational structures, reporting lines, staffing events through EIB loads
- Act as subject matter expert, providing troubleshooting and training for end users, solve escalated complex issues and long pending issues
- Enhance Workday various modules by implementing new features
- Support and manage design, development, and performance of core HCM, Absence management and related business process and data
- Troubleshoot issues around Job requisitions, Job profiles and position level management
- Ability to understand and react quickly to changing priorities
- Optimizing Bank and Securities Business processes, setup validations and notifications
- Create Advanced reports and Dashboards for better visual presentation and ease of interpretation for end user
- Provide direction and feedback to end users on Workday issues through monitoring of Workday Support Inbox and other avenues of escalation.
Sr Workday HCM configuration & Reporting Consultant
Argus Media
London
03.2019 - 11.2019
- Act as main Workday System Analyst – develop excellent knowledge of system
- Work with Senior management and outside vendors to design metrics to most effectively meet HR initiative and goals
- Maintain leadership role from technology perspective and implement enhancements
- Improved workflow and processes through system integration, streamlined reporting, and security
- Responsible for day-to-day activities as determined by Chief HR Operations Manager
- Makes suggestions and shares knowledge with others towards optimizing Workday implementation methodology
- Act as subject matter expert, providing troubleshooting and other support for end users, escalate complex issues
- Provide direction and feedback to end users on Workday issues through monitoring of Workday Support Inbox and other avenues of escalation
- Maintain and design Workday configuration and provide recommendations for process improvements
- Responsible for generation of client requested reports Simple, Advanced, Matrix, Dashboards (not requiring Workday Studio or those considered higher complexity), Absence, Talent & Performance, Compensation, advance compensation and Audit Reports
- Support and manage design, development and performance of core HCM System (Workday), Talent and Performance, Absence management, Payroll, related Business processes and data
- Maintain assignment for Role and User-Based Security for employees and/or positions in core HCM
- Support and manage relationships with HR & business stakeholders to proactively identify and address issues and provide timely support HCM system
- Manage Security, process flows, and notifications for Business Processes within Workday system
- Work with client to help convert legacy data into Workday Test Conversions to third party systems
- Configured functionality for new areas within Workday HCM System
- Responsible for development and management of Mass Update of EIB's
- Propose technical feasibility solutions for new module implementations and provide recommended options for performance improvement of streamlined business process flow
- Configured Domain Security Policies and merge them with Security Groups
- Keeps pace with new functionality from Workday as part of Release Management to influence strategical direction
- Rollout new Compensation plans for Executive population, this involves requirement analysis, creating plans, eligibility rules and rolling out plans to executive population across various regions
- Update employee Compensation data through EIB loads
- Performs research on problems, separating symptoms from actual cause, and identifies corrective measures
- Seeks opinions and feedback on alternative solutions and best practices and implements those that have been agreed upon by team
- Ability to understand and react quickly to changing priorities.
Workday HCM Consultant & HRIS Analyst
MUFG Bank & Securities
London
11.2017 - 03.2019
- Design, develop, configure and Implement Workday various projects/enhancements based on requests from Internal client’s requirements, recommendations and evolving business needs
- Support and manage design, development and performance of core HCM System (Workday) and related Business processes and data
- Conduct discovery sessions with client to determine pain points and diagnose how Workday can provide value
- Supported HR peers through creation and maintenance of complex reporting and data maintenance
- Provided user guides and developed technical documentation
- Maintain assignment for Role and User-Based Security for employees and/or positions in core HCM
- Support and manage relationships with HR & business stakeholders to proactively identify and address issues and provide timely support HCM system
- Configured Security, process flows, and notifications for Business Processes within Workday system
- Responsible for generation of client requested reports (Advanced, Matrix, nbox, composite … etc) and Dashboards (not requiring Workday Studio or those considered higher complexity)
- Configured major group structures such as Job codes, cost center hierarchies and Supervisory Organizations
- Worked with client to help convert legacy data into Workday Test Conversions to third party systems
- Configured functionality for new areas within Workday HCM System and provide real-time planning and analysis visibility to all levels of management
- Responsible for development and management of Mass Updates via EIB's
- Experienced with excel vlookups, data sorting and filtering
- Formatted spreadsheets and workbooks for print, document reproduction and presentations
- Helped in troubleshooting integration issues and provided support in resolving defects
- Worked on Setting up Dashboards and Worklets
- Configured Domain Security Policies and merged them with Security Groups
- Keeps pace with new functionality from Workday as part of Release Management to influence strategical direction
- Performs research on problems, separating symptoms from actual cause, and identifies corrective measures
- Seeks opinions and feedback on alternative solutions and best practices and implements those that have been agreed upon by team
- Ability to understand and react quickly to changing priorities
- Assist Team in testing Workday solution.
Workday HCM Consultant
Echostar Satellite Communications & Hughes Network Systems
Hyderabad, India
08.2016 - 05.2017
- Create and manage requirements, configuration, testing, and support activities for core HCM solution
- Experience in conducting discovery sessions for Workday Integration
- Partner with other third-party consultants as need be, in developing and deploying of data interfaces/systems integration
- Support and manage relationships with HR & business stakeholders to proactively identify and address issues and provide timely support
- Experience with developing and executing QA / UAT testing strategies
- Building reports in different functional areas such as Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence Management, New Hires and Recruiting
- Worked on Business as Usual activities for HR Reporting and Analytics to design and develop Workday Reports
- Maintain relationships, and support governance and process cadence with vendors and consulting partners
- Working in post production enhancements and various change requests
- Scheduling all integrations and custom reports based on client requirements
- Experience of cutover tasks done before goes Live like Scheduling and placing environmental restriction, configuring delivery services, integration notification template etc
- Maintain assignment for Role and User-Based Security for employees and/or positions in core HCM system
- Focus on identifying trends, determining root cause of problems, predicting future implications and determining solutions to drive effective business decisions.
Sr Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad, India
06.2011 - 08.2016
- Participated in complete development lifecycle: analysis, design, build and test reports
- Created custom hierarchies to aid in Drill-Through analysis of WebI documents and built cascading prompts
- New Universe development using Information Design tool for new reports and modifications for existing Reports using Universe design tool
- Develop and design Detail Reports/Summary Reports/dashboard using hyperlinks as per requirement
- Data mapping and working with data integration team and designing HLD
- Promoting, migrating and upgrading content between multiple Business Object environments
- Running Integrity Checks on all Universe to ensure through parsing (Syntax Checking)
- Completely utilized various features in Business Objects Web Intelligence such as Pre-Defined Filters, Prompts, Crosstab, Report Linking, sub Queries/Sub Reports, Hierarchies, Drill Down, Charts/Graphs, Report Layout/Format features etc
- Experience of cutover tasks done before go-Live like Scheduling and placing environmental restriction, configuring delivery services, integration notification templates etc
- Extensively used various features like Joins, Alias and Contexts in Universe designer to overcome various traps (Chasm, Fan) and Loops
- Identification of Business and Data requirements and converting them into conceptual and logical data models
- Design universe on SAP Business Intelligence and prepare Custom reports
- Responsible for developing Unit and System Test Cases and testing of Universe and BO reports
- Modifying and creating reports based on all user requirement
- Working on Universes, Query Panel, Prompts and Report Layout and Re-formatting
- Design and develop extensive BO reports using combination of charts and tables
- Responsible for loop detection, context & alias creation, joining tables and setting cardinalities
- Collaborate with business teams and develop jobs to extract, transform and load Flat files and SQL table's sources using BODS Jobs
- Regular BO repository Maintenance like Cleaning Orphaned Connection/Universe/Documents
- Promoting, migrating and upgrading content between multiple Business Object environments
- Completely utilized various features Business Objects Web Intelligence such as Pre-Defined Filters, Prompts, Crosstab, Report Linking, sub Queries/Sub Reports, Hierarchies, Drill Down, Charts/Graphs, Report Layout/Format features etc
- Monitoring BO server, DB services, BO Licenses and scheduled BO jobs
- Create Scripts, sending job notification to user scripts and declaring Local and Global Variables
- Design and write jobs to fetch data from SAP BW using Open Hub Destination, kicking off process chains and pushing data to BW DSOs using external source system configurations
- Maintaining BODS Security as per client specifications
- Extract data from all Relational Databases including oracle, Microsoft SQL server and loaded in different environments, which include BW, ORACLE, SQL SERVER, and .txt & .CSV files
- Cognos Administration - Design, Development, Deployment, Maintenance and Support
- Control Single-Sign-On functionality into Cognos security and SAP BO utilizing LDAP, and Access Manager Authentication providers
- Use TOAD and MySQL developer for source and target database activities
- Worked with Power Centre -Designer tool in developing mappings to extract and loading data from stage to pre-load and later to date warehouse.
Education
B.Sc in Maths & Electronics - Electronics & Maths
Osmania University
India01-2011
M.Tech in Software Engineering - Software Engineering
BITS Pilani University
India01-2015
Skills
WORKDAY:
- HCM
- Performance
- Absence
- Benefits
- Security
- Integrations
- Reporting
- BIRT
- EIB
Accomplishments
Received an award for implementing automated solution for Job Description attestation in Workday
Timeline
Solutions Architect, Workday HCM
Clarion Events
07.2024 - Current
Workday Consultant
MUFG Bank & Securities
02.2020 - 06.2024
Sr Workday HCM configuration & Reporting Consultant
Argus Media
03.2019 - 11.2019
Workday HCM Consultant & HRIS Analyst
MUFG Bank & Securities
11.2017 - 03.2019
Workday HCM Consultant
Echostar Satellite Communications & Hughes Network Systems
08.2016 - 05.2017
Sr Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
06.2011 - 08.2016
B.Sc in Maths & Electronics - Electronics & Maths
Osmania University
M.Tech in Software Engineering - Software Engineering
BITS Pilani University