Sarika Goney

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to translate business needs into Extend solutions.
• Responsible for designing, building, and deploying Workday Extend applications, designed to fit specific business needs, ensuring smooth integration with the core Workday system.
• Worked on triggered orchestrations in Workday using business processes, and accessed Workday data through RAAS.
• Worked on model components, PMD scripting, and several PMD functions.
• Worked on Workday Extend applications, including AMD, SMD, and MMD file configurations.
• Experienced in building end-to-end Extend applications that integrate with Workday HCM, Finance, and external systems using REST APIs.
• Worked on creating application architectures and technical designs that follow Workday security models and tenant standards.
• Worked on improving workflows, enhancing user experience, and adding new features based on user and stakeholder feedback.
• Worked on developing UI components using the Card UI framework.
• Experienced in implementing PMD scripting and functions, and leveraging the Workday Extend IntelliJ plugin for efficient development.
• Worked on building secure and scalable APIs to connect Workday data with third-party systems.
• Worked on conducting thorough unit, integration, and user acceptance testing to ensure applications meet business requirements.
• Worked on documenting application designs, configurations, and deployment steps to support maintenance and upgrades.
• Experienced in maintaining and upgrading Extend applications to align with new Workday releases, and evolving business requirements.
• Configured HR Data Studio and Payroll Studio integrations, including testing and defect resolution.
• Implemented I-9 E-Verify integration at the business process level, assisting HR and managers with approvals and documentation.
• Experience with EIB integrations (inbound and outbound), web service calls, and Workday Studio Document Transformations with XSLT.
• Integrated and managed complex data sources within Workday Prism Analytics, developing dashboards and reports for stakeholders.
• Worked on adaptive planning for financial reporting and analysis, integrating Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Configured payroll, payroll tax rules, merit cycles, bonus schemes, equity initiatives, and SOX compliance documentation for accurate financial reporting.
• Developed payroll interfaces using PICOF via Workday Studio, and document transformation to meet complex payroll requirements.
• Configured Workday Recruiting, Benefits, Time Tracking, and Compensation modules to streamline HR processes and employee management.
• Experienced in configuring and administering employee benefits packages, such as health insurance, retirement plans, and flexible spending accounts.
• Experienced in configuring business processes, benefits, leave programs, performance management, and recruiting.
• Worked on modifying the Workday Recruiting for better recruiting processes, from job requisition to candidate onboarding.
• Created, deployed, and maintained custom Workday reports using Report Writer, calculated fields, custom report data sources, primary, and related business objects.
• Developed ad-hoc and scheduled reports, dashboards, and visual analytics, including contextual reporting, sorting, filtering, and RaaS outputs.
• Worked on Finance and Payroll reports, including payroll accounting by company/period, and compensation dashboards for pay equity performance and retention analysis.
• Designed and developed both inbound and outbound integrations, including Active Directory, CCW, and web service calls related to HR, Compensation, and Financials.
• Monitored unauthorized access, activity records, and ensured compliance with regulatory and data privacy requirements.
• Created and maintained security-related checklists, ensuring proper user roles, permissions, and secure data transfers during migration.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions aligned with Workday best practices.
• Assisted in Workday implementations, conversions, and troubleshooting, serving as a point of contact for Workday-related queries.
• Worked on UAT plans, test cases, and scripts while supporting cross-functional teams in the implementation and adoption of Workday modules and customizations.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, new enhancements, and impact analysis on all the changes, such as Extend, reports, integrations, calc fields, security domain, business processes, and overall application functionality.
• Worked on developing custom applications using Workday Extend to enhance HR and financial operations.
• Worked on accessing Extend apps in a Workday, and built an end-to-end application workflow through Extend apps.
• Worked on the end-to-end project lifecycle for Workday Extend applications.
• Worked on the Workday Extend plugin for IntelliJ. Good knowledge and experience working on Workday Extend PMD Scripting.
• Worked on Workday Extend AMD file, SMD file, MMD file layout, and configuration.
• Worked on Workday reporting and created several reports, implemented full-cycle Workday HCM integrations.
• Worked on Workday release analysis and testing for all the integrations.
• Responsible for the implementation, including design, build, deployment, and project management for all projects.
• Worked with stakeholders to identify opportunities for application development and process improvement.
• Worked on integration requirements, design specifications, and test plans, and provided technical assistance and support to cross-functional teams on integrations.
• Designing complex calculated fields to be used in Workday reports and integrations.
• Documented and facilitated communication, as well as troubleshooting issues, bugs, and changes.
• Developed integration tools like Studio, Integration, EIB, and Reports.
• Developed integrations using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT, and BIRT on the Workday cloud platform, such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound, inbound/outbound, Active Directory inbound, and UDW inbound/outbound.
• Worked on Prism transformations like Unpivot, Group By, Filter, and Rank, streamlining data analysis processes.
• Worked on implementing custom organizations, base data sets, and derived datasets.
• Worked on Workday Adaptive Planning for HCM and Financials. Set up journal lines, assigned necessary security groups, and configured the financial plan type segment, and headcount plan type segment.
• Implemented process improvement across departments.
• I worked on accounting journal events, set up NetSuite for our finance system, and used Expensify.
• Worked on banking integrations and ACH payments, ISO 20022. Established SFTP connections. File encryption and IP whitelisting on both sides.
• Experienced in multiple journal entries, account posting rules, supplier accounts, and purchase orders.
• Worked with HR and finance departments to develop payroll policies and processes according to company regulations and compliance standards.
• Worked on configuring payroll for on-cycle and off-cycle payments processing.
• Worked on the USA, UK, and Canada end-to-end payroll configuration setup, and usage setup in several reports and integrations.
• Worked on the end-to-end implementation of Workday Global Payroll, with a focus on UK payroll.
• Worked on SOX documentation and control testing for payroll processes, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting.
• Worked on payroll tax election setup for local and other taxes.
• Worked on various leave programs, like self-funded short- and long-term disability plans, FMLA, military leaves, parental leaves, COBRA, HIPAA, ADA, ADAAA, and workers' comp.
• Worked with other state and local statutory leaves, benefits vendors, and HR departments to ensure proper data integration and compliance with benefit requirements.
• Worked with all types of vendors in implementing HCM, payroll, compensation, and benefits.
• Worked on technical guidance and support for team members about Workday Studio, coding standards, and integration strategies.

Responsibilities:

• As the primary point of contact for integrations, functional reporting, and data conversions, I'm responsible for replicating the current processes within Workday, while also transforming them to meet future state requirements. This involves conducting gap analyses to identify differences between legacy systems and Workday's capabilities.
• Interacted with end users daily to understand more about the Workday modules, and configure and customize them to meet business requirements, including HCM, Payroll, and Financials.
• Configure the Workday HCM, Time Tracking, and Absence business processes, including validation rules, computed fields, and other features.
• Worked on Workday implementation initiatives, including planning, testing, and deployment.
• I worked on data conversions and system-to-system vulnerabilities.
• Involved in implementing the HCM, Payroll, Compensation, and Benefits systems.
• Good hands-on experience with different types of reports and configurations.
• End-user support, troubleshooting, and training were provided to guarantee the seamless adoption and use of new applications.
• Collaborated with business users to collect reporting requirements and translate them into technological solutions.
• Worked on creating role-based security setups in Workday to ensure data confidentiality, and regulatory compliance.
• Manage security roles and permissions in Workday to ensure data integrity and compliance with security policies.
• Proficiency in multiple integration and reporting areas: Workday Studio, Connectors, Document Transformation, EIB solutions, Advanced, Matrix, Composite, and BIRT reporting, including calculated fields.
• Experienced in payroll reports for on-cycle and off-cycle payments. In addition to business requirements, daily reports need to be validated based on specific filter criteria.
• Experience in creating and maintaining advanced reports using Workday Studio and BIRT for reports and letters, such as customized new hire letters, etc. Various dashboard reports and analytics in workforce planning, benefits, payroll, time, and absence management.
• Worked on periodic security audits, resolving issues, and ensuring compliance with company security policies.
• Worked on managing payroll procedures within the Workday system to ensure accurate and timely processing.
• Worked on reports to create custom reports for HR and payroll application report users using Workday Report Writer.
• Created reports utilizing relevant data sources and business objects to provide the required report output to end users.
• Developed outbound integration utilizing EIB, web services SOAP, WSDL, XML, and XSLT document transformation for numerous integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems, as well as providing security for the linked functional area to launch the EIB.
• Developed sophisticated reports utilizing the firm's HR systems, and devised a Workday HCM data conversion procedure.
• Worked on tenant setup in implementation and production. Worked on several security measures and provided access to users.
• Supported HR efforts using Workday functionality to optimize operations and increase efficiency.
• Configuration of Workday absences and leaves, time off, and time tracking.
• Worked on reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.
• Documented and facilitated communication and troubleshooting of issues, bugs, and changes.
• Facilitated defect analysis, and ensured that all requirements were covered in scripts and tested properly in all phases.

• Configuring and implementing PeopleSoft modules.
• Understanding the business requirements, a process for development & coding standards, framework model.
• Interacted with end users daily to understand more about the PeopleSoft customizations they required. I also worked closely with the end users in resolving their issues.
• Analyzed the functionality of Time & labor pages, components, records, and menus. Tested the functionality of Time & Labor workflow related to payroll.
• Used Security Administrator to give security access to end-users for those newly developed pages.
• Tested the new system and its functionality.