Kronos workforce central data validation: row counts, sum totals, hash signatures. Per-worker, per-pay-period, per-accrual-code. Signed evidence pack for SOX, FLSA, state wage law and union audit. No load signed off with unresolved errors.
A migration is only as real as the validation evidence. WFC and Fusion HCM model time, labor and absence differently — kronos workforce central data validation is the trust layer that proves the translation is correct.
Validation has three audiences. Payroll wants to see the cutover pay period reconciled line-by-line to the cent — every worker, every pay code, every accrual taking — between WFC source and Fusion target. Finance wants to see accrual liability reconciled per code per pay group to the hundredth-of-an-hour, so SOX accrual-liability sign-off is clean. Union and Compliance want to see FLSA substantiation preserved — every Fusion payroll line traceable back to the original WFC TIMESHEETITEM punch via auditable chain.
Each audience has its own validation depth. Payroll runs at line + sum level per pay period. Finance runs at sum + hash level per accrual code per pay group. Union and Compliance run at line + chain level per Fusion payroll register line back to source punch with edit-history preserved. Syntra ETL's kronos workforce central data validation engine produces all three audiences' evidence packs from a single execution — no duplicated extraction passes, no inconsistent numbers between Payroll's reconciliation and Finance's reconciliation.
The engine is calibrated against multiple dozens of Kronos WFC conversions. Validation runs in parallel with load — so a 100,000-worker FBDI Time Card Import doesn't have to wait for a 6-hour sequential validation pass. Errors are surfaced with full diagnostic context (source row, expected target row, observed target row, transformation rule, field-level divergence) and routed to sign-off owners for bulk fix. No load is signed off with unresolved errors.
Every WFC domain has its own validation surface. The engine ships pre-built reconcilers for each.
WFC TIMESHEETITEM vs Fusion Time Card: count, worked-hours sum to the second, pay-code distribution, hash signature per pay group per period. Source punch-id preserved as Fusion external reference for FLSA chain.
WFC signed timecards vs Fusion submitted/approved Time Cards. Approval state, signed-by actor, edit-history preserved end-to-end. Grievance-defense chain intact.
WFC ACCRUALBALANCE vs Fusion Absence Plan Balance: per worker, per accrual code, per pay group, to the hundredth-of-an-hour. Dollar value (balance × rate) reconciled to the cent for SOX.
WFC LEAVECASE vs Fusion Absence Case: case-id preservation, eligibility-clock state, used/remaining hours, intermittent fragment count, certification reference. No clock-restart for mid-leave workers.
Parallel-run pay period: WFC payroll register vs Fusion payroll register, line-by-line, to the cent. Every divergence ties to a specific Pay Rule firing differently between source and target.
Long-term Kronos archive Parquet vs WFC source extract: row counts per fiscal year per pay group, hash signatures, watermark high-water-mark. FLSA + state wage retention chain preserved.
From source extract hash through Fusion load hash to signed evidence pack — engineered for parallel-run pay-period reconciliation.
Every record extracted from WFC (worker, punch, timecard, accrual balance, leave case) is canonicalized and SHA-256 hashed at the source extraction layer. Hashes stored alongside the Parquet output with manifest reference.
Crosswalks applied. Transformed records validated against Fusion 26x schema locally. Error rows surfaced with field-level diagnostic (which crosswalk failed, what value, what target expectation) before any Fusion submission.
HDL and FBDI payloads submitted to Fusion ESS. Submission manifests captured with ESS-job-id, row-counts, hash signatures. Failures surfaced row-level for bulk fix at source mapping.
Post-load Fusion entities re-extracted, canonicalized, re-hashed. Compared to source-side hashes per pay group per period. Per-domain reconciliation engines run in parallel.
Row counts, sum totals, hash signatures compared per domain per pay group per period. Divergences captured with full diagnostic context. Per-audience evidence pack drafts emitted — Payroll, Finance, Union/Compliance.
Per-audience evidence pack signed timestamped and stored alongside the load manifest. Becomes the immutable audit chain: WFC source → extraction manifest → transformation log → Fusion load manifest → target-side hash → signed reconciliation.
Three-layer reconciliation, multi-audience evidence packs, defensible chain — built for FLSA, state wage law and union audit response.
Every validation run produces an immutable signed evidence pack with hash chain. The artifact Payroll signs to authorize cutover. The artifact Finance attaches to SOX accrual-liability sign-off.
Every Fusion payroll register line ties back to its original WFC TIMESHEETITEM punch via preserved external reference. California 7-year, New York 6-year, Illinois 5-year retention chain intact.
Errors surfaced with source row, expected target row, observed target row, transformation rule, exact field-level divergence. Ready for bulk fix at source mapping — no row-by-row production fixes.
Payroll evidence, Finance evidence, Union/Compliance evidence — all three from a single execution. No inconsistent numbers between audience reconciliations.
Validation runs in parallel with load. 100,000-worker FBDI Time Card Import reconciled in hours, not days. Pay-cycle cutover windows respected.
Reconciliation precision tuned across dozens of Kronos WFC conversions. To-the-cent payroll, to-the-hundredth-of-an-hour accrual, to-the-minute FMLA case state.
Kronos workforce central data validation is the post-extract, post-transform, post-load reconciliation that proves WFC source data has been correctly translated into Fusion HCM target. It runs three layers — row counts (Workers, punches, accruals, leave cases), sum totals (worked hours, OT hours, accrual liability per code per pay group, FMLA case count by jurisdiction), and hash signatures (SHA-256 over canonical row representations) — and produces a signed evidence pack consumable by SOX, FLSA, state wage law and union audit response. Syntra ETL's kronos workforce central data validation engine is the unit of trust in the programme: if validation passes, the load is real; if validation fails, the engine surfaces the exact field-level reason for bulk fix.
Every punch extracted from WFC TIMESHEETITEM is hashed at source (employee_id + clock_in_ts + clock_out_ts + labor_account + pay_code + edit_sequence). Every Fusion Time Card row generated from that punch is re-hashed post-load. The kronos workforce central data validation engine compares per-pay-period: punch counts (WFC vs Fusion), worked-hours totals (WFC vs Fusion to the second), pay-code distribution (regular, OT, shift diff, holiday premium, on-call), hash signatures per pay group per period. Any divergence is captured with the original WFC row and the Fusion row side-by-side for diagnosis. The signed evidence pack ties Fusion payroll register lines back to original WFC punches for FLSA substantiation.
WFC ACCRUALBALANCE table holds per-worker active balances per accrual code, YTD earnings, YTD takings, carryover, and cap context. Syntra ETL's kronos workforce central data validation extracts the snapshot at the cutover effective date, hashes per worker per code, and re-reads the Fusion Absence Plan Balance after HDL load. Reconciliation is per accrual code, per pay group, per worker, to the hundredth-of-an-hour. The signed reconciliation pack ties WFC accrual liability dollar value (balance × hourly rate) to Fusion accrual liability dollar value for SOX accrual-liability sign-off. No manual GL adjustments. No '$50K reconciling item' that lingers for three months.
FMLA cases must preserve state through cutover — a worker mid-12-week-clock cannot have the clock restart in Fusion. Validation extracts every active leave case from WFC LEAVECASE with case-id, eligibility-clock high-water-mark, used hours, remaining hours, intermittent fragment history, certification status, and re-reads the corresponding Fusion Absence Case post-load. Reconciliation verifies: same case-id (preserved as external reference), same eligibility-clock state, same used/remaining hours to the minute, same intermittent fragment count, same certification reference. Any case where state is not preserved is flagged for HR review before cutover sign-off.
Yes — and this is the validation that matters most to Payroll, Finance and SOX. Syntra ETL replays the cutover pay-period through both WFC and Fusion in parallel, extracts the full payroll register from each (worker, pay group, regular hours, OT hours, shift differential, holiday premium, on-call premium, accrual takings, gross pay), and reconciles line-by-line to the cent. Any divergence is captured with the rule that fired in WFC versus the rule that fired in Fusion, for bulk diagnosis. The signed reconciliation pack — WFC payroll register vs Fusion payroll register, line-by-line, to the cent — is the artifact Payroll signs to authorize the production cutover.
Union grievance defense and CBA enforcement require an auditable chain from a Fusion payroll line back to the original WFC punch that drove it. Validation preserves the chain end-to-end: every Fusion Time Card row carries the source TIMESHEETITEM id as an external reference, every punch edit is preserved with original/edited/edit-actor/edit-timestamp metadata, every union-specific Work Rule is carried as a routing flag through the Time Consumer Set. Sample union-grievance evidence packs are produced as part of validation sign-off — for representative workers across each CBA — proving the union audit story remains defensible post-migration.
Validation errors are surfaced with full diagnostic context: source WFC row, expected Fusion row, observed Fusion row, transformation rule that fired, exact field-level divergence, sample reconciliation impact (rows + hours + dollars). Errors are batched into a defect queue tagged by domain (Pay Rule, Accrual, Leave Case, Labor Account) and routed to the appropriate sign-off owner. Bulk fixes are applied at the source mapping or transformation layer — not row-by-row in production Fusion. Once the fix is applied, the kronos workforce central data validation engine re-runs the affected scope and re-emits the signed evidence pack. No load is signed off with unresolved errors.
Yes — for the multi-year punch and timecard history that lands in the long-term Kronos archive (rather than Fusion Time Card, which typically holds only current + recent periods). Validation reconciles the archive Parquet partition against the WFC TIMESHEETITEM extract: row counts per fiscal year per pay group, hash signatures per partition, source-system flag (API vs SQL extract), watermark high-water-mark. The signed archive reconciliation pack is the FLSA + state wage law audit evidence: California 7-year, New York 6-year, Illinois 5-year retention with auditable chain from any payroll line back to the original punch in archive. No reconstruction needed when DOL investigators arrive.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We'll review your reconciliation depth requirements — SOX, FLSA, union — and confirm a concrete three-layer kronos workforce central data validation plan with sign-off owners and audit chain definition before the call ends.