Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Consultant

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We are looking for a Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Consultant with strong expertise in SAP Payroll and Employee Central Payroll to join our HR transformation programs. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on experience in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) with a strong SAP HCM Payroll background and proven experience delivering complex end-to-end payroll implementations and transformations.

The role requires the ability to lead payroll workstreams from requirements and solution design through configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization, ensuring accurate and compliant payroll processing and seamless integration with Employee Central and the broader HR and Finance landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Lead SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) workstreams across the full project lifecycle, including requirements, functional design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
• Lead workshops with HR and Payroll stakeholders to understand and document end-to-end payroll processes, business rules, statutory requirements, collective agreements, and payroll operating models.
• Design, configure, and optimize ECP solutions, including wage types, payroll schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs), payroll functions and operations, retroactive accounting, off-cycle payroll, deductions, allowances, and other payroll calculation requirements.
• Define scalable payroll solution designs aligned with SAP standard capabilities and implementation best practices, minimizing unnecessary customization and long-term maintenance complexity.
• Design and support Employee Central → Employee Central Payroll integration, ensuring consistency and integrity of employee, organizational, compensation, time, and other payroll-relevant data.
• Analyze and manage dependencies between Payroll and other SuccessFactors capabilities, particularly Employee Central, Time Management, Compensation, and Benefits, ensuring end-to-end process and data consistency.
• Lead and support SAP HCM Payroll / ECC → SuccessFactors ECP transformation scenarios, including existing payroll assessment, process harmonization, configuration transition, payroll-relevant data migration, and transition planning.
• Define and execute comprehensive payroll testing strategies, including unit testing, SIT, UAT, regression testing, parallel payroll runs, payroll reconciliation, and validation of payroll results.
• Lead payroll cutover and go-live activities, including data validation, payroll readiness, reconciliation, and stabilization of the first productive payroll cycles.
• Contribute to integration design between ECP and Employee Central, SAP S/4HANA / Finance, Time Management solutions, banks/payment providers, statutory authorities, and third-party HR solutions.
• Prepare functional specifications, configuration documentation, test scenarios, payroll reconciliation documentation, and other implementation deliverables.
• Lead functional defect analysis, root-cause identification, and resolution during testing, parallel payroll, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Collaborate closely with Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, integration, and technical development teams, acting as the functional bridge between business requirements and the SAP payroll solution.
• Provide functional guidance to junior consultants and contribute to solution quality assurance, design reviews, and knowledge transfer activities.

Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in SAP Payroll solutions, with relevant experience in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP).
• Project Background: Proven experience in payroll implementation and transformation projects, with participation in at least 3 end-to-end SAP Payroll implementations, covering the full lifecycle from requirements and solution design through configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Core Expertise: Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, including configuration and end-to-end payroll processing.
• SAP Payroll Expertise: Strong understanding of SAP Payroll concepts and configuration, including wage types, payroll schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs), payroll functions and operations, features, retroactive accounting, off-cycle processing, payroll control, and payroll results.
• Payroll Processes: Strong knowledge of end-to-end payroll operations, including payroll preparation, calculation, validation, corrections, reconciliation, posting, payments, and payroll period closing activities.
• Employee Central Integration: Strong understanding of the interaction between Employee Central and ECP, including replication and management of payroll-relevant employee, organizational, compensation, and time data.
• Testing & Reconciliation: Hands-on experience with complex payroll testing, including parallel payroll runs, reconciliation of payroll results, root-cause analysis, and management of payroll discrepancies.
• Transformation: Experience in SAP HCM Payroll / ECC → SuccessFactors ECP transformations, including configuration assessment, payroll process harmonization, data migration, transition, and cutover activities.
• Integration & Architecture: Good understanding of payroll integration with SAP and third-party solutions, particularly Employee Central, Finance, Time Management, banking/payment solutions, and statutory interfaces.
• Implementation & Delivery: Demonstrated ability to work across requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Functional-Technical Capability: Ability to analyze complex payroll configurations and troubleshoot payroll issues, including the ability to work effectively with technical and integration teams on enhancements and custom requirements.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to interact directly with Payroll, HR, Finance, and IT stakeholders and translate complex payroll requirements into robust SAP solutions.
• Leadership: Ability to independently lead functional topics, drive decisions, coordinate activities across teams, and provide guidance to less experienced consultants.
• Languages: Fluency in Portuguese and English.

Additional Advantage:

• Strong previous experience with SAP HCM Payroll on ECC and/or SAP HCM for S/4HANA, particularly in payroll transformation and migration scenarios.
• Experience with non-localized payroll implementations (MOLGA), including the design and setup of payroll solutions for countries where a standard SAP payroll localization is not available or does not fully address business requirements.
• Strong understanding of the SAP Payroll Driver and ability to support technical teams in the design and development of payroll drivers and payroll-specific enhancements, translating functional payroll requirements into technical specifications.
• Advanced hands-on knowledge of SAP Payroll configuration and technical-functional concepts, including payroll clusters, schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs), functions, operations, features/characteristics, model wage types, wage type configuration, and related payroll configuration objects.
• Ability to analyze existing SAP Payroll logic and determine when requirements should be addressed through standard configuration, payroll rules/schemas, or technical development.
• Knowledge and/or hands-on experience in SuccessFactors Employee Central, particularly Compensation Information, Job Information, Time Management, and payroll-relevant master data.
• Experience with Employee Central Payroll integration and replication, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and reconciliation of payroll-relevant data flows.
• Experience with payroll implementations across multiple countries, legal entities, or payroll areas, including country-specific statutory and business requirements.
• Knowledge of payroll integration with SAP FI/CO, including payroll posting, account determination dependencies, and reconciliation.
• Experience with complex Time → Payroll scenarios, including working time, absences, overtime, allowances, premiums, and other payroll-relevant time data.
• Experience in large-scale international HR and Payroll transformation programs and complex hybrid SAP HR landscapes.
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll and/or SAP HCM Payroll certifications.

What We Offer:

• Participation in large-scale HR and Payroll transformation programs.
• Exposure to complex SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll implementations and hybrid HR architectures.
• Opportunity to work on SAP HCM / ECC → SuccessFactors ECP transformation programs.
• Exposure to end-to-end HR, Payroll, Time, Finance, and integration landscapes.
• Opportunity to work with multidisciplinary teams across HR, Payroll, Finance, Technology, and SAP transformation.

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