SAP HCM Consultant

Role Summary

The SAP Payroll Consultant will play a critical role in supporting and enhancing the organizations global HR and payroll technology landscape, with a primary focus on SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) for the United States and APAC regions.

This role is responsible for solution design, system configuration, integrations, and endtoend payroll implementations, ensuring scalable, compliant, and highquality payroll solutions that support evolving business needs.

The ideal candidate brings deep SAP Payroll expertise, strong analytical skills, and proven experience delivering complex payroll programs, including process optimization, system enhancements, and M&A integrations, while collaborating closely with HR, IT, and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP), including configuration, enhancements, release management, testing, and ongoing system support.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable payroll and integration solutions aligned with global HR operations.
• Lead endtoend payroll implementations, enhancements, and integrations between SuccessFactors ECP and thirdparty vendors.
• Design, build, test, and deploy payroll solutions, including grosstonet processing, wage types, schemas, PCRs, deductions, garnishments, and payments.
• Partner with HR, IT, AMS teams, project managers, and vendors to ensure successful delivery of payroll initiatives.
• Troubleshoot and resolve simple to highly complex payroll and integration issues, ensuring data accuracy and compliance.
• Lead payroll testing strategies, including integration, parallel, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Support yearend payroll activities, including W2 processing, statutory reporting, and audits.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders across multiple time zones (US, Mexico, Singapore, Japan, and others).

Required Skills & Experience

• 810+ years of handson SAP Payroll experience, with a minimum of two full SuccessFactors ECP implementations.
• Strong expertise in US Payroll, including tax and benefits processing, BSI Tax Factory, and payroll integrations.
• Indepth knowledge of payroll configuration: wage types, schemas, PCRs, deductions, garnishments, and payroll logs.
• Experience with SAP BTP and integration technologies.
• Experience supporting Benefits integration, including health, insurance, retirement, and savings plans.
• Strong understanding of the Employee Lifecycle and downstream payroll impacts.
• Proven ability to produce technical specifications and functional design documents from business requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active SAP SuccessFactors ECP Certification (required).
• Experience supporting Mergers & Acquisitions payroll integrations.
• Exposure to Workforce Software Time & Attendance solutions.
• Masters degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).