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Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Consultant
KPMG is a global network of firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. With a presence in 142 countries and over 270.000 professionals, we deliver high-quality services to clients worldwide. In Portugal, we operate from offices in Lisbon, Evora, and Oporto, with a team of more than 1.700 experienced professionals.
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.
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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.
To join our team...
You must have...
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.
You must be...
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.
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