SAP HR Payroll Lead
Accenture
SAP HR Payroll Lead
Job Description
We are:
Accenture’s SAP practice, and we bring the New to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech like IoT, automation, and AI. We even built myConcerto, a mix of SAP and Accenture that helps lead our clients to big wins. Ready to learn as much as you can? We train our people on "new" SAP like SAP Leonardo, S/4HANA and Cloud, and we offer classes and support through our 50,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. We’ve got over 70 SAP awards—more than any other partner—and we’re the leading business partner for SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris, SAP FieldGlass, SAP Concur, and more. Visit us here to find out more about Accenture's SAP practice.
You are:
A transformational leader with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of unlocking value across their enterprise. Your superpower? Using your know-how to solve clients’ most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You’re as comfortable working in teams and leading projects as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP solutions. And you’re up for traveling regularly to client sites.
As an SAP Employee Central Payroll Lead, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing the implementation and optimization of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) solutions for our clients. You will leverage your deep expertise in payroll processes and SAP ECP to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions that align with our clients' business goals. Your role will involve managing project teams, engaging with key stakeholders, and ensuring the successful delivery of payroll solutions from blueprint to go-live.
In this role, you will actively identify and pursue innovative opportunities/approaches to create and deliver (internal and external) client value. You'll ensure that your team's work is innovative and brings value, leveraging Accenture’s offerings and best practices to all engagements. You will synthesize complex information to identify trends and potential issues and quickly isolate root causes, demonstrating comfort with complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty while adapting to changing circumstances.
The Work:
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Lead and manage SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll implementations, from project planning and scoping to execution, testing, and go-live support.
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Creates a logical plan, realistic estimates and reasonable schedule for project related activities
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Consistently demonstrates sound business understanding and judgment for the company
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Thoroughly synthesizes, distills and reconciles key findings from complex sets of information to identify trends and potential issues
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Plan, coordinate, and lead workshops with key stakeholders to gather requirements, provide training, or discuss project scope and objectives.
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Capture key decisions, action items, and feedback from workshops, and circulate these to stakeholders post-session.
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Track progress on all deliverables to ensure alignment with the project timeline and escalate issues where necessary. Facilitate sign-offs for key deliverables, ensuring that stakeholders are fully informed and approvals are obtained in a timely manner.
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Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, understanding their payroll needs, providing expert advice, and ensuring satisfaction with the delivered solutions.
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Identify opportunities for process improvements and optimizations within payroll operations, driving efficiency and enhancing client value.
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Analyze client requirements and design comprehensive payroll solutions that meet their business objectives, ensuring compliance with local and international payroll regulations.
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Collaborate with key stakeholders, including HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors, to ensure seamless integration and alignment of payroll solutions with overall business processes.
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Contribute to the execution of test plans to ensure the quality and accuracy of payroll solutions.
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Support business development activities by contributing to proposals, presentations, and client meetings, leveraging your expertise to win new projects.
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Design, manage, and execute payroll parallel tests, comparing legacy payroll results with new system outputs to identify discrepancies and ensure a smooth transition to the new system.
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Proposes innovative, creative solutions that reflect underlying strategic business needs and/or industry best practices (internal and external).
Qualifications
Here’s what you need:
Minimum of 5-7 implementation years of experience in SAP HCM/SuccessFactors with a strong focus on Employee Central Payroll.
Proven track record in managing end-to-end payroll implementation projects.
Experience in managing teams and delivering projects within scope, time, and budget.
Deep expertise in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, including configuration, integration, replication and reporting.
Knowledge of Payroll Control Centre.
Strong understanding of global payroll processes, compliance requirements, 3rd party remittances and leading practices.
Experience migrating SAP ECC Payroll to SAP S/4
Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
Bonus Points if:
Strong project management skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
Proficiency in related SAP modules (e.g., Employee Central, Time Management) is a plus.
SAP SuccessFactors certification in Employee Central Payroll is highly preferred.
Proposes innovative, creative solutions that reflect underlying strategic business needs and/or industry best practices (internal and external).
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong client relationships at all levels.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business environments.
Proactively mitigates risks by identifying potential pitfalls and developing strategies to avoid them, considering the client’s risk tolerance.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired in British Columbia as set forth below.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia $119,700 to $278,100
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