Payroll design and requirement validation

- Participate in payroll requirement, fit-gap and solution design workshops with the implementation partner.
- Translate current payroll rules, wage types, statutory requirements, accounting treatments and operating practices into clear business requirements and testable outcomes.
- Review proposed designs and configuration outputs for business accuracy, completeness and operational practicality.
- Maintain decision logs, payroll rule documentation, wage-type rationale and agreed operating procedures.

Data, reconciliation and payroll validation
- Own payroll data preparation, cleansing and validation from the business side.
- Lead back-dated payroll reconciliation from April 2026 through cutover, including employee-level and wage-type-level comparison.
- Coordinate parallel payroll runs and compare gross pay, deductions, statutory components, net pay and accounting outputs between the legacy (SAP HCM) and new system (SuccsssFactors).
- Investigate variances, classify root causes, coordinate corrections and maintain evidence of closure and sign-off.
- Validate migrated payroll balances, statutory accumulations, employee master data and pay-related time inputs.

Testing and quality assurance
- Prepare and maintain payroll test scenarios, scripts, test data and expected results across regular, off-cycle, retroactive and separation payroll processes.




- Support system integration testing and lead payroll user acceptance testing on behalf of Voltas.
- Track defects through resolution, retest corrected scenarios and provide clear status reporting on payroll readiness.
- Ensure testing covers statutory compliance, finance posting, bank outputs, payslips, reports, interfaces and downstream impacts.

Cutover, go-live and stabilisation
- Own business-side payroll cutover activities, readiness checklists, open-item tracking and go/no-go inputs.
- Coordinate final data validation, payroll calendar readiness, production checks and first payroll preparation.
- Provide full time support during go-live and hypercare, triaging payroll issues and escalating configuration-level defects to the implementation partner.
- Support the transition to steady-state payroll operations through documented SOPs, issue logs and knowledge transfer.

Stakeholder and partner coordination
- Work day to day with the implementation partner's payroll team and hold actions, deliverables and defects to agreed timelines.
- Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Compliance and IT to obtain inputs, approvals and sign-offs.
- Provide concise progress updates, highlight risks early and drive timely decision-making on payroll dependencies.
- Protect business-as-usual payroll continuity while implementation activities are underway.

📌 SF Payroll Implementation Lead (Mumbai)
🏢 Voltas Limited - A TATA Enterprise
📍 Mumbai