JOB PURPOSE

This role is for a skilled HR Payroll System Analyst. This role will be responsible for maintenance, and optimisation of SAP ECP, ensuring seamless payroll processing and compliance with regulations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

- Act as the SME for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP).
- Configure and maintain payroll schemas, rules and system settings where applicable.
- Support quarterly releases, upgrades and regression testing activities.
- Manage payroll related incidents, service requests and problem management activities.
- Support integrations between Employee Central, Payroll, Time, Finance and third-party providers.
- Ensure system security, compliance, audit controls and GDPR requirements are maintained.
- Drive automation and process improvement initiatives across HR and Payroll operations.
- Produce and analyses system and payroll data to support business decision making.
- Maintain system documentation, knowledge articles and operating procedures.

Key Skills & Experience
- Strong SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll experience.
- HR Systems and Payroll systems expertise.
- Data analysis and reporting capability.
- Stakeholder management and vendor management experience.
- Testing, change management and release management knowledge.

Qualifications

- Relevant HRIS, Payroll or SAP certification desirable.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.

PAYROLL CONFIGURATION & TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
- Extensive experience configuring and maintaining SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP) across multiple payroll areas and employee populations.
- Robust knowledge of payroll schemas, sub-schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs),



functions and operations to support complex payroll requirements.
- Experience creating, configuring and maintaining wage types, symbolic accounts, evaluation classes, processing classes and cumulation classes.
- Ability to analyse and resolve payroll calculation issues through payroll logs, payroll clusters and schema trace analysis.
- Experience configuring payroll periods, control records, payroll areas and payroll calendars.
- Knowledge of gross-to-net calculations, statutory deductions, pensions, benefits, absence processing and retroactive accounting.
- Experience configuring off-cycle payroll processes including bonus payments, corrections, advances and termination payments.
- Strong understanding of retro payroll processing, payroll corrections and replication monitoring between Employee Central and ECP.
- Experience supporting Payroll Control Centre (PCC) configuration, validation rules, policy creation and payroll process monitoring.
- Ability to identify and implement payroll configuration changes arising from legislative, contractual or business requirements.
- Experience configuring posting to finance, symbolic accounts and payroll reconciliation processes.
- Knowledge of Time Management integration and the impact of absences, attendances, overtime and allowances on payroll calculations.




- Experience configuring and troubleshooting custom infotypes, wage type generation and payroll-related master data.
- Strong understanding of payroll result clusters, RT tables, CRT tables and payroll data validation techniques.
- Experience performing root cause analysis on payroll defects and implementing sustainable configuration solutions.
- Knowledge of transport management processes and deployment of payroll configuration between Development, Test and Production environments.
- Experience supporting year-end activities, tax updates and statutory payroll changes.
- Ability to produce functional specifications for payroll enhancements and work closely with ABAP developers on technical solutions.
- Experience conducting unit testing, integration testing, regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for payroll configuration changes.
- Knowledge of SAP Notes application, support packs and payroll legislative updates.
- Strong understanding of payroll audit controls, segregation of duties, GDPR and payroll compliance requirements.

DESIRABLE ADVANCED ECP EXPERIENCE

- Payroll schema design and optimisation.
- Custom PCR development and troubleshooting.
- PCC implementation and configuration.
- BSI Tax Factory knowledge (if applicable).
- Payroll posting and finance integration.
- SuccessFactors Employee Central to ECP replication framework.
- SAP CPI integration monitoring and error resolution.
- Payroll cluster analysis and debugging.
- Data migration and payroll parallel run activities.
- End-to-end payroll process ownership from master data through to posting and reporting.

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