SAP Data Consultant

• SAP Data Migration Consultant
• Contract | Outside IR35 | Hybrid (Leeds 2-3 Days Per Week)

The Opportunity

We are supporting a large organisation undertaking a significant SAP transformation programme, moving from a legacy SAP ECC environment to a modern SAP landscape including

• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP Success Factors Employee Central
• Employee Central Payroll
• Learning Management Systems
• SAP Ariba

, and other integrated platforms.

• As the
• SAP Data Migration Consultant

, you will play a critical role in ensuring employee, payroll and organisational data is accurately migrated, reconciled, validated and integrated across the new environment.

This is a hands-on delivery role suited to someone who has successfully delivered multiple SAP migration programmes and can confidently challenge design decisions, data quality issues, and delivery approaches where required.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Migration & Mapping
• Lead the migration of HR and payroll data from
• SAP ECC HCM into
• SAP Success Factors Employee Central and
• Employee Central Payroll
• Produce and maintain detailed field-level mapping documentation covering:
• Personnel data
• Organisational structures
• Payroll data
• Pay components
• Tax, pension and banking information
• SAP HR infotypes
• Define and document transformation rules, value mappings, default values and exception handling processes.
• Map end-to-end data flows across SAP and non-SAP source systems, interfaces and middleware components.
• Identify systems of record, data ownership and reconciliation requirements throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Support cutover planning, delta loads and migration rehearsals.
• Data Quality, Validation & Reconciliation
• Establish robust data validation and reconciliation processes across migration, integration and payroll testing activities.
• Define test scenarios, acceptance criteria and reconciliation evidence.
• Conduct data quality reviews to identify gaps, inconsistencies and ownership issues early in the programme lifecycle.
• Support payroll parallel runs and validate migration outcomes against agreed thresholds.
• Ensure migrated data is complete, accurate, auditable and fit for operational use at go-live.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Work closely with HR, Payroll, Finance, Technology and Programme stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops to gather requirements, clarify ownership and agree data decisions.
• Translate technical data issues into language understandable by business users and senior stakeholders.
• Review designs, migration approaches and deliverables produced by third-party suppliers and implementation partners.
• Challenge delivery approaches where required and provide evidence-based recommendations.
• Programme Delivery Support
• Review migration and data load designs before build and deployment activities commence.
• Monitor delivery against programme standards and design principles.
• Track data-related risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Provide regular updates on migration progress, testing outcomes and data readiness.

Essential Experience

Applicants should be able to demonstrate

• Extensive experience delivering data workstreams across
• SAP implementation, migration or transformation programmes
• Proven experience on at least two full SAP migration or implementation projects

• Strong practical experience with

• SAP ECC HCM
• SAP Payroll
• HR infotypes
• Pay scales
• Wage types
• Payroll results
• Experience migrating data into
• SAP Success Factors Employee Central
• Experience supporting

Employee Central Payroll implementations or migrations.

• Strong understanding of

• ETL processes
• Data mapping
• Data transformation
• Data validation
• Data reconciliation
• Experience handling large volumes of employee and payroll data.
• Ability to review and challenge third-party deliverables, migration strategies and quality standards.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of
• UK GDPR

, data governance and payroll data handling requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly Desirable
• Experience delivering

ECC to Success Factors Employee Central migration programmes.

• Experience integrating
• Employee Central and
• Employee Central Payroll with
• SAP S/4HANA

• Experience with

• Effective dating
• Business rules
• Data import templates
• Payroll parallel runs

• SAP certifications in

• Success Factors Employee Central
• SAP HCM
• SAP S/4HANA
• Multi-country payroll experience, particularly
• UK and European payroll environments
• Experience working within large, complex organisational transformation programmes.
• Location
• Hybrid working model.
• Expected travel to
• Leeds 2-3 days per week
• Contract Details
• Contract opportunity.
• Outside IR35.
• Immediate start preferred.

This role would suit an experienced SAP Data Migration Consultant who combines strong technical migration capability with the ability to challenge, govern and improve data quality across a complex SAP transformation programme.