SF Payroll Lead in Watford

Ready to utilise your knowledge of SuccessFactors Employee Central? We have an exciting role for you – SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Lead!

Careers at TCS: It means more. TCS is a purpose‑led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve – our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects that demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership. Gain access to endless learning opportunities. Lead a team and their technical growth. Collaborate with customers and stakeholders.

The Role: As an SF Payroll Lead, you will play a central part in transforming the client’s HR & Payroll landscape, enabling faster, compliant, and digital payroll operations. You will act as a trusted Employee Central Payroll SME, guiding the customer through their payroll modernisation journey and ensuring measurable improvements in accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency. This role is mission‑critical within the SAP SuccessFactors programme.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end‑to‑end design of SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP), ensuring alignment with EC Core HR and overall HCM architecture.
• Define and validate end‑to‑end payroll process flows including time, payroll, posting, and payment.
• Oversee integration design between EC & ECP using PTP (Point‑to‑Point) and middleware where required.
• Lead payroll data migration strategy: legacy payroll elements, wage types, employee master, tax data, balances.
• Develop and execute test strategies for payroll cycles: unit testing, SIT, UAT, regression, and parallel payroll runs.
• Act as primary payroll SME for business stakeholders, HR, Finance, and technical teams.
• Lead workshops, requirement gathering sessions, gap analysis, and solution walkthroughs.

Your Profile:

• Experience in SAP Payroll, with at least 2–3 end‑to‑end UK‑ECP implementations.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, schemas, rules, and retroactive accounting.
• Hands‑on experience with EC Payroll, Payroll Control Center, Pay Statement, Banking, Finance Posting, and Time data replication.
• Strong command over SAP HCM Payroll schemas/rules and ECP extensions.
• Knowledge of SAP CPI, BIB, EC replication frameworks, and HCM integration add‑ons.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills using tools such as Payroll Log, PC_PAYRESULT, SLG1.
• Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology and agile project delivery.
• Experience with multi‑vendor payroll ecosystems (ADP, SD Worx, NGA) migration.
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Certification.

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing: Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long‑term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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Due to the high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion. Join us and do more of what matters. Apply online now.