SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Lead in Bedford

The Role

The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Lead is responsible for leading the design, implementation, integration, and ongoing support of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll solutions. This role acts as the functional and solution lead, ensuring payroll processes are compliant, efficient, and fully integrated with Employee Central and other SAP/third‑party systems.

Your responsibilities:

Payroll Solution Leadership

• Lead end to end implementation and support of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll

• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for payroll processes and system capabilities

• Drive payroll design aligned with business, statutory, and compliance requirements

Configuration & Implementation

• Configure ECP components including:

o Payroll schemas, rules, and wage types

o Time valuation and payroll control records

o Off cycle payrolls, retroactivity, and corrections

• Support data migration from legacy payroll systems to ECP

• Oversee payroll testing cycles (unit, integration, UAT, and parallel payroll runs)

Integration & Data Flow

• Lead integrations between:

o Employee Central (EC) and Employee Central Payroll

o SAP S/4HANA or ECC

o Time Management, Benefits, Finance, and third party payroll providers

• Ensure accurate data replication using SAP Integration Suite / middleware

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure payroll compliance with local statutory, tax, and labor regulations

• Manage audit requirements, controls, and payroll reconciliations

• Support year end payroll activities and statutory reporting

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary payroll contact for HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors

• Translate business requirements into functional payroll solutions

• Lead client workshops, design discussions, and knowledge transfer sessions

Team Leadership & Delivery

• Lead and mentor payroll consultants and analysts

• Review functional specifications, configuration, and deliverables

• Support project planning, estimations, and risk management

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience

• >8 years of SAP HCM Payroll Experience

• Min 2 implementation experience.

• Hands on experience in configuration of Employee Central payroll for UK

• Expert for End-to-End Payroll process

• SAP SuccessFactors Certified in: Employee Central Payroll (ECP)

• Highly Experienced in SuccessFactors ECP Support

• Service Delivery Manager expertise

• Has support experience on different Payroll Change Requests/issues

• Mapped G/L accounts to wage types to make sure it gets posted to FI

• Prepared system change documents to accommodate the new changes

• Configured limits for complex deductions such as 401k, Flu shots etc

• Modified processing classes according to client requirements for wage types

• Configured Tax models and extensively worked on tax issues

• Worked on Garnishment issues

• SAP payroll schema, wage types, garnishment

• Year - end reporting and tax reconciliation, tax reports such as W-2

• Configured Fringe rates payroll parameters in configuration

• Extensively used PCC (Payroll Control Center) and Point to Point integration application tools to replicate the EC data and to run the payroll through SAP Successfactors

• Involved in implementing regulatory updates from vendors such as ADP, Alight and Tax Updates

• Participated in UAT activities to make the users understand the issues on EC Payroll

• Involved in QA testing to test the functional scenarios

• Involved in creation and review of technical specification

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience

• Good to know Time off

• Familiarity with integrations using tools like SAP CPI, Data Services, or OData APIs

• The role requires expertise in the software, coordination with HR and IT, and the ability to manage and report on compensation data for managers and leadership.

• Best Practices and Updates : Stay current with SAP SuccessFactors updates and best practices to provide expert guidance