Role: SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Manchester, UK

Working Hours: 40 hours per week (Full-time)

 

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The Role

The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) 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 Payroll schemas, rules, and wage types, Time valuation and payroll control records, 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 Employee Central (EC) and Employee Central Payroll, SAP S/4HANA or ECC, 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
• 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:

• Deep SAP HCM Payroll Experience
• 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 Management expertise
• Support experience on different Payroll Change Requests/issues
• Experience mapping G/L accounts to wage types to make sure it gets posted to FI
• Experience preparing system change documents to accommodate the new changes
• Previous experience modifying processing classes according to client requirements for wage types
• Expertise configuring Tax models and extensively having worked on tax issues
• SAP payroll schema, wage types, garnishment
• Year - end reporting and tax reconciliation, tax reports such as RTI, P60s, P11Db etc.
• Previous experience configuring Fringe rates payroll parameters in configuration
• Extensive experience using PCC (Payroll Control Center) and Point to Point integration application tools to replicate the EC data and to run the payroll through SAP SuccessFactors
• 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

Rewards & Benefits

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.