HR Payroll System Analyst _ UK Shift

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.

• Strong 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.