Success Factor Payroll Implementation Lead

Key responsibilities

Payroll design and requirement validation

• Participate in payroll requirement, fit-gap and solution design workshops with the implementation partner.
• Translate current payroll rules, wage types, statutory requirements, accounting treatments and operating practices into clear business requirements and testable outcomes.
• Review proposed designs and configuration outputs for business accuracy, completeness and operational practicality.
• Maintain decision logs, payroll rule documentation, wage-type rationale and agreed operating procedures.

Data, reconciliation and payroll validation

• Own payroll data preparation, cleansing and validation from the business side.
• Lead back-dated payroll reconciliation from April 2026 through cutover, including employee-level and wage-type-level comparison.
• Coordinate parallel payroll runs and compare gross pay, deductions, statutory components, net pay and accounting outputs between the legacy (SAP HCM) and new system (SuccsssFactors).
• Investigate variances, classify root causes, coordinate corrections and maintain evidence of closure and sign-off.
• Validate migrated payroll balances, statutory accumulations, employee master data and pay-related time inputs.

Testing and quality assurance

• Prepare and maintain payroll test scenarios, scripts, test data and expected results across regular, off-cycle, retroactive and separation payroll processes.
• Support system integration testing and lead payroll user acceptance testing on behalf of Voltas.
• Track defects through resolution, retest corrected scenarios and provide clear status reporting on payroll readiness.
• Ensure testing covers statutory compliance, finance posting, bank outputs, payslips, reports, interfaces and downstream impacts.

Cutover, go-live and stabilisation

• Own business-side payroll cutover activities, readiness checklists, open-item tracking and go/no-go inputs.
• Coordinate final data validation, payroll calendar readiness, production checks and first payroll preparation.
• Provide full-time support during go-live and hypercare, triaging payroll issues and escalating configuration-level defects to the implementation partner.
• Support the transition to steady-state payroll operations through documented SOPs, issue logs and knowledge transfer.

Stakeholder and partner coordination

• Work day to day with the implementation partner's payroll team and hold actions, deliverables and defects to agreed timelines.
• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Compliance and IT to obtain inputs, approvals and sign-offs.
• Provide concise progress updates, highlight risks early and drive timely decision-making on payroll dependencies.
• Protect business-as-usual payroll continuity while implementation activities are underway.

Ideal candidate profile

• 7+ years of end-to-end India payroll experience, including payroll processing from new joiner through full and final settlement.
• Hands-on involvement in at least one payroll implementation, migration or major payroll transformation; SAP Employee Central Payroll is strongly preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Indian payroll statutes and compliance, including PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS on salaries, Labour Welfare Fund, gratuity, new wage code and bonus requirements.
• Sound understanding of payroll accounting, general ledger posting, statutory reporting and reconciliation controls.
• Experience with payroll testing, parallel runs, variance analysis, data validation, cutover and post-go-live support.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, pivot tables, large-dataset analysis and structured reconciliation.
• Strong documentation, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work comfortably with detailed data, tight deadlines and intensive reconciliation cycles.

Good to have

• Familiarity with SAP payroll structures such as wage types, schemas, personnel calculation rules and payroll clusters.
• Exposure to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Time Tracking or integration between Employee Central and payroll.
• Experience in a manufacturing or multi-entity organisation.
• Exposure to payroll controls, audit requirements and statutory inspections.

Preferred candidate profile

Successfactors Payroll certification