Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
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Your role and responsibilities
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Lead Consultant
Preferred Hiring Location : Joondalup, Perth
This role requires deep expertise in SAP Payroll solutions, including configuration, integration, and compliance with global payroll regulations.
The ideal candidate will lead project teams, manage stakeholders, and ensure seamless end-to-end payroll implementation projects delivery.
- Project Leadership & Implementation: Lead end-to-end SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) implementation projects, including requirement gathering, design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
- Act as the primary point of contact for payroll implementation strategy, execution, and issue resolution.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, HR, finance, and IT teams to ensure alignment with payroll and compliance needs.
- Oversee the design and configuration of payroll schemas, rules, wage types, and taxation settings.
- Technical & Functional Expertise: Provide expert-level guidance on SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) and SAP Payroll Control Center (PCC).
- Lead the integration of ECP with Employee Central (EC) and third-party systems using Business Integration Builder (BIB) and SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI).
- Ensure payroll compliance with country-specific tax laws, reporting, and statutory regulations.
- Manage payroll data migration, validation, and parallel payroll testing.
- Oversee system testing, including unit testing, integration testing, UAT, and payroll reconciliation.
- Stakeholder & Team Management: Provide leadership to SAP SuccessFactors ECP project teams, guiding consultants and junior team members.
- Work with business leaders to define payroll best practices and optimize payroll operations.
- Conduct workshops and training sessions for HR, payroll teams, and end-users.
- Ensure adherence to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Experience: Minimum 13+ years of experience in SAP Payroll, with at least 3 full-cycle implementations of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP).
- Payroll Expertise: Strong knowledge of SAP Payroll schemas, PCRs, wage types, taxation, and payroll compliance.
- Technical Skills:
- Integration Knowledge: Hands-on experience with BIB (Business Integration Builder), SAP CPI (Cloud Platform Integration), and third-party system integrations.
- Technical Skills: Familiarity with SAP Payroll Control Center (PCC), ABAP debugging (preferred but not mandatory).
- Global Payroll: Experience implementing payroll for multiple countries, understanding regional payroll regulations.
- Leadership: Strong team management, stakeholder communication, and decision-making skills.
- Soft Skills:
- Strong communication skills to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver solutions within timelines.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
- Team-oriented and capable of working effectively in a collaborative environment.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) certification.
- Experience with multi-country payroll implementations.
- Exposure to SAP Time Management and other HR modules.
- Knowledge of SuccessFactors Upgrade Center and system release management.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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