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.