Sap Successfactors Consultant

Success Factors Time Management Consultant (Offshore)

Job Description

The Time Management Consultant is responsible for the end-to-end design, configuration and delivery of the SuccessFactors Time Management workstream. Working as part of an offshore delivery team under Lead Consultant oversight, the consultant owns Time Off configuration, Time Tracking, Consolidated Time Recording (CTR), Time Valuation rules, Overtime configuration and the integration between SuccessFactors and external workforce management systems such as UKG Pro or Kronos.

This is a hands-on configuration and delivery role. The consultant must be able to advise on and configure both positive and negative time management models, design CTR to aggregate all time data correctly before it reaches payroll, and ensure that Time Valuation rules produce the correct wage type outputs for every category of time entry. Advisory experience without direct configuration capability does not meet the requirements of this role.

The consultant is also responsible for configuring the integration between SuccessFactors and external workforce management systems, and for building Story Reports that give HR, management and payroll teams visibility of absence balances, accrual positions, overtime exceptions and timesheet status.

Primary Skills

• Strong consulting and advisory skills.
• Strong client stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Solution oriented.
• Problem solving skills combined with a can-do attitude. Takes ownership.
• Strong teamworking and collaboration skills.

Experience

• Minimum 8 years SAP SuccessFactors EC & Time Management functional consultancy experience across process design, configuration, testing (Unit, SIT, E2E), trial data migration and deployment
• Referenced experience of leading at least 5 successful SuccessFactors EC TM implementations full lifecycle including trial data migration validation and reconciliations.
• Experience in implementing innovative, robust and future-proof SAP SuccessFactors EC TM solutions.
• Experience of successfully deploying SuccessFactors EC TM and migrating from ECC HCM to EC TM in large complex critical infrastructure operations including public sector.
• Experience of implementations covering mixed workforces where some populations are on positive time management and others are on negative time management.
• Strong, hands-on design, configuration, test and technical skills in SuccessFactors EC TM. This includes but is not limited to Timesheet configuration, Time Off configuration, Overtime rules, Timesheet & ECP integration, Automatic break deduction, Pay type generation rules.
• Experience configuring Consolidated Time Recording (CTR) – attendance, overtime, absences, breaks, allowances and imported time entries from external systems.
• Experience configuring Time Valuation rules for all time input types: regular hours, overtime, shift premiums, absence valuation and imported time from external workforce management systems.
• Intimate knowledge of complex EC & TM integration to KRONOS and or UKG PRO is required to be successful in this role.
• Experience designing the integration boundary between SuccessFactors and an external workforce management system and defining which employees are managed in which system, the data format, import frequency and error handling process.
• SuccessFactors EC, TM and Story Reporting certification required.
• Experience of native integration (EC to TM and S/4HANA) and non-native integration to satellite systems via BTP Integration Suite, APIs and Flat Files.
• Experience of Integration methods: BIB, BTP Integration Suite, CGI, API and Flat File transfer.
• Experience of communicating effectively to stakeholders at all levels in workshops, workstream meetings, daily standups and governance.
• Strong negotiation, persuasion and influencing skills.
• Ability to plan and lead client workshops and deliver successful design outcomes.
• Knowledge and experience to guide clients on SuccessFactors EC TM best practice and innovations.
• Up to date knowledge of the SuccessFactors EC TM and Story Reporting roadmap.
• Experience working in an offshore delivery model under Lead Consultant oversight with defined quality gate checkpoints.
• Experience and willingness to work flexibly both onsite and remotely.
• Experience of solution delivery across multiple geographies – desirable.
• Experience and ability to demonstrate the SF system to challenging customer stakeholders.
• Experience of SF ONB (Onboarding), SF RCM (Recruiting) – nice to have.

Techno Functional Competencies

• Configure Role-Based Permissions for Time Management – ensuring employees can request absences and view balances, managers can approve absences and view team time data, and administrators can perform corrections and override approvals.
• Configure Time Types and Time Accounts for all absence categories – Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Maternity, Paternity, Public Holiday and any organisation-specific absence types.
• Configure Accrual Rules for each Time Type so that leave balances build in line with the organisation's written HR policy.
• Configure Holiday Calendars for each employee population, including any organisation-specific non-standard days.
• Configure Timesheet settings for positive time management populations including the timesheet period, entry methods, self-service correction rules and the submission and approval workflow.
• Configure Overtime rules per population defining daily and weekly overtime thresholds, the applicable enhanced rate (time and a quarter, time and a half, TOIL) and the pay type generation rules that produce the correct wage type output for payroll.
• Configure automatic break deduction rules where the organisation requires breaks to be deducted from recorded working time, aligned to applicable working time regulations
• Configure the Consolidated Time Recording (CTR) workbench to aggregate all time data before it reaches payroll, defining which categories of time entry CTR captures, how each category maps to a wage type output, and how failed or rejected entries surface for time administrator resolution before the payroll cut-off.
• Configure Time Valuation rules that convert every category of raw time entry into the correct payroll-relevant wage type.
• Configure statutory absence pay so that Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Paternity Pay are calculated correctly and flow from EC Time Off to payroll without manual intervention, in compliance with applicable employment legislation.
• Build and configure Story Reports for Time Management data including absence balance reports, accrual reconciliation, overtime exception reports, timesheet submission status and time account summaries.