Senior SAP Benefits & Payroll Functional Consultant

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Senior SAP Benefits & Payroll Functional Consultant to lead and execute complex benefits and payroll enhancements. In this role, you will drive requirements-gathering sessions with business stakeholders, configure complex SAP HCM modules, and deliver solutions tailored to organizational business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Requirements Gathering: Facilitate sessions and workshops to elicit, analyze, and document complex business requirements from enterprise stakeholders.
• Complex Module Configuration: Lead and complete complex benefits service requests involving SAP payroll rules, schemas, functions, and intricate wage type configurations.
• Process Enhancement & Automation: Create and update provider reports, automate benefit plan selections based on employee organization changes, and support broader payroll/benefits backlog projects.
• Cross-Functional Integration: Manage seamless data flow and integration between SAP Payroll and SAP Finance (FI).
• Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Produce comprehensive technical and functional documentation, providing clear knowledge transfer to permanent internal staff.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Lead SAP payroll business process testing and validate end-to-end functionality across release cycles.

Qualifications & Requirements

<>Experience:

• 8+ years of recent SAP configuration experience in the Benefits module (SAP ECC 6.0, Enhancement Package 8 standard).
• 5+ years of experience specifically on SAP ECC 6.0 (any enhancement package).
• 3+ years of experience within a public sector environment.

<>Core Technical Skills:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in the following:
  • SAP Benefits & Payroll Configuration (ECC 6.0)
  • SAP Payroll Rules, Schemas, and Functions
  • SAP Wage Type Configuration
  • Integration between SAP Payroll and SAP Finance (FI)
  • Business Requirements Gathering and Scoping
  • End-to-End SAP Payroll Business Process Testing

<>Soft Skills & Communication:

• Exceptional communication skills with a proven track record of leading business requirements meetings and translating complex operational needs into technical solutions.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Excellent technical writing, process documentation, and mentoring/knowledge transfer capabilities.