SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management Functional Lead

Ayan Infotech has an urgent and immediate requirement for an SAP Successfactors Talent Management (Capability focused) Lead Consultant for a full-time permanent job opportunity in Melbourne.

Due to the nature of the work involved, we will be able to contact only candidates who hold full and unrestricted work rights in Australia.

Title: SAP Successfactors Talent Management Lead

Type: Permanent, full-time

Location: Melbourne (hybrid work)

You will become a part of our team responsible for the end-to-end system support of our key HR products related to Performance, Reward & Recognition, Succession Planning, and Working Well processes within the Employee Life Cycle.

Knowledge of and experience in the HR functions and HR business processes, ability to drive requirements confirmation discussions, fit-gap analysis, prototyping and system configuration, data conversion (where applicable), testing and defect management are some of the skills and activities expected to be performed in the role of a lead functional consultant.

What will your day look like?

• Manage and develop customer relationships and perceptions to achieve mutual goals.
• Product design and gap analysis to standard product functionality.
• Liaise with onshore and offshore development teams to deliver robust solutions on time.
• Demonstrate the ability to plan, prioritize and organize your time, project schedules and multiple project activities.
• Serve as a bridge between stakeholders in business and technology. Collaborate with stakeholders to analyse and validate business requirements.
• Participate and understand all the project phases (Planning/Designing, Development/Configuration, System Test, Integration, Functionality Testing and UAT, Deployment, Post-go live support/Hypercare) in an agile SaaS environment.
• Drive and/or participate in the requirements confirmation discussions / requirements gathering workshops.
• Run workshops with stakeholders and leaders to analyse and design solutions for associated business processes and applications. Handle gaps detected during prototyping.
• Work with the business to design or evaluate a breakdown of businesses processes to identify and link functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collect information, analyse requirements and solve problems, providing technical and operational support.
• Manage and engage stakeholders including customers and vendors. Build relationships, networks, vendor contracts, etc.
• Perform fit-gap analysis as needed: Analyse and assess the feasibility of stakeholder requirements, impacts and gaps in the standard delivered functionalities of SAP SuccessFactors and extended applications (including ServiceNow).
• Configure and implement SuccessFactors prototypes to meet business requirements, and participate in overall configuration management.
• Perform unit testing and drive and/or participate in User Acceptance Testing and System Integration Testing as needed. Participate in defect management of issues identified.
• Participate in the data conversion process (extraction-transformation-loading) as applicable.
• Assist with cutover planning and execution.
• Provide post go-live support and application maintenance support.

Must Have Experience:

• Extensive Implementation / Support experience in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Talent Management and Development.
• Extensive Data experience in SAP SF and HR IT, People Operations.
• Good working knowledge of ServiceNow HR Service Delivery Module and Employee Centre.
• Moderate experience as a Human Resource business user, or another HR role.
• At least 3 implementations of SAP SuccessFactors working as a Talent Management (Performance and goals, Succession and Learning and Development) lead functional consultant.
• Understanding of the unified SuccessFactors solution and the touch points with other SF modules (e.g. Learning, Talent, Recruiting etc.).
• Experience in all aspects of SuccessFactors HCM implementation/Continuous Improvement including requirements gathering, fit or gap analysis, functional design development, user acceptance testing, training and deployment activities.
• Experience on working with stakeholders on requirements and business process definition, Software Development/Systems Integration and Application Support.
• Ability to document and present solutions using various methods (people facing, presentations, and demos).
• Knowledge of HR business process design and development.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Employee experience mindset and human centred design principles.

Experience, Expertise and Certification/s:

• SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management module
• SAP SuccessFactors Succession and Learning and Development
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central module a plus
• Clear understanding of the data elements and structures underlying

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