SAP HCM Payroll Functional Consultant

Our client is seeking an experienced SAP HCM Payroll Functional Consultant to support the design and delivery of complex SAP Payroll changes within a large enterprise environment., This is a genuinely hands-on SAP Payroll position, requiring someone who can take complex business, policy, and legislative requirements and determine how these should be engineered and configured within SAP Payroll. Working across ECC6 and/or S/4HANA, the successful consultant will design complex Wage Type configurations, Payroll Schemas, PCRs, statutory and company-specific calculations, Finance integrations, payslip outputs, and associated Payroll functionality. The consultant will also review and challenge configuration delivered by other SAP specialists, ensuring solutions are robust, compliant, scalable, and correctly designed.

This role requires considerably more than Business Analysis or requirements gathering. We are specifically looking for someone who has personally delivered complex SAP Payroll configuration and change projects and remains comfortable working hands-on within the solution.

• Strong hands-on experience configuring SAP HCM Payroll within complex enterprise environments
• Strong experience designing and configuring SAP Payroll Wage Types, including complex company-specific and statutory payment scenarios
• Proven experience with SAP Payroll Schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs), payroll calculations, and associated configuration
• Strong SAP Payroll experience across ECC6 and/or S/4HANA environments
• Proven ability to translate complex HR, Payroll, policy, and legislative requirements into robust SAP Payroll functional designs and configuration
• Strong UK Payroll knowledge including HMRC requirements, statutory payments, and associated reporting obligations
• Experience designing Payroll solutions that correctly separate, calculate, and account for statutory and company-specific payments
• Experience integrating SAP Payroll with Finance, accounting, payslip, and downstream enterprise systems
• Proven experience delivering complex SAP Payroll change projects through design, configuration, testing, implementation, and validation
• Strong technical-functional capability with the ability to review and peer review SAP Payroll configuration delivered by other consultants, * Experience working within large-scale, complex SAP Payroll environments supporting significant employee populations
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Payroll and/or SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
• Strong understanding of Payroll posting to Finance and associated reconciliation processes
• Experience configuring payslips, remuneration statements, and Payroll outputs
• Experience working with offshore or distributed SAP delivery teams
• Exposure to wider SAP HCM and SuccessFactors environments
• Experience supporting Payroll transformation, optimisation, or major policy change programmes
• Strong functional design, solution documentation, testing, and stakeholder management experience