SAP Hire-to-Retire / Payroll Lead (S/4HANA / SuccessFactors

About the Role

As an SAP Hire-to-Retire / Payroll Lead, you will drive end-to-end HR transformation initiatives focused on payroll and time management. You will lead the design, migration, and integration of SAP HCM and SuccessFactors solutions, ensuring statutory compliance while delivering scalable and efficient HR operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end migration of SAP HCM Payroll and Time Evaluation from ECC to S/4HANA, ensuring business continuity and minimal disruption
• Design and configure Time Management solutions, including schemas, work schedules, quotas, overtime, and allowance frameworks
• Deliver compliant Singapore payroll processing
• Design and implement integrations between SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP S/4HANA, including payroll-to-FI/CO interfaces
• Facilitate Hire-to-Retire workshops and provide strategic recommendations on HR platform evolution (S/4HANA HCM vs. SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll)
• Lead distributed onshore and offshore teams across key phases including design, build, testing, parallel runs, data migration, cutover, and hypercare
• Collaborate with business and HR stakeholders to align payroll and time solutions with operational and regulatory requirements
• Support change management, training, and knowledge transfer to ensure adoption of new systems and processes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Human Resources, Business, or a related discipline
• Minimum 10–15 years of experience in SAP HCM, with deep expertise in Payroll and Time Management
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end SAP HCM or S/4HANA HR transformations in a lead role
• Strong hands-on experience in SAP HCM Payroll configuration and statutory compliance (Singapore payroll preferred)
• Experience integrating SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central with HCM or S/4HANA Payroll
• Strong understanding of HR business processes, payroll operations, and compliance requirements
• Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder relationships and lead cross-functional, distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) implementation or migration
• Exposure to global HR template design and multi-country payroll deployments
• Familiarity with HR analytics and reporting tools
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving capabilities

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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