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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant - India based

Date:  5 May 2026
Region:  India

AKT Global is one of the leading People Experience Digital Solution consultancies. We partner with our customers across EMEA and North America to create exceptional employee experience and build future-ready HR functions. Our People Advisory practice provides strategic guidance on HR transformation, while our Digital HR Practice provides implementation, development and support for a comprehensive SAP-centric portfolio including SuccessFactors, Qualtrics, and Fieldglass.  

 

AKT is looking for an experienced SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Consultant to lead and deliver end-to-end payroll implementations for global clients. The role spans design, configuration, integration, testing, parallel runs, go-live and hypercare across multiple country payrolls. You will work alongside Employee Central, Time, Benefits and Finance workstreams, and act as the trusted payroll subject-matter expert for both business stakeholders and project teams. 

 

This is a full-time position, working hybrid mode and open to candidates located in Kolkata, India. 

 

Key Responsibilities:  

  • Delivery: Lead the end-to-end implementation of Employee Central Payroll across one or more countries, from blueprint through to post go-live support 

  • Requirements: Gather, analyze and document payroll requirements; translate business processes into ECP design specifications and configuration workbooks 

  • Configuration: Configure ECP including wage types, schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs), payroll constants, processing classes, evaluation classes and country-specific functions 

  • Integration: Design and implement Point-to-Point (P2P) replication between Employee Central and ECP, including employee master data, organizational assignments, recurring/non-recurring payments, and cost center replication 

  • Posting & Outputs: Configure third-party payroll posting to SAP S/4HANA or external Finance systems, bank file generation (DME), and statutory output for the relevant country 

  • Testing: Prepare and execute unit, system, integration, parallel and UAT test cycles; reconcile parallel payroll results against the legacy system and resolve variances 

  • Cutover: Plan and execute payroll cutover, including data migration, opening balances (year-to-date and tax balances), and dry-run/mock payroll exercises 

  • Hypercare: Provide hypercare support post go-live, including issue triage, root-cause analysis, performance tuning and knowledge transfer to the client support team 

  • Compliance: Apply SAP HRSP/CLC patches, validate legal change notes, and manage the impact on existing configuration and custom rules 

  • Specifications: Author functional specifications for any RICEFW objects (custom reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms, workflows) and partner with ABAP developers on build 

  • Enablement: Coach junior consultants and client team members; conduct workshops, walkthroughs and formal training sessions 

 

Job Requirements:  

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Human Resources, Business or a related discipline 

  • Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP Payroll experience (SAP HCM Payroll and/or Employee Central Payroll) 

  • At least 2 full-cycle Employee Central Payroll implementations as a lead or senior consultant 

  • Strong working knowledge of UK and/or Spain country payroll on ECP  

  • SAP Certified Application Associate — SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (current version preferred) -a must 

  • Demonstrable experience with Point-to-Point replication, BIB (Business Integration Builder) and middleware concepts 

  • Proficiency in writing and debugging Schemas and PCRs, and analyzing payroll logs 

  • Experience with full project lifecycle methodologies — SAP Activate, Agile and waterfall 

 

Preferred Qualifications:  

  • Multi-country payroll exposure across two or more regions (EMEA, APAC, Americas), with UK and/or Spain as a strong advantage 

  • Experience migrating from legacy payroll platforms (UKG/Kronos, ADP, Workday, Oracle) to ECP 

  • Exposure to S/4HANA HCM for SAP S/4HANA on-premise (the H4S4 model) and the long-term roadmap to ECP 

  • Experience with SAP Joule, AI-assisted HR processes or modern intelligent automation in payroll operations 

  • Pre-sales experience — solutioning, effort estimation and response to RFPs and RFIs 

 

Personal Skills:  

  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English; comfortable presenting to HR, Finance and IT stakeholders at all levels including executive sponsors. 

  • Dynamic team player with strong commitment and drive to accomplish individual and team tasks and goals  

  • Customer-oriented and flexible  

  • Promptly acclimate to company culture, values, processes, and expectations    

  • Ambitious, driven, self-motivated, flexible and able to meet tight deadlines  

  • Take initiative, exercise sound judgment and result-oriented  

  • Strong analytical and persuasive skills  

 

AKT Offers:  

  • Realistic growth opportunities into either technical practices or business consulting environment  

  • A range of benefits and opportunities for career growth  

  • Flexible working hours  

  • Stimulating and collaborative working environment  

  • Internal knowledge transfer, training and coaching by our dynamic team of consultants and experts    

  • International business environment (offices in the UK, DACH, India, North America, Israel, and Czech Republic)  

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