About the Job:
This position focuses on SAP HCM Payroll expertise, particularly for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, including UAE Payroll. The role involves leading and managing Payroll workstreams, ensuring successful project outcomes through best practices and strategic planning.
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Job Description:
Must-Have:
- Experience in SAP HCM Payroll expertise for MEA, including UAE Payroll.
- Minimum 5 full lifecycle Payroll implementations.
- Strong experience of SAP HCM Payroll processes and functionalities.
- Extensive experience in S4 HANA migration projects (minimum 2 migration projects).
- Deep understanding of SAP Payroll (MEA, UAE) including Gross to net calculations, rules, and taxes.
- Hands-on experience in year-end and quarter-end processes related to HR/MEA, UAE payroll.
- Experience in SAP HCM sub-modules – OM, PA, and Time.
- Ability to design, configure, and maintain payroll components, including wage types, benefits integration, deductions, off-cycle activity, garnishments, and reporting.
- Configure and maintain all wage types, determine taxation rules, FI mapping, infotype association, and permissibility rules.
- Lead and manage payroll workstream to contribute to overall project success.
- Experience with gap analysis and strategic roadmap/blueprint development.
- Understanding of Time Off rules and configuration of Time Objects (Time Profiles, Time Types, and Time Sheets).
- Strong executive presence to interact with Customer Top Management.
- Experience in handling incidents, error analysis, troubleshooting, and problem solving.
- Proactive monitoring of solutions and applications, with suggestions for improvement areas.
- Experience in Annual HR Support Pack testing, Year-end activities, Legal Reporting, and related defect correction.
Good-to-Have:
- Knowledge of intelligent services.
- Familiarity with other modules is an added advantage.
- Ability to conduct discovery meetings with customers to identify current processes and future state requirements, supporting presales efforts.
Responsibilities/Expectations from the Role:
- Configure applications to meet customer needs while providing best-practice guidance on customer processes.
- Good understanding of Employee Life Cycle Management processes in a global organization.
- Designing, implementing, and supporting complex business processes in an SAP SuccessFactors environment.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks and provide optimization techniques.
- Must be able to work independently and collaboratively; self-directed and take initiative to solve problems.
Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in English is expected; additional language skills may be beneficial.
Application Deadline:
30-Nov-2025
About Us:
The company is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. The company offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology, and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development. The company has over 616,171 of the world’s best-trained consultants with 157 nationalities in 53 countries.
