SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Consultant- Germany (m/f/d)

DXC Technology Inc.; Eschborn; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

DXC Technology Inc. is seeking a hands-on ECP consultant to lead configuration, data migration, and parallel-run validation for a Germany payroll implementation on Employee Central Payroll (SAP HCM for S/4HANA basis), migrating from an existing SAP ECC HCM Payroll landscape.

The role covers ECP configuration for Germany, schema/PCR gap analysis, and PCC setup, with cutover planning and legal-change readiness.

Qualifikationen

• 6-10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP Payroll, including a minimum of 3 full-cycle Germany SAP Payroll implementations.
• German payroll expertise including DEU0/D0 schema and country-specific PCRs.
• Experience with YTD/retro data and data migration.

Aufgaben

• Configure ECP for Germany payroll (schema PE01/PE02)
• Lead schema/PCR gap analysis and adaptation from legacy aligning to best practice
• Design and execute payroll parallel runs with wage-type reconciliation
• Configure/validate EC to ECP Point-to-Point integration for German Infotypes
• Set up Payroll Control Center (PCC) for production payroll
• Support cutover planning, legal-change readiness, and hyper care

Kenntnisse

German fluency

English fluency

Stakeholder communication

Tools

SAP HCM for S/4HANA

EC to ECP integration

Payroll Control Center (PCC)

Infotype data migration 0000-0521

Jobbeschreibung

We are looking for a hands‑on ECP consultant to lead configuration, data migration, and parallel‑run validation for a Germany payroll implementation on Employee Central Payroll (SAP HCM for S/4HANA basis), migrating from an existing SAP ECC HCM Payroll landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure ECP for Germany payroll (schema PE01/PCR PE02) covering gross-to-net processing, wage type model, and statutory deductions.
• Lead schema/PCR gap analysis and adaptation from legacy aligning to best practice keeping customer Z-PCRs at minimum.
• Design and execute payroll parallel runs (min. 2-3 cycles) with wage-type-level reconciliation against legacy ECC output.
• Configure and validate EC to ECP Point-to-Point (P2P) integration for German-specific Infotypes and data flows.
• Set up and operationalize Payroll Control Center (PCC) for production payroll processing.
• Support cutover planning, legal-change readiness, and hyper care.

Skills Required

• Employee Central Payroll configuration on SAP HCM for S/4HANA (S4HCM) basis.
• Payroll schema (PE01) and PCR (PE02) design, custom rule development, and troubleshooting.
• Wage type configuration, wage type characteristics, cumulation classes, processing/evaluation classes.
• P2P integration setup (EC to ECP replication), Point-To-Point Configuration Workbook.
• Payroll Control Center (PCC) setup, process models, payroll process monitoring.
• Time Off/Time Tracking to Payroll integration (quota/absence valuation).
• Legacy data migration methodology, cutover strategy, YTD/retro data handling.
• Strong SIT/UAT and parallel-run reconciliation experience.
• Fluent German and English.

Experience

• 6-10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP Payroll, including a minimum of 3 full-cycle Germany SAP Payroll implementations.

Preferred Certifications

• SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Employee Central Payroll; SAP HCM Payroll Germany certification.

Germany-Specific Payroll Skills (Mandatory)

• Deep expertise in German payroll schema (DEU0/D0) and country-specific PCRs.
• Social Insurance (SI/SV) configuration: contribution groups, SI providers (Krankenkassen), DEÜV reporting, and health/nursing/pension/unemployment insurance calculation logic.
• Wage/Income Tax (Lohnsteuer): ELStAM (electronic tax deduction) integration, tax classes, tax procedure (Steuerklassen), church tax (Kirchensteuer), Soli surcharge.
• Statutory reporting: DEÜV, SI contribution statements, tax certificates Lohnsteuerbescheinigung), BA (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) reporting, statistics reporting (Beitragsnachweis).
• Payments: DTA/DTAZV and SEPA payment medium configuration for German banking formats.
• Capital formation benefits (Vermögenswirksame Leistungen - VL), garnishment (Pfändung) processing per German civil law.
• Familiarity with Works Council (Betriebsrat) co-determination requirements impacting payroll/time configuration.
• Awareness of German labor law constraints affecting time valuation, overtime, and public holiday calendars by Bundesland.
• Experience keeping pace with annual German legal-change (Tarifänderung/Rechtsänderung) support packages.

Data Migration & Parallel Run

• Proven experience extracting, mapping, and loading legacy ECC HCM Payroll master/time/payroll-result data (infotypes 0000-0521 range, cluster RT/CRT data) into ECP.
• YTD payroll results migration for tax and SI continuity across cutover.
• Design and governance of parallel run cycles: variance analysis, sign-off criteria, defect triage between legacy and target system.
• Experience aligning cutover with German payroll period-end/month-end and legal reporting deadlines.

What we offer

• Flexible working time models.
• Training and mentoring to support implementation projects.
• The opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and products in state-of-the-art enterprise environments, delivering services across a wide range of global customer infrastructures.
• Challenging and diverse client projects with one of the world's largest and most successful IT service providers, combined with excellent opportunities for rapid professional growth, challenging responsibilities, and a high degree of autonomy and ownership.

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