SAP HCM Payroll Functional Consultant

PRIMA Partners Global; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

PRIMA Partners Global is seeking an experienced SAP HCM Payroll Functional Consultant to deliver complex payroll changes in a large enterprise. The role is remote with occasional UK travel and requires hands-on configuration across ECC6 and/or S/4HANA environments.

You will design Wage Types, Payroll Schemas, PCRs and statutory/company-specific calculations, ensure Finance integrations and payslip outputs, and review configurations delivered by others.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience configuring SAP HCM Payroll within enterprise environments.
• Experience designing and configuring SAP Payroll Wage Types for complex payments.
• Experience with SAP Payroll Schemas, PCRs, payroll calculations and config.
• Payroll experience across ECC6 and/or S/4HANA environments.
• Translate HR/Payroll requirements into SAP Payroll designs and configuration.
• Strong UK Payroll knowledge including HMRC requirements and reporting obligations.
• Design Payroll solutions that separate statutory and company-specific payments.
• Integrate SAP Payroll with Finance and downstream systems.
• Deliver complex SAP Payroll change projects from design through validation.
• Review SAP Payroll configurations delivered by others.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver complex SAP Payroll changes within a large enterprise environment.
• Hands-on configuration of Wage Types, Schemas, PCRs, and statutory calculations.
• Ensure Finance integrations and payslip outputs are robust and compliant.
• Review and challenge configurations delivered by other SAP specialists.
• Lead or contribute to Payroll transformation, optimisation, or policy change programmes.

Skills

SAP HCM Payroll

Payroll Wage Types

Payroll Schemas

PCRs

ECC6 / S/4HANA

UK Payroll

HMRC knowledge

Finance integration

Payroll change projects

Peer review

Job description

SAP HCM Payroll Functional Consultant - 12 month contract - remote with occasional travel in the UK

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• 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

SAP HCM Payroll Functional Consultant

DESIRED SKILLS

• 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

OVERVIEW

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.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SAP Payroll Functional Consultant to work on complex Payroll solution design and configuration within a business-critical SAP environment.