Success Factor Payroll Implementation Lead

Voltas; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Voltas is seeking an experienced payroll professional in Mumbai to lead end-to-end payroll processes for India, including design, validation, testing and cutover activities. The role involves coordinating with implementation partners and cross-functional teams to ensure accurate payroll processing and statutory compliance.

You will drive data cleansing, reconciliation, and go-live support, leveraging SAP HCM, SAP SuccessFactors and Employee Central Payroll experience, with strong Excel and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of end-to-end India payroll experience, including payroll processing from new joiner through full and final settlement.
• Hands-on involvement in at least one payroll implementation, migration or major payroll transformation; SAP Employee Central Payroll is strongly preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Indian payroll statutes and compliance, including PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS on salaries, Labour Welfare Fund, gratuity, new wage code and bonus requirements.

Responsibilities

• Participate in payroll requirement, fit-gap and solution design workshops with the implementation partner.
• Translate current payroll rules, wage types, statutory requirements, accounting treatments and operating practices into clear business requirements and testable outcomes.
• Review proposed designs and configuration outputs for business accuracy, completeness and operational practicality.
• Maintain decision logs, payroll rule documentation, wage-type rationale and agreed operating procedures.
• Own payroll data preparation, cleansing and validation from the business side.
• Lead back-dated payroll reconciliation from April 2026 through cutover, including employee-level and wage-type-level comparison.
• Coordinate parallel payroll runs and compare gross pay, deductions, statutory components, net pay and accounting outputs between the legacy (SAP HCM) and new system (SuccsssFactors).
• Investigate variances, classify root causes, coordinate corrections and maintain evidence of closure and sign-off.
• Validate migrated payroll balances, statutory accumulations, employee master data and pay-related time inputs.
• Prepare and maintain payroll test scenarios, scripts, test data and expected results across regular, off-cycle, retroactive and separation payroll processes.
• Support system integration testing and lead payroll user acceptance testing on behalf of Voltas.
• Track defects through resolution, retest corrected scenarios and provide clear status reporting on payroll readiness.
• Ensure testing covers statutory compliance, finance posting, bank outputs, payslips, reports, interfaces and downstream impacts.
• Own business-side payroll cutover activities, readiness checklists, open-item tracking and go/no-go inputs.
• Coordinate final data validation, payroll calendar readiness, production checks and first payroll preparation.
• Provide full-time support during go-live and hypercare, triaging payroll issues and escalating configuration-level defects to the implementation partner.
• Support the transition to steady-state payroll operations through documented SOPs, issue logs and knowledge transfer.
• Work day to day with the implementation partner's payroll team and hold actions, deliverables and defects to agreed timelines.
• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Compliance and IT to obtain inputs, approvals and sign-offs.
• Provide concise progress updates, highlight risks early and drive timely decision-making on payroll dependencies.
• Protect business-as-usual payroll continuity while implementation activities are underway.

Skills

Excel advanced

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Problem solving

Tools

SAP HCM

SAP SuccessFactors

Employee Central Payroll

Job description

Key responsibilities

Payroll design and requirement validation

• Participate in payroll requirement, fit-gap and solution design workshops with the implementation partner.
• Translate current payroll rules, wage types, statutory requirements, accounting treatments and operating practices into clear business requirements and testable outcomes.
• Review proposed designs and configuration outputs for business accuracy, completeness and operational practicality.
• Maintain decision logs, payroll rule documentation, wage-type rationale and agreed operating procedures.

Data, reconciliation and payroll validation

• Own payroll data preparation, cleansing and validation from the business side.
• Lead back-dated payroll reconciliation from April 2026 through cutover, including employee-level and wage-type-level comparison.
• Coordinate parallel payroll runs and compare gross pay, deductions, statutory components, net pay and accounting outputs between the legacy (SAP HCM) and new system (SuccsssFactors).
• Investigate variances, classify root causes, coordinate corrections and maintain evidence of closure and sign-off.
• Validate migrated payroll balances, statutory accumulations, employee master data and pay-related time inputs.

Testing and quality assurance

• Prepare and maintain payroll test scenarios, scripts, test data and expected results across regular, off-cycle, retroactive and separation payroll processes.
• Support system integration testing and lead payroll user acceptance testing on behalf of Voltas.
• Track defects through resolution, retest corrected scenarios and provide clear status reporting on payroll readiness.
• Ensure testing covers statutory compliance, finance posting, bank outputs, payslips, reports, interfaces and downstream impacts.

Cutover, go-live and stabilisation

• Own business-side payroll cutover activities, readiness checklists, open-item tracking and go/no-go inputs.
• Coordinate final data validation, payroll calendar readiness, production checks and first payroll preparation.
• Provide full-time support during go-live and hypercare, triaging payroll issues and escalating configuration-level defects to the implementation partner.
• Support the transition to steady-state payroll operations through documented SOPs, issue logs and knowledge transfer.

Stakeholder and partner coordination

• Work day to day with the implementation partner's payroll team and hold actions, deliverables and defects to agreed timelines.
• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Compliance and IT to obtain inputs, approvals and sign-offs.
• Provide concise progress updates, highlight risks early and drive timely decision-making on payroll dependencies.
• Protect business-as-usual payroll continuity while implementation activities are underway.

Ideal candidate profile

• 7+ years of end-to-end India payroll experience, including payroll processing from new joiner through full and final settlement.
• Hands-on involvement in at least one payroll implementation, migration or major payroll transformation; SAP Employee Central Payroll is strongly preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Indian payroll statutes and compliance, including PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS on salaries, Labour Welfare Fund, gratuity, new wage code and bonus requirements.
• Sound understanding of payroll accounting, general ledger posting, statutory reporting and reconciliation controls.
• Experience with payroll testing, parallel runs, variance analysis, data validation, cutover and post-go-live support.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, pivot tables, large-dataset analysis and structured reconciliation.
• Strong documentation, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work comfortably with detailed data, tight deadlines and intensive reconciliation cycles.

Good to have

• Familiarity with SAP payroll structures such as wage types, schemas, personnel calculation rules and payroll clusters.
• Exposure to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Time Tracking or integration between Employee Central and payroll.
• Experience in a manufacturing or multi-entity organisation.
• Exposure to payroll controls, audit requirements and statutory inspections.

Preferred candidate profile

Successfactors Payroll certification