SAP Payroll Lead - Functional Design and Implementation

Accenture PLC; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an SAP Payroll Functional Lead to drive the functional design, configuration, testing, and implementation of SAP Payroll solutions. You will translate business requirements into effective SAP Payroll designs and guide end-to-end payroll processes.

As a key functional expert, you will lead workshops, perform testing, resolve payroll issues, and collaborate with technical teams to ensure alignment with connected systems, go-live activities, and post-production stabilization.

Qualifications

• Strong functional experience in SAP Payroll, including hands-on configuration.
• Experience designing, configuring, testing, and implementing SAP Payroll solutions.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end payroll processes and their configuration within SAP.
• Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into functional specifications.
• Experience leading functional workstreams or SAP Payroll implementations.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across payroll processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant SAP Payroll experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the functional design, configuration, and implementation of SAP Payroll solutions.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into effective functional designs and system configurations.
• Configure and maintain payroll processes, rules, schemas, and related functionality.
• Lead functional workshops with stakeholders to define payroll requirements and approaches.
• Perform and coordinate functional testing, integration testing, and UAT.
• Identify and resolve functional issues related to payroll configuration and end-to-end processes.
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure alignment between SAP Payroll and connected systems.
• Support data validation, go-live activities, and post-production stabilization.
• Provide functional leadership and SME guidance to project teams.

Skills

SAP Payroll

End-to-end payroll

Stakeholder management

Payroll implementation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP HCM Payroll

SAP SuccessFactors ECP

Payroll Control Center

Job description

Accenture is seeking an SAP Payroll Functional Lead to drive the functional design, configuration, testing, and implementation of SAP Payroll solutions. You will translate business requirements into effective SAP Payroll designs and guide end-to-end payroll processes.

As a key functional expert, you will lead workshops, perform testing, resolve payroll issues, and collaborate with technical teams to ensure alignment with connected systems, go-live activities, and post-production stabilization.