Hybrid SAP Payroll Transformation Lead

SD Guthrie Berhad; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 134,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Benefits Coverage

Hybrid Workplace

Learning on Demand

Employee Wellness Programme

Free Parking

Free Shuttle Service from nearest LRT

Job summary

SD Guthrie Berhad is seeking a Senior SAP Payroll Lead to drive the Global Payroll Transformation. You will provide technical leadership across countries, ensuring solution design, data migration, testing, and go-live readiness.

The role requires strong knowledge of SAP Payroll, ECC/S/4HANA transitions, and collaboration with HR, IT, Finance, and external partners. Experience with multi-country payrolls and Workday interfaces is preferred.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands-on SAP Payroll implementation and support.
• Strong functional and technical knowledge of SAP Payroll, including payroll configuration and PCRs.
• Experience with SAP ECC Payroll and migration or transition to SAP S/4HANA or SAP HCM for SAP S/4HANA.

Responsibilities

• Provide SAP Payroll technical leadership for the Global Payroll Transformation Project across multiple countries and units.
• Ensure technical quality and integrity of SAP Payroll design, configuration, integration, data migration, testing, cutover and post-go-live stabilisation.
• Review and challenge partner-proposed solutions to align with requirements, SAP standards, security, and architecture.
• Collaborate with HR, IT, Finance, Workday teams and vendors to resolve issues and ensure end-to-end readiness.
• Identify and escalate technical risks, defects, dependencies and design gaps affecting payroll accuracy and timelines.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, parallel runs, cutover rehearsals and production deployment.

Skills

SAP Payroll

ECC Payroll

S/4HANA transition

PCRs & wage types

Data migration

UAT/SIT testing

Workday integrations

ABAP debugging

Education

SAP Payroll certification

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

ABAP

Workday PECI/PICOF

Job description

SD Guthrie Berhad is seeking a Senior SAP Payroll Lead to drive the Global Payroll Transformation. You will provide technical leadership across countries, ensuring solution design, data migration, testing, and go-live readiness.

The role requires strong knowledge of SAP Payroll, ECC/S/4HANA transitions, and collaboration with HR, IT, Finance, and external partners. Experience with multi-country payrolls and Workday interfaces is preferred.