Senior Austrian Payroll SME – SAP ECP (m/f/d)

Westhouse Group; Osterreich; Hybrid; PEN 163.000 - 248.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Westhouse Group is seeking a Senior Austrian Payroll SME – SAP ECP to drive Austrian payroll requirements and ensure compliance across reporting and year-end processing. You will run workshops with BI HR, Payroll, GBS, and the implementation partner, translating complex rules into testable specs.

This role is 95% remote with on-site workshops in Austria/Germany. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of Austrian payroll experience, deep SAP ECP/HCM knowledge, and proven ability to engage senior

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of Austrian payroll experience with SV, Lohnsteuer and Abfertigung.
• Proven experience with SAP ECP / SAP HCM Payroll (Austria) and integration.
• Experience leading requirements workshops and BRDs.
• Client-side work with external implementation partners.
• Strong facilitation and senior stakeholder management skills.
• German and English language fluency; pharma/large multinationals are a plus.

Aufgaben

• Lead business requirements: gather, structure and document Austrian payroll requirements from start to finish.
• Run workshops: facilitate and document with BI HR, Payroll, GBS and partner.
• Translate Austrian payroll law/KV into clear requirements.
• Review partner designs and raise gaps/risks.
• Prepare decision papers and drive open points to closure.
• Manage stakeholders across BI, GBS and partner.
• Define test scenarios and acceptance criteria for payroll testing.
• Note: System config and payroll ops are outside scope.

Kenntnisse

Austrian payroll expert

SAP ECP

SAP HCM Payroll

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Bilingual German/English

Tools

SAP ECP

SAP HCM

Jobbeschreibung

Westhouse is one of the leading recruitment agencies specialising in placing highly qualified specialists across the entire IT lifecycle and engineering sectors.

For our client we are currently looking for a

Senior Austrian Payroll SME – SAP ECP (m/f/d) - 95 % Remote /on-site workshops as needed (Austria / Germany)

General information

• Reference: 180798
• Start: 2026-11-16
• Duration: 31.03.2027
• Location: 95 % Remote /on-site workshops as needed (Austria / Germany)
• Scope of work: part-time28h/ week
• Languages: German and English

Your qualifications

• 8+ years of Austrian payroll experience covering legal, process and compliance (e.g., SV, Lohnsteuer, ELDA, L16, Abfertigung, KV handling)
• Working knowledge of SAP ECP / SAP HCM Payroll (Austria) and its integration with Employee Central
• Proven record of running requirements workshops and producing business requirement documents
• Experience working on the client side next to an external implementation partner
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, and a structured, confident manner with senior stakeholders
• Business-fluent German and English Nice-to-have: Experience in pharma or large multinational environments Nice-to-have: Experience with shared services or GBS operating models (e.g., payroll delivered from a business center) Nice-to-have:Exposure to payroll compliance assessments or multi-country payroll rollouts
• Nice-to-have: Experience in pharma or large multinational environments
• Nice-to-have: Experience with shared services or GBS operating models (e.g., payroll delivered from a business center)
• Nice-to-have:Exposure to payroll compliance assessments or multi-country payroll rollouts

Your tasks

• Lead business requirements: gather, structure and document Austrian payroll requirements from start to finish, including gross-to-net, statutory reporting and year-end.
• Run workshops: prepare, facilitate and document workshops with BI HR, Payroll, GBS and the implementation partner.
• Translate legal rules into requirements: turn Austrian payroll law, collective agreements (KV) and statutory obligations into clear, testable requirements.
• Review the partner's solution: check the implementation partner's designs, fit-gap results and solution proposals from the business side, and raise gaps and risks.
• Make decisions happen: prepare decision papers, drive open points to closure and elevate when needed.
• Manage stakeholders: connect BI business, GBS and the implementation partner, and keep alignment through difficult discussions.
• Prepare for testing: define business test scenarios and acceptance criteria, especially for payroll parallel runs, and support business sign-off.
• Out of scope: System configuration, build or technical implementation (done by the implementation partner) and Running payroll operations