SAP Employee Central Payroll Senior Manager

Accenture; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture’s SAP practice is seeking a transformation leader to drive large, complex SAP projects. You will guide delivery, lead workstreams, and partner with sponsors to manage scope and risk while leveraging SAP Payroll and HR cloud solutions.

You will travel to client sites, mentor teams, and shape transformation programs from inception to success, applying design thinking and agile methods across SAP Leonardo, S/4HANA and cloud offerings.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience with Employee Central Payroll.
• 4+ years SAP transformation, technical advisory or consulting.
• 2 full life-cycle SAP Payroll Cloud implementations.
• 2+ years as Project/Workstream/Client Lead on SAP projects.
• Certified in Employee Central Payroll applications.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of large, complex technology projects with scope and risk governance.
• Kick-start transformation programs, domain- or platform-led.
• Show clients how SAP can solve business problems.
• Lead teams, interact with sponsors, and manage multiple workstreams.
• Run workstream or project activities and ensure quality and profitability.
• Coordinate across technical, reporting, conversion, and change-management streams.
• Document requirements, solutions, and decisions; adjust methods as needed.

Skills

SAP

Project leadership

Client engagement

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Employee Central Payroll

Job description

We Are:

Accenture’s SAP practice, and we bring the New to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech like IoT, automation, and AI. We even built myConcerto, a mix of SAP and Accenture that helps lead our clients to big wins. Ready to learn as much as you can? We train our people on "new" SAP like SAP Leonardo, S/4HANA and Cloud, and we offer classes and support through our 50,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. We’ve got over 70 SAP awards—more than any other partner—and we’re the leading business partner for SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris, SAP FieldGlass, SAP Concur, and more. Visit us here to find out more about Accenture's SAP practice.

You Are:

A transformation maven with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. Your superpower? Using your know-how to solve clients’ most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You’re as comfortable working in teams and leading projects as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP solutions. And you’re up for traveling regularly to client sites.

The Work:

• Manage the delivery of large, complex technology projects using appropriate frameworks and collaborating with sponsors to manage scope and risk.
• Use your business smarts to kick-start transformation programs, whether domain- or platform-led
• Show clients how they can use SAP to solve their business problems
• Work in a team where you wear lots of hats – interacting with clients, managing workstreams, collaborating with other teams – and where you may need to be in charge
• Run the workstream and/or project activities you’ve been given
• Drive profitability and continued success by managing service quality
• Interact with all workstreams – technical, reports, conversion, change management, project management and more
• Tweak current methods, tools and procedures to create solutions that meet clients’ needs
• Check business requirements to find configuration solutions
• Keep a record of requirements, solutions and impacts, alternatives and final decisions

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Here’s What You Need:

• Minimum of 8 years experience with Employee Central Payroll
• Minimum 4 years of SAP transformation, technical advisory or consulting experience, or 8 years of equivalent industry experience
• Experience with a minimum of 2 full life-cycle SAP Payroll Cloud implementations
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a Project, Large Workstream, or Client Lead on a large SAP transformational project with on- and off-shore resources
• Certified in Employee Central Payroll applications, and Payroll module.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience

Bonus Points If:

• You’ve got external consulting experience
• You’ve got experience with SuccessFactors integration to Payroll
• You have a strong understanding of benefits processes and interfaces

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/17/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

• California $132,500 to $302,400
• Cleveland $122,700 to $241,900
• Colorado $132,500 to $261,300
• District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200
• Illinois $122,700 to $261,300
• Maine $112,900 to $222,500
• Maryland $132,500 to $261,300
• Massachusetts $132,500 to $278,200
• Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300
• New York $122,700 to $302,400
• New Jersey $141,100 to $302,400
• Virginia $122,700 to $278,200
• Washington $141,100 to $278,200

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