SAP HR - Senior HCM TIME Consultant
IBM
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Job summary
IBM Consulting is seeking an experienced Senior SAP HCM Time Consultant to design, configure, implement, and support SAP HCM Time Management solutions in a global delivery context. You will lead workshops, collaborate with HR and IT, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver effective time management and payroll integration.
The role requires 5+ years of hands-on SAP HCM Time Management configuration, strong analytical and communication skills, and a track record of successful
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP HCM Time Management configuration experience.
- Experience configuring Time Evaluation, Work Schedules, Leave and Absence Management, Holiday Calendars, Overtime Rules, Attendance and Time Recording Processes.
- Experience integrating SAP Time Management with Payroll and other HR modules.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead solution design and configuration for SAP HCM Time Management.
- Configure time-related processes and ensure alignment with payroll and HR modules.
- Lead workshops and drive requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, and business process design.
- Provide testing, documentation, and knowledge transfer to clients.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners and robust IBM technology, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned SAP HCM Time Management professional with deep configuration expertise, strong consulting skills, and experience delivering complex time management solutions in large enterprise environments. They are comfortable leading workshops, solving complex business challenges, supporting production environments, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Senior SAP HCM Time Consultant to lead the design, configuration, implementation, and support of SAP HCM Time Management solutions.
The successful candidate will bring strong functional expertise in time management processes, including scheduling, leave management, time evaluation and payroll integration.
This role requires a combination of consulting experience, technical configuration skills, and the ability to partner with business stakeholders to deliver effective solutions.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Design & Configuration
- Lead requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, and business process workshops.
- Design, configure, and support SAP HCM Time Management solutions.
- Configure work schedules, holiday calendars, absence quotas, leave management, time evaluation rules, and time recording processes.
- Develop scalable solutions aligned with business requirements and industry best practices.
Integration & Compliance
- Ensure seamless integration between SAP Time Management and related modules, including Payroll, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, and Employee Central.
- Ensure compliance with labor laws, collective agreements, union requirements, and organizational policies.
- Support accurate payroll processing through effective time evaluation and validation.
- Provide production support, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and minor enhancements.
- Analyze complex issues and develop sustainable solutions using structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes, automation, and system efficiency.
Testing & Documentation
- Lead unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing activities.
- Support annual SAP HR Support Pack testing and upgrades.
- Develop and maintain functional specifications, configuration documents, test scripts, and user guides.
Stakeholder Engagement & Training
- Collaborate with HR, Payroll, IT, and business stakeholders to understand and address business needs.
- Provide knowledge transfer, training, and guidance to business users and support teams.
- Support project planning, deployment activities, and post-go-live stabilization.
Reporting & Analytics
- Develop and support reporting related to attendance, absenteeism, overtime, leave balances, and workforce analytics.
- Provide insights and recommendations based on time management data.
Preferred technical and professional experience
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP HCM Time Management configuration experience.
- Experience configuring:
- Time Evaluation
- Work Schedules
- Leave and Absence Management
- Holiday Calendars
- Overtime Rules
- Attendance and Time Recording Processes
- Experience integrating SAP Time Management with Payroll and other HR modules.
- Strong understanding of HR and workforce management processes.
- Experience supporting SAP HR Support Pack upgrades and system testing.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Completion of at least 2 full lifecycle SAP HCM implementations.
- SAP HCM Time Management certification (HR200 or equivalent).
- Experience working within unionized environments and multiple collective agreements.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA HCM, ECC Mini Master, or hybrid landscapes.
- Previous consulting experience.
- Project leadership, team leadership or project management experience.
Education
- Associate degree, College Diploma, or equivalent experience required.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
Additional Requirements
- Eligible for Canadian Reliability Clearance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Client-focused mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality service and outcomes.
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
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Job Title
Senior SAP HCM Time Consultant
Job ID
132832
City / Township / Village
State / Province
Nova Scotia, Alberta
Country
Canada
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Infrastructure & Technology
Employment type
Regular
Contract type
Regular
Projected Minimum Salary per year
79,800.00
Projected Maximum Salary per year
125,400.00
Position type
Professional
Up to 20% or 1 day a week
Company
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
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