SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant

Capgemini; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology partner in Birmingham seeks a Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant. In this pivotal role, you will guide high-profile clients through complex SAP implementations, focusing on payroll architecture and configuration. You will lead teams, ensuring high-quality delivery while continuously enhancing your knowledge of emerging technologies. The position promotes a hybrid work model, encouraging a balance between office, client site, and home work environments.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of SAP Payroll.
• Ability to deliver high quality presentations.
• Experience in leading pre-sales activities.
• Familiar with supporting technologies enhancing user experience.
• Proactive in learning SAP latest technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop payroll architecture blueprints and strategies.
• Communicate effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
• Implement SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
• Guide clients on SAP best practices.
• Lead teams incorporating both on and offshore delivery models.

Skills

SAP Payroll

Communication Skills

Mentoring

Emerging Technology Awareness

Agile Principles

Tools

SAP WorkZone

Business Technology Platform (BTP)

Payroll Control Centre (PCC)

Job description

Overview

SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant

As a Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant within Capgemini’s leading and award‑winning SuccessFactors Practice, you will be responsible for supporting complex, large‑scale SuccessFactors implementations for a range of high‑profile clients. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled teams across the global Capgemini Group and to play a pivotal role in designing innovative solutions for our clients. You will bring experience of working as part of a team delivering large, multi‑workstream initiatives, including managing business process design and transformation using SAP SuccessFactors. Working for Capgemini provides opportunities for accelerated career progression, along with continued professional development through our unique training programmes.

About our UK SAP Practice Team: Capgemini UK is a leading SAP Integration Partner, helping our clients navigate through complex SAP transformations. Capgemini UK has 1000+ SAP practitioners across UK & India and are ranked #1 for SAP S/4HANA® certifications in UK and globally. We work closely with our clients to transform their business together using the latest SAP products and architecture, a deep knowledge of industries and markets, and innovative delivery methodologies.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role

• Experience developing Payroll architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps
• Translating business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines how requirements will deliver the desired business objectives
• Implement innovative, robust, and future‑proof SAP SuccessFactors solutions with expertise in SAP/Employee Central Payroll, and supporting technologies, including Payroll Control Centre
• Strong experience in SuccessFactors and/or ECC Payroll configuration and strong knowledge and experience in design and build of payroll related integrations
• Guide clients on SAP best practise and innovations, whilst being up to date with the SuccessFactors roadmap and having an awareness of other HR technologies
• You will have the ability to communicate effectively to stakeholders at all levels within a client’s organization
• Lead high performing teams that can work flexibly, incorporating both on and offshore delivery models
• Ensure quality delivery of our Technology solutions
• Contribute to shaping our response to RFPs and collaborate with other Capgemini teams during the pre‑sales process, including the delivery of expert demos to prospective clients
• Build and continually strengthen your network across Capgemini, our Clients and Partners

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• You will have excellent knowledge of SAP Payroll
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver high quality presentations to senior client stakeholders
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Enthusiasm and proactiveness for learning and staying current with SAP latest technologies
• Experience in leading pre‑sales activities and articulating the benefits SuccessFactors brings to clients
• Enjoy mentoring and developing junior talent as well as sharing knowledge across the team and the wider SAP Practice
• Familiar with supporting technologies such as SAP WorkZone, Business Technology Platform (BTP), Payroll Control Centre (PCC), and how they enhance employee and administrator experience
• Passionate to work with our clients advising them on how to get the most out of their SAP technologies
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Your Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

You will be encouraged to have a positive work‑life balance. Our hybrid‑first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day‑to‑day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI‑powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end‑to‑end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com