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HR transformation & payroll

Senior Consultant SAP HCM & Payroll (m/f/d)

The process nobody notices, as long as it works.

Why this role exists

At the end of every month, thousands of people rely on one number being right. Payroll has the lowest tolerance for error of any process in the company, and it is also the one transformation programmes push back the longest. Until it gets tight.
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We help companies rebuild their HR landscape: SAP HCM, H4S/4, SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll. Not migration for its own sake, but with the ambition that payroll runs better afterwards than it did before.
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For that we need someone who can actually do payroll, not just talk about it.

Your day-to-day

  • You analyse payroll landscapes that have grown over decades, including the rules somebody added “temporarily” fifteen years ago.
  • You develop target designs that fit the client: HCM on S/4, Employee Central Payroll or hybrid. The right answer is not always the same one.
  • You configure it yourself: PY, PA, OM, PT. You do not just explain, you build.
  • You drive parallel payroll runs through the test cycles until the variance reaches zero.
  • You make go-live weekends what they should be: uneventful.

What you won't find here

  • No second-level support ticket carousel.
  • No role where you roll out the same template for five years.
  • No “we have always done it this way” as an argument.

What you bring

  • Several years of hands-on work in SAP HCM Payroll (PY) and in PA, OM and PT.
  • Experience with Employee Central Payroll or H4S/4, or a clear intention to make that move now.
  • Confidence in schema and rule maintenance and in the legal framework: tax, social security, collective agreements.
  • Client proximity on both levels. You hold your own with the payroll manager and with the CHRO.
  • Business-fluent German, good English, willingness to travel for workshops, testing and go-live.
  • An advantage, but not a prerequisite: experience with SAP Business AI in an HR context. Joule in SuccessFactors, AI-supported error analysis in payroll runs or automated document processing in HR services.

What you'll find with us

  • Projects where you shape rather than process, from target architecture through to live operation.
  • The move to ECP, with certification and the time to do it properly.
  • A boutique, not a corporation: short decision paths, real authority, no delivery pyramid.
  • Compensation that reflects seniority, without the negotiation games.
  • Colleagues who know what a payroll run at 11pm means.

Sound like you?

Then get in touch. No cover letter required: your CV and two lines on what draws you to this role are enough for a first conversation. We reply within a week.

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