[Hiring] SAP Payroll Manager @AKT Global

Role Description

AKT is looking for an experienced SAP Payroll (ECP) Manager to oversee the delivery of end-to-end SAP payroll and Employee Central Payroll (ECP) implementations. This is a hands-on leadership position for a professional who is technically experienced in SAP Payroll and ECP who can lead and develop a team of consultants while remaining actively involved in solution design, configuration, troubleshooting, and serving as a trusted advisor to our customers. This is a client-facing, full-time position, and open to candidates located in India.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & People Management:
  • Lead, mentor, develop and provide guidance to a team of SAP Payroll and ECP consultants, including workload allocation, performance management, coaching, and career development.
  • Coordinate with AKT’s global delivery teams on resource planning and project execution.
• Hands-on SAP Payroll & ECP Delivery:
  • Act as the senior technical and functional escalation point for complex payroll issues, providing hands-on expertise in schemas, PCRs, wage types, payroll processing, configuration, and troubleshooting.
  • Support payroll integrations between SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, ECP, SAP HCM, and third-party systems.
  • Lead payroll testing, parallel payroll runs, reconciliation, and go-live activities.
• Customer Engagement & Delivery Management:
  • Lead customers throughout implementation and support engagements, leading customer workshops, requirements discussions, solution design sessions, project reviews.
  • Translate business and payroll requirements into practical, scalable SAP solutions.
  • Proactively manage expectations, mitigate risks, and resolve challenges to ensure timely, high-quality delivery within scope.
• Practice Development & Operational Excellence:
  • Establish and promote delivery standards, methodologies, and best practices for SAP Payroll and ECP.
  • Contribute to presales activities, including solution assessments, effort estimations, proposals, and customer presentations.

Qualifications

• Valid SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) certification – a must
• 8+ years of hands-on SAP Payroll experience, including significant experience implementing and supporting SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP).
• Strong functional and technical understanding of SAP Payroll configuration and processing, including Employee Central to ECP integration and payroll-related master data.
• Proven expertise in payroll schemas, PCRs, wage types, payroll control, and troubleshooting.
• Experience across the full payroll project lifecycle, including design, configuration, testing, parallel runs, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live support.
• Experience managing multiple customer engagements, priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Demonstrated experience leading customer discussions and engaging with senior stakeholders.
• High proficiency in English – both verbal and written.

Personal Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of complex technical and functional challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to balance people management responsibilities with hands-on project delivery.
• Dynamic team player with strong commitment and drive to accomplish individual and team tasks and goals.
• Promptly acclimate to company culture, values, processes, and expectations.
• Strong customer orientation, commercial awareness, and stakeholder management skills.
• Take initiative, exercise sound judgment and result oriented.

Benefits

• Realistic growth opportunities into either technical practices or business consulting environment.
• Flexible working hours.
• Stimulating and collaborative working environment.
• Internal knowledge transfer, training and coaching by our dynamic team of consultants and experts.
• International business environment (offices in the UK, Cyprus, DACH, India, North America, Israel, and Czech Republic).