SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Role : SAP HCM Functional Consultant

This role requires significant functional expertise of SAP payroll delivery primarily for Asia Pacific region & any other country in Europe or Americas with practical knowledge of Template processes and standards and having technical SAP ABAP expertise will be an added advantage.

This role is expected to function independently based on information gathered from multiple sources including internal and external business partners as well as Country Solutions & Localization team leadership.

The role is expected to manage all aspects of product solution delivery and related communications. The role is responsible for providing regular status reports regarding key issues following defined processes and guidelines to internal business partners and team leadership.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Develops and supports both internal and external facing stake holders.

- Researches and defines the SAP application architecture.

- Researches and implements new technologies.

- Performs technical analysis and design of technical solutions specifically in Payroll at Template level.

- Acts as a hands-on technical leader, providing guidance and mentoring and ensuring that the development adheres to standards in areas of codes quality, test coverage, monitoring that meet desired output.

- Test and debugs new and existing applications.

- Optimizes code and system performance on existing systems.

- Troubleshoots existing applications.

- Perform HRSP analysis on monthly and ensures no impact on country solutions and corrections provided by SAP.

- Adhere to GV Template standards for process and methodology particularly with naming conventions, Schema & PCR's customization, configuration and testing and documentation as well in all work activities performed.

- Work with the development teams to ensure that Payroll functionality is optimized between being feature-rich, easily implemented, highly usable will minimum/maintenance free products.

- Provide consulting services to IMP/Sales on the solutions that are within GV Product Template scope.

- Be a GOTO person in terms of Knowledge Transfer on GV Payroll kind of product on technical aspects.

- Take active part in product design workshops with stakeholders.

- Assist in the Project management of new releases (including rollouts, upgrades, application of patches and notes,) to apply them to both Template & Regional systems.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES :

- A dynamic & result-oriented professional with over 5 to 10+ years experience in SAP HCM, SAP Payroll design and development to deliver high quality results.

- Strong hands-on experience in SAP ERP, ABAP, SAP HR, HCM, Agile, SAP HANA.

- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written form.

- Strong analytical and logical thinking ability.

- Strong hold on country Payroll with expertise in customizing country PY solutions for Global clients.

- Ability to design and configure PY solutions in multi-tenant environment with 100% reusability and 100% maintenance free solutions.

- Configuration : Strong hold PY Schema's, PCRs, generic PY functions, reusable custom PY functions (Global in nature).

- Configuration : Strong hold on all PY Processes (mostly global in nature and widely practiced in different industries).

- Configuration : Strong hold all SAP specific WT's, monthly PY splits, specific clusters & Internal tables.

- Customization : Hands on in preparing Functional specifications for any PY specific report, programs or interfaces.

- Good knowledge of Employee/Manager Self Services, workflows, SAP/Portal, connectivity and landscape.

- Knowledge of ABAP Programming with debugging skills.