IT SAP Payroll Functional Specialist

Req ID: 24760
Vacancy Type: Permanent Hybrid
Number of Positions: 1
Closing Date: 03/01/2025

Provide technical and functional expertise and solutions in areas of technology, processes, and operating procedures for SAP Payroll and Time Management. Responsible for the integrity of electronic data, systems, processes, and policies. Act as a subject matter expert and support and troubleshoot the City's SAP HR systems and processes.

Under the direction of the Program Manager, SAP HCM/Payroll Business Support, the successful candidate will:

1. Collaborate with business stakeholders to document business requirements and implement SAP solutions.
2. Design, configure, develop, test, and implement SAP Payroll and Time Management in the City's S4 and SF systems and solutions using best practices and standards for SAP.
3. Provide ongoing support including analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.
4. Identify opportunities for process improvements and optimizations within SAP and SuccessFactors Payroll and Time Management/Tracking domains.
5. Maintain the system and operational integrity including ensuring compliance with local regulations and company policies of solutions/applications related to SAP Payroll and Time Management, SuccessFactors, and Fiori.
6. Create and maintain documentation for system configurations, process flows, specifications for developers and test plans.
7. Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to confirm solutions meet business needs, conform to specifications while ensuring program, module, and system integrity.
8. Support business stakeholders during the user acceptance testing process.
9. Be responsible for Support Package updates by reviewing and identifying relevant SAP notes to be applied, completing required end-to-end testing, and ensuring that the updates are accurately applied.
10. Provide functional expertise for projects/systems that integrate with SAP Payroll and Time Management modules, SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, and Time Tracking.
11. Develop and deliver end-user training materials and sessions to ensure successful adoption of the new processes and systems.
12. Develop and deliver knowledge transfer sessions with other functional and technical team members.
13. Maintain and upgrade skills in relation to current and new technology.
14. Work in a collaborative team environment with multiple stakeholders including functional specialists, ABAP developers, business users, vendors, consultants.
15. Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Post-secondary education in the field of Human Resources Management, IT, Business or in a related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in the implementation, configurations, and support of SAP Payroll, Pension and Time Management and/or SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, SuccessFactors Time Tracking functional modules including personnel calculation rules, schema rules, Collective Agreements (unions), wage types, CATS, Time Recording, Time Evaluation and ESS-MSS/Fiori Apps.
• SAP Certification in HCM Payroll or SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll is required.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in troubleshooting end-to-end payroll, pension and time management processes including calculations, DME, configuration and integration with Finance and third-party vendors, SAP Off-Cycle Workbench, pension calculations, payroll taxation and year-end processing.
• Experience in testing SAP support packs (SPs) and supporting year-end processes.
• Experience in integrations with SAP modules and other third-party applications (Staff scheduling applications, Insurer administered Benefits systems, Work management systems etc.).
• Experience with SAP SuccessFactors modules including Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll would be strongly preferred.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills along with strong decision-making, organizational, interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills to convey concepts/solutions to both technical and non-technical staff.
• Strong understanding of technology and business processes with the ability to integrate functional and technical views.
• Must be able to work independently and in a team environment and maintain confidentiality of information.

Hourly Rate/Salary: $86,858.00 to $115,812.00 (as of April 1, 2024)
Hours of Work: 35
Work Location: Civic Centre
Department/Division/Section: CPS/Corporate Services Dept, CPS/IT Division, Enterprise Business Solutions
Non-Union/Union: Non Union

A Criminal Record and Judicial Matters Check (Level 2) or Vulnerable Sector Check (Level 3) will be required of the successful candidate, at their own expense, to verify the absence of a criminal record for which a pardon has not been granted.

We thank all who apply; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. You can also check your application status in your candidate profile online.

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The City of Mississauga is committed to creating a respectful and supportive workplace that fosters a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion which broadly reflects the communities and residents we serve. Throughout the employee life cycle, the City is working to include an EDI lens to attract, retain and support the growth of diverse talent.

The City of Mississauga is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to removing barriers in our selection process for people with visible and invisible disabilities. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, the City of Mississauga will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.

If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please contact us at recruitment@mississauga.ca with any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.