SAP Success Factors Employee Central Payroll Senior Consultant / Architect (with EC or Time)Location: London / Birmingham / Manchester

Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)

Career Level: Consultant (CL7)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skills and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognised worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

Role Overview:

As an SAP Success Factors Functional Consultant at Accenture, you will be a crucial member of our SAP delivery projects, serving as a Functional Expert in Success Factors solutions. You will closely collaborate with clients, understanding their business and functional requirements, and translating them into Success Factors design documents. Your expertise in SAP Success Factors and your understanding of clients' needs will play a key role in designing effective and efficient solutions. This role may involve leading a functional team and working on longer-term projects.

Key Responsibilities Payroll Expertise & Advisory

• Advise clients on ECP operating models, payroll process optimisation, and global/regional statutory requirements.

• Guide clients on the differences, benefits and trade-offs between ECP, ECC Payroll, and S/4HANA Payroll.

• Lead Payroll Control Center (PCC) design and implementation to drive automation, monitoring, and root-cause resolution.

• Interpret payroll legislation and provide expert guidance across tax, pensions, benefits and statutory absence schemes.

Solution Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of SAP Employee Central Payroll solutions as part of large transformation programmes.

• Own functional design, ensuring configuration is aligned with client requirements, statutory obligations, and industry best practice.

• Oversee configuration of payroll schemas, wage types, payroll rules, HR Forms, pay statements, and payroll calendars.

• Ensure robust integration across Success Factors, particularly Employee Central, Time Tracking, and third-party systems.

• Integration & Technical Coordination

• Oversee payroll integration with SAP Finance (ALE / API) and third-party vendors (e.g., HMRC).

• Ensure secure, accurate, compliant data flows throughout the payroll ecosystem.

• Support data migration, validation, reconciliation and cutover strategies for payroll go-lives.

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Manage senior client stakeholders, ensuring clarity of decisions, risks, status and delivery expectations.

• Facilitate workshops, lead design authority discussions and represent Accenture in governance forums.

• Coach, mentor and oversee the work of consultants and analysts, fostering a strong team culture.

Project Management & Quality Assurance

• Manage scope, timelines, resources and risks across payroll workstream(s).

• Review and approve design documents, configuration workbooks, test scripts and training materials.

• Ensure high-quality delivery aligned with Accenture’s methodologies and governance standards.

Business Development & Practice Growth

• Contribute to pre-sales activities, solution shaping, RFP responses, estimations and client presentations.

• Support the growth of Accenture’s Success Factors practice by contributing thought leadership and reusable assets.

• Stay current with the SAP Success Factors roadmap, payroll innovations and emerging HR/AI trends.

What You Will Bring

• Deep functional expertise in SAP Payroll with strong hands-on experience in Employee Central Payroll (ECP).

• SAP Payroll experience, including full lifecycle payroll implementations.

• Strong understanding of UK payroll, legislation, HMRC integrations, pensions auto-enrolment and statutory/occupational absences.

• Proven experience delivering Payroll Control Center and supporting parallel payroll testing cycles.

• Ability to interpret payroll legislation and validate results using parallel run tools (e.g., Excel-based calculations).

• Experience working with Time & Attendance integrations, finance interfaces, and third-party vendor connections.

• Strong leadership experience with the ability to guide teams, influence stakeholders and support project governance.

• Excellent client-facing communication and relationship-building skills. Ability to converse at a process level with payroll managers and leaders.

• ECP certification (2+ Success Factors certifications preferred).

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the outstanding services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.