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Senior Managing Consultant - SuccessFactors Payroll (m/w/d)

IBM

Frankfurt, Germany; Magdeburg, Germany

On-site

Full-time

1mo ago

Benefits & Perks

•Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

•Flexible work arrangements

•Parental leave

•Professional development budget

•Competitive salary and equity package

•Team events and activities

•Healthcare

•Flexible Hours

•Parental Leave

•Learning

•Equity

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IBM

Senior Managing Consultant

Success Factors Payroll (m/w/d)

1 month ago• Frankfurt, Germany (+1 more)Magdeburg, Germany
Viewed on February 1, 2026
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About Us

IBM researches, develops, manufactures, and markets technology products ranging from mainframe computers to cognitive solutions, always with a core drive to innovate and explore new fields.

Size: 10000+ employees
Industry: Technology

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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

As a SAP Success Factors Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As consultant for SAP Success Factors Payroll you are a senior-level expert responsible for designing, configuring, and delivering payroll solutions using SAP Success Factors Employee Central Payroll (ECP).

The role ensures payroll operations are accurate, compliant, and aligned to business requirements across multiple geographies, while integrating seamlessly with broader HR and finance systems.

This consultant acts as a trusted advisor to clients and stakeholders on payroll process transformation, compliance, and technology optimization, providing leadership for complex, multi-country implementations.

Your primary responsibilities include:

Solution Consulting & Design Lead discovery and requirement-gathering workshops focused on payroll processes, compliance, and operational needs.
Translate business and legislative requirements into functional designs for ECP and related modules as well as, where applicable, the integration of external payroll provider solutions.
Design payroll process flows, calculations, and rules to meet organizational and country-specific needs.
Ensure payroll configuration aligns with SAP best practices and statutory compliance.
Define scope and estimate efforts for the implementation of Success Factors ECP and related modules based on client specified requirements.
Implementation Leadership Serve as the functional lead for Payroll workstreams in large-scale Success Factors programs.
Manage end-to-end delivery, including requirements capture, system configuration, testing, payroll parallel runs, training, deployment, and go-live support.
Oversee and guide the work of implementation partners and internal configuration teams.
Support change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of new payroll processes.

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By signing up, you agree to our • Compliance & Risk Management Ensure payroll solutions adhere to country-specific legislation, tax regulations, and reporting requirements.
Implement controls, validations, and audit processes within the payroll system.
Advise stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies related to payroll operations.
Client Engagement & Advisory Act as the trusted advisor for payroll transformation, process improvement, and technology adoption.
Present solution options, impact analysis, and recommendations to senior business and HR leaders.
Facilitate payroll-specific training sessions and knowledge transfer workshops.
Integration & Data Considerations Define and oversee integration design between ECP and other systems such as Employee Central, Time & Attendance, Finance/ERP, and third-party benefits or payroll providers.
Ensure data accuracy and integrity across payroll and HR systems.
Work with middleware tools (e.g., SAP Cloud Platform Integration) to configure secure and reliable data flows.
Release & Continuous Improvement Monitor SAP Success Factors release updates relevant to payroll and assess applicability.
Recommend adoption of enhancements to improve efficiency, compliance, or user experience.
Lead post-implementation optimization initiatives.
Knowledge Sharing & Mentoring Mentor junior payroll consultants and configuration specialists.
Contribute to internal best practice documentation, tools, and templates.
Support pre-sales activities, including proposals, demonstrations, and scoping exercises.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

8-10+ years of payroll experience, with at least 5+ years in SAP Success Factors Employee Central Payroll. Experience in SAP HCM and H4S4 Payroll and Time Management are beneficial.
Proven track record in multi-country payroll implementations and support.
Deep understanding of payroll and time management processes, compliance frameworks, and statutory reporting requirements.
Experience with payroll integrations to time management, HR core systems, and finance applications.
Experience in multi-country, large-scale implementations.
Excellent workshop facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to work across business and technical teams to deliver complex solutions.
Language skills: Fluent in written and spoken English and German

Preferred technical and professional experience

Strong communication and negotiation skills, as well as mental flexibility
Strong ability to analyse situations and solve problems
Willingness to work on-site with our customers

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT:

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS:

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Client-provided location(s): Frankfurt, Germany, Magdeburg, Germany Job ID: IBM-64395Employment Type: OTHERPosted: 2025-12-22T18:45:43Apply on company site

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