SF Payroll Implementation Lead

Payroll design and requirement validation
Participate in payroll requirement, fit-gap and solution design workshops with the implementation partner.
Translate current payroll rules, wage types, statutory requirements, accounting treatments and operating practices into clear business requirements and testable outcomes.
Review proposed designs and configuration outputs for business accuracy, completeness and operational practicality.
Maintain decision logs, payroll rule documentation, wage-type rationale and agreed operating procedures.
Data, reconciliation and payroll validation
Own payroll data preparation, cleansing and validation from the business side.
Lead back-dated payroll reconciliation from April 2026 through cutover, including employee-level and wage-type-level comparison.
Coordinate parallel payroll runs and compare gross pay, deductions, statutory components, net pay and accounting outputs between the legacy (SAP HCM) and new system (SuccsssFactors).
Investigate variances, classify root causes, coordinate corrections and maintain evidence of closure and sign-off.
Validate migrated payroll balances, statutory accumulations, employee master data and pay-related time inputs.
Testing and quality assurance
Prepare and maintain payroll test scenarios, scripts, test data and expected results across regular, off-cycle, retroactive and separation payroll processes.
Support system integration testing and lead payroll user acceptance testing on behalf of Voltas.
Track defects through resolution, retest corrected scenarios and provide clear status reporting on payroll readiness.
Ensure testing covers statutory compliance, finance posting, bank outputs, payslips, reports, interfaces and downstream impacts.
Cutover, go-live and stabilisation
Own business-side payroll cutover activities, readiness checklists, open-item tracking and go/no-go inputs.
Coordinate final data validation, payroll calendar readiness, production checks and first payroll preparation.
Provide full-time support during go-live and hypercare, triaging payroll issues and escalating configuration-level defects to the implementation partner.
Support the transition to steady-state payroll operations through documented SOPs, issue logs and knowledge transfer.
Stakeholder and partner coordination
Work day to day with the implementation partner's payroll team and hold actions, deliverables and defects to agreed timelines.
Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Compliance and IT to obtain inputs, approvals and sign-offs.
Provide concise progress updates, highlight risks early and drive timely decision-making on payroll dependencies.
Protect business-as-usual payroll continuity while implementation activities are underway.

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