SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP S/4HANA Payroll Replication Specialist

Experience : 5-10 years
Location: Pune/Chennai/Bangalore and Hyderabad
We are seeking an experienced SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP S/4HANA Payroll Replication Specialist to design, update configurations, test, and support the replication of employee and organizational data from SuccessFactors Employee Central into SAP S/4HANA Payroll.
The role will serve as the technical expert for employee master data, organizational data, employment events, compensation, time, and payroll-relevant information replicated between systems.
Key Responsibilities
Support SuccessFactors Employee Central to SAP S/4HANA Payroll replication.
Update configurations and validate replication of:
Personal and biographical data
Employment and job information
Organizational assignments
Compensation and pay components
Work schedules and time-related data
Bank, tax, benefits, and payroll-relevant information
Hire, rehire, transfer, promotion, termination, and organizational-change events
Map Employee Central data to SAP HCM and S/4HANA Payroll structures, including relevant infotypes, personnel actions, wage types, organizational objects, and cost centers.
Configure and monitor middleware integrations using SAP Integration Suite/CPI or the applicable integration framework.
Implement or Update Business Add-ins (BADIs) to support business requirements.
Analyze replication errors, interface failures, data inconsistencies, and rejected employee records.
Lead root-cause analysis across Employee Central, middleware, and S/4HANA Payroll.
Validate employee and organizational data after replication into S/4HANA.
Support payroll-relevant integration for:
Time management
Benefits
Payroll control records
Costing and Finance
Banks and payment providers
Third-party applications
Define technical specifications for enhancements, mappings, validations, and error-handling processes.
Lead unit, integration, regression, parallel, user acceptance, and payroll validation testing.
Perform data reconciliation between Employee Central and S/4HANA Payroll.
Support production incident resolution.
Maintain configuration workbooks, mapping documents, interface specifications, test scripts, and support procedures.
Collaborate with HR, Payroll, Finance, Integration, Security, and technical development teams.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of experience with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP HCM/S/4HANA Payroll.
Demonstrated experience delivering or supporting EC-to-S/4HANA Payroll replication.
Strong understanding of:
Employee Central data model
Employment and job information
Effective-dated transactions
Employee Central business rules and workflows
SAP HCM personnel administration
Infotypes and personnel actions
Organizational management
Payroll-relevant master data
Cost center and organizational assignment
Hands-on experience with SAP Integration Suite/CPI or comparable SAP integration tooling.
SAP ABAP Hands-on coding expert to update or implement BADI’s or S/4HANA enhancements.
Experience troubleshooting interfaces, replication queues, middleware messages, and payroll master-data errors.
Strong knowledge of employee lifecycle events and their downstream payroll impact.
Experience creating functional specifications, mapping documents, and test scenarios.
Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Work arrangement
Hybrid