Success Factor Payroll Implementation Lead

Job description

Key responsibilities 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. Ideal candidate profile • 7+ years of end-to-end India payroll experience, including payroll processing from new joiner through full and final settlement. • Hands-on involvement in at least one payroll implementation, migration or major payroll transformation; SAP Employee Central Payroll is strongly preferred. • Strong working knowledge of Indian payroll statutes and compliance, including PF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS on salaries, Labour Welfare Fund, gratuity, new wage code and bonus requirements. • Sound understanding of payroll accounting, general ledger posting, statutory reporting and reconciliation controls. • Experience with payroll testing, parallel runs, variance analysis, data validation, cutover and post-go-live support. • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, pivot tables, large-dataset analysis and structured reconciliation. • Strong documentation, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills. • Ability to work comfortably with detailed data, tight deadlines and intensive reconciliation cycles. Good to have • Familiarity with SAP payroll structures such as wage types, schemas, personnel calculation rules and payroll clusters. • Exposure to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Time Tracking or integration between Employee Central and payroll. • Experience in a manufacturing or multi-entity organisation. • Exposure to payroll controls, audit requirements and statutory inspections. Preferred candidate profile Successfactors Payroll certification