Consultant - SAP Successfactors & HCM

About the role 

We are seeking a senior SAP SuccessFactors Functional Consultant who will also lead and grow our HCM practice. Deep hands-on expertise in SAP SuccessFactors — particularly Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll — combined with the leadership to build the team, set delivery standards, support pre-sales, and act as trusted advisor to clients. Experience supporting payroll across multiple countries is strongly preferred. 

Key responsibilities — Functional 

• Gather, analyze, and document requirements, translating them into SuccessFactors configuration. 
• Configure and maintain Employee Central (EC), including foundation objects, position management, business rules, workflows, and the data model (succession data model, MDF objects). 
• Set up and optimize Employee Self-Service (ESS) and Manager Self-Service (MSS) including home page, role-based permissions (RBP), and workflow approvals. 
• Support Employee Central Payroll (ECP) configuration and the EC–ECP point-to-point integration, ideally across multiple country versions, ensuring local statutory and regulatory compliance. 
• Build integrations using Integration Center and SAP Integration Suite / CPI, and manage data using imports and the data models. 
• Configure and support additional modules as needed: [Performance & Goals, Compensation, Recruiting, Onboarding, Learning, Succession & Development]. 
• Build reports and dashboards using People Analytics / Story reports. 
• Manage testing (unit, integration, UAT), release management against the half-yearly SAP release cycle, and post-go-live support. 
• Produce functional specs, configuration workbooks, test scripts, and end-user training material. 

Key responsibilities — Leadership 

• Build, lead, and mentor a team of SuccessFactors consultants, owning hiring, capability development, and performance. 
• Define and maintain delivery methodology (aligned to SAP Activate), best practices, templates, and quality standards. 
• Provide solution architecture and oversight across multiple engagements, ensuring consistent, on-time, on-budget delivery. 
• Support pre-sales and business development: scoping, estimation, proposals, demos, and client presentations. 
• Own client relationships as a trusted advisor, managing escalations and identifying expansion opportunities. 
• Establish reusable assets, accelerators, and a knowledge base to improve delivery efficiency. 
• Stay ahead of the SuccessFactors product roadmap and release innovations, positioning the practice competitively. 

Required qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Information Systems, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 
• 8+ years of HCM functional experience, with strong hands-on SAP SuccessFactors expertise across multiple full-lifecycle implementations. 
• Deep configuration experience in Employee Central, including RBP, business rules, workflows, and the data model. 
• Hands-on experience with ESS and MSS configuration. 
• Solid understanding of payroll concepts, pay cycles, and Employee Central Payroll, including the EC–ECP integration. 
• Proven experience leading teams and/or owning delivery across concurrent engagements. 
• Excellent stakeholder-management, communication, and presentation skills. 

Preferred qualifications 

• Multi-country payroll experience with ECP localization and compliance  
• SAP SuccessFactors certifications — e.g., SAP Certified Associate in Employee Central and/or Employee Central Payroll; additional module certifications a plus. 
• Pre-sales / solutioning and proposal experience. 
• Experience with global rollouts, localization, and managing distributed teams. 

Core competencies 

• Leadership, coaching, and team development. 
• Strategic thinking balanced with hands-on SuccessFactors delivery ability. 
• Strong commercial and client-relationship acumen. 
• Analytical, structured problem-solving with a quality-first mindset. 
• Ability to set direction and manage priorities across multiple projects.