HR Systems Assurance Specialist

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Check Employee Central and SAP ECC Payroll master data for completeness, accuracy, validity, and consistency.
• Reconcile headcount, gross pay, deductions, GL and bank postings across payroll periods and check statutory and company-policy compliance.
• Verify time data against rosters and time rules and its flow into ECC payroll wage types; investigate Employee Central-to-ECC replication errors and mismatches.
• Design and document control tests, retain audit-ready evidence, track remediation, report trends, and explain findings to HR and payroll stakeholders.

Systems and technical knowledge

• Strong hands-on reporting in SAP ECC HCM/Payroll and SuccessFactors, including Story and Table reports; understanding of Employee Central, Time Tracking, data models, and payroll cluster.
• Knowledge of payroll info types, PCL2 cluster, payroll reports and queries, and the ability to read a payroll schema or PCR and explain results; configuration or development is not required.
• Understanding of SuccessFactors Employee Central data models, MDF objects, picklists, effective-dated records, and the Data Replication Monitor.
• Understanding of Time Tracking profiles, schedules, holiday calendars, time valuation, time collectors, and timesheet flow to payroll.
• Advanced Excel with Power Query, PivotTables, and XLOOKUP; working knowledge of SQL. Power BI is preferred; Python or similar scripting is advantageous.

Experience and education

• 6–10 years of total professional experience, including at least 4 years of hands-on experience with SAP HCM/Payroll and SuccessFactors data.
• Degree in Commerce, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; experience working with multicultural, multi-country teams.
• Strong written and verbal English communication and ability to explain findings clearly to payroll and HR managers.
• Payroll and Time Management experience is an advantage.

Assurance and payroll knowledge

• Understand payroll reconciliation, gross-to-net calculations, retroactive and off-cycle payroll, statutory deductions, roster patterns, overtime, shift and night allowances, holidays, and absence accruals.
• Understand data quality dimensions, control design and testing, maker-checker controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, GDPR, and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Additional or preferred skills

• SAP certifications in SuccessFactors Employee Central, SuccessFactors Time Tracking, or SAP HCM Payroll are preferred; Employee Central Payroll exposure is an advantage.
• Interest or experience in automated or AI-assisted assurance checks is preferred.

Location and working hours

• Role location is Chennai, India.
• Flexible working hours are required to overlap with operating sites in the Americas, Africa, and Australia.

Selection process

• Candidates may be given anonymized Employee Central, timesheet, and payroll extracts and asked to identify mismatches, flag overtime issues, and name preventive controls in an approximately 45-minute exercise.