SAP SuccessFactors Principal Consultant

K&K Social Resources & Development GmbH is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in the UK which is actively hiring candidates to expand its teams.

Role: SAP SuccessFactors Principal Consultant

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

Location: Manchester, UK

Required:

• End-to-end multi-country Payroll implementations as a Lead.
• Experience working in large, complex programs with global delivery models.
• Expertise with SAP Payroll, SuccessFactors EC Payroll, or other enterprise payroll platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implementation & Solution Design.
• Lead full-cycle Payroll implementations across UK, Ireland, and Sweden, including requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
• Conduct country-specific payroll workshops to capture statutory rules, union requirements, local policies, and organizational processes.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional designs and support technical teams with integration specifications.
• Oversee data migration strategy, validation rules, conversion templates, and reconciliation of legacy payroll data.
• Ensure payroll solution compliance with local tax laws, statutory regulations, pensions, social security, and reporting norms.
• Drive User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect resolution, parallel payroll runs, and payroll sign-off processes.
• Provide leadership during mock runs, cutover, go-live, and hypercare support.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Payroll process owners, HR leads, and local country stakeholders.
• Deliver clear communication, documentation updates, and risk/issue reports to project leadership.

Note: Applicants for employment in UK should possess work authorization, which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a