Senior SAP HR Consultant

Gerdau•Tampa, FL

17h

About The Position

The Senior SAP HR Consultant serves as an IT subject matter expert for SAP on-premise payroll and tax for the United States and Canada. The role advises on complex business issues, identifies opportunities to streamline and automate processes, collaborates with leaders and business peers on solution design, and participates in or leads functional areas of implementation projects. The consultant develops, troubleshoots, and optimizes custom ABAP code, reports, interfaces, enhancements, and forms for SAP Payroll and Personnel Administration. The role also configures, develops, and integrates SAP applications with existing IT solutions using SAP CPI and OData services, and works with Digital IT service providers on enhancements, user support, and project activities. The position supports payroll and tax operations, including payroll schemas, PCRs, wage types, payroll clusters, tax interfaces and reporting, year-end processing, and third-party tax integrations such as BSI TaxFactory. It also leads testing and quality activities, including parallel payroll testing, defect resolution, and root-cause analysis. The consultant produces technical and functional specifications, process maps, configuration guides, and standard operating procedures; supports and trains end users; and keeps current with SAP HR offerings and updates.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Five years of SAP HR experience.
Extensive SAP HR Payroll, tax (BSI), Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, and Benefits knowledge.
Extensive knowledge of IT system integration using CPI.
Ability to document SAP processes in technical and functional specification documents.
Ability to write test scripts and execute them.
Ability to work with teams in an Application Managed Services environment and drive engagement with an ownership mindset.
Knowledge of IT processes and functions, including development, infrastructure, security, and governance, and technologies such as cloud, big data, architecture, and APIs.
Knowledge of Agile, project management, and innovation processes.
Understanding of business processes and best practices to provide effective solutions.
Customer focus, communication and persuasion skills, business acumen, technical expertise, agility, accountability, analytical and critical-thinking skills, and supplier-management ability.

Nice To Haves

SAP HR certifications.
Experience with full-cycle SAP HR implementations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the IT subject matter expert on SAP on-premise payroll and tax for the United States and Canada, advising on complex business issues.
Advise on leveraging SAP technology to optimize and automate business processes.
Collaborate with leadership and business peers to develop and present solutions.
Participate in or lead functional areas and provide overall project leadership support during implementation cycles.
Write, troubleshoot, and optimize custom ABAP code, reports, interfaces, enhancements, and Adobe or Smartforms for SAP Payroll and Personnel Administration.
Configure, develop, and integrate SAP applications with existing IT solutions using SAP CPI and OData services.
Work with Digital IT service providers on application enhancements, user support, and project activities.
Work with payroll schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules, wage types, and payroll clusters.
Support tax calculation interfaces, tax reporting, year-end processing, and third-party tax software integrations such as BSI TaxFactory.
Troubleshoot legacy ABAP programs, optimize payroll driver performance, and refine database queries using standard debugging tools.
Design, build, and execute unit, integration, user acceptance, and automated regression tests for payroll runs.
Lead and validate parallel payroll testing cycles to verify net pay, deductions, and tax calculations during updates, upgrades, or configuration changes.
Identify, track, and resolve technical defects and perform root-cause analysis on recurring payroll issues.
Draft detailed functional and technical specifications for ABAP development and configuration.
Create and maintain end-to-end process maps, configuration guides, and payroll architecture SOPs.
Provide SAP system support and end-user training, and prepare user manuals.
Stay current with SAP HR offerings, updates, and market developments to support system modernization.