Senior SAP HR Consultant (Payroll and Tax)

Gerdau•Tampa, FL

About The Position

Gerdau is seeking a Senior SAP HR Consultant specializing in Payroll and Tax to serve as the IT subject matter expert for on-premise SAP Payroll and Tax in the United States and Canada. The role advises on complex business issues, helps optimize and automate business processes, partners with leadership to design solutions, and participates in or leads functional areas during implementation cycles. The consultant develops, troubleshoots, and optimizes ABAP code and SAP HR components, including payroll schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules, wage types, payroll clusters, interfaces, enhancements, and forms. The role integrates SAP applications with existing IT solutions using SAP CPI and OData, and supports tax interfaces, tax reporting, year-end processing, and integrations with third-party tax software such as BSI TaxFactory. It also works with Digital IT service providers to deliver enhancements, user support, and project activities. The position designs and executes payroll testing, including unit, integration, user acceptance, regression, and parallel payroll testing. It manages defects and root-cause analysis, prepares functional and technical specifications, maintains process maps and documentation, provides system support and end-user training, and keeps current with SAP HR offerings and updates.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Five years of SAP HR experience.
Extensive knowledge of SAP HR Payroll, Tax (BSI), Organizational Management (OM), Personnel Administration (PA), and Benefits.
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 (AMS) environment and drive engagement with an ownership mindset.
Knowledge of IT processes and functions, including development, infrastructure, security, and governance, and technology 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.
Strong communication and persuasion skills, including the ability to build organizational consensus and facilitate mutual understanding.
Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to assess varied inputs and suggest alternatives.
Ability to engage and manage suppliers for discovery, modeling, implementation, and support.

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.
Partner with leadership to brainstorm, design, and present solutions to business peers.
Participate in and lead functional areas or support overall project leadership 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.
Coordinate 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 test plans for payroll runs.
Lead and validate parallel payroll testing to confirm no variance in net pay, deductions, and tax calculations during system updates, tax software upgrades, or configuration changes.
Identify, track, and resolve technical defects during testing, including root-cause analysis of recurring payroll issues.
Draft functional and technical specifications for custom ABAP developments and configurations.
Create and maintain end-to-end process maps, configuration guides, and standard operating procedures for the payroll architecture.
Provide SAP system support and end-user training, and prepare user manuals for business teams.
Keep up with SAP HR offerings, updates, and market developments to support system modernization.