Sr Business Systems Analyst- SAP On-Prem Payroll

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide all-level and on-call coverage support to HR Payroll teams.
• Respond, resolve, or escalate reported incidents.
• Requirements gathering, solution design, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and implementation.
• Shape business requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives to proposed solutions.
• Participate in Application Analysis, Configuration, Testing, Management, and Maintenance in an Enterprise environment.
• Access administration and user onboarding.
• Issue resolution, patching, and performance monitoring.
• Reliability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Monitor system logs for unusual activity and escalate or make recommendations for resolution.
• Support user acceptance testing and user training activities.
• Adhere to the Quality System Procedures and Change Control.
• Proficient in application configuration, including add-on products/modules.
• Participate in assessment of application security and identity management requirements, where applicable.
• Create functional design documents and artifacts as appropriate, including business case documentation, scope documentation, detailed functional requirements, operational requirements, process flows, and manual and automated test cases.
• Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks.
• Lead and/or participate in delivery of projects.

Additional Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with local labor laws, tax regulations, and internal policies, especially for US and Canadian payroll.
• Work with internal SAP Basis and SAP Security teams to establish and maintain non-production development, test, and quality environments.
• Support installation of SAP ECC HR service packs through testing.
• Benchmark current and future processes against industry best practices.
• Contribute to the development of roadmaps and initiatives for enablement of new capabilities.
• Lead process improvements and IT projects to achieve business goals and objectives.
• Viewed as a subject matter expert in the field within the organization.

Specialized Skills

• Experience in functional and technical support of payroll processing for the US workforce populations is required; processing for Canadian workforce is preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of U.S., state, and local payroll tax laws and the ability to research, interpret, and apply payroll tax regulations are expected.
• Experience with SAP HR Organization Management and Personnel Administration (OM/PA) is required.
• Experience with integration of a Time Management system to SAP on-prem payroll is preferred.
• Familiar with LSMW or other mass upload software.
• Ability to read/debug ABAP code is a plus.
• Experience with SAP Solution Manager ChaRM is an advantage.
• Experience with Jira Service Management is an advantage.
• Knowledge of platform tools such as EPI-USE Data Synch Manager and support reporting tools such as SpinifexIT is a plus.
• Previous involvement in the implementation or optimization of an HR Payroll system is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and customer service orientation.
• Ability to work comfortably at all levels within the organization up to the senior management level.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience required.
• Experience with SAP on-prem payroll is required.
• At least 5 years of work experience and excellent SAP skills and knowledge required in SAP on-prem payroll.
• Work experience preferred in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central – in a hybrid environment with SAP on-prem payroll.