SAP Payroll & Time Functional Consultant - City of Mississauga, Mississauga

About this opportunity

The City of Mississauga is seeking a dedicated SAP Payroll & Time Functional Consultant to join its team. This permanent position offers a vital opportunity to provide expert functional and technical solutions across SAP Payroll and Time Management, ensuring the integrity of electronic data, systems, processes, and policies. As a subject matter expert, you will play a key role in supporting and troubleshooting the City's SAP HR systems and processes, contributing to efficient business operations and management success.

Day-to-day

Under the direction of the Manager, SAP HCM - IT, the successful candidate will perform a range of duties essential to the effective functioning of SAP Payroll and Time Management solutions. This involves close collaboration with business stakeholders and continuous support for critical systems.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to document business requirements and implement SAP solutions.
• Design, configure, develop, test, and implement SAP Payroll and Time Management in the City's S4 and SF systems and solutions using best practices and standards for SAP.
• Provide ongoing support including analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and optimizations within SAP and SuccessFactors Payroll and Time Management / Tracking domains.
• Maintain the system and operational integrity including ensuring compliance with local regulations and company policies of solutions / applications related to SAP Payroll and Time Management, SuccessFactors, and Fiori.
• Create and maintain documentation for system configurations, process flows, specifications for developers and test plans.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to confirm solution meets the business needs, conforms to specifications while ensuring program, module, and system integrity.
• Support business stakeholders during the user acceptance testing process.
• Be responsible for Support Package updates by reviewing and identifying relevant SAP notes to be applied, completing required end-to-end testing, and ensuring that the updates are accurately applied.
• Provide functional expertise for projects / systems that integrate with SAP Payroll and Time Management modules, SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll and Time Tracking.
• Develop and deliver end-user training materials and sessions to ensure successful adoption of the new processes and systems.
• Develop and deliver knowledge transfer sessions with other functional and technical team members.
• Maintain and upgrade skills in relation to current and new technology.
• Work in a collaborative team environment with multiple stakeholders including functional specialists, ABAP developers, business users, vendors, consultants.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Who we're looking for

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in Human Resources Management, IT, or Business, coupled with extensive hands-on experience in SAP Payroll and Time Management. Your expertise in functional modules and commitment to continuous learning will be key to your success in this role.

• Post-secondary education in the field of Human Resources Management, IT, Business or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in the implementation, configurations, and support of SAP Payroll, Pension and Time Management and / or SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, SuccessFactors Time Tracking functional modules including personnel calculation rules, schema rules, Collective Agreements (unions), wage types, CATS, Time Recording, Time Evaluation and ESS-MSS/Fiori Apps, as well as Hands-on experience of SAP Payroll and Time configuration and production support at Level-3 (Tier 3).
• SAP Certification in HCM Payroll or SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll is required.
• Hands-on experience in SAP Payroll and Time Schema Configurations and Troubleshooting is required.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in troubleshooting end-to-end payroll, pension and time management processes including calculations, DME, configuration and integration with Finance and third-party vendors, SAP Off-Cycle Workbench, pension calculations, payroll taxation and year-end processing.
• Experience in testing SAP support packs (SPs) and supporting year-end processes.
• Experience in integrations with SAP modules and other third-party applications (Staff scheduling applications, Insurer administered Benefits systems, Work management systems etc.).
• Experience with SAP SuccessFactors modules including Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll would be strongly preferred.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills along with strong decision-making, organizational, interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills to convey concepts / solutions to both technical and non-technical staff.
• Strong understanding of technology and business processes with the ability to integrate functional and technical views.
• Must be able to work independently and in a team environment and maintain confidentiality of information.

Perks and benefits

The City of Mississauga offers a permanent position within a supportive and inclusive environment. This role benefits from a hybrid workplace model, combining on-site presence at the Civic Centre with remote work flexibility. The City is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, fostering a respectful workplace that broadly reflects the communities it serves. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities, ensuring equal participation.