Snr Specialist: IT Systems Developer (SAP Payroll) at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

All aspects of the payroll processing function including support of the HR Payroll Department during the weekly, biweekly, and monthly payroll processing cycles, research and configuration for payroll taxes, configuration of payroll deductions, on boarding and off boarding of employees for acquisitions, year-end processing and touch points with other SAP modules that impact payroll (Time, Accounts Payable, Finance, and others).

Key Responsibilities

• Configure SAP HCM Payroll system to meet client business requirements, testing and support for all fixes and enhancements.
• Testing and support for the annual SAP support pack implementations.
• Performs duties aligned with the business systems analyst role which includes incident support, development of business requirements documents, process maps, application testing, and training.
• Analyze, configure, and implement appropriate solutions with the support of the other Functional/Development Consultants when applicable
• Technically analyses program issues through debug.
• Provide advice and guidance regarding statutory/legal obligations.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex systems problem and is responsible for aligning technology solutions with business strategies.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Partners with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs.
• Conduct knowledge transfer and training of end-users, including sharing best practices.
• Understands business process; can arrange their own tasks and workload and implement the strategy, with the aim of developing the business further. Accepts responsibility for own tasks and projects and manages these in terms of quality, productivity, and resources. Recognises risks in the project/ tasks and provides suggestions for minimising them.
• Uses own initiative to look for solutions/opportunities for improvement and is willing to make decisions; recognises overarching problems as well as political situations and escalates these if necessary.

Minimum Experience

• +5 years in business and HR functional knowledge.
• Knowledge of integration with SAP SuccessFactors.
• ABAP de-bug skills and experience to build/amend simple ABAP HCM based programs will be an advantage.
• Desirable to have knowledge of ESS and MSS.
• Knowledgeable in Personal Administration and OM will be an advantage.
• Experience managing the SAP HCM Time and Leave global design development and delivery.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong ability to facilitate discussions and negotiate mutually beneficial solutions when necessary.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences.
• SAP Certification.