SAP Payroll Analyst - HR/Payroll - Birmingham - Permanent

SAP Payroll Analyst - HR/Payroll - Birmingham - Permanent

Hybrid working - 1 day per week on site required in Birmingham

Salary - £50,000 - £55,000

SAP Payroll Analyst required to support operational delivery and support the HR/Payroll landscape. The ideal candidate will have the ability to provide hands-on support across SAP Payroll, working closely with cross-functional teams to contribute towards SAP upgrades and integration of S/4HANA.

Key skills and responsibilities:

• Deliver 2nd/3rd line SAP Payroll support, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, queries and defects.
• Investigate payroll discrepancies including retro issues, master data errors and schema/PCR failures.
• Support weekly and monthly payroll cycles to ensure accuracy, completeness and compliance.
• Analyse Time Evaluation issues including work schedules, absences/attendance and quota errors.
• Perform root cause analysis and recommend long-term preventative solutions.
• Configure SAP Payroll (Schemas, PCRs, Wage Types, Features, Infotypes).
• Support updates to organisational structures, pay elements, statutory rules and collective agreements.
• Maintain payroll documentation including configuration records and process notes.
• Support testing cycles: unit, integration, UAT, regression and payroll comparison checks
• Support HR/Payroll integrations with Finance, Time systems and third-party vendors.
• Contribute to system changes and upgrades across the payroll landscape.
• Support S/4HANA Payroll readiness and wider transformation programmes.
• Identify automation and simplification opportunities in HR/Payroll operations.
• Support statutory year-end activities (P60, P11D, RTI, NI).
• Partner with HR Shared Services, Payroll, Finance and IT to resolve issues and deliver improvements.

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