SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Consultant- Germany (m/f/d)

Experience: Experience: 6–10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP Payroll, including a minimum of 3 full-cycle Germany SAP Payroll implementations.

Preferred Certifications: SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP Employee Central Payroll; SAP HCM Payroll Germany certification.

Germany-Specific Payroll Skills (Mandatory):

• Deep expertise in German payroll schema (DEU0/D0) and country-specific PCRs.
• Social Insurance (SI/SV) configuration: contribution groups, SI providers (Krankenkassen), DEÜV reporting, and health/nursing/pension/unemployment insurance calculation logic.
• Wage/Income Tax (Lohnsteuer) : ELStAM (electronic tax deduction) integration, tax classes, tax procedure (Steuerklassen), church tax (Kirchensteuer), Soli surcharge.
• Statutory reporting : DEÜV, SI contribution statements, tax certificates Lohnsteuerbescheinigung), BA (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) reporting, statistics reporting (Beitragsnachweis).
• Payments : DTA/DTAZV and SEPA payment medium configuration for German banking formats.
• Capital formation benefits (Vermögenswirksame Leistungen - VL) , garnishment (Pfändung) processing per German civil law.
• Familiarity with Works Council (Betriebsrat) co-determination requirements impacting payroll/time configuration.
• Awareness of German labor law constraints affecting time valuation, overtime, and public holiday calendars by Bundesland.
• Experience keeping pace with annual German legal-change (Tarifänderung/Rechtsänderung) support packages.

Data Migration & Parallel Run:

• Proven experience extracting, mapping, and loading legacy ECC HCM Payroll master/time/payroll-result data (infotypes 0000–0521 range, cluster RT/CRT data) into ECP.
• YTD payroll results migration for tax and SI continuity across cutover.
• Design and governance of parallel run cycles: variance analysis, sign-off criteria, defect triage between legacy and target system.
• Experience aligning cutover with German payroll period-end/month-end and legal reporting deadlines.

What we offer:

• Flexible working time models.
• Training and mentoring to support implementation projects.
• The opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and products in state-of-the-art enterprise environments, delivering services across a wide range of global customer infrastructures.
• Challenging and diverse client projects with one of the world's largest and most successful IT service providers, combined with excellent opportunities for rapid professional growth, challenging responsibilities, and a high degree of autonomy and ownership.

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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation