Product Owner - HR Payroll

About the Role

As an  (HR) Payroll Product Owner and a vital part of the T&C
Technology Extended leadership team, you'll manage
key HR products related to T&C Payroll
processes and services. By leading the T&C Payroll solution design team,
you will
collaborate with senior leaders and
cross -functional partners to design, implement, and support our payroll
application services
with a focus on SAP SuccessFactors and
ServiceNow ensuring that they meet our people -focused objectives and enhance
stakeholder and employee success.
Essential skills encompass knowledge of HR
processes through the employee lifecycle, leading requirement discussions,
performing fit -gap analysis, prototyping,
configuring systems, converting data, testing, and defect management.
We want to hear from you if you're an
innovative, customer -focused individual ready to contribute significantly to a
growing
team!

What will your day look like?
• Deliver product functionality, including SAP
SuccessFactors Employee Central, Time and Leave, and Employee Central
Payroll to enable HR strategy and ensure
product performance meets key indicators.
• Collaborate with Global Digital Employee
Experience Leaders and Global Reward and Recognition SMEs to support
business process improvements and functionality
enhancements.
• Lead HR continuous improvement projects,
including requirements, design, testing, implementation, training, and
end -user support.
• Manage implementation/upgrade schedules to
minimize disruptions and maximize usage of new capabilities.
• Develop and implement strategies for
comprehensive product lifecycle management.
• Engage with third -party contacts to
establish, develop, and review product roadmaps and services available to client.
• Contribute to the long -term vision and
strategy that defines the big HR problems and tie it to the product vision for
SAP SuccessFactors EC, T&C, ECP and Service
Now and other HR functional areas to define, recommend, prioritize,
and implement solutions aligning with strategic
goals.
• Work closely with stakeholders and internal
technology partners to architect technology solutions based on industry
best practices needed to drive business
alignment.
• Collaborate with Business Product Owners to create
technical user stories based on business -defined features that
align with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central,
Time and Leave, Employee Central Payroll and ServiceNow
configuration and other supported 3rd party
Payroll solutions.
• Provide technical support for enhancements to
all Payroll solutions and regular SAP SuccessFactors releases by
identifying impacts to the current
configuration and coordinating any required testing to minimize the solution's
adverse effects.
• Recognize available options and select the
appropriate course of action to continuously improve solutions and
delivery processes with the highest business
value. Proactively identify, resolve, or bring up issues, concerns, and
impediments to get the project developed with
efficiency and maximum effectiveness.
• Function as the conduit between Technology
and business partners to ensure alignment between business and IT and
ensure projects are delivered seamlessly.
• Ensure delivery of the prioritized backlog.
• Work closely with other Technology teams to
ensure acceptance criteria are met and business value realized.
• Create and maintain product and release
requirements backlog. Work with HR counterparts to negotiate and
prioritize enhancements rolled out to the
organization.
• Coordinate and lead testing efforts while
contributing to the employee experience with end -user focus, collaboration,
and transparency.
• Facilitate demos for stakeholders to get
feedback on in progress enhancements and solutions.
• Work with technical resources to maintain
platform health, explore continuous improvement options, and assist with
troubleshooting/resolving escalated product
issues.
• Align business priorities and make trade -off
decisions across multiple collaborator concerns.
• Balance priorities between strategic new
enhancements and ongoing production support.
• Establish project management discipline and
governance processes to support initiatives end to end, from project
planning through testing to delivery, to ensure
a successful end -user experience for all new deployments and ongoing
maintenance of SAP SuccessFactors and
integrations.
• Lead and develop a team of configuration
specialists and analysts with a focus on process design and enablement
Customer Relationship Development and
Management
• Build long -term relationships with key
stakeholders by managing stakeholder relationships and communications at all
stages of the delivery.
• Continuously develop our service offering and
value proposition for the T&C Technology team.
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts
across the business to extract required knowledge.
• Role -modelling and promoting values, Create.
Deliver. Together behaviours and our aspirational culture and
leading the team to do the same
What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you
will ideally bring the following:
• Experience in leading teams in SaaS/Agile
product life cycle development.
• Extensive experience as an HR Product Owner
or Business Analyst
• Extensive experience with SAP SuccessFactors
HCM; certification in Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll.
Time and Leave certification highly desirable.
Global experience with SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, and other HR
vendors is highly desirable.
• Proficient in Personnel calculation rules and
schema processing
• Experience with Replication configuration,
logging and analysis
• ABAP development skills
• Experience with Product Roadmap development
and influencing key collaborators for consensus on business
priorities. Ability to facilitate complex
discussions.
• Experience in Project Management with a focus
on design, development, testing, and delivery, including writing user
stories for integration with third -party
providers.
• Previous consulting experience working with
global companies / Exposure to Internal project work.
• Organized, self -motivated, highly adaptable,
detail -oriented, and strongly desires to embrace change and solve
problems.
• Outstanding leadership and motivational
skills, including a willingness to empower and inspire commitment and a
positive team attitude.
• Ability and/or experience to work
independently as well as in a team environment through collaboration and
consultation skills while working with
individuals from all backgrounds and organizational levels and across
functional
areas Planning and coordinating of own and/or
team's work activities to meet commitments and quality expectations.
• Ability to translate customer business
requirements to technical solution requirements.
• Proven ability to work creatively and
analytically in a problem -solving environment.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and
negotiation skills with excellent executive presence
• Good knowledge of HCM concepts and HR
processes
• Employee experience mindset and human centred
design principles
List key qualifications that are relevant to
this role.
• SF Employee Central
• SF Employee Central Payroll
• SF Time and Leave (highly desirable)
• Additional SF module certifications a plus.