About the role
Wave leadership: Serve as People Operations Wave Lead for assigned country deployment waves, accountable for end-to-end HR-side operational readiness through blueprinting, build, testing, go-live, and hypercare. Process & controls design: Design the Pay Transformation “To-Be” process, including controls and Detailed Task Procedures (DTPs); define and uphold the program's pay-data principles and standards. Data analysis for integrations: Lead data analysis for EC-to-payroll integration
requirements (Infotypes IT14/IT15, master data, and country-specific fields) to ensure accurate, complete inputs to payroll providers. Wage type mastery & automation: Own wage type (WT) mastery and automation — confirm wage types are correctly configured and keyed in Employee Central, coordinate EC Extractor configuration so inputs replicate cleanly to payroll, prevent duplicate inputs, and align replication “as-of” dates with providers. Operational readiness: Lead operational readiness for HR Service Delivery Centres and OnePayroll, equipping teams to run new integration processes effectively. Change & adoption: Determine and execute the adoption, change management, and readiness strategy for each implementation, including stakeholder engagement and communications. Testing & quality: Support UAT strategy and test-scenario sign-off, and coordinate SIT, replication and payroll testing, parallel runs, cutover, and hypercare. Compliance & privacy: Complete required privacy reviews (SuccessFactors, DRM, Mashup, associated manual processes, and Works Council) and ensure payroll compliance across in-scope countries. Proven experience in HR operations, payroll operations, or HR business-process management. Experience supporting global or multi-country payroll in a complex, matrixed organization. Working knowledge of HCM platforms, ideally SAP SuccessFactors / Employee Central and ADP Global View and associated reporting/integrations Demonstrated ability to design business processes and controls (e.g., DTPs) and drive standardization. Experience delivering cross-functional programs or projects on schedule with multiple stakeholders. Strong data-analysis skills with high attention to accuracy and data integrity. Familiarity with the testing lifecycle (SIT/UAT), cutover, and hypercare in system implementations. Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder-management skills.
