Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) Expert
Saudi Arabia (Onsite)
Contract
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) Expert to join our dynamic HR Technology team. In this pivotal role, you will be the driving force behind our global HR digital transformation, leveraging your deep technical expertise and functional knowledge to design, build, and deploy robust Employee Central solutions.
With a minimum of 8 years of specialized experience, you will lead complex, large-scale implementations and template-based global rollouts across diverse geographies. You will act as the ultimate SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Employee Central, ensuring best practices are adhered to while aligning system capabilities with strategic business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Global Implementations & Rollouts
- End-to-End Leadership: Lead end-to-end SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central implementations, serving as the lead architect and configuration expert from Phase 0 to Post-Go-Live support.
- Template-Based Deployment: Design, manage, and execute template-based global rollouts, ensuring a harmonized global core HR structure while accommodating critical statutory localizations.
- Global Fit/Gap Analysis: Conduct comprehensive workshops to define the core global template and identify necessary country-specific deviations.
System Design & Configuration
- Advanced Configuration: Configure Foundation Objects, MDF Objects, Business Rules, Workflows, and Data Models (Corporate, Succession, and Country-Specific) to meet complex business requirements.
- Module Expertise: Lead the design and deployment of key EC functionalities including Advanced Position Management, Time Off, Time Management, Time Tracking, Global Benefits, and Document Generation.
- Data Migration: Ensure seamless data migration strategies, overseeing data mapping, extraction, transformation, and load processes from legacy HRIS systems.
Stakeholder & Project Management
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with HR leaders, IT stakeholders, and third-party vendors to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Requirement Translation: Facilitate intensive requirement-gathering workshops and translate them into detailed functional and technical specification documents.
- Mentorship: Provide technical leadership to internal IT teams and junior consultants, acting as a mentor and escalation point for complex technical challenges.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Experience: Minimum of 8+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience configuring and implementing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.
- Project Portfolio: Proven track record of completing at least 4-5 full-lifecycle EC implementations as a Lead Consultant.
- Global Rollouts: Extensive, demonstrable experience leading template-based global rollouts across multiple countries and complex regulatory regions (e.g., NA, EMEA, APAC).
- Time Management & Tracking: Proven experience configuring and deploying SuccessFactors Time Management and Time Tracking solutions.
- Integrations: Strong understanding of system integration with Employee Central Payroll (ECP) and SAP S/4HANA.
- Reporting & Analytics: Good understanding of reporting and analytics capabilities within SuccessFactors (e.g., Story Reports, Canvas/Table Reports).
- Certification: Active SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Professional or Associate Certification is mandatory.
- Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in XML data models, advanced Business Rules design, Metadata Framework (MDF) configuration, and complex workflow structuring.
- Process Knowledge: Exceptional understanding of core HR business processes, organizational management, position management, and global HR compliance standards.
- Communication: Superior communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical HR executives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with SuccessFactors Integration Center, SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), and downstream system impacts.
- Experience with cross-module integrations (e.g., EC to Onboarding 2.0, Performance & Goals, Compensation).
- Experience operating within Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
