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You are: 

A transformational leader with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of unlocking value across their enterprise. Your superpower? Using your know-how to solve clients’ most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You’re as comfortable working in teams and leading projects as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP solutions. And you’re up for traveling regularly to client sites. 

As an SAP HR Lead, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing the implementation and optimization of SAP SuccessFactors solutions for our clients. You will leverage your deep expertise in HR and payroll processes and SAP SuccessFactors to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions that align with our clients' business goals. Your role will involve managing project teams, engaging with key stakeholders, and ensuring the successful delivery of HR solutions from blueprint to go-live.

In this role, you will actively identify and pursue innovative opportunities/approaches to create and deliver (internal and external) client value. You'll ensure that your team's work is innovative and brings value, leveraging Accenture’s offerings and best practices to all engagements. You will synthesize complex information to identify trends and potential issues and quickly isolate root causes, demonstrating comfort with complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty while adapting to changing circumstances.

The Work:

• Lead and manage SAP SuccessFactors implementations, from project planning and scoping to execution, testing, and go-live support.

• Create a logical plan, realistic estimates and reasonable schedule for project related activities

• Consistently demonstrates sound business understanding and judgment for the company

• Thoroughly synthesizes, distills and reconciles key findings from complex sets of information to identify trends and potential issues

• Plan, coordinate, and lead workshops with key stakeholders to gather requirements, provide training, or discuss project scope and objectives.

• Capture key decisions, action items, and feedback from workshops, and circulate these to stakeholders post-session.

• Track progress on all deliverables to ensure alignment with the project timeline and escalate issues where necessary. Facilitate sign-offs for key deliverables, ensuring that stakeholders are fully informed and approvals are obtained in a timely manner.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, understanding their HR needs, providing expert advice, and ensuring satisfaction with the delivered solutions.

• Identify opportunities for process improvements and optimizations within HR and payroll operations, driving efficiency and enhancing client value.

• Analyze client requirements and design comprehensive payroll solutions that meet their business objectives, ensuring compliance with local and international payroll regulations.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders, including HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors, to ensure seamless integration and alignment of payroll solutions with overall business processes.

• Contribute to the execution of test plans to ensure the quality and accuracy of solutions.

• Support business development activities by contributing to proposals, presentations, and client meetings, leveraging your expertise to win new projects.

• Proposes innovative, creative solutions that reflect underlying strategic business needs and/or industry best practices (internal and external).

Here’s what you need:

• Minimum of 5 implementation years of experience in SAP HCM/SuccessFactors.

• Proven track record in managing end-to-end implementation projects.

• Experience in managing teams and delivering projects within scope, time, and budget.

• Deep expertise in SAP SuccessFactors modules, including configuration, integration, replication and reporting.

• Experience migrating SAP ECC to SuccessFactors and SAP S/4

• Eligibility for Secret Security Clearance

• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline

• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Bonus Points if:

• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.

• Experience in SAP on premise ECC modules (PA, OM)

• Proficiency in related SAP modules (e.g., Employee Central, Time Management) is a plus.

• SAP SuccessFactors certification in Employee Central or Employee Central Payroll is highly preferred.

• Proposes innovative, creative solutions that reflect underlying strategic business needs and/or industry best practices (internal and external).

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong client relationships at all levels.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business environments.

• Proactively mitigates risks by identifying potential pitfalls and developing strategies to avoid them, considering the client’s risk tolerance.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here:

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario                                   $82,600 to $132,600

About Accenture

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