Manager, SAP Payroll and Hcm

**Manager, SAP Payroll and HCM**:

- Make a difference and become a part of the Capital Regional District’s vibrant future Located in one of the world’s premier places to live, work and visit, the Capital Regional District (CRD) strives to create liveable, vibrant communities, practice exemplary environmental stewardship and build a prosperous and sustainable economy. We are an outcome driven, high performance organization respected for its commitment to the citizens we serve and the services we provide._

**Position Purpose**
The Manager, SAP Payroll and HCM manages and leads the ongoing development and support of the CRD SAP Payroll and HCM modules. The position takes on the challenge of designing, functionally developing and re-engineering highly complex business processes to align with the SAP Payroll and HCM modules. This position acts as an Information Technology (IT) liaison who partners with business units to ensure the successful execution of projects related to the support, maintenance, and operation of SAP Payroll and HCM modules. Leading staff and working in a collaborative environment, the Manager is responsible for timely and accurate execution of system changes to meet business needs.

**Key Accountabilities / Position Outcomes**
- Leads business analysis activities for the SAP Payroll and HCM modules by working with CRD business units to define and document requirements /specifications, data transformation, process re-engineering, executes functional and integration testing, training, implementation and end user roll out.
- Works closely with SAP Technical Services Team to ensure all proposed work aligns technically with SAP standards.
- Works with the IT management teams to explain and clarify business requirements/specifications to help deliver solutions that meet the business unit needs.
- Identifies creative solutions to business requirements, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives, and provides recommendations.
- Defines and re-defines business processes based on accepted industry practices.
- Communicates effectively to all levels of management to report project status and critical issues requiring attention.
- Leads functional system design in the development of SAP Payroll and HCM modules in alignment with SAP and IT best practices to meet business objectives.
- Supervises SAP functional team members in the development and support of the Payroll and HCM modules.
- Creates and maintains thorough and accurate necessary documentation (including business requirements, functional design specifications, training manuals, configuration documentation).
- Configures and tests SAP Payroll and HCM modules. Leads testing by preparing required test plans/matrices and executing functional and system integration testing of the module.
- Ensures that issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner.
- Project manages small to medium initiatives (as required) according to the established IT project management methodologies.
- Leads ad-hoc analysis to identify root cause of production problems and develops timely solutions.
- Interacts professionally and collaboratively with clients and business areas to deliver high quality service.
- Follows all defined technology standards and processes and provides input for improvements as required and/or identified.
- Assists in the use of existing reports and develops/documents additional reports as required.
- Provides expertise to train and support user groups as appropriate before system go-lives.
- Responsible for the leadership and management of employees and contractors within area of responsibility, including employment and labour relations matters involving: employee hiring, promotion, and other personnel matters; discipline and discharge; representing management in the grievance procedure; input on behalf of management into labour relations matters, and representing management on committees; maintaining Employer confidentiality; and developing, supporting and implementing various corporate and legislated policies, procedures and practices.
- Follows all policies, procedures and standards of the CRD.
- Performs other related duties as required.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business or accounting, or equivalent.
- Considerable related experience including the following or a combination of: systems analysis, systems planning, systems implementation, or managing payroll in a large unionized, public sector organization, including five years hands-on configuration experience with SAP HCM - (i.e. Canadian Payroll, Organizational Management, Personnel Management including Benefits, CATS, Time Evaluation)
- Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) designation from the Canadian National Payroll Institute would be an asset. An equivalent combination of education, training and experience will be considered.

**Role-specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**
- Excellent communication (verbal a