Accenture
SuccessFactors Employee Central Consultant
Accenture, Calgary, AB
We Are:
Accenture has the largest SuccessFactors services practice and one of the highest numbers of certified consultants. Additionally, it is the oldest SAP SuccessFactors partner and has the most experience. Our proprietary Intelligent Enterprise Solution for Talent and HR includes continually updated functional and industry best practices that helps lead our clients to big wins. Our clients commend us for our strong partnership focus and commitment to their success. We also bring the "New" to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech for SAP when it comes to automation and AI. You will get the chance to work in our fast growing and dynamic Canadian practice, with a wide range of top clients across all industries.
You Are:
A transformation expert with the knowledge to assist clients in overcoming the challenges of digitization. Your human-centric approach, creativity, and analytical prowess enable you to solve complex business problems. You excel in detailed workstream analysis, target technical planning, and landscape architecture. Your strong communication and people skills motivate team members to excel.
As a SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Lead, you will lead end-to-end SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central implementations and serve as a key advisor for our clients in optimizing their HR processes. The ideal candidate will have deep functional knowledge of Employee Central, strong project management capabilities, and a proven ability to lead teams through complex implementations. 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
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 in selected locations.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location: Vancouver
Annual Salary Range: $73,300 to $155,000
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com
Our Commitment to Inclusion & Diversity
At Accenture, inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and embedded in our core values. We are committed to creating a workforce where our people can feel comfortable, be themselves and contribute. Like Canada itself, Accenture employees represent a tremendous variety of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs, backgrounds and languages. We offer an inclusive environment regardless of personal characteristics such as ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age or disability.
Requesting an Accommodation
Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.
If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at [redacted], send us an email or speak with your recruiter.
Other Employment Statements
It is currently our objective to assign our people to work near where they live. However, given the nature of our business and our need to serve clients, our employees must be available to travel when needed.
Job candidates are not required to disclose any offence for which a pardon has been granted.
Accenture has the largest SuccessFactors services practice and one of the highest numbers of certified consultants. Additionally, it is the oldest SAP SuccessFactors partner and has the most experience. Our proprietary Intelligent Enterprise Solution for Talent and HR includes continually updated functional and industry best practices that helps lead our clients to big wins. Our clients commend us for our strong partnership focus and commitment to their success. We also bring the "New" to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech for SAP when it comes to automation and AI. You will get the chance to work in our fast growing and dynamic Canadian practice, with a wide range of top clients across all industries.
You Are:
A transformation expert with the knowledge to assist clients in overcoming the challenges of digitization. Your human-centric approach, creativity, and analytical prowess enable you to solve complex business problems. You excel in detailed workstream analysis, target technical planning, and landscape architecture. Your strong communication and people skills motivate team members to excel.
As a SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Lead, you will lead end-to-end SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central implementations and serve as a key advisor for our clients in optimizing their HR processes. The ideal candidate will have deep functional knowledge of Employee Central, strong project management capabilities, and a proven ability to lead teams through complex implementations. 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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage Employee Central implementation projects, ensuring that solutions meet client requirements and are delivered on time and within budget.
- Creates a logical plan, realistic estimates and reasonable schedule for project related activities
- Provide expert guidance on SAP SuccessFactors best practices, configuration, and customizations to meet the client's HR transformation goals.
- 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.
- 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.
- Support business development activities by contributing to proposals, presentations, and client meetings, leveraging your expertise to win new projects.
- Provide expert guidance on SAP SuccessFactors best practices, configuration, and customizations to meet the client's HR transformation goals.
- Stay updated on the latest SAP SuccessFactors trends, releases, and innovations to ensure the adoption of the latest features and capabilities.
Qualifications:
- Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in SAP SuccessFactors, with at least 2-3 years of hands-on experience in Employee Central.
- Experience leading full-cycle SuccessFactors Employee Central implementations from requirements gathering to go-live.
- Familiarity with HR processes and how they are enabled through Employee Central.
- 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.
- Technical Skills:
- Expertise in configuring and implementing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.
- Strong understanding of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central functionality, including data models, workflows, business rules, and reporting.
- Understanding around integrating Recruiting/Onboarding with Employee Central
- Leadership Skills:
- Strong project management skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrates awareness of the different ways individuals relate to change and provides the appropriate support and guidance
- Provides guidance and direction that is in the client's (internal and external) best interest, ensuring client-centric solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
- Keeps project objectives and goals in mind while ensuring team decisions create a collective sense of purpose.
- Proactively mitigates risks by identifying potential pitfalls and developing strategies to avoid them, considering the client's risk tolerance.
- Balances work priorities to ensure high performance and timely execution while actively identifying opportunities for team development.
- Uses discretion when handling sensitive matters and mediates discussions to reach outcomes that achieve shared goals based on multiple perspectives when resolving a conflict
- Adapts quickly to changes, maintains flexibility, and is comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrating eagerness to learn and grow.
- Holds self and others accountable for decisions, risks, and outcomes while maintaining a strong sense of ethics and responsibility.
- Collaborates effectively across teams and boundaries, builds relationships, and shares knowledge to achieve common goals.
- Communicates clearly and effectively, simplifies complex ideas, and adapts communication style to fit the audience and medium.
- Education:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, HR, Information Technology, or a related field.
- SAP SuccessFactors Certification in one or more modules (Employee Central preferred).
- WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
- Competitive benefits, including a fair and balanced parental leave policy.
- Fantastic opportunities to develop your career across industries with local and global clients.
- Performance achievement and career mentorship: our performance management process focuses on your strengths, progress and career possibilities.
- Opportunities to get involved in corporate citizenship initiatives, from volunteering to charity work.
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 in selected locations.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location: Vancouver
Annual Salary Range: $73,300 to $155,000
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com
Our Commitment to Inclusion & Diversity
At Accenture, inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and embedded in our core values. We are committed to creating a workforce where our people can feel comfortable, be themselves and contribute. Like Canada itself, Accenture employees represent a tremendous variety of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs, backgrounds and languages. We offer an inclusive environment regardless of personal characteristics such as ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age or disability.
Requesting an Accommodation
Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.
If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at [redacted], send us an email or speak with your recruiter.
Other Employment Statements
It is currently our objective to assign our people to work near where they live. However, given the nature of our business and our need to serve clients, our employees must be available to travel when needed.
Job candidates are not required to disclose any offence for which a pardon has been granted.