About the position
We are seeking a highly skilled SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) Consultant to join our client's growing SAP Practice in Johannesburg.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced functional consultant to play a key role in delivering enterprise-wide HR transformation programmes for leading South African and multinational organisations.
As a Functional Expert, you will work closely with clients to understand their HR operating models, analyse business requirements, and design, configure, and implement SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solutions that deliver measurable business value. You will be responsible for the full implementation lifecycle, from discovery, blueprinting, and solution design through configuration, testing, deployment, go-live, and post-implementation hypercare.
In this client-facing role, you will facilitate design workshops, provide trusted functional guidance to stakeholders, mentor junior consultants, and contribute to the continued growth and success of the SAP SuccessFactors practice. Your deep hands-on Employee Central configuration expertise, combined with strong consulting, communication, and stakeholder management skills, will be essential in delivering high-quality HR transformation solutions.
Client Engagement & Workshop Facilitation
- Lead design workshops: plan, facilitate, and document HR process design workshops, fit-gap sessions, and solution blueprint meetings with business stakeholders at all levels.
- Requirements gathering: act as the primary client-facing functional expert; elicit, document, and validate HR business requirements, process designs, and data governance needs.
- Trusted advisor: build strong, credible client relationships; advise HR leaders on transformation roadmaps, data strategy, and SuccessFactors platform capabilities aligned to their business objectives.
- Stakeholder communication: prepare and present clear, compelling project status reports, design decisions, and solution options to senior leadership and client executive sponsors.
Employee Central Configuration & Delivery
- EC configuration: lead and execute hands-on configuration of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central — including Foundation Objects, Generic Objects, Business Rules, Workflows, Role-Based Permissions (RBP), and Position Management.
- Time Off & Time Sheet: configure and support Time Off, Time Sheet, and Absence Management within Employee Central, ensuring alignment with South African leave legislation (Basic Conditions of Employment Act).
- Data migration: lead or support data migration activities using SFTP / Workforce Management tools; design data mapping templates; manage data cleansing, validation, and loading processes.
- Integration design: collaborate with integration architects to design and support EC integrations with SAP ECP, SAP S/4HANA, third-party HR systems, and benefit providers using Integration Centre, CPI/BTP, and APIs.
- Reporting & analytics: configure and deliver EC reporting using People Stories, Advanced Reporting, and custom dashboards; support HR teams in interpreting and acting on workforce data.
Project Leadership & Team Development
- Workstream ownership: lead functional workstreams across SAP Activate phases — Prepare, Explore, Realise, Deploy, and Run — ensuring deliverables are on time, on scope, and of high quality.
- Testing: lead and support unit testing, string testing, end-to-end integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT); drive defect resolution and sign-off activities.
- Mentoring: coach and support junior consultants on the team, sharing knowledge, reviewing their configuration outputs, and supporting their professional development.
- Innovation & best practice: bring industry best practices and awareness of the SAP SuccessFactors product roadmap and AI-enabled HR innovations to client engagements; proactively identify opportunities to enhance the solution.
- Business development: contribute to pre-sales activities, proposal development, solution presentations, and thought leadership initiatives within the SAP/HR Technology space.
Required skills & experience
Non-Negotiable Requirements
- End-to-end implementations: minimum of 2 full end-to-end SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central implementations with demonstrable, hands-on involvement across all project phases from blueprinting through to go-live and post-go-live support.
- EC configuration depth: proven hands-on configuration capability in Employee Central — Foundation Objects, Generic Objects, Business Rules, Position Management, Role-Based Permissions, and Employee Data workflows.
- Time Off & Absence: experience configuring Employee Central Time Off and Absence Management in a South African or similar legislative context (BCEA-compliant leave types, accruals, and carryover rules).
- HR business process knowledge: solid understanding of core HR processes — hire-to-retire, organisation management, job and position structures, workforce administration, and HR data governance.
- Workshop leadership: demonstrated ability to plan and facilitate client-facing design workshops, process walk-throughs, and fit-gap analyses with business stakeholders and HR leaders.
- Communication & presentation: articulate verbal and written communicator; able to produce polished functional design documents, configuration workbooks, and status updates; confident presenting to HR/Finance audiences.
- EC certification: SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central certification is mandatory — candidates without certification will not be considered.
- Location & availability: must be based in Johannesburg (Gauteng) and willing to work physically on client sites as required.
Advantageous
- Additional SF certifications: certification in one or more additional SuccessFactors modules — Recruiting (RCM/RMK), Onboarding 2.0, Performance & Goals, Compensation, Learning, or Succession — will be given preference.
- ECP knowledge: familiarity with SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP) to support integration design discussions and joint delivery with the payroll workstream.
- SAP BTP / CPI integration: experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), Integration Centre, and OData APIs for SuccessFactors integrations.
- AI & HR technology trends: awareness of AI-enabled HR features within SuccessFactors (e.g., Joule, embedded analytics, skills intelligence) and the ability to articulate their business value to clients.
- Multi-country implementations: experience delivering Employee Central across multiple African markets (e.g., Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana, Namibia) is a competitive advantage.
- Pre-sales & thought leadership: contribution to proposals, RFP responses, or internal knowledge-sharing sessions within an HR technology consulting practice.
Qualifications
- Degree (preferred): a recognised university degree in Information Technology, Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field. An equivalent diploma combined with substantial relevant experience will be considered.
- SAP SuccessFactors EC certification: mandatory. Candidates must hold a current, valid certification in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.
- Additional module certifications: one or more additional SuccessFactors certifications are strongly preferred and will differentiate candidates.
Based in Johannesburg, this position requires regular on-site engagement with clients and occasional travel across South Africa as project requirements dictate.
Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Desired Skills:
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC)
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Configuration
- End-to-End SAP SuccessFactors Implementations
- HR Process Design & Business Process Analysis
- Employee Central Time Off & Position Management
