Employee Central Payroll Workshop

HR Strategies: Harris Moideen

Employee Central
Payroll Overview
Business Scenario

Employee Central = System of Record Employee Central Payroll

Employee Data

P2P Integration*
Personal Information Payroll Processing

Authorities
Employment Information Legal Reporting
Job Information Communication to Authorities
Compensation Salary Payment
Benefits Deductions( Data from Pay Statement Printing
Benefit Providers)
Confirmation Messages
Payroll Results
Cost Center
Cost Center Time Data

Financials
Payroll Postings

Workforce Time
Employee Master Data
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
Key Features

• Gross pay and Gross-to-net

calculation
• Retroactive pay calculation
• Detailed payroll simulations
• Garnishment calculation
• Creation of paychecks and deposit
advices
• Direct deposit of paychecks
• Wage returns
• Automated payroll tax calculations
• Quarterly and year-end reports
and forms
• End-to-end payroll process
integrated with your general
ledger
• Country-specific localization
• Mobile app for pay statements
• Reporting tools and predefined
reporting content
• End-to-end process integration
with Employee Central processes
• SAP Cloud Platform Integration
middleware
Employee Central Payroll
New end-to-end payroll experience

– Payroll Administrators
• See all payroll processes on one calendar
• Drill down into process view and take action (i.e., start payroll, initiate postings)
• Validation rules point out potential errors  

– Payroll Process Manager

• Easily create work packages for approval
Payroll Control Center: Key Features

Automation of the end-to- Real-time insight Real-time overview of

end payroll process into payroll workload and progress

Rich partner content Automated root cause

Audit and Compliance Trails
analysis and correction
Real-time insight throughout the payroll process

• Increase insight via configurable KPIs,

covering all organizational, employee and
payroll relevant information
• Easily zoom in on cases of interest, such as
hourly vs. salary, or country-relevant
statistics
• Leverage simulation functionality to know
exactly what payroll will look like throughout
the payroll cycle
• Receive automatic updates on key statistics
& alerts as system activities occur
• New employees hired
• Time is entered
• Bonuses entered
• Deductions changed
 Actionable alerts and notifications

• Real-time insight into data inconsistencies and potential

payroll errors
• Embedded alerting functionality to notify payroll
administrators of unexpected situations
• Alerts can be routed to specific payroll administrators,
or teams, based on specific expertise
• All alerts are configurable and can be setup to filter out
groups, such as hourly vs. salary or specific union
agreements
• Alerts are updated based on real-time information
Embedded intelligence and targeted navigation
Leverage system-proposed solutions to fix issues

• Improve accuracy and reduce time spent

on solving issues by leveraging proposed
solutions
• Proposed solutions immediately guide
payroll administrators to the source of
the issue and allows them to quickly fix
and validate the result
• In case scenarios do not need to be fixed,
they can be marked accordingly to avoid
redundancy, and to ensure
accountability and auditability
Clear communication and auditability

• Payroll administrators can easily communicate via

embedded communication tools, to provide
explanations on specific scenarios
• Ability to enter attachments for specific cases,
such as approvals for large bonuses outside of
the norm
• Keep track of history and decision-making
processes to ensure transparency and
auditability
Clear auditability and accountability
Full transparency in “who did what” and “when they did it”

• Stay ahead of audits with tracked steps and

history including date and time stamps
• Keep track of all decision making via embedded
notes
• Easily export audit reports
Easily support off-cycle processes and garnishments
Keep up with employee demands, yet ensure compliance

• Quickly run off-cycle payments on-

demand via guided user experience:
• Mass off-cycles (annual bonus)
• Correction runs
• Individual bonus and vacation
payments
• Payroll on demand (early payment)
• Leverage flexibility with direct deposit &
in-house check printing (multiple payment
methods supported)
• Accelerate implementation based on best-
practice processes for off-cycle and
garnishments
 Employee Central Payroll Access & User Roles

Employee & Line

Manager HR Administrator Payroll Manager

Employee Central EC Payroll

• All HR events • Payroll run and legal reporting
• All Self Services • Bank transfers / payments
• Country specific payroll data maintenance • G/L postings
• Replication of employee master data • Wage type configurations