Job Openings SAP HCM Payroll Consultant 1

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SAP HCM Payroll Consultant - Canada Payroll Tax & Year-End Requirements

Required Qualifications and Experience

  • Strong experience with SAP HCM Payroll Canada, including implementation and support of Canadian payroll tax and year-end processes.
  • Experience applying and analyzing Canadian Year-End SAP Notes, Legal Changes, and HR Support Packages.
  • In-depth knowledge of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Revenu Québec (MRQ) payroll reporting requirements.
  • Hands-on experience with year-end filing processes for:
  • T4
  • T4A
  • T4A-NR
  • RL-1

    Configuration and Functional Expertise

    • Strong configuration knowledge of Canadian payroll taxation, including:
    • Federal and Provincial tax tables
    • CPP and CPP2
    • QPP
    • Employment Insurance (EI)
    • Quebec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP)
    • TD1 and TP-1015 tax forms
    • Tax constants and wage type taxation

      Payroll Reconciliation and Analysis

      • Proven experience reconciling:
      • Payroll results
      • Tax balances
      • T4 and RL-1 totals
      • Payroll posting and General Ledger balances

        Year-End Adjustments and Amendments

        • Experience processing and troubleshooting:
        • Retroactive payroll adjustments
        • T4 amendments
        • RL-1 amendments
        • Prior-year corrections
        • Pension Adjustments (PA)

          Business Number and Reporting Structure Management

          • Experience configuring and validating:
          • CRA Business Numbers (BN)
          • RP accounts
          • Revenu Québec identifiers
          • Tax Reporting Units (TRUs)

            Province-Specific Payroll Taxes

            • Strong knowledge of provincial payroll tax requirements, including:
            • Ontario Employer Health Tax (EHT)
            • Quebec Health Services Fund (HSF)
            • Quebec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP)
            • Manitoba Health Tax
            • Newfoundland and Labrador Payroll Tax
            • Northwest Territories and Nunavut Payroll Tax
            • Workers' Compensation reporting and reconciliation

            Year-End Reporting and Filing

            • Experience generating and validating year-end test and production files.
            • Ability to validate CRA and MRQ XML submissions and resolve filing errors.
            • Experience managing:
            • MRQ Form Numbers
            • MRQ Media Numbers (MAG)
            • RL-1 sequence numbers

              Additional Desired Skills

              • Record of Employment (ROE) processing and amendments
              • PIER report analysis and reconciliation
              • CPP/QPP balancing and validation
              • T4, T4A, and RL-1 amendment processing
              • XML file troubleshooting and error resolution
              • Payroll cluster analysis and wage type troubleshooting
              • SAP Legal Change implementation and testing
              • Support for year-end payroll audits, compliance reviews, and statutory reporting requirements

              Senior SAP HCM Consultant - U.S. Time Evaluation & Payroll Taxation

              We are seeking a Senior SAP HCM Consultant with extensive expertise in SAP U.S. Time Management, Time Evaluation, Payroll Taxation, and Year-End Processing. The ideal candidate will have deep functional and configuration experience supporting complex U.S. payroll and time management environments, along with a strong understanding of federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations.

              Required Experience and Skills

              SAP Time Evaluation

              • Extensive hands-on experience with SAP Time Evaluation (PT60).
              • Strong knowledge of Time Schemas, PCRs, Time Types, and Time Wage Types.
              • Experience with:
              • Daily and Period Work Schedules
              • Overtime calculations
              • Shift premiums and differentials
              • Holiday processing
              • Absence and attendance management
              • Quotas and accruals
              • Time Transfer to Payroll
              • Positive and Negative Time Management
                • Ability to analyze and enhance custom Time Evaluation rules and schemas.

                SAP U.S. Payroll Taxation

                • Deep understanding of U.S. payroll taxation, including:
                • Federal Income Tax (FIT)
                • State Income Tax (SIT)
                • Local Taxes
                • Social Security (OASDI)
                • Medicare
                • Additional Medicare Tax
                • FUTA and SUTA
                  • Knowledge of resident/work state taxation, reciprocity agreements, and multi-state payroll taxation.
                  • Experience maintaining tax authorities, tax areas, and tax reporting configurations.

                  Payroll and Tax Processing

                  • Experience supporting payroll execution, validation, and issue resolution.
                  • Ability to reconcile:
                  • Payroll results
                  • Tax balances
                  • Quarterly tax filings
                  • Year-end tax reporting
                  • General Ledger postings

                    Year-End Processing

                    • Experience with U.S. year-end activities, including:
                    • W-2 generation and validation
                    • W-2C processing
                    • W-3 reporting
                    • Quarterly and annual tax reconciliations
                    • Tax Reporter processing
                    • EFW2 file generation and validation

                      Technical and Analytical Skills

                      • Strong understanding of SAP Payroll clusters, wage types, schemas, and PCRs.
                      • Ability to analyze payroll and time evaluation results using payroll logs and time evaluation logs.
                      • Experience troubleshooting complex payroll and time integration issues.
                      • Familiarity with custom SAP developments, interfaces, and enhancements related to payroll and time management.