About the job SAP HCM Payroll Consultant 2
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.