SAP SuccessFactors Consultant – Employee Central & Onboarding

Job Title: SAP SuccessFactors Consultant – Employee Central & Onboarding

Location: Remote,USA

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced SAP SuccessFactors Consultant with expertise in Employee Central, Onboarding, business requirements gathering, functional solution design, data migration, and third-party integrations. The consultant will support HR system integration initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), process harmonization, and migration of employee and learning data into the existing SuccessFactors environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements from HR stakeholders and process owners, including preparing Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs).
• Translate business requirements into functional solution designs, ensuring alignment with existing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Onboarding processes.
• Support M&A integration initiatives by assessing acquired companies' HR systems, identifying process gaps, and harmonizing HR processes with existing organizational standards.
• Analyze current and future-state HR processes and recommend standardization or exceptions based on business requirements.
• Support employee data migration from legacy HR systems to SuccessFactors, including source-to-target mapping, data cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
• Harmonize employee records, organizational structures, job codes, departments, reporting relationships, and other HR master data.
• Validate the accuracy and completeness of migrated employee information, learning history, certifications, and compliance records.
• Gather requirements and support integrations between SuccessFactors and third-party systems, including learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms, payroll providers, and content platforms.
• Collaborate with technical teams and vendors to define integration methods, data flows, error handling, monitoring, and reconciliation processes.
• Develop test strategies, test scenarios, test cases, and expected results based on approved business requirements.
• Coordinate System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, defect resolution, and business sign-offs.
• Manage requirements traceability throughout discovery, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-implementation validation.
• Facilitate workshops and resolve conflicts among HR stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party vendors.
• Document functional decisions, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and action items, and obtain formal stakeholder approvals.
• Support cutover planning, go-live readiness assessments, and post-production issue resolution for SuccessFactors implementations and integrations.

Required Skills and Experience

• Hands-on experience with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Onboarding.
• Strong experience in HR business requirements gathering, functional documentation, and solution design.
• Experience supporting HR system integrations, M&A integration projects, or HR process harmonization initiatives.
• Knowledge of employee data migration, data mapping, data cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience integrating SuccessFactors with third-party HR, payroll, LMS, or learning content systems.
• Understanding of APIs, scheduled file transfers, middleware, and integration error handling.
• Experience with SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect management, and production readiness assessments.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to manage requirements traceability, scope changes, risks, dependencies, and formal approvals.
• Experience working with global HR operations, multiple payroll providers, and diverse HR processes is highly desirable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Semiconductor/Manufacturing industry experience is highly preferred.
• Experience with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Onboarding implementations or enhancements.
• Exposure to SuccessFactors Learning and organizational management processes.
• Experience with HR transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and legacy HR system migrations.
• Familiarity with global HR data governance, compliance requirements, and enterprise HRIS environments.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, business users, and third-party vendors in remote project environments.