Senior Austrian Payroll SME – SAP ECP (m/f/d)
- 95 % Remote /on-site workshops as needed (Austria / Germany)
- Start: 16.11.2026
- 5 hours ago
- Job type:
- Project
- Duration:
- 31.03.2027
- Scope of work:
- part-time - 28h/ week
- Languages:
- German and English
ID: 180798
Westhouse is one of the leading recruitment agencies specialising in placing highly qualified specialists across the entire IT lifecycle and engineering sectors.
For our client we are currently looking for a Senior Austrian Payroll SME – SAP ECP (m/f/d) - 95 % Remote /on-site workshops as needed (Austria / Germany).
Your tasks
- Lead business requirements: gather, structure and document Austrian payroll requirements from start to finish, including gross-to-net, statutory reporting and year-end.
- Run workshops: prepare, facilitate and document workshops with BI HR, Payroll, GBS and the implementation partner.
- Translate legal rules into requirements: turn Austrian payroll law, collective agreements (KV) and statutory obligations into clear, testable requirements.
- Review the partner's solution: check the implementation partner's designs, fit-gap results and solution proposals from the business side, and raise gaps and risks.
- Make decisions happen: prepare decision papers, drive open points to closure and escalate when needed.
- Manage stakeholders: connect BI business, GBS and the implementation partner, and keep alignment through difficult discussions.
- Prepare for testing: define business test scenarios and acceptance criteria, especially for payroll parallel runs, and support business sign-off.
- Out of scope: System configuration, build or technical implementation (done by the implementation partner) and Running payroll operations
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Your qualifications
- 8+ years of Austrian payroll experience covering legal, process and compliance (e.g., SV, Lohnsteuer, ELDA, L16, Abfertigung, KV handling)
- Working knowledge of SAP ECP / SAP HCM Payroll (Austria) and its integration with Employee Central
- Proven record of running requirements workshops and producing business requirement documents
- Experience working on the client side next to an external implementation partner
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, and a structured, confident manner with senior stakeholders
- Business-fluent German and English Nice-to-have: Experience in pharma or large multinational environments Nice-to-have: Experience with shared services or GBS operating models (e.g., payroll delivered from a business center) Nice-to-have:Exposure to payroll compliance assessments or multi-country payroll rollouts
- Nice-to-have: Experience in pharma or large multinational environments
- Nice-to-have: Experience with shared services or GBS operating models (e.g., payroll delivered from a business center)
- Nice-to-have:Exposure to payroll compliance assessments or multi-country payroll rollouts