This senior role serves as the critical functional bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams. You will be responsible for designing, validating, and enabling SAP S/4HANA-based HR processes that tightly align corporate objectives with SAP standard capabilities. A major priority of this position is managing complex cross-platform integrations, ensuring a seamless interface between the S/4HANA Core and key platforms like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Fieldglass. Adhering strictly to clean-core principles, you will minimize customization to build an upgrade-safe, scalable, and highly automated human resources ecosystem.
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Advantages
High-Visibility Transformation: Drive end-to-end HR process modernization (hire-to-retire) within a massive enterprise ERP landscape.
Multi-Platform Integration Depth: Build and leverage deep architectural knowledge spanning SAP S/4HANA, Workday, SuccessFactors, and Fieldglass. Strategic Governance Ownership: Serve as a key decision-maker determining process standardizations, evaluating extensions, and validating final end-to-end designs.
Clean Core Leadership: Direct and apply modern SAP deployment best practices focused on long-term scalability and minimized system modification.
Responsibilities
1. Functional Design & Clean Core Execution
Guide the design and validation of SAP S/4HANA Human Resources processes to ensure alignment with standard capabilities.
Translate complex business requirements into fit-to-standard designs while identifying process inefficiencies to promote standardization and automation. Facilitate fit-to-standard workshops, documenting justified deviations and ensuring designs remain upgrade-safe and scalable.
Evaluate functional gaps and recommend appropriate solutions (configurations or standard extensions) in strict alignment with Clean Core principles.
2. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Integration
Collaborate across technical and functional groups—including Cybersecurity, Security and Governance, and HR Project Teams—to ensure unified process execution.
Validate and confirm integration requirements between the S/4HANA Core and external ecosystems, including Workday, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, and analytics platforms.
Partner closely with system integrators to review, refine, and approve functional designs, ensuring high-quality delivery.
3. Governance, Testing & Deployment Readiness
Support functional decision-making within the governance framework, managing boundaries to mitigate late design changes and scope creep.
Define real-world functional test scenarios covering cross-system processes across SAP and Workday.
Validate HR master and transactional data readiness, establishing minimum standards for cutover, integration testing, and data integrity.
Contribute to training frameworks and change enablement workflows to enable a stable go-live and smooth day-one transition to operations.
Qualifications
Core Experience & Education
Education: University degree in Human Resources, Business, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
Tenure: 8+ years of dedicated SAP Human Resources experience, including involvement in at least one major ERP implementation or transformation program.
Ecosystem Depth: Substantial experience in IS support and enhancement workflows, alongside hands-on validation of enterprise ERP modernization solutions.
Technical Skillset
Deep functional expertise in SAP S/4HANA HR, encompassing the full worker lifecycle (hire-to-retire), payroll, compensation, and time management. Comprehensive understanding of data frameworks, master/transactional data integrity, and SAP reporting approaches (including embedded analytics). Working knowledge of platform dynamics between S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, Workday, and integrated analytics landscapes.
Preferred Certifications (Assets)Human Resources, SAP, or Workday credentials (e.g., SAP HCM Core, SAP HCM Payroll, Workday HCM Core, Workday Pro HCM, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central).
Testing or delivery methodologies certifications (e.g., ISTQB, PMP, Agile/Scrum).
Summary
Our Client is seeking a Senior SAP Human Resources Functional Analyst (Level 4) to act as a core functional specialist for an enterprise-scale transformation program. The primary focus of this role is to deliver a business-ready, fit-to-standard HR design while establishing strong functional governance to minimize delivery risk and ensure a stable day-one go-live.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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This senior role serves as the critical functional bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams. You will be responsible for designing, validating, and enabling SAP S/4HANA-based HR processes that tightly align corporate objectives with SAP standard capabilities. A major priority of this position is managing complex cross-platform integrations, ensuring a seamless interface between the S/4HANA Core and key platforms like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Fieldglass. Adhering strictly to clean-core principles, you will minimize customization to build an upgrade-safe, scalable, and highly automated human resources ecosystem.
Advantages
High-Visibility Transformation: Drive end-to-end HR process modernization (hire-to-retire) within a massive enterprise ERP landscape.
Multi-Platform Integration Depth: Build and leverage deep architectural knowledge spanning SAP S/4HANA, Workday, SuccessFactors, and Fieldglass. Strategic Governance Ownership: Serve as a key decision-maker determining process standardizations, evaluating extensions, and validating final end-to-end designs.
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Clean Core Leadership: Direct and apply modern SAP deployment best practices focused on long-term scalability and minimized system modification.
Responsibilities
1. Functional Design & Clean Core Execution
Guide the design and validation of SAP S/4HANA Human Resources processes to ensure alignment with standard capabilities.
Translate complex business requirements into fit-to-standard designs while identifying process inefficiencies to promote standardization and automation. Facilitate fit-to-standard workshops, documenting justified deviations and ensuring designs remain upgrade-safe and scalable.
Evaluate functional gaps and recommend appropriate solutions (configurations or standard extensions) in strict alignment with Clean Core principles.
2. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Integration
Collaborate across technical and functional groups—including Cybersecurity, Security and Governance, and HR Project Teams—to ensure unified process execution.
Validate and confirm integration requirements between the S/4HANA Core and external ecosystems, including Workday, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, and analytics platforms.
Partner closely with system integrators to review, refine, and approve functional designs, ensuring high-quality delivery.
3. Governance, Testing & Deployment Readiness
Support functional decision-making within the governance framework, managing boundaries to mitigate late design changes and scope creep.
Define real-world functional test scenarios covering cross-system processes across SAP and Workday.
Validate HR master and transactional data readiness, establishing minimum standards for cutover, integration testing, and data integrity.
Contribute to training frameworks and change enablement workflows to enable a stable go-live and smooth day-one transition to operations.
Qualifications
Core Experience & Education
Education: University degree in Human Resources, Business, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
Tenure: 8+ years of dedicated SAP Human Resources experience, including involvement in at least one major ERP implementation or transformation program.
Ecosystem Depth: Substantial experience in IS support and enhancement workflows, alongside hands-on validation of enterprise ERP modernization solutions.
Technical Skillset
Deep functional expertise in SAP S/4HANA HR, encompassing the full worker lifecycle (hire-to-retire), payroll, compensation, and time management. Comprehensive understanding of data frameworks, master/transactional data integrity, and SAP reporting approaches (including embedded analytics). Working knowledge of platform dynamics between S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, Workday, and integrated analytics landscapes.
Preferred Certifications (Assets)Human Resources, SAP, or Workday credentials (e.g., SAP HCM Core, SAP HCM Payroll, Workday HCM Core, Workday Pro HCM, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central).
Testing or delivery methodologies certifications (e.g., ISTQB, PMP, Agile/Scrum).
Summary
Our Client is seeking a Senior SAP Human Resources Functional Analyst (Level 4) to act as a core functional specialist for an enterprise-scale transformation program. The primary focus of this role is to deliver a business-ready, fit-to-standard HR design while establishing strong functional governance to minimize delivery risk and ensure a stable day-one go-live.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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