Product Owner- HR Payroll
Sydney, Australia | Posted on 06/03/2026
About the Role
As an (HR) Payroll Product Owner and a vital part of the T&C Technology Extended leadership team, you'll manage key HR products related to T&C Payroll processes and services. By leading the T&C Payroll solution design team you will collaborate with senior leaders and cross‐functional partners to design, implement, and support our payroll application services with a focus on SAP SuccessFactors and ServiceNow ensuring that they meet our people‐focused objectives and enhance stakeholder and employee success. Essential skills encompass knowledge of HR processes through the employee lifecycle, leading requirement discussions, performing fit‐gap analysis, prototyping, configuring systems, converting data, testing, and defect management. We want to hear from you if you're an innovative, customer‐focused individual ready to contribute significantly to a growing team.
Responsibilities
* Deliver product functionality, including SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Time and Leave, and Employee Central Payroll to enable HR strategy and ensure product performance meets key indicators.
* Collaborate with Global Digital Employee Experience Leaders and Global Reward and Recognition SMEs to support business process improvements and functionality enhancements.
* Lead HR continuous improvement projects, including requirements, design, testing, implementation, training, and end‐user support.
* Manage implementation/upgrade schedules to minimize disruptions and maximize usage of new capabilities.
* Develop and implement strategies for comprehensive product lifecycle management.
* Engage with third‐party contacts to establish, develop, and review product roadmaps and services available to the client.
* Contribute to the long‐term vision and strategy that defines the big HR problems and tie it to the product vision for SAP SuccessFactors EC, T&C, ECP and ServiceNow and other HR functional areas to define, recommend, prioritize, and implement solutions aligning with strategic goals.
* Work closely with stakeholders and internal technology partners to architect technology solutions based on industry best practices needed to drive business alignment.
* Collaborate with Business Product Owners to create technical user stories based on business‐defined features that align with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Time and Leave, Employee Central Payroll and ServiceNow configuration and other supported 3rd‐party payroll solutions.
* Provide technical support for enhancements to all payroll solutions and regular SAP SuccessFactors releases by identifying impacts to the current configuration and coordinating any required testing to minimize the solution's adverse effects.
* Recognize available options and select the appropriate course of action to continuously improve solutions and delivery processes with the highest business value.
* Proactively identify, resolve, or bring up issues, concerns, and impediments to get the project developed with efficiency and maximum effectiveness.
* Function as the conduit between technology and business partners to ensure alignment between business and IT and ensure projects are delivered seamlessly.
* Ensure delivery of the prioritized backlog.
* Work closely with other technology teams to ensure acceptance criteria are met and business value realized.
* Create and maintain product and release requirements backlog. Work with HR counterparts to negotiate and prioritize enhancements rolled out to the organization.
* Coordinate and lead testing efforts while contributing to the employee experience with end‐user focus, collaboration, and transparency.
* Facilitate demos for stakeholders to get feedback on in‐progress enhancements and solutions.
* Work with technical resources to maintain platform health, explore continuous improvement options, and assist with troubleshooting/resolving escalated product issues.
* Align business priorities and make trade‐off decisions across multiple collaborator concerns.
* Balance priorities between strategic new enhancements and ongoing production support.
* Establish project management discipline and governance processes to support initiatives end‐to‐end, from project planning through testing to delivery, to ensure a successful end‐user experience for all new deployments and ongoing maintenance of SAP SuccessFactors and integrations.
* Lead and develop a team of configuration specialists and analysts with a focus on process design and enablement Customer Relationship Development and Management.
* Build long‐term relationships with key stakeholders by managing stakeholder relationships and communications at all stages of the delivery.
* Continuously develop our service offering and value proposition for the T&C Technology team.
* Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts across the business to extract required knowledge.
* Role‐modelling and promoting values, Create. Deliver. Together behaviours and our aspirational culture and leading the team to do the same.
Qualifications
* Experience in leading teams in SaaS/Agile product lifecycle development.
* Extensive experience as an HR Product Owner or Business Analyst.
* Extensive experience with SAP SuccessFactors HCM; certification in Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll. Time and Leave certification highly desirable.
* Global experience with SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, and other HR vendors is highly desirable.
* Proficient in personnel calculation rules and schema processing.
* Experience with replication configuration, logging and analysis.
* ABAP development skills.
* Experience with product roadmap development and influencing key collaborators for consensus on business priorities. Ability to facilitate complex discussions.
* Experience in project management with a focus on design, development, testing, and delivery, including writing user stories for integration with third‐party providers.
* Previous consulting experience working with global companies / Exposure to internal project work.
* Organized, self‐motivated, highly adaptable, detail‐oriented, and strongly desires to embrace change and solve problems.
* Outstanding leadership and motivational skills, including a willingness to empower and inspire commitment and a positive team attitude.
* Ability and/or experience to work independently as well as in a team environment through collaboration and consultation skills while working with individuals from all backgrounds and organizational levels and across functional areas. Planning and coordinating of own and/or team's work activities to meet commitments and quality expectations.
* Ability to translate customer business requirements to technical solution requirements.
* Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem‐solving environment.
* Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills with excellent executive presence.
* Good knowledge of HCM concepts and HR processes.
* Employee experience mindset and human‐centered design principles.
* SF Employee Central.
* SF Employee Central Payroll.
* SF Time and Leave (highly desirable).
* Additional SF module certifications a plus.
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