Services
How I work
I work remotely from Madrid, as an independent contractor, both with end clients and with partners and system integrators. Every engagement starts by understanding the context before proposing a scope.
Employee Central Payroll implementation and migration
For organisations starting a SAP payroll project from scratch, or migrating their on-premise SAP HCM to ECP.
Outcome: A controlled go-live, with a payroll that is stable, traceable and maintainable by the in-house team.
What it includes
- Functional scope definition and gap analysis against the ECP standard
- PA configuration: enterprise structure, infotypes, features, constants and posting
- PY configuration: wage types, schemas, rules (PCR), income tax, social security and collective agreements
- EC to ECP integration architecture (PTP): data model, replication mappings and BADIs
- Payroll Control Center, parallel runs and discrepancy analysis
- Functional specifications for ABAP developments and coordination with the technical team
ECP architecture and integration on multi-country rollouts
For organisations moving payroll for several countries onto ECP, and for partners who need someone holding the whole together while each country brings its own legal specialist.
Outcome: A template the next country can adopt without redesigning the whole, and a single integration that does not break every time a country joins.
What it includes
- Rollout model: what is decided once for everyone and what stays local (enterprise structure, groupings, wage type catalogue and naming)
- Architecture from one EC instance to one or several ECP systems: country groupings, data segregation and authorisations
- A single EC to ECP replication design (PTP), with each country variation isolated and monitored
- Functional coordination of the local specialists: what they are asked for, in what format, and how their delivery is reviewed
- Multi-country parallel run plan: shared acceptance criteria and a calendar that does not collapse across countries
- Template governance after go-live: who approves a change that affects everyone, and how the next country joins
- It does not include the legal configuration of each country: that belongs to the local specialist, and my job is to make it fit the whole
ECP expert support / L3 on demand
For AMS teams, partners or clients already running ECP who need specialist escalation when an incident goes beyond standard functional support.
Outcome: Getting the hard problem solved without keeping a senior ECP consultant on full-time allocation.
What it includes
- Complex ECP troubleshooting, analysed through to root cause
- EC to ECP integration and the point-to-point interface (PTP)
- Payroll Control Center and replication errors
- Pay Statement and mashups
- SSO and provisioning
- Payroll result analysis and production escalations
SAP payroll audit
For anyone who suspects something is off, has inherited an undocumented configuration, or wants a second opinion before a go-live.
Outcome: Knowing exactly where the risk sits before it shows up on a payslip or in an inspection.
What it includes
- Review of schemas, sub-schemas and rules: logic, processing order and side effects
- Analysis of wage types, cumulations and contribution bases
- Results checked against current legislation and the applicable collective agreement
- Review of the EC to ECP integration and of recurring replication errors
- Report with findings ranked by severity and a prioritised remediation plan
Payroll Control Center: validations and payroll close automation
For teams already running SAP payroll who still close on reports, spreadsheets and checks that depend on somebody remembering to look.
Outcome: Errors surface before the final calculation, flagged per employee and with an owner assigned, instead of surfacing on a payslip.
What it includes
- Assessment of the current close: what is checked today, by whom and at what cost, as a measurable baseline
- A catalogue of client-specific validations: net pay variance against the previous period, net amounts out of range, missing bank details, income tax outside the expected band, hires and leavers without a match, contract and collective agreement mismatches
- Configuration of payroll policies and processes in PCC, with thresholds agreed with the payroll team rather than left at their defaults
- Definition of the close steps and of who resolves each alert, through to the point where a company code is declared closed
- Automation of the parallel run comparison during a migration: mass comparison against the legacy system, with differences classified
- A follow-up measurement on the same baseline, to know whether the close actually improved
- It does not include automating a broken process: if the problem is the configuration rather than the control, I say so before starting
Functional lead as a service
For partners and system integrators who need a payroll functional lead with judgement, without opening a permanent role.
Outcome: A project with genuine functional direction, rather than a task split with nobody watching the whole.
What it includes
- End-to-end ownership of scope, timeline and delivery for the payroll workstream
- Coordination of the functional and technical team, with deliverable reviews
- Direct communication with the client and business stakeholders
- Early identification of risks that could compromise the go-live
- Training and mentoring for consultants coming from other payroll systems
Support and enhancements (AMS)
For live operations that need monthly continuity and the ability to react to legal changes.
Outcome: Monthly closes without surprises, and a change history you can actually consult.
What it includes
- Resolution of PA, PY and OM incidents in production
- SAP notes, legal changes and collective agreement updates
- Design and delivery of enhancements: schemas, rules, control records and master data
- EC to ECP integration errors (PTP and mashups) and calculation issues at close
- Functional documentation of every change, so the knowledge stays in-house
Engagement models
Fixed-scope project
Defined scope and deliverables, with billing milestones. For implementations, migrations and audits.
Retainer hours
An agreed monthly volume for support, enhancements and ad-hoc questions. For operations already running.
Day rate
Joining a team part-time or full-time, remotely, with occasional meetings in Madrid.
Advisory / expert on demand
Discrete senior interventions with no fixed allocation, for escalations, audits, architecture decisions or critical incidents.
Where I cannot help you
I would rather tell you the boundary before a meeting than after an invoice. This is what I do not do.
The "soft" SuccessFactors modules
Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance & Goals, Compensation, Succession and Learning. I know them as neighbours of payroll: I do not implement or configure them.
Payroll outside SAP
Workday, Meta4 and equivalents. I can advise on how they integrate with SAP, but I am not a consultant on those tools.
Local legislation in other countries
The legal configuration of a payroll that is not the Spanish one belongs to a specialist in that country. I do work alongside that person: ECP architecture, EC to ECP integration and functional coordination across the whole.
Filling a seat at the lowest hourly rate
If the search is for an interchangeable profile priced by the hour, other options fit better. I work on judgement and on accountability for the outcome.
In the first three cases, write to me anyway: I usually know who does it well, and it saves you weeks of searching.
Let's start with the context
Send me two lines about your situation and I will tell you whether it is a fit, along with a first read on effort and timing.
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