SAP SuccessFactors Compensation and Variable Pay Consultant

About the job you’re considering

As a Consultant within Capgemini’s award‑winning SuccessFactors Practice, you will work on complex, large‑scale SAP SuccessFactors Compensation and Variable Pay implementations across high‑profile clients. You will bring strong expertise in global compensation processes, reward governance, and best‑practice design, helping organisations transform how they manage performance‑based pay, salary reviews, and incentive programs.

You will collaborate closely with specialists across our global SAP network to design and deliver scalable, insight‑driven compensation solutions that align with client business strategies and regulatory requirements. This role also provides opportunities to deepen your functional and technical capabilities through Capgemini learning pathways and advanced SAP certifications.

About our UK SAP Practice Team: Capgemini UK is a leading SAP Integration Partner, helping our clients navigate through complex SAP transformations. Capgemini UK has 1000 + SAP practitioners across UK & India and are ranked #1 for SAP S/4HANA® certifications in UK and globally. We work closely with our clients to transform their business together using the latest SAP products and architecture, a deep knowledge of industries and markets, and innovative delivery methodologies.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your Role

• Design, configure, and optimise SAP SuccessFactors Compensation and Variable Pay solutions, covering salary planning, bonus calculation, guidelines, eligibility rules, worksheets, budgets, and modelling.
• Lead end‑to‑end Compensation and Variable Pay implementations, including requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, cutover planning, and post‑go‑live support.
• Advise clients on best‑practice reward processes, ensuring alignment with market standards, governance, compliance, and scalable global operating models.
• Support presales and solution shaping, contributing to RFP responses, scoping, estimation, solution architecture, and delivering compelling demonstrations.
• Collaborate with cross‑module teams, ensuring seamless integration of Compensation and Variable Pay with modules such as Employee Central, Performance & Goals, Talent, and Payroll.
• Conduct data modelling and validation activities, ensuring accurate compensation cycles and incentive calculations across diverse populations.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships, acting as a trusted advisor to HR, Reward, and business leaders, while supporting the continuous improvement of compensation processes.
• Contribute to knowledge‑sharing initiatives, mentoring junior team members and supporting the development of internal best practices and accelerators.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• Hands‑on delivery experience across at least 3–4 end‑to‑end SuccessFactors Compensation and/or Variable Pay implementations, ideally in multi‑country or complex reward environments.
• Deep configuration expertise in Compensation and Variable Pay, including templates, guidelines, lookup tables, business rules, eligibility rules, modelling, budgets, and calculation logic.
• Strong understanding of global reward and compensation processes, including salary reviews, bonus plans, pay‑for‑performance, and reward governance.
• Experience working with integrations, especially with Employee Central, Performance Management, and Payroll systems to ensure accurate data flow and incentive calculations.
• Strong analytical and data‑driven mindset, comfortable working with complex calculation rules, reward models, and large data sets.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, capable of translating reward concepts and system behaviour for HR and Reward leaders.
• Passion for consulting excellence, knowledge‑sharing, and continuous improvement, including mentoring and developing other consultants.
• Exposure to complementary SAP experience technologies (e.g., SAP Work Zone, Qualtrics) considered beneficial.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements

You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 12 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Capgemini. Make it real.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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