Technical name: SAP_HR_PY_PAYROLL-SPEC

As an expert in the content and technical side of payroll, the Payroll Specialist sets up the system for payroll and is responsible for finding and resolving malfunctions and problems. The Payroll Specialist carries out Customizing for Payroll and uses different reports to check the settings. He or she also deals with the interfaces and carries out periodical activities, for example, the archiving of payroll data.

The activities for this role include:

• Editing personnel calculation schemas, personnel calculation rules, and features
• Editing the payroll status (infotype 0003)
• Evaluating wage type characteristics
• Monitoring the assignment of wage types to G/L accounts
• Displaying payroll results
• Deleting the current payroll result
• Defining payroll processes with the HR Process Workbench and creating process models
• Archiving payroll data
• Customizing the Interface Toolbench (transfer from data from Human Resources to external systems)

The Payroll Specialist role is international. The additional country-specific tasks are contained in the single role Payroll Specialist <country> (SAP_HR_PY_xx_PAYROLL-SPEC).

To perform the required tasks, the Payroll Specialist may require additional authorizations that are not assigned to this role. If this is the case, you must combine the role with other roles, for example, the Payroll Administrator or the Payroll Process Administrator.