Configuring payroll processes in Payroll Control Center

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Configure a policy group to be assigned to payroll processes
  • Configure a one-click monitoring process to identify errors and alerts prior to production payroll
  • Configure a team associated to the Payroll Control Center process

Configuration of payroll processes in payroll control central

Payroll process

My Processes (Process Management)

As you know, a payroll process involves the following set of activities to be completed. These are sequential steps.

  • Running the payroll
  • Running company policies
  • Running compliance checks
  • Posting of payroll results to finance successfully
  • Sending the payment files to banks for the payment of salaries

With the My Process application within Employee Central Payroll, a payroll process manager can execute and monitor the complete payroll process.

There are different categories of processes, such as monitoring process, productive payroll process, off-cycle process, ad hoc off-cycle process, and so on.

These processes improve the payroll experience because they allow the payroll manager to manage the entire process. This includes executing the payroll process, monitoring the process, creating notes and attachments, executing company policies, and distributing the identified issues and compliance violations to the payroll administrators or teams.

Manage processes – process configuration

The payroll process manager can add or delete a section in the process configuration. The payroll process manager can also add a new policy to the process, add or delete a team member, change the dates of the recurrence of the process. In each of these cases, you should restart the process so that the changes can be reflected in the process outcome.

Manage Policies – Policy Configuration

A payroll policy is a set of validation rules for employee master data and payroll data. If there is any violation of the policy, this will result in alerts, which will be resolved by the payroll administrators. A policy must have a relevant policy type that collects the relevant context; for example country grouping, instance selection parameter, and time selection parameter.

Configure a policy group to be assigned to payroll processes

In Employee Central (EC), Emily Clark is now updating a simplified configuration using the New Policy screen. Emily as process manager creates a new policy in her organization to include new check rules for master data validation.

Configuring a policy group to be assigned to payroll processes

Identification of errors and alerts

Using validation rules for the identification of errors and alerts

During the policy configuration, validation rules are assigned to the policy configuration. These validation rules are executed by the system to identify compliance violations or potential risks. These rules validate employees' master data and payroll data during the payroll process. Solutions and root cause analysis for the generated alert are defined at the time of configuring the validation rules.

Note

Creating or amending a validation rule is not part of this course!

For information about creating/amending the validation rule, please review the help guide Implementing Employee Central Payroll in SAP library.

Create and assign a required payroll group policy for one-click monitoring

In Employee Central (EC), Emily Clark wants to update the existing Z## HR812: 1 Pre-Payroll (Monitoring) process to add the new policy: Z##_HR812 – Master Data Alerts.

Creating and assigning a required payroll group policy for one-click monitoring

Configuration of teams

Manage teams (configuration of teams)

Team configuration enables the payroll manager to set up teams for handling alerts. This process is only valid for the processes that are in the team monitoring category. The concept of teams allows the automatic distribution of alerts among teams based on predefined criteria and team collaboration between payroll process manager, team lead, and payroll administrators.

With the team capabilities, alerts are automatically assigned to teams according to criteria. Teams are independent units and can only see their assigned alerts. The criteria can be chosen from policy information and organizational properties. The team is responsible for processing all the alerts that match the predefined criteria.

As part of the set-up, a team lead is mandatory. Team leads can activate and deactivate team members, assign alerts to team members, forward alerts to another team, and monitor the progress.

Configure a team associated to the Payroll Control Center process

In Employee Central (EC), Emily Clark is creating teams to be assigned to a payroll process using the Manage Teams UI.

Configuring a team associated to the Payroll Control Center process

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