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At Gerdau, we empower our people to grow, thrive, and make a difference—together. With a culture built on trust and teamwork, we offer meaningful work, continuous development, and opportunities to shape your future. We invite you to come work with us, where your contributions are valued, your voice is heard, and your career is forged with purpose

YOUR CONTRIBUTION:

Strategic Advisory & Business Partnership

Technical SME: Serve as the IT subject matter expert on SAP On-Premise Payroll and Tax for US & Canada, advising on complex business issues.

Process Streamlining: Advise how to leverage SAP technology to optimize and automate business processes.

Leadership Collaboration: Partner with leadership to brainstorm, design, and present innovative solutions to business peers.

Project Leadership: Participate in and lead specific functional areas or support overall project leadership during implementation cycles.

Technical Implementation & Integration

ABAP HR Development: Write, troubleshoot, and optimize custom ABAP code, reports, interfaces, enhancements, and forms (Adobe/Smartforms) specific to SAP Payroll (PY) and Personnel Administration (PA).

System Integration: Configure, develop, and smoothly integrate SAP applications with existing IT solutions using SAP CPI (Cloud Platform Integration) and OData services.

Vendor Management: Work closely with Digital IT service providers to deliver application enhancements, support users, and execute project activities.

Payroll & Tax Core Operations

Payroll Processing: Work hands-on with payroll schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs), wage types, and payroll clusters (RG, RT, CRT, BT).

Tax Integration: Support tax calculation interfaces, tax reporting, year-end processing, and third-party tax software integrations (e.g., BSI TaxFactory).

Debugging & Optimization: Troubleshoot legacy ABAP programs, optimize payroll driver performance, and refine database queries using standard debugging tools.

Testing & Quality Assurance

Test Strategy & Execution: Design, build, and execute comprehensive test plans, including Unit Testing, Integration Testing (IT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and automated regression testing for payroll runs.

Parallel Payroll Testing: Lead and validate parallel payroll testing cycles to ensure zero variance in net pay, deductions, and tax calculations during system updates, tax factory upgrades, or configuration changes.

Defect Management: Identify, track, and resolve technical defects during testing phases, ensuring root-cause analysis is performed on recurring payroll bugs.

Documentation & Knowledge Management

Technical & Functional Specifications: Draft detailed Functional Specifications (FSDs) and Technical Specifications (TSDs) for custom ABAP developments and configurations.

Process Mapping: Create and maintain up-to-date end-to-end business process maps, configuration guides, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the payroll architecture. Good knowledge on HRSP upgrades and application.

End-User Training: Provide SAP system support, deliver end-user training, and compile easily digestible user manuals for business teams.

Continuous Improvement: Keep abreast of the latest SAP HR offerings, updates, and market developments to keep the system modernized.

YOUR EXPERTISE:

Customer - Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive

Communication and Persuasion – Possess solid communication and persuasion skills essential to success in this position. You will represent the Digital IT group effectively and employ negotiation skills that build organizational consensus around a specific course of action while identifying communication barriers and taking action to facilitate mutual understanding.

Business Acumen – Acknowledge the impact of your actions in local and global contexts while working to generate sustainable value (economic, social, and environmental) for the organization. In addition, you should understand basic business processes and possess the ability to identify and develop workflows and process maps for continual improvement and waste elimination within the business.

Technical Expertise – Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market

Simplistic Agility – Foster simplicity and agility to focus on what adds value while resolving issues

Accountability – Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives.

Analysis – Possess critical thinking ability and deal systematically with input from a variety of sources to suggest alternative approaches to unfamiliar situations or concepts, as well as strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business economics and financial resources.

Supplier Management – Possess the ability to engage and manage suppliers as needed for discovery, modeling, implementation, and support.

YOUR CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

5 years of SAP HR experience

SAP HR certifications preferred

Extensive SAP HR Payroll, Tax (BSI), OM, PA & Benefits knowledge

Extensive knowledge of IT system integration using CPI

Ability to document SAP processes in the form of Technical and Functional Spec documents

Ability to write test scripts and execute

Ability to work with teams in Application Managed Services (AMS) environment driving engagement with an ownership mindset

Experience with full-cycle SAP HR implementations preferred

Knowledge of IT processes, IT functions (development, infrastructure, security, governance), and technology (cloud, big data, architecture, APIs)

Knowledge of Agile, Project Management , and Innovation processes

Understanding of business processes and best practices to provide effective solutions

Gerdau believes in equal employment opportunity related to all employees and applicants for employment. It is the policy of Gerdau that there will be no discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. All external applicants must be legally eligible to immediately work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.

If you are vision-impaired or have some other disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act / Accessible Canada Act or a similar law, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at Gerdau, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at (866)-788-2798 or recruiting@gerdau.com