Senior SAP SuccessFactors Functional Specialist

Location(s):
Canada :
Ontario :
Toronto

Role

Contributes to the overall success of Talent & Core HR globally by enabling enterprise Talent capabilities across the Success Factors suite, with a strong focus on skills, job architecture, and Talent Intelligence. Ensures Talent initiatives are executed and delivered in support of business strategies, leveraging Employee Central as a foundational system of record and ensuring compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Champions a customer‑focused culture to deepen relationships with HR and business stakeholders and enable scalable Talent outcomes.
• Independently resolve complex, multi‑faceted problems to meet business needs, by applying their HR and technological knowledge to the design of methodologies, models, and/or systems solutions. This includes conducting research and analysis, accurately and clearly defining user requirements and processes, participating in the reengineering of the HR business process workflows and liaising with the users.
• Serves as a senior functional subject matter expert across SAP Success Factors Talent modules, with a strong focus on skills, job architecture, and Talent Intelligence capabilities.
• Configures and supports Talent modules including Performance & Goals, Recruiting, Succession & Career Development, Opportunity Marketplace, Growth Portfolio, Learning and related Talent solutions, ensuring alignment to approved Talent use cases and enterprise standards.
• Leads the configuration and ongoing enhancement of job architecture, job profiles, skills, competencies, and related attributes using Job Profile Builder and Talent Intelligence Hub.
• Ensures Employee Central foundational structures and rules and effective‑dated data appropriately support Talent and Skills configuration and downstream Talent processes.
• Works closely with HR partners and product leads to translate Talent and business requirements into system‑enabled solutions.
• Manage multiple small HR technology projects and/or manage specific sections of large projects to implement technology solutions to HR business problems. This involves planning and scheduling resources, developing detailed project plans and monitoring progress against planned objectives.
• Supports Talent and skills‑related vendor integrations and data ingestion processes, ensuring alignment with enterprise Talent and data governance standards.
• Participates in Success Factors implementation and enhancement initiatives by interpreting business and Talent requirements into functional specifications, system configuration, and post‑implementation support.
• Participates in the review of Quality Assurance (QA) strategies to ensure testing is comprehensive and aligned with Talent requirements; supports defect analysis and resolution.
• Reviews and analyzes business and Talent requirements to produce functional system requirements leveraged by internal delivery teams and external vendors.
• Manages multiple small Talent Technology initiatives or defined components of larger programs, ensuring delivery discipline, quality outcomes, and stakeholder alignment.
• Continually enhances knowledge of Talent practices, HR processes, Success Factors capabilities, and emerging HR technology trends.
• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in Talent and HR technology decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, Code of Conduct, and Global Sales Principles, while ensuring strong operational, compliance, AML/ATF, sanctions, and conduct risk controls.
• Champions a high‑performance environment and contributes to an inclusive and collaborative work culture.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

• 3-5 years of experience working with SAP Success Factors, with hands‑on configuration across Talent modules.
• Demonstrated experience configuring Employee Central, talent capabilities such as Onboarding, Performance & Goals, Recruiting, Succession & Career…