H2R 202 · SUPPORT
Time, payroll, benefits, and separation complete the employment lifecycle.
Approved time and recurring pay feed payroll calculation, statutory deductions, payment, posting to Finance, and employee statements. Offboarding ends access and settles final obligations.
HR MANAGER LENS
What must the business decide?
This capability becomes useful only when policy, ownership, employee experience, controls, measures, and exceptions are explicit.
Time policy
Separate absence, attendance, planned time, overtime, on-call, allowances, approvals, corrections, and payroll relevance.
Payroll governance
Define population, cut-off, retroactivity, validation, sign-off, payment, statutory remittance, Finance posting and reconciliation ownership.
Benefits and final obligations
Define enrolment, deductions, employer cost, continuation, leave balance, severance, recovery, and country-specific handling.
Controlled exit
Coordinate termination, final pay, access removal, asset return, knowledge transfer, communications, retention, and residual exceptions.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Who owns what?
Employee / manager
Submit and approve time, absence, changes, and departure responsibilities.
HR / payroll
Own employment events, pay inputs, calculation controls, exceptions, final obligations, and employee statements.
Finance / Treasury / IT
Reconcile postings and payments, operate bank controls, remove access, and close accountable assets.
ONE RECORD TRAIL
Follow one decision into its successor evidence
These records are connected, but they do not share one owner, date model, permission boundary, or completion status.
- 01PREPAREEmployee, compensation, time and absence data
Effective-dated and approved inputs establish the payroll population and obligations.
- 02CALCULATEPayroll result and validation alerts
Gross-to-net calculation, retroactivity, exceptions and sign-off establish employee results.
- 03SETTLEPayment output and posting document
Payments, third-party liabilities and Finance postings carry the accepted payroll result.
- 04CLOSETermination and offboarding evidence
Final pay, benefits, access, assets, retention and residual ownership complete the lifecycle.
CONSULTANT LENS
How SAP represents the capability
Employee Central Time Off manages absences; Time Sheet and SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking support attendance scenarios. Approved employee, compensation, benefit and time data feed Employee Central Payroll, SAP HCM payroll, or a provider. Payroll result, payment output, posting document, FI document and termination workflow are different evidence objects.
DIAGNOSTIC EVIDENCE
Diagnose using the owning record and hand-off
Separate an undesired business result from missing setup, failed execution, wrong effective date, insufficient permission, or broken integration.
Active and leaver population, pay period, effective-dated changes, time, absence, recurring pay, deductions and cut-off exceptions.
Gross-to-net result, validation alerts, retroactivity, sign-off, payment file, third-party obligations and employee statement.
Posting run and FI reference, reconciliation total, termination event, final pay, access closure, asset return and retention action.
OPERATING VIEW
Exceptions and measures that deserve ownership
Common exceptions
- Late or retroactive input changes a closed or current period
- Employee is paid correctly but cost posts to the wrong organisation
- Payroll result exists but payment or Finance transfer fails
- Termination is complete in HR but access, asset, benefit, or final-pay work remains open
Useful measures
- Late-input, payroll-alert and off-cycle volume
- First-pass payroll and posting reconciliation
- Payment and third-party remittance exceptions
- Final-pay, access-removal and asset-return completion
WORKED SCENARIO
One decision carried into system evidence
A leaver has approved final time, unused leave, benefit deductions and an equipment obligation. Payroll calculates and signs off the final result, Finance reconciles the posting, Treasury controls payment, IT removes access on policy date, and the remaining asset exception stays visible to its owner.
- Which event and date determine payroll eligibility?
- Who owns errors before and after payroll cut-off?
- How do payroll, payment and FI totals reconcile?
- What proves an exit is financially, operationally and securely complete?
Connect this capability to lifecycle hand-offs, integration ownership, payroll, Finance, and exception triage.