Introduction
Please find below the questions I asked a few days ago to a customer in a one hour call to understand the complexity and as a consequence the level of effort of integrating 3 non-EC Compensation templates and 2 non-EC Variable Pay templates to Employee Central which went live for them recently.
Variable Pay templates
- Earnings
- Are target bonus amounts based on actual earnings or contractual salary data ?
- If actual earnings:
- Does the payroll system have the data on Target Bonus % changes ?
- Is there a report already built in Payroll/ABAP that can provide the actual numbers ?
- Is there a will from leadership to move away from actual earnings and use contractual salary ?
- If contractual salary data: are both the Annualized Salary data and Target Bonus % data currently loaded in EC and with effective dates covering the entire past fiscal year ?
Compensation templates
- Data consistency
- Are there Compensation templates where data gets loaded as of different effective dates (for example Salary used for merit % calculation is as of 12/31/2025 but Job Title is shown as of 2/1/2025) ?
- Do you use Global Assignment or Concurrent Employment features ?
- Are Pay Ranges loaded in "Manage Pay Job and Org structure" ?
- Are they used to trigger Compa Ratio calculation in Comp Info ? (meaning have they been tested on top of being loaded)
- Is Compa Ratio or Range Penetration used in some of the existing Compensation templates ?
All templates
- Eligibility rules across templates
- Is there data used in eligibility rules that currently lives outside of Employee Central ? (excluding UserID exceptions).
- Is there a need to use data from the Time Off module (if in use) to exclude by userID in Compensation or prorate records in Variable Pay templates ?
- Publish back to EC
- Is there one or more of template for which we will need to build complex publish back logic, for example different event dates or even reasons for different countries ?
- Do we want different event reasons in case of just merit vs merit + lumpsum etc.
- Statements
- Assumption for this integration work is that statements will not be edited as they get their data from the worksheets that will be integrated to EC. Please confirm.
All the best,
Xavier
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