Business Transformation Advisory
Strategic HR & payroll transformation for the future workforce
Zalaris advisory services enable businesses to leverage AI-driven automation, predictive workforce analytics, and intelligent enterprise capabilities for a future-ready HR & payroll function.
Workforce transformation advisory to align HR with business goals
Zalaris helps organisations modernise HR and payroll operations by leveraging data-driven insights, automation, and SAP cloud technologies. With expertise in both SAP HCM On-Premise and SAP SuccessFactors, our advisory services ensure businesses stay ahead of workforce trends, compliance changes, and digital transformation demands.
Empower business transformation through HR
Zalaris enables enterprise-wide transformation by aligning your workforce strategy with business goals — combining cloud readiness, payroll modernisation, and skills-based agility to unlock long-term value.
Workforce agility & skills-based transformation
Support hybrid, skills-based, and future-ready workforce models with scalable transformation strategies.
Optimise HR with AI and analytics
Use predictive insights to improve workforce planning, decision-making, and organisational performance.
Accelerate cloud transformation
Align with RISE with SAP to modernise HR systems and unlock intelligent, cloud-based capabilities.
Transform payroll and compliance
Enhance governance, ensure multi-country accuracy, and reduce risk through payroll and compliance innovation.
Advisory for scalable people programs
Design effective HR and payroll programmes with expert guidance on time, pay, talent, and compensation.
Connect strategy to execution
Translate business goals into measurable outcomes with HR transformation services tailored to your needs.
Align HR transformation with business priorities through strategic workforce planning, AI-driven automation, and digital HR solutions.
- Cloud Migration & HR Process Optimisation – Seamless transition from on-premise to SAP SuccessFactors.
- Change Management & Workforce Agility – Enable HR teams to adapt to evolving work models.
- AI & HR Automation Integration – Reduce manual processes with intelligent automation.
Focus on aligning HR cloud adoption with strategic business objectives, ensuring a structured transition from SAP HCM on-premise to SAP SuccessFactors. Define and execute a roadmap for moving HR and payroll from SAP HCM On-Premise to SAP SuccessFactors.
- Cloud Readiness Assessments – Evaluate current HR technology landscape.
- SAP SuccessFactors Implementation Strategy – Develop a transformation roadmap tailored to business needs.
- Hybrid Payroll & HR Solutions – Support organisations managing both on-premise and cloud payroll.
Strategic workforce modernisation for HR and payroll, ensuring efficiency, security, and compliance without duplicating payroll advisory details covered separately. Ensure payroll governance, security, and compliance in global and multi-country operations.
- Regulatory Compliance & Payroll Governance – Stay aligned with global and local labour laws.
- Payroll Process Optimisation & Automation – Reduce errors and improve accuracy with AI-driven validation.
- Global Payroll Strategy – Align payroll operations with international compliance and workforce regulations.
Develop a future-ready HR strategy with AI-powered workforce planning and data-driven insights, helping organizations align talent, automation, and transformation goals. Zalaris helps organizations leverage AI-driven workforce planning and predictive insights to create adaptable HR strategies that support long-term business objectives. Leverage workforce data and AI-powered analytics to drive smarter HR decision-making.
- SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics & People Stories – Use real-time data to drive smarter HR decisions and workforce planning.
- Predictive workforce planning – Leverage AI-driven forecasting to optimise workforce agility and skill-based talent management.
- Custom HR & payroll reporting – Improve workforce transparency and compliance with tailored reporting solutions.
Zalaris helps HR and payroll leaders design programs that deliver real business value. Our functional experts provide best-practice guidance across compensation, payroll, time, and talent development—ensuring your people processes are not only compliant and scalable, but truly effective in supporting organisational goals.
- Drive better outcomes with programs built for performance, fairness, and employee experience
- Align HR and payroll frameworks to support growth, agility, and operational efficiency
- Reduce compliance risk by embedding practical governance into functional design
- Make confident, strategic decisions backed by deep functional expertise and industry insight
Related solutions
Unlock the full potential of your HR transformation with intelligent SAP solutions that enhance automation, workforce analytics, and digital adoption.
SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
A comprehensive cloud-based HR solution that enhances workforce management, automates HR workflows, and improves employee experience.Related services
Enhance your transformation with expert-led services designed to maximise system efficiency, compliance, and long-term value.
SAP SuccessFactors
Zalaris delivers expert SAP SuccessFactors services that align technology with business goals — from advisory and implementation to optimisation and support. We help you unlock the full value of your HCM investment through faster deployments, global compliance, and a seamless employee experience.
SAP SuccessFactors Powers HR Innovation for Pharmaceutical Leader Grindeks
In a strategic move to future-proof its global operations, pharmaceutical leader Grindeks partnered with Zalaris to create a unified digital HR ecosystem across 40 countries.
Read full customer storyFAQs: HCM Business Transformation Advisory with Zalaris
HCM business transformation advisory focuses on helping organizations rethink and reshape their human capital management (HCM) strategy to align with changing business models, technologies, and workforce expectations. At Zalaris, we support HR and payroll transformation journeys by aligning your SAP HCM or SuccessFactors landscape with your business transformation strategy—delivering operational efficiency, improved employee experience, and long-term business value.
Digital transformation often starts with people. Your HCM strategy is essential to enabling new ways of working, supporting change efforts, and driving innovation across the organisation. Zalaris helps HR leaders develop a transformation roadmap that modernizes processes, connects systems, and enhances the employee experience, creating momentum for successful transformation across the entire business.
Unlike broad business transformation consulting firms, Zalaris brings deep experience and proven expertise in HR and payroll advisory, especially for SAP ERP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors environments. We focus on aligning people, technology, and strategy, offering innovative solutions tailored to HCM that deliver real results—not just vision decks. We help clients execute with clarity, speed, and a relentless focus on value.
We advise on:
- HR operating model redesign
- SAP SuccessFactors transformation roadmaps
- Employee Central and Payroll transformation
- Shared services and self-service enablement
- Strategic workforce planning
- Employee experience transformation
- Process optimisation in HR and payroll
- HCM governance models
Our services are backed by tools and best practices that support both immediate wins and long-term goals.
SAP SuccessFactors is a critical enabler for modern HCM business transformation. It supports scalable HR technology transformation, enables AI-driven insights via People Analytics, and improves employee engagement with modern UX and workflows. Zalaris helps clients build and execute a SuccessFactors transformation strategy that aligns with organisational priorities and delivers measurable outcomes.
Zalaris helps you define and measure what transformation success looks like—using KPIs tied to business outcomes, employee productivity, and customer experience. We help develop your business case, define milestones, and build stakeholder buy-in to ensure your transformation journey results in lasting change—not short-term fixes.
Absolutely. Whether you’re at the early stages of HCM transformation ideation, planning a migration to SuccessFactors, or optimising a live system, Zalaris meets you where you are. Our SAP HCM advisory team helps you define the right mix of strategy, process, and technology to move forward with confidence.
Start by connecting with our team for a no-obligation discussion. We’ll assess where you are in your transformation journey, help you articulate your vision, and outline a path that brings together innovation, culture, and execution. Whether you're focused on cost savings, agility, or delivering new value through your people, we’ll help you develop the strategy and structure needed to succeed.