Job Summary
UKG Technical Consultant – General Ledger Integrations Location: India Role Type: Technical Consultant / Integration Developer Primary Focus: UKG Payroll-to-General Ledger Interfaces and Technical Support Position Summary The UKG Technical Consultant will design, develop, test, deploy, and support technical integrations associated with UKG payroll-to-General Ledger processes. The role will focus on extracting payroll accounting data from UKG, transforming it according to defined accounting and mapping rules, and delivering accurate, complete, and balanced financial transactions to downstream General Ledger and ERP platforms. The Technical Consultant will work closely with the US-based Functional Lead, UKG Techno-Functional Consultant, Finance and Payroll teams, and downstream ERP technical teams. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, configure, and support integrations between UKG and downstream General Ledger or ERP systems. Develop technical solutions for extracting payroll accounting and costing information from UKG. Implement interface logic for: Earnings. Deductions. Employee and employer taxes. Employer liabilities. Benefits. Cost centers. Departments. Locations. Legal entities. Projects. General Ledger accounts. Debit and credit transactions. Implement transformation and mapping logic based on approved functional designs. Develop interfaces using appropriate UKG technologies, APIs, integration tools, middleware, SQL, file-processing technologies, or other approved platforms. Generate outbound GL files, journal entry files, or API transactions in formats required by downstream financial systems. Develop validation routines to identify: Missing account mappings. Invalid accounting combinations. Unbalanced journal entries. Missing employee or organizational costing information. Duplicate transactions. Incorrect signs or debit/credit treatment. Interface processing failures. Build appropriate logging, monitoring, reconciliation, exception handling, and reprocessing capabilities. Support automated balancing and control-total validation between UKG payroll results and outbound GL transactions. Perform technical troubleshooting across UKG, middleware, data transformation, file transmission, and downstream integration components. Analyze interface and production failures and perform root-cause analysis. Develop SQL queries and technical utilities to support data validation, reconciliation, troubleshooting, and defect resolution. Support unit testing, system integration testing, parallel payroll testing, regression testing, and production validation. Work with functional consultants to validate technical outputs against expected accounting results. Support environment management, configuration migration, deployment, and release activities. Develop and maintain: Technical design documents. Interface specifications. Data mappings. Transformation rules. API or file specifications. Error-handling procedures. Operational support documentation. Support production payroll cycles and resolve time-sensitive payroll-to-GL integration issues. Participate in cutover, go-live, hypercare, and ongoing production support. Ensure integrations follow applicable security, data protection, change-management, and audit requirements. Required Qualifications 3–7 years of experience developing or supporting UKG, payroll, HRIS, ERP, or enterprise application integrations. Hands-on technical experience with UKG Pro or related UKG platforms. Experience designing, developing, or supporting payroll-related interfaces. Strong understanding of integration concepts including: Data extraction. Transformation. Mapping. Validation. File generation. APIs. Error handling. Logging and monitoring. Strong SQL skills. Experience working with relational databases and structured data. Experience with flat-file formats such as CSV, fixed-width, XML, or JSON. Experience with secure file transmission and/or API-based integrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Ability to understand functional specifications and translate them into technical solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis skills.
- Experience participating in integration and regression testing.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively within global onshore/offshore delivery teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with UKG Pro integration technologies, APIs, reporting, and data extracts.
- Experience integrating UKG with SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Workday Financials, or another enterprise financial platform.
- Experience with middleware or integration platforms.
- Understanding of payroll accounting, GL account mapping, costing, and journal entry concepts.
- Experience developing reconciliation, balancing, and automated control processes.
Skill Requirements
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