HRIS ANALYST · SAP SUCCESSFACTORS · GLOBAL SUPPORT

Enterprise systems, engineered around people.

I’m Gabriel Humbert, a London-based HRIS Analyst supporting SAP SuccessFactors across a global organisation. I combine enterprise-system thinking, software engineering and responsible AI to turn complex operational needs into clear, secure solutions.

Open to conversations in English, Spanish and Portuguese
16+countries supported
3fluent languages
3SuccessFactors environments
SAPSuccessFactors platform focus

CURRENT FOCUS

HRIS Analyst — SAP SuccessFactors

Supporting SAP SuccessFactors operations across more than 16 countries in EMEA, APAC and North America.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING

Expanding applied expertise across networks, security, data and AI.

THE ROLE BEHIND NOW

Keeping people data, HR processes and enterprise systems dependable.

An HRIS Analyst connects People Teams, Payroll, IT, data and business processes—turning operational needs into reliable support, controlled system change and useful information.

OPERATING REMIT

Employee Central & operations

Employee data, Time Off, workflows, alerts, effective-dated changes and day-to-day support in a global SuccessFactors environment.

ANALYSIS & ASSURANCE

Reporting, access & integration

Story Reports, data validation, permissions awareness, QAT/UAT, reconciliation and evidence-led escalation across connected HR services.

RUN

Support and troubleshoot

Investigate employee records, access, permissions, workflows, alerts and reporting issues through to resolution or informed escalation.

CHANGE

Configure and improve

Support Employee Central fields, business rules, Event Reasons, Foundation Objects and effective-dated changes in controlled environments.

INSIGHT

Report and validate

Build and troubleshoot Story Reports, select data sources, test realistic scenarios and validate outputs against business requirements.

GOVERN

Protect and connect

Strengthen data quality, GDPR-aware handling, access reviews, retention work, system reconciliation and auditable documentation.

ROLE SCOPE

I focus on HR systems analysis, support, reporting, configuration, testing and continuous improvement—working with Payroll, IT and specialist partners through controlled approval and deployment processes.

MY SUCCESSFACTORS PRACTICE

What I handle in the system, day to day.

My work is practical and evidence-led: I move between user support, Employee Central, reporting, controlled configuration, testing and governance to keep HR operations dependable.

Support HR operations

Own requests from first report to a clear resolution or an informed escalation.

  • Manage service and work requests across Freshservice, Jira and Monday.com
  • Investigate employee records, dates, access, permissions, workflows and alerts
  • Explain findings clearly to employees and People Teams

Configure and report

Translate business requirements into maintainable SuccessFactors changes and useful information.

  • Work with fields, business rules, Event Reasons and Foundation Objects
  • Build and troubleshoot People Analytics Story Reports
  • Validate data sources, filters, prompts and report outputs

Test, govern and document

Make change traceable, testable and safe before it reaches operational users.

  • Prepare UAT scenarios, capture evidence and retest corrections
  • Support integrations, reconciliation, access and data-quality reviews
  • Maintain workbooks, process guides, decisions and handover notes

SUCCESSFACTORS DELIVERY FLOW

From request to reliable change.

Select a stage to see how I move HRIS work from operational need to controlled production support.

DevelopmentBuildProduction

Clarify the need

Define the business outcome, affected population, process owner and boundary of the request before touching configuration.

Evidence I retain

  • Business requirement
  • Scope and ownership
  • Dependencies and risk

Sanitised methodology — no employee records or internal configuration.

EVIDENCE IN PRACTICE

Vetting-status alerts

Designed, configured and deployed 90-, 60- and 30-day alerts through Development, Build and Production.

Probation automation

Owned two- and five-month alert rules, workflows, messages, form links, troubleshooting and stakeholder validation.

Integration assurance

Reconcile workforce data between SuccessFactors and Active Directory, investigate mismatches and prepare controlled pilot updates.

SUCCESSFACTORS IN PRACTICE

HRIS work, shown through evidence.

Six anonymised examples show how I configure, deploy, investigate and govern HR-system work without exposing employee data or confidential configuration.

EMPLOYEE CENTRAL · COMPLIANCE ALERTS

Vetting-status expiry alert framework

An end-to-end SuccessFactors alert system deployed through Development, Build and Production with staged expiry notifications.

My role
I designed, configured, tested and deployed the solution across all three SuccessFactors environments, owning the rules, triggers, workflows and alert content.
Outcome
A live, repeatable compliance-notification process that gives People Teams earlier visibility of approaching expiry dates.
View HRIS case studies

BUSINESS RULES · WORKFLOW AUTOMATION

Probation milestone alert automation

Two- and five-month probation alerts designed, configured and validated with clear deadlines and links to the required manager actions.

My role
I owned the end-to-end configuration: business rules, triggers, workflows, recipients, message design, form links, testing, troubleshooting and documentation.
Outcome
A documented probation-alert process with clearer timing, actionable messages and validated SuccessFactors configuration.
View HRIS case studies

QAT/UAT · INTEGRATION

SuccessFactors → Active Directory integration assurance

Structured scenario testing and evidence for employee-lifecycle data moving from SuccessFactors through integration services into Microsoft identity systems.

My role
I support high-volume workforce-data reconciliation between SuccessFactors and Active Directory through structured QAT/UAT, scenario definition, mismatch investigation, controlled pilot updates and evidence capture.
Outcome
More reproducible testing, clearer defect investigation, controlled retesting and dependable handover evidence.
View HRIS case studies
SAP SuccessFactorsHuman-centred systemsIntegration & testingSoftware engineeringResponsible AISecure delivery

CAPABILITY MATRIX

One profile. Four connected disciplines.

My strongest work happens where enterprise operations, engineering discipline, data and human communication meet.

SAP SuccessFactors & HRIS

Production-facing HRIS practice spanning Employee Central, Time Off, business rules, workflows, alerts, reporting, permissions and data governance.

SuccessFactorsBusiness rulesEC alertsDRTM

Integration & testing

Structured QAT and UAT for employee lifecycle scenarios, reconciliation, negative testing and SuccessFactors-to-Active Directory integration work.

UATMicrosoft EntraAzure exposureDefect tracking

Software engineering

Backend and full-stack foundations with Java, Spring Boot, FastAPI, React, SQL, REST APIs, automated testing, Git and Docker.

JavaPythonTypeScriptDocker

AI, data & security

Applied ML/DL experimentation, local-first AI applications, model evaluation, cybersecurity foundations and responsible data handling.

Machine learningOllamaTensorFlowCybersecurity

FROM COMPLEXITY TO CLARITY

Understand the context. Map the system. Build carefully. Validate the result.

A compact operating principle for turning complex requirements into dependable, human-validated change.

PEOPLE · PURPOSE

Understand the context

Listen to the people doing the work, clarify the real constraint and define what a useful outcome looks like.

PROCESS · DATA

Map the system

Make processes, data, dependencies, permissions and risks visible before choosing the solution.

DESIGN · DELIVERY

Build with discipline

Create the smallest maintainable path using clear architecture, responsible automation and secure engineering practices.

TEST · LEARN

Validate and improve

Test with realistic scenarios, communicate clearly and turn feedback into measurable, dependable improvement.

SELECTED BUILDS

Projects with a practical reason to exist.

Personal and academic projects that demonstrate product thinking, secure engineering, data modelling and applied machine learning.

CYBERSECURITY TOOLKIT

Android Malware Detection

A Python toolkit that classifies Android malware from datasets, PCAP files and live tethered network traffic through practical GUI workflows.

PythonLightGBMScapyPyShark
Open repository

FINAL-YEAR RESEARCH

ML/DL Algorithm Analysis

Comparative machine-learning, deep-learning and hybrid ensemble research for Android network-traffic classification.

Random ForestXGBoostCNNLSTMLightGBM
Open repository

RELATIONAL DATA MODEL

Employee Management SQL

An 11-table employee-management database demonstrating joins, transactions, aggregation, subqueries and reporting workflows.

SQLMySQLData modellingTransactions
Open repository
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EXPERIENCE

A career built through systems, service and trust.

From high-stakes customer service and healthcare logistics to software engineering and global HR technology.

May 2026 — Present

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Concierge Assistant

Hilton · The Trafalgar St. James

High-trust, premium customer service in a five-star central-London environment.

Experience