Senior Oracle Cloud Payroll Techno-Functional Consultant

Experience: 8+ Years

Relevant Experience: 8+ Years in Oracle Cloud/Fusion HCM Payroll

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role: Senior Techno-Functional Consultant / Payroll Lead

Job Summary :

We are looking for an experienced Senior Oracle Cloud Payroll Techno Functional Consultant with 8+ years of relevant experience in Oracle HCM Cloud/Fusion Payroll. The candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Oracle Cloud Payroll implementation, configuration, testing, production support and payroll business processes. The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders, HR/Payroll teams, technical teams and project leadership to deliver scalable Oracle Fusion Payroll solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead and participate in end-to-end Oracle Fusion Cloud Payroll implementations.

- Gather and analyze business requirements and conduct Fit-Gap analysis.

- Configure Oracle Cloud Payroll based on business and statutory requirements.

- Configure and support :

1. Payroll Definitions

2. Legislative Data Groups

3. Legal Entities and Payroll Statutory Units

4. Payroll Relationships

5. Elements and Element Eligibility

6. Earnings and Deductions

7. Balances and Balance Feeds

8. Payment Methods

9. Payroll Costing

10. Payroll Flow Patterns

11. Calculation Cards

12. Retro Pay

13. QuickPay

14. Payroll Calculation and Prepayments

15. Payroll Reconciliation

- Handle end-to-end payroll processing and validation.

- Work on payroll costing, accounting and reconciliation with Finance/GL teams.

- Support data migration and validation activities.

- Prepare Functional Solution Design documents, configuration workbooks and functional specifications.

- Design and execute SIT, UAT, regression and parallel payroll testing.

- Participate in CRP, UAT, cutover, Go-Live and Hypercare activities.

- Analyze payroll calculation issues involving earnings, deductions, taxes, balances and payments.

- Perform root-cause analysis and provide functional solutions.

- Work with technical teams on Fast Formula, BI Publisher.

- Coordinate with Core HR, Time & Labor, Absence, Benefits, Compensation and Finance teams for integrated business processes.

- Provide production/L2-L3 support and resolve critical payroll issues.

- Support Oracle quarterly releases and assess the impact of new features and legislative updates.

- Prepare functional documentation, user guides and knowledge-transfer material.

- Conduct client/business-user training and configuration walkthroughs.

- Mentor junior functional consultants and provide functional leadership.

Mandatory Skills :

- 8+ years of relevant Oracle HCM experience, with strong expertise in Oracle Cloud/Fusion Payroll.

- Strong hands-on experience in Oracle Cloud Payroll configuration.

- Minimum 2 - 3 Oracle Payroll implementation/support projects preferred.

- At least one end-to-end Oracle Fusion Payroll implementation preferred.

- Strong understanding of payroll processing, elements, balances, costing, payments and reconciliation.

- Experience in SIT, UAT, parallel payroll testing and Go-Live.

- Strong knowledge of payroll business processes and statutory requirements.

- Experience working with Core HR and at least one of OTL, Absence Management.

- Strong client-facing and stakeholder-management skills.

- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Mandatory Technical Skills :

- Oracle Fast Formula

- BI Publisher

Preferred Qualifications :

- Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll certification.

- Experience with US or/and Middle East Payroll localization.

- Experience in global/multi-country payroll implementations.

- Experience in Managed Services / Production Support.

- Experience working with offshore/onshore global teams.

Education :

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration or a related discipline.