Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll Consultant

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Job Purpose

Having delivered multiple successful Oracle HCM / Payroll Cloud projects and with lots more coming up on the horizon, we are looking for a strong Oracle Payroll Cloud Consultant who will be responsible for the successful design, delivery and support of Payroll Cloud solutions for a range of clients. This is an opportunity for you, an experienced Payroll systems professional, to develop your career in an area which is seeing considerable market demand at the moment.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for taking a Functional Consultant role in Oracle Payroll Cloud Projects
• Liaising with stakeholders, delivery teams, support teams, 3rd parties both external and internal
• Establishing strong and effective relationships with the clients’ project teams
• Shaping Payroll assignments that are aimed at achieving demonstrable business benefit and value-add
• Reviewing quarterly patch release documentation and conducting impact analysis
• Agreeing objectives, outputs, milestones and timescales with the project delivery manager and client
• Conducting discovery sessions with clients to determine process pain points and diagnose how Absence, Time & Labour and Payroll Cloud can be enhanced to provide value and Return on Investment
• Creating well-structured and accurate deliverables for application configuration, data migration, testing plans and other artifacts to ensure shared understanding and facilitate knowledge transfer
• Designing, building, testing and delivering Oracle Cloud Absence, Time & Labour and Payroll
• Supporting projects through user testing and go live and the transition of deliverables to other client/3rd party support teams
• Coordinating with other Consultants’ project/assignment delivery within a wider programme
• Assisting the sales team in pre-sales activities and tender responses

Person Specification - Knowledge / Experience / Skills / Qualities

Essential:

• Strong Client Facing / Consultancy experience
• Excellent knowledge and implementation (or significant optimisation / ‘hands-on’) experience of Oracle Cloud in Payroll and Absence Management
• Considerable ‘hands on’ experience using Fast Formula
• Excellent presentation skills
• Well organised and structured in approach
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent client management skills
• Willingness to travel and be away from home
• UK based
• Eligible to obtain SC level clearance

Desirable:

• Experience working in a public sector environment
• Proven, full lifecycle implementation experience of delivering Oracle based HCM solutions to medium and large enterprise clients
• Experience in HCM Experience Design Studio functionality and configuration
• Good working knowledge of Oracle Cloud in Core HR and Time & Labour (OTL)
• Strong Commercial awareness
• Experience working in an environment alongside other Oracle Cloud products such as: Service Cloud (CX), Talent Management, ERP (Finance & Procurement), Planning & Budgeting (EPM)
• Knowledge and implementation experience of the following: Oracle Digital Assistant, Approvals, Oracle Guided Learning, Alerts Composer, Reporting/BI tools (OTBI / BI Publisher)
• Supporting pre-sales activities
• Experience of responding to ITT/RFPs