Oracle Cloud Payroll Functional Consultant - Newark, NJ - Hybrid

Local Candidates Only — Newark, NJ

Our client is seeking a talented and experienced Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll functional lead to spearhead documenting the business requirements, configuration, and testing of the Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud application.

This role involves leading the implementation and continuous improvement of the Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll application to enhance business processes. The client is looking for an experienced consulting professional who has strong payroll business process knowledge, a broad understanding of solutions, the transportation industry, standard methodologies, and technology designs and operates independently to provide quality work products in our engagement. Performs varied and complex duties and tasks that need independent judgment to implement the Oracle HCM payroll product to meet our business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the business team through the project life cycle, with a focus on best-practice process adoption.
• Leads business requirements meetings, facilitates productive discussions, and drives decisions.
• Designs processes and prepare the solution blueprint for project implementation.
• The Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll Functional Consultant will work with project teams and business stakeholders to implement solutions using Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll configurations.
• The resource must have hands-on functional experience with Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll, Benefits, Absence Management, and Time & Labor modules.
• Ability to articulate the product/module features to business teams by conducting the product familiarity sessions and trainings as needed.
• Leads business requirements meetings, facilitates productive discussions, and drives decisions.
• This will include, but is not limited to, workshop facilitation, deliverable generation, application configuration, comprehensive testing to achieve successful testing, business process best practice advice, deployment planning, deployment execution, and post-go-live support.
• Configure payroll business rules.
• Ability to demonstrate the solution approach through a proof of concept/conference room pilot and seek business approval before transitioning into the solution design/development phase.
• Leads the creation of functional designs and configuration workbooks and configures Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll, Benefits, and Absence Management modules in close cooperation with the business teams.
• Coordinates design and configuration with other functional leads across the Oracle Cloud HCM implementation scope.
• Ability to work with the business teams to help convert legacy payroll data.
• Leads the testing effort, tests, prepares test case preparation, and tests the solution with users.
• Assist the integration consulting team in helping to build, configure, and test integrations between Payroll and third-party/custom solutions.
• Provides superuser and end-user training on Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll, Benefits, and Absence Management modules.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Oracle HCM Cloud and having multiple project implementation experiences in Payroll, Absence Management, and Time & Labor modules.
• 10+ years implementing HCM Payroll solutions, with experience as a payroll consultant to drive HR technology implementations through process design, configuration, process playback, user acceptance testing, cutover, and production launch.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a functional lead role in Oracle HCM Cloud North America payroll implementations.
• Experience in 3-5 full life cycle implementations of Oracle Cloud Payroll, Absence Management, and Time & Labor modules.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Payroll implementation and configuration.
• A deep understanding of payroll requirements, including tax regulations.
• Good experience in payroll processing, troubleshooting the issues, Oracle quarterly upgrades, quarter- and year-end activities, Fast Formula, Extracts, HDL, BIPublisher, and OTBI reporting.
• Possesses high-level collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Expertise in Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll processing, ability to troubleshoot payroll issues and provide resolution, execution of post-payroll processes, and ensuring the accuracy of files being transmitted post-payroll to various vendors.
• Expertise on North American payroll functional business processes and US regulatory requirements.
• Expertise in payroll cloud tax update activities and payroll testing after each tax update.
• Expertise in driving and executing payroll parallel testing.
• SME in taxation from a business standpoint
  • Ability to configure taxation in Oracle Cloud
  • Ability to troubleshoot and correct taxation issues.
• Good understanding of integration points with GL.
• Expertise on payroll integrations, HCM extracts, BI reporting, and payroll data conversions for the US.
• Should have good understanding of Oracle Payroll cloud tables.
• Responsible for developing new payroll interfaces with third-party systems.
• Previous consulting experience with a consulting/SI organization.
• Oracle Cloud Payroll certification is preferred.

Required/Desired Skills