Oracle HCM Cloud Advisory Lead

Role: Oracle HCM Cloud Advisory Lead

Location: Jersey City, NJ Or Dallas, TX – Hybrid 

Fulltime

Job Description: 

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior Oracle HCM Cloud Advisory Lead to engage with CHROs, CIOs, HR Transformation Leaders, and CXO stakeholders to shape and drive enterprise-wide HR transformation using Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM. This role requires a strategic advisor who can connect business priorities, HR operating model transformation, employee experience, process modernization, and Oracle HCM Cloud capabilities into a clear transformation roadmap.

The ideal candidate will bring strong executive presence, deep HR domain understanding, Oracle HCM Cloud expertise, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders on transformation strategy, cloud adoption, value realization, governance, and implementation direction. This is not a purely configuration-focused role; it is a senior advisory role expected to shape business outcomes, guide executive decision-making, and provide thought leadership across large-scale HR technology transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage directly with CHRO, CIO, CFO, COO, HR Transformation, IT, Payroll, Finance, and Business leadership to understand strategic priorities and translate them into an Oracle HCM Cloud transformation agenda.
• Lead executive-level conversations on HR modernization, digital HR strategy, employee experience, global process standardization, service delivery transformation, automation, analytics, and cloud operating model adoption.
• Assess current-state HR processes, systems, operating model, data landscape, integration architecture, reporting maturity, user experience, compliance needs, and organizational readiness.
• Define future-state HR operating models and transformation roadmaps aligned to business strategy, Oracle HCM Cloud capabilities, leading practices, scalability, compliance, and measurable business value.
• Advise senior stakeholders on Oracle HCM Cloud adoption across Core HR, Talent, Recruiting, Learning, Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Time and Labor, Payroll, Journeys, HR Help Desk, Security, Reporting, Analytics, and integrations.
• Conduct executive fit-gap discussions and guide decisions on standard cloud adoption, process harmonization, localization, extensions, integrations, data strategy, security, reporting, and governance.
• Develop boardroom-ready transformation roadmaps, business cases, value realization frameworks, investment options, implementation phasing, risk assessments, and decision papers.
• Provide strategic advisory oversight during implementation, ensuring solution design, scope, governance, delivery approach, change management, testing, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization remain aligned to business outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for complex design decisions, stakeholder alignment issues, transformation risks, and executive governance forums.
• Support pre-sales and solutioning by leading client discovery, shaping transformation narratives, contributing to RFP / RFI responses, executive presentations, oral defences, solution strategy, and delivery approach.
• Advise clients on post-go-live optimization, quarterly release adoption, continuous improvement, HR analytics maturity, automation opportunities, and long-term HR technology roadmap.

Required Experience

• 15+ years of experience in HR transformation, enterprise consulting, HR technology strategy, Oracle HCM Cloud advisory, or large-scale cloud implementation programs.
• 8+ years of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM experience, with exposure to multiple HCM modules and enterprise transformation programs.
• Proven experience engaging with CHRO, CXO, senior HR, IT, finance, payroll, and business executives.
• Experience leading or advising large, complex Oracle HCM Cloud implementations, assessments, rollouts, migrations, or optimization programs.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end HR processes, global HR operating models, shared services, employee experience, payroll dependencies, compliance, data, integrations, reporting, and change management.
• Ability to shape transformation strategy, build business cases, define value drivers, and convert advisory recommendations into executable implementation roadmaps.
• Experience in executive governance, steering committee presentations, design authority forums, program assurance, and transformation risk management.
• Strong consulting background with experience in solution shaping, proposal development, pre-sales, client presentations, and senior stakeholder management.

Required Skills

• Experience with legacy HR modernization, HR Transformation experience using Oracle HCM Cloud
• Executive presence with the ability to influence CHRO / CXO-level stakeholders.
• Strong Oracle HCM Cloud functional and advisory knowledge across Core HR, Talent, Recruiting, Learning, Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Time and Labor, Payroll, Journeys, HR Help Desk, Security, Analytics, and Reporting.
• Ability to connect HR strategy, technology capability, operating model design, implementation feasibility, and business value.
• Strong capability in current-state assessment, future-state design, fit-gap analysis, roadmap development, value realization, and transformation governance.
• Advisory-level understanding of integrations, data migration, HCM Extracts, HDL / HSDL, APIs, Oracle Integration Cloud concepts, OTBI, BI Publisher, role-based security, release management, and extensibility.
• Exposure to AI, automation, analytics, digital employee experience, and HR process optimization use cases.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, workshop facilitation, executive presentation, negotiation, and decision-framing skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, simplify complex issues, challenge unnecessary customization, and drive alignment across business and technology stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle HCM Cloud certification in one or more functional areas.
• Experience working across complex industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, BFSI, retail, telecom, energy, public sector, or professional services.