Oracle HCM Functional Project Manager

About the role

The Oracle HCM Functional project Manager is responsible for providing functional leadership, solution design, and business process expertise for Oracle HCM Cloud. This role serves as a key liaison between Human Resources, Payroll, business stakeholders, IT, and technical teams to ensure Oracle HCM solutions effectively support organizational requirements and strategic objectives. The Functional Lead will lead requirements gathering, process analysis, solution design, configuration oversight, testing, implementation, and ongoing optimization across relevant Oracle HCM modules.

Responsibilities

• Lead the functional design and delivery of Oracle HCM Cloud solutions across areas such as Core HR, Absence Management, Benefits, Workforce Structures, Talent, Compensation, Recruiting, Payroll, and Time & Labor, as applicable.
• Lead discovery sessions, requirements workshops, process reviews, and future-state design activities.
• Evaluate existing HR processes and recommend opportunities for standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide functional direction to Oracle HCM configuration and technical teams.
• Review configuration and integrations to ensure alignment with approved business requirements and Oracle best practices.
• Coordinate functional testing, including test planning, test case development, system testing, integration testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Support data conversion, validation, reconciliation, and data quality activities.
• Partner with technical teams on integrations, reporting, security, interfaces, and other technical dependencies.
• Lead defect triage and resolution, assessing business impact and determining appropriate solutions.
• Support production deployments, releases, patches, and post-production stabilization.
• Identify opportunities to leverage new Oracle HCM functionality and recommend enhancements based on business priorities.
• Develop and maintain functional documentation, process maps, configuration documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to functional analysts and other project team members.
• Manage competing priorities and communicate risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions to project and business leadership.
• Serve as a trusted functional advisor to HR leadership and key business stakeholders.

Key Deliverables:

• Business and functional requirements
• Future-state process designs
• Functional solution designs
• Configuration specifications
• Test strategies, scenarios, and scripts
• Data validation and reconciliation documentation
• Defect and issue resolution
• Deployment and release readiness
• User and operational documentation
• Knowledge