Oracle HCM Payroll Functional Consultant @ 100% REMOTE || W2 Only

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Payroll & Core HR Functional Consultant to lead functional activities for an end-to-end Oracle HCM Cloud implementation. This is a core functional role with strong emphasis on Oracle HCM Payroll. The qualified consultant must have hands-on experience implementing Oracle Cloud Payroll from discovery and requirements gathering through configuration, CRP, SIT, UAT, production cutover, go-live, and post-production payroll support. The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders, Payroll/HR teams, technical developers, integration teams, and project leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Payroll and Core HR implementation activities.
• Conduct discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with Payroll, HR, Finance, and business stakeholders.
• Analyze existing payroll processes and document business requirements.
• Perform Fit-Gap analysis between business requirements and standard Oracle Cloud HCM functionality.
• Recommend Oracle standard functionality and identify areas requiring configuration, integrations, reports, or extensions.
• Configure and validate Oracle Cloud Payroll setups, including:
  • Payroll definitions and payroll calendars
  • Elements and element eligibility
  • Earnings and deductions
  • Pre-tax and post-tax deductions
  • Payroll calculation rules
  • Costing and accounting
  • Payment methods
  • Payroll processing configuration
  • Payroll balances
  • Payroll flows and processes
• Support Core HR configurations and ensure employee, assignment, payroll, and organizational data are properly aligned.
• Lead and support CRP, SIT, UAT, parallel payroll testing, and regression testing.
• Work directly with business users to validate payroll calculations and resolve functional issues identified during testing.
• Develop test scenarios and assist business teams with test execution and defect resolution.
• Participate in production cutover planning, including conversion validation, payroll readiness, reconciliation, and go-live activities.
• Provide functional requirements and design inputs for RICEW objects, including reports, interfaces, conversions, integrations, and extensions.
• Mentor Oracle HCM technical developers and provide functional guidance for HDL, HCM Extracts, BI Publisher, OTBI, OIC integrations, and other technical components.
• Review technical designs to ensure they meet Payroll and Core HR business requirements.
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream systems for employee, payroll, benefits, time, banking, GL, and other integrations.
• Participate in post-go-live stabilization and production support.
• Assist Payroll Administrators with bi-weekly payroll processing, including pre-payroll validations, payroll calculation, issue resolution, and payroll completion.
• Troubleshoot payroll calculation errors, employee-level issues, element entries, balances, costing, and payment-related issues.
• Perform and support post-payroll reconciliation to validate payroll results, payments, costing, and accounting.
• Work with Finance/Accounting teams to reconcile payroll costing and payroll accounting results.
• Identify root causes of production payroll issues and recommend permanent solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Payroll.
• Strong functional knowledge of Oracle Cloud Core HR.
• Must have participated in multiple end-to-end Oracle HCM Cloud implementations.
• Experience taking a Payroll implementation through the complete lifecycle:
  • Discovery
  • Requirements
  • Fit-Gap
  • Configuration
  • CRP
  • SIT
  • UAT
  • Parallel Payroll
  • Cutover
  • Go-Live
  • Production Support
• Hands-on experience configuring Oracle Cloud Payroll.
• Strong understanding of payroll processing, earnings, deductions, elements, balances, costing, payments, and reconciliation.
• Experience supporting bi-weekly payroll processing in a production environment.
• Experience with payroll reconciliation and troubleshooting payroll calculation issues.
• Ability to conduct functional workshops and communicate directly with Payroll and HR business users.
• Experience preparing functional specifications and providing requirements to Oracle HCM technical developers.
• Good understanding of Oracle HCM technical components such as HDL, HCM Extracts, BI Publisher, OTBI, Fast Formulas, OIC, and REST/SOAP integrations.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies including CRP, SIT, UAT, parallel payroll testing, regression testing, and production cutover.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.