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

Role: Oracle HCM Payroll Functional Consultant

Location: 100% REMOTE - EST working hours

Duration: 24+ Months

Project: End-to-End Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Implementation
Primary Focus: US Payroll & Core HR

W2 Only...

Work authorization: Any work authorization can apply for these openings.

Education Requirement - Bachelor's Degree in: Computer Science, Information Technology, Or related field

Position Overview
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.







Key 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

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

Ideal Candidate
We are specifically looking for a hands-on Oracle HCM Payroll Functional Consultant, not a resource whose experience is primarily technical or limited to production support.




The ideal candidate has personally participated in multiple Oracle Cloud Payroll implementations and is comfortable owning Payroll functional activities from initial discovery through successful production payroll processing and post-go-live stabilization.

Thanks & Regards,

Namrata Ahuja | Lead Talent Acquisition - US Staffing

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