Oracle Cloud Payroll Functional Lead (1651)

Highstreet

About The Position

The Oracle Cloud Payroll Functional Lead will provide functional leadership for a full life cycle Oracle Cloud implementation for a public sector K-12 client in Maryland. The role leads the design, configuration, validation, testing, deployment, stabilization, and integration of Oracle Cloud Payroll with Global Human Resources, Time and Labor, Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, Financials, and related third-party systems. The Functional Lead serves as the primary subject matter expert for payroll business processes and Oracle Cloud Payroll. The role combines hands-on configuration expertise, client-facing leadership, and knowledge of complex public sector payroll requirements to deliver an accurate, compliant, scalable, and supportable solution. The client is transitioning from Oracle E-Business Suite R12 to Oracle Cloud. Assessing legacy payroll configurations and determining suitable Oracle Cloud replacement and conversion strategies is preferred. SLED experience, particularly with K-12 organizations, is highly preferred but not required. Travel to the client site in Maryland Monday through Thursday may be required.

Requirements

At least 7 years of Oracle HCM and Payroll implementation experience, including substantial hands-on Oracle Cloud Payroll experience.
Experience leading at least three Oracle Cloud HCM or Payroll implementations, including hands-on configuration and full life cycle delivery responsibility.
Deep functional knowledge of Oracle Cloud Payroll configuration, processing, costing, retroactive pay, balances, Fast Formula, payment methods, payroll flows, reconciliation, and audit controls.
Experience integrating Payroll with Global Human Resources, Oracle Time and Labor, Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, General Ledger, and third-party payroll-related systems.
Experience leading requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, solution design, conference room pilots, configuration, testing, training, deployment, and post-go-live support.
Demonstrated experience planning and leading payroll parallel testing and resolving complex calculation, data, costing, integration, and reconciliation issues.
Ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable Oracle Cloud configurations and explain solution options, trade-offs, risks, and impacts.
Experience developing functional design documentation, configuration workbooks, process flows, test scenarios, test scripts, reconciliation procedures, and user-facing materials.
Strong client-facing consulting, facilitation, presentation, stakeholder management, and decision-driving skills.
Experience leading functional teams in an onshore/offshore delivery model and collaborating across functional and technical workstreams.
Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical, organizational, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
Bachelor’s degree in human resources, accounting, finance, information technology, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Significant experience with Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Payroll and migration from R12 Payroll to Oracle Cloud Payroll.
SLED experience, particularly with public sector K-12 school systems, higher education institutions, or other government organizations.
Experience with complex public sector payroll requirements, including multiple employee groups, unions or collective bargaining agreements, multiple calendars, supplemental pay, retroactive adjustments, grants or project costing, and regulatory reporting.
Functional experience with Oracle Time and Labor, Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, Performance Management, or related HCM modules.
Experience leading multiple payroll parallel cycles and supporting year-end or quarter-end payroll activities.
Oracle Cloud Payroll or related Oracle Cloud HCM certification.
Experience with Oracle Cloud release 20 or later and current quarterly release functionality.
Experience working for a systems integrator or consulting organization and leading client-facing delivery teams.

Responsibilities

Lead the Oracle Cloud Payroll workstream from discovery and requirements through design, configuration, conference room pilots, testing, deployment, stabilization, and transition to support.
Facilitate payroll discovery and design workshops, document business requirements, lead fit-gap analysis, and guide process improvements using Oracle leading practices.
Own the end-to-end Payroll functional solution and perform hands-on configuration, including payroll definitions, elements, input values, balances, formulas, calculation cards, costing, payment methods, payroll flows, retroactive processing, year-end processing, and audit controls.
Assess the client’s Oracle E-Business Suite R12 payroll solution and support mapping legacy configurations, customizations, interfaces, reports, and data to Oracle Cloud Payroll.
Partner with Global HR, Time and Labor, Absence, Benefits, Compensation, Financials, technical, integration, data, reporting, security, change management, and testing leads to deliver an integrated solution.
Define functional requirements for payroll interfaces, conversions, reports, extracts, extensions, reconciliation, banking, tax, garnishment, and third-party vendor integrations.
Lead payroll data conversion and validation, including employee payroll data, balances, costing, payment information, tax data, and historical results as required by the approved conversion strategy.
Develop the payroll testing strategy and detailed scenarios for unit, system integration, user acceptance, regression, and end-to-end payroll testing.
Lead payroll parallel testing, including cycle planning, expected-result validation, variance analysis, reconciliation, defect management, sign-off criteria, and executive readiness reporting.
Lead client knowledge-transfer, validation, and training sessions for payroll administrators, business process owners, and support teams.
Lead and coordinate onshore and offshore functional resources, assign configuration and testing activities, review deliverables, mentor team members, and ensure quality and schedule commitments.
Provide functional leadership during cutover, go-live, and stabilization, including production payroll issue triage, root-cause analysis, correction, reconciliation, and support for at least 30 days after deployment.
Communicate status, risks, issues, dependencies, scope impacts, decisions, and recommendations to the Project Manager, Project Director, client payroll leadership, and executive stakeholders.
Identify requirements or decisions that affect scope and support development and evaluation of change requests.
Stay current on Oracle Cloud Payroll quarterly releases and regulatory changes and assess their impact on the solution and operating model.