Requirements
Key responsibilities:
• Analyse payroll requirements and produce functional specifications, technical designs and impact assessments.
• Configure and enhance Oracle Payroll, including payroll elements, balances, calculation rules and Fast Formulas.
• Develop and maintain integrations between payroll, HR, finance, pensions and third-party systems.
• Build and support payroll reports, extracts, reconciliation outputs and operational controls.
• Investigate payroll calculation issues, interface failures and data discrepancies, identifying root causes and implementing fixes.
• Support data migration, transformation, validation and reconciliation.
• Undertake unit and system integration testing and support user acceptance testing, regression testing and parallel payroll runs.
• Assess the impact of Oracle updates and payroll changes, supporting controlled deployment into production.
• Collaborate with payroll teams during critical processing periods and support incident resolution.
• Maintain technical documentation, configuration records, deployment instructions and support handover materials.
• Follow client requirements for security, access control, change management and handling sensitive employee data.
Essential skills and experience:
• Proven hands-on experience developing, implementing or supporting Oracle Payroll, within Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Payroll or Oracle E-Business Suite HRMS/Payroll, aligned to the client platform.
• Strong experience with Oracle Fast Formula, payroll elements, balances and payroll processing.
• Experience translating payroll requirements into effective configuration and technical solutions.
• Strong SQL skills for reporting, data analysis and reconciliation, using tools and access methods appropriate to the platform.
• Experience developing and supporting interfaces, data loads, extracts and reports.
• Practical understanding of UK payroll, including PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments, pensions and HMRC reporting.
• Experience troubleshooting payroll issues and validating changes through structured testing and reconciliation.