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.
• Experience working with sensitive payroll data in an environment with controlled access and formal release processes.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with technical colleagues and payroll stakeholders.
• Current SC clearance, subject to verification and client acceptance before deployment.
Platform-specific technical experience
For Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Payroll assignments:
• HCM Extracts, HCM Data Loader (HDL), BI Publisher and OTBI.
• Payroll flows, Fast Formulas and integration with related HCM modules.
• REST/SOAP services and Oracle Integration Cloud or equivalent integration tooling.
• Quarterly release impact assessment and regression testing.
For Oracle E-Business Suite Payroll assignments:
• PL/SQL, Oracle APIs, concurrent programmes and relevant HRMS/Payroll data structures.
• Fast Formulas, interfaces, custom reports and approved extensions.
• Payroll patch impact assessment, testing and deployment support.
Candidates should demonstrate depth in the platform relevant to the assignment; experience across both is advantageous.
Desirable experience
• Delivery within UK government, public sector or other secure environments.
• Oracle Payroll implementation, migration or major upgrade projects.
• Integration with Oracle Financials, time and absence systems, pension providers and banking interfaces.
• Payroll costing, retrospective calculations and complex reconciliation.
• Relevant Oracle HCM or Payroll certification.
• Agile delivery, version control and structured release management.