Oracle Payroll lead

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery, requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, payroll reconciliation, and solution-design workshops with business and IT stakeholders.
• Own Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll functional design and configuration, aligning the solution with business requirements, compliance needs, and Oracle practices.
• Advise on payroll elements, balances, fast formulas, costing, payment methods, payroll flows, and legislative requirements.
• Maintain solution design documents, configuration workbooks, interface specifications, conversion mappings, and process maps.
• Coordinate project plans, RAID logs, resource estimates, and status reporting; escalate risks and drive mitigation.
• Collaborate with technical teams on integrations, reports, data conversions, and extensions for payroll and downstream financial or vendor needs.
• Guide cross-functional work involving Core HR, Absence Management, Time and Labor, Benefits, and Compensation.
• Contribute to security, integrations, conversion, payroll balancing, reporting, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and post-production hypercare.

Technical Skills

• Hands-on configuration experience with HCM Design Studio, Page Composer, Redwood UX, and Journeys / Oracle ME.
• Data migration experience with HDL/HSDL, Spreadsheet Loader, and HCM Extracts.
• Reporting experience with OTBI, BI Publisher, dashboards, and KPIs.
• Integration experience with OIC/ICS, REST/SOAP APIs, HCM Extracts, and SFTP or file-based integrations.
• Experience with fast formulas, payroll elements, balances where applicable, role and duty design, aggregate privileges, data roles, and approval workflows.

Candidate Requirements

• At least 6 years of relevant Oracle Cloud HCM experience.
• Experience on at least 2 end-to-end payroll implementations.
• At least 2 full project experiences through go-live, including payroll reconciliation.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and presentation skills; able to explain complex topics in business-friendly language.
• Able to work independently and with a team, develop colleagues, and analyze and solve explicit and implicit requirements.
• Oracle Cloud HCM Implementation Specialist certification in one or more modules is strongly preferred.

Compensation

• Posted salary range is CAD 112,400–CAD 162,400; ranges may vary by location.
• Eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs.