Oracle Cloud Payroll Functional Lead
Public Sector K-12 | Maryland | Full-Time, Permanent
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Highstreet helps public sector organizations modernize through Oracle Cloud technology and services. With more than 30 years of public sector experience, we combine deep Oracle expertise with a client-focused approach to delivering successful transformations. We offer a progressive work environment along with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. highstreetit.com
OVERVIEW
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 located in Maryland. This role will lead the design, configuration, validation, testing, deployment, and stabilization of Oracle Cloud Payroll and its integrations with Global Human Resources, Time and Labor, Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, Financials, and related third-party systems.
The Functional Lead will serve as the primary subject matter expert for payroll business processes and Oracle Cloud Payroll. The role combines hands-on configuration expertise, strong 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. Experience assessing R12 payroll configurations, elements, balances, formulas, interfaces, reports, and historical data and determining appropriate Oracle Cloud replacement and conversion strategies is strongly preferred. State, Local, and Education (SLED) experience, particularly with public sector K-12 organizations, is highly preferred but not required. Travel to the client site in Maryland Monday through Thursday may be required.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead the Oracle Cloud Payroll workstream through discovery, requirements, design, configuration, conference room pilots, testing, deployment, stabilization, and transition to support.
• Facilitate payroll discovery and design workshops; gather and document business requirements; lead fit-gap analysis; and guide process improvements using Oracle leading practices.
• Own the end-to-end Payroll functional solution and 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 of 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 activities, 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 testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and end-to-end payroll validation.
• Lead payroll parallel testing, including cycle planning, expected-result validation, variance analysis, reconciliation, defect management, sign-off criteria, and executive reporting of readiness.
• 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 hold resources accountable for 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 the 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.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
• 7+ years of Oracle HCM and Payroll implementation experience, including substantial hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Payroll.
• 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 clearly 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.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
• 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.
EMPLOYMENT TYPE / LOCATION / TRAVEL
• Full-time, permanent position.
• Client is a public sector K-12 organization located in Maryland.
• Travel to the client site Monday through Thursday may be required.
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