We are currently looking for an Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll Senior Consultant to strengthen the Cronos Europa team.
As a member of our team, you will support a strategic payroll transformation initiative involving the assessment and potential migration from a legacy payroll platform to Oracle Cloud Payroll. You will act as a senior subject matter expert, performing payroll fit-gap analysis, readiness assessments, implementation planning, and providing recommendations to support executive decision-making.
Assignment Details
- Start Date: 07 September 2026
- End Date: 12 January 2027
- Extension: The assignment may be extended by up to 50% of the initial duration.
Responsibilities
- Gather and review payroll-related documentation, including business rules, configurations, customisations, interfaces, extensions, and reporting mechanisms.
- Analyse the current payroll environment and understand business processes and organisational challenges.
- Conduct detailed fit-gap analyses between the existing payroll solution and Oracle Cloud Payroll capabilities.
- Identify areas where standard Oracle Payroll functionality can meet business requirements and highlight potential functional and technical gaps.
- Assess complex payroll requirements including retroactive processing, gross-to-net calculations, costing, pension schemes, multi-contract scenarios, and statutory obligations.
- Evaluate configuration and extension approaches using Oracle best practices and available Oracle HCM technologies.
- Analyse impacts on surrounding domains such as Core HR, Benefits, Pensions, Finance, Reporting, and Compliance.
- Define high-level implementation roadmaps, project phases, dependencies, and critical-path activities.
- Estimate implementation efforts related to configuration, data migration, integrations, testing, training, and go-live support.
- Perform readiness assessments covering data, processes, systems, governance, and organisational capabilities.
- Identify project risks, mitigation measures, assumptions, and prerequisites.
- Produce executive-level deliverables including assessment reports, migration roadmaps, recommendations, presentations, and decision-support materials.
- Facilitate workshops and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Technical Skills
- Extensive experience with Oracle Cloud Payroll.
- Strong expertise in:
- Payroll Elements Configuration
- Fast Formulas
- Payroll Balances
- Costing
- Retro Pay Processing
- Off-Cycle Payrolls
- Payroll Flows
- Hands-on experience with Oracle HCM technical tools such as:
- HCM Extracts
- HDL (HCM Data Loader)
- BI Publisher
- REST/SOAP APIs
- Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
- Proven experience conducting payroll fit-gap analyses and migration assessments.
- Experience defining payroll testing strategies, including:
- Unit Testing
- System Integration Testing (SIT)
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Parallel Payroll Runs
- Strong knowledge of payroll data migration, cleansing, conversion, and validation activities.
- Understanding of payroll integrations with HR, Finance, and reporting systems.
- Knowledge of highly regulated payroll environments.
- Experience with PeopleSoft Global Payroll is considered a strong asset, particularly:
- Elements and Brackets Configuration
- Retroactivity Logic
- Pay Calendars and Segmentation
- Rules-Based Engines and Custom Extensions
Profile
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Human Resources Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in payroll transformation, payroll implementation, or Oracle HCM Payroll consulting.
- Participation in at least one full Oracle Payroll Cloud implementation project within a large or highly regulated organisation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to produce high-quality functional and technical documentation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- Ability to communicate complex payroll concepts to both technical and business audiences.
- Strong organisational and planning capabilities.
- Fluency in English is mandatory
Why Cronos Group?
We'll propose you:
- An attractive salary package
- A good work-life balance environment
- The assurance of working in cutting-edge technologies in an entrepreneurial spirit.
- The opportunity to develop your skills thanks to tailor-made training courses according to your needs
- A good job in a friendly place
If you wish to integrate a dynamic structure on a human scale while working with the latest technologies, don't wait anymore and join Cronos!
