Sr. Oracle Cloud HCM & Payroll Analyst

Accountabilities: Manage Oracle Cloud HCM applications: Provide day-to-day technical and functional support for Oracle Cloud HCM, Payroll, and Recruiting modules, ensuring system stability, reliability, and alignment with business requirements. Resolve incidents and system issues: Manage support tickets related to enhancements, defects, and bug fixes, including report corrections, interface modifications, configuration updates, new feature implementations, and security role changes. Coordinate technical troubleshooting: Collaborate with Oracle Support and relevant technical teams to investigate complex issues, implement fixes, and minimize disruption to business operations. Strengthen incident management: Record, monitor, report, and resolve business incidents involving Oracle Cloud HCM while identifying root causes and implementing preventive measures to reduce recurring issues. Support quarterly releases: Assess the impact of Oracle Cloud updates, analyze new capabilities, perform proof-of-concept activities, and coordinate regression testing, validation, and user acceptance testing (UAT). Translate business requirements: Work with business stakeholders to understand operational challenges, gather requirements, assess system limitations, and recommend application enhancements that improve efficiency and user experience. Develop functional and technical specifications: Convert high-level business requirements into detailed functional specifications and collaborate with relevant teams to ensure accurate implementation. Maintain system documentation: Document configuration changes, enhancements, technical solutions, and system updates to support governance, knowledge sharing, and long-term maintainability. Support user training and adoption: Develop training materials and provide guidance to users on new functionality, system changes, and improved processes to encourage effective adoption. Collaborate with implementation partners: Work closely with external implementation and managed services partners, ensuring effective knowledge transfer, visibility into ongoing work, and continuity of application support. Contribute to continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to optimize Oracle Cloud HCM capabilities, streamline workflows, improve reporting, and support the development of a roadmap for future enhancements. Support integrations and reporting: Maintain and enhance reporting capabilities, interfaces, and data-related processes to ensure accurate, accessible, and actionable business information. Requirements Professional experience: At least 7 years of hands-on experience in Oracle HCM configuration, implementation, application support, or a related technical and functional role. Oracle Fusion HCM expertise: Strong practical knowledge of Oracle Fusion HCM, including core HCM functionality, Payroll, Time & Absence, and Recruiting modules. Technical development skills: Experience with Oracle HCM development and related technologies, including SQL, PL/SQL, reporting tools, and shell scripting. Database and query expertise: Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of Oracle HCM databases, data structures, and associated technical tools. Reporting and analytics: Experience supporting Oracle Cloud HCM reporting capabilities, particularly BI Publisher and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) reports. Oracle platform knowledge: Strong understanding of Oracle HCM common features, native tools, configuration capabilities, and application support practices. Integration and data management: Familiarity with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and related integration technologies is beneficial. Experience with HCM Data Loader (HDL), HCM Extracts, BI Publisher, and OTBI is also preferred. Implementation experience: Previous experience implementing HCM, Payroll, Time & Absence, or Oracle Recruiting Cloud functionality in a global business environment is an advantage. Analytical and problem-solving abilities: Strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, and the ability to investigate complex issues, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions. Continuous learning: Willingness and ability to learn new Oracle Cloud infrastructure tools, technologies, and platform capabilities as business needs evolve. Ownership and independence: Ability to manage assigned tasks autonomously, prioritize competing requirements, meet deadlines, and take responsibility for delivering high-quality outcomes. Communication and collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, technical teams, Oracle Support, and external service providers. Documentation and training: Ability to produce clear technical documentation, functional specifications, and user training materials to support system maintenance and successful adoption. Remote working readiness: Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in a distributed team environment. Benefits Fully remote work: Work from home anywhere in India, offering flexibility without a daily office commute. Full-time employment: A full-time opportunity within a corporate business systems environment. Technical development: Build on your Oracle Cloud HCM, Payroll, and Recruiting expertise while gaining exposure to evolving cloud technologies and enterprise applications. Continuous learning: Develop your knowledge of Oracle quarterly releases, integrations, reporting tools, automation, and new platform capabilities. Cross-functional collaboration: Work with business stakeholders, technical specialists, and external implementation partners in a global operating environment. Process improvement opportunities: Contribute to system enhancements, application optimization, and initiatives that improve business efficiency and user experience. Meaningful technical ownership: Take responsibility for application support, troubleshooting, testing, and continuous improvement across critical HR and payroll systems. Compensation and additional benefits: Salary, performance incentives, healthcare coverage, paid leave, and other employment benefits were not specified in the provided job description.