Oracle HCM Functional Consultant (Payroll, Absence, Compensation & Benefits) - SC Clearance

International Business Machines Corporation; Leicester Forest East; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental & optical cover

Sabbatical program

Maternity/paternity leave

Salary sacrifice pension

Employee Assistance Program

Life assurance

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Senior Consultant to work on Oracle HCM/Payroll Cloud implementations across UK public and private sectors. You will contribute to all phases of the consulting lifecycle, including requirements analysis, process documentation and solution design.

You will collaborate with peers to develop, configure and deploy solutions, support proposals, and demonstrate capabilities to potential customers while advancing Oracle Cloud offerings.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Oracle Payroll Cloud implementations.
• Ability to design functional solutions and document requirements.
• Strong verbal and written communication with clients.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to all phases of consulting lifecycle from analysis to design.
• Support proposal development and client demos.
• Configure and deploy Oracle Cloud solutions for clients.

Skills

Oracle Payroll Cloud

Requirement Analysis

Solution Design

Functional Design

Client Facing

Project Governance

Interfaces & Integration

UK Payroll Knowledge

Tools

Oracle Cloud

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme

• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

Location: Flexible within the UK mainland, with occasional travel to client sites.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Consultant working as an integral part of a project team, you will contribute to all phases of the consulting lifecycle. You will play a customer-facing role and be involved in Requirement Analysis, Business Process Documentation & Solution Design. You will work with and support your peers to develop, configure and deploy the solution, and ensure project processes and deliverables in your area are met. In addition to project related activities, you will also contribute to proposal development, demonstrating the application to potential customers and play an important role in building our Oracle Cloud capabilities and offerings.

As an experienced consultant you will be a self-starter and have strong functional skills in the implementation of Oracle HCM/Payroll Cloud, backed up by proven hands-on experience, ideally across different industries. You will have the ability to work under pressure and must be able to communicate effectively with customer stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of our premier consulting firm working on the cutting edge of Cloud Implementations.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Up to 10 Years of functional experience delivering Oracle Payroll Cloud Applications.

• Multiple full Oracle Cloud Implementations cycles

• Demonstrated experience in Solution Design, Requirements Analysis, Functional Design Configuration Documentation, Troubleshooting and Integration Architecture

• Experience working with technical teams for Interface design, development and testing

• Ability to multi-task and to work independently

• Strong client facing, communication and client management skills

• A good understanding of Application Implementation methodologies

• Ability to travel to client sites

• Demonstrable functional skills:

• Has excellent knowledge of designing and configuring Oracle Payroll solutions including; payroll elements, fast formula, pension schemes & absence schemes.

• Sound understanding of related modules; Absence, Time & Labour, Compensation

• Has excellent, up to date knowledge of UK payroll legislative requirements including; PAYE and NI, Pensions Automatic Enrolment, Salary Sacrifice, statutory absence payments and RTI.

• Has strong client facing / consultancy experience

• Has proven, full lifecycle implementation experience of delivering Oracle based HCM solutions to medium and large enterprise clients

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience working with technical teams for Interface design, development and testing.

• Good domain knowledge of HCM and Payroll modules, with demonstrable knowledge of Absence and Time & Labour

• Leading project implementations

• Oracle Cloud Implementation Certification(s).

• Experience in Oracle Cloud Implementations and integrating them with other on premise or cloud applications.

• A good understanding of the broader Oracle Cloud functional areas e.g. Finance, HCM and Payroll, SCM, CX, Logistics.

• Good knowledge of the reporting and analytical tools available as part of Oracle Cloud.

• Some experience in pre-sales activities such as contributing to proposals, conducting Proof of Concepts & Configuring Sand-box environments for functional demonstrations.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.