Oracle Functional Consultant

**Job Title: Oracle Functional Consult** **ant (LABOR AND PAYROLL)** **Location: Toronto, ON** **Duration: Long Term Contract** **Background**: Client is migrating and upgrading on-premises Oracle E-Business, Oracle PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning, Taleo Recruitment, Applicant Management and Onboarding Applications, and Kronos Workforce Management System to the latest SaaS-based Cloud ERP Platform including Oracle Fusion HCM related cloud services. The Senior Functional Consultant - Oracle Fusion HCM and Payroll Cloud, performs a senior role in driving the business analysis function of a large and complex implementation of Oracle Fusion HCM related cloud services including HCM, Recruiting, Workforce Compensation, Payroll, Time and Labor, Talent Management, and Learning Cloud Services as part of ERP modernization program. Is a 'Content rich' person to assist the upcoming implementation of Oracle Fusion ERP HCM Time and Labor and Payroll and play a dual role of a senior-level business analyst responsible for successful design, implementation, and ongoing support of this platform. Work hand-in-hand with the Talent department in analyzing "as-is" state, defining the "to-be" state, and relevant data conversions, integrations and reporting requirements. Work with the Lead Business Analyst to define a detailed project plan and track milestones against it for on-time, and on-budget delivery of business requirements. Provide hands-on product expertise to the relevant talent functional users and IT technical staff to gather detailed functional and technical requirements. Be involved in evaluation and selection process as well as implementation of a third-party partner/system integrator solutions. Educate and assist the talent team to implement key business process flows based on the best practices embedded in the Oracle Fusion HCM related cloud services. Direct analysis and shaping of business requirements to determine most optimal product implementation by driving functional and technical design discussions with Talent, Finance and IT. Participate in workshops on Key Design Decisions and Enterprise Level Decision Making and reporting Structures to ensure a solid foundation for current and future business needs. Participate and conduct fit-gap analysis of standard out-of-the box delivered functionality of the cloud products against business requirements for subsequent solution and design effort. Eliminate those gaps either by changing existing business processes or building new extensions to the base cloud product without deviating too far from Oracle Fusion ERP cloud product roadmap. Work closely with implementation partner/system integrator to ensure various functional setups, technical work artifacts and project documents are produced as per the requirements. Responsible for preparing data for data migration from legacy Oracle system to Oracle Fusion including but not limited to extracting data, cleansing data, transforming data, and using load tools. Post data conversion, work with Team members to reconcile data for completeness, integrity, and quality before going into production. Assist Talent department with end user functional, system integration and User Acceptance Testing. Work with other internal users and implementation partners/system integrators to refine reporting requirements, drive data conversion, and integration with other 3rd party systems. Routinely review Oracle Fusion product release notes, roadmap documents to drive consumption of innovation in future releases of the product and implement if applicable. Work with Lead Business Analyst to drive a cadence of regression testing for each quarterly product release cycle. Maintain all implementation and post-implementation documentation. Perform hands-on work including but not limited to doing functional setups, create sandboxes, writing solution design documents and reports etc. Help administer the Oracle Cloud environment along with the IT Operational Team. Responsible for working within development and test environments to manage scheduled changes, patching, and enhancements. **Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**: Proven experience leading initial requirements analysis effort, documenting as-is and to-be business analysis and requirements using Azure DevOps or similar tool. Experience implementing ERP Applications in the area of HCM Workforce Compensation, Payroll, Time and Labor, Time and Attendance. Experience with ERP Cloud implementation methods. Solid Experience with data conversions, integrations with Oracle Fusion using FBDI, Open Interfaces, REST APIs. Experience with building custom extensions to Oracle Fusion ERP utilizing Personalizations, Fusion Sandboxs, Oracle PaaS/IaaS services. Expertise in one or more of the key HCM business flows including Workforce Compensation and Payroll Services, Time and Labor, Workforce Management Time and Attendance solutions. Demonstrated