Senior Consultant (Oracle Cloud Payroll & OTL)

Methodology: Follow the methodology and Business Operating Model for your area. Lead and drive contribution to the methodology and Business Operating Model for your area, participating in the development and maintenance of all documentation, templates and tooling.
Stakeholder management: Interact and influence client project team stakeholders and assist them in taking key decisions for Oracle implementation programs.
Workshops & meetings: Plan and lead the delivery of client facing workshops and meetings, demonstrating significant domain knowledge and experience in your area of expertise.
Documentation & deliverables: Create well-structured & accurate deliverables relevant to your area of expertise such as project plans, requirements, business processes, design & configuration documents, specifications, test plans and other artefacts.
Commercial: Manage the time/budget allocation for your team's tasks. Monitor own billable utilisation against target. Identify opportunities to increase own utilization.
Quality management: Ensure quality standards are adhered to for your team and support in improving quality standards in the business.
Risk management: Highlight any project risks relating to your workstream and other project activity, proposing mitigations where applicable. Manage any project risks relating to your workstream.
Internal knowledge sharing/skills development: Share your knowledge, experience, and best practices within the team and your extended network. Contribute to or lead Professional Learning Communities relevant to your area of expertise. Proactively keep up-to-date and develop skills relevant to your area of expertise. Take the lead on understanding new products and disseminating this to the wider practice.
Sales/business development: Understand the products and services that Symatrix offers. During projects, identify and encourage the identification of opportunities to provide additional services and products that could be beneficial to the client. Contribute to sales processes e.g. responding to ITT, RFP, RFI's; participating in sales presentations; estimating and planning of relevant workstreams.
Practice Development: Proactively look for ways to drive Symatrix forward. Suggest ideas for innovation. Lead activities to develop the Consulting Team's capability and resources (e.g. processes, tools & collateral).

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Essential:
• Has excellent knowledge of designing and configuring Oracle Cloud Payroll solutions including; payroll elements, fast formula & pension schemes.
• Has excellent knowledge of designing and configuring Oracle Cloud Absence Management solutions including; absence types, absence plans, accrual calculations, UK statutory absence setup & absence fast formula.
• Excellent knowledge of implementing Oracle Cloud Time & Labor
• 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
• Has strong commercial awareness
• Has excellent presentation skills
• Is well organised and structured in approach
• Has strong written and verbal communication skills
• Has excellent client management skills
• Is emotionally intelligent and compassionate, who encourages a culture in which every team member can be themselves and thrive at Symatrix.
• Has a motivation to ensure that Symatrix continues to grow and improve
• Has a willingness to travel and be away from home
• Is UK based
• Is eligible to obtain SC level security clearance

Desirable:
• Has knowledge and implementation experience of the following: Core Human Resources, Benefits, Workforce Compensation, Autocomplete, Oracle Digital Assistant, Oracle Guided Learning, Alerts Composer, Reporting/BI tools (OTBI / BI Publisher)
• Has experience in Applications Security, Approvals and extensibility tools (Visual Builder Studio, HCM Experience Design Studio, Page Composer and Flex Fields) functionality and configuration
• Has experience working in an environment alongside other Oracle Cloud products such as: Service Cloud (CX), ERP (Finance & Procurement), Planning & Budgeting (EPM)
• Has experience of supporting pre-sales activities, including responding to ITT/RFPs

Preferred technical and professional experience

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Job ID: IBM-52761

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-14T18:50:55