Fusion Payroll & Benefits Techno-Functional Lead

Role: Fusion Payroll & Benefits Techno-Functional Lead

Location: Crawley UK

Contract (Inside IR35)

Role description:

This role requires a blend of technical and functional expertise in Oracle Fusion HCM modules, and strong leadership skills to successfully lead implementation project and support ongoing operations in the HCM domain.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide L2/L3 support for Oracle Fusion UK Payroll, ensuring timely resolution of incidents

Support end-to-end UK payroll cycles, including:

• Pre-payroll validations
• Payroll calculation and auditing
• Payment processing and costing
• Post-payroll reconciliation and reporting

Handle UK-specific statutory payroll processes, including:

• RTI Submissions (FPS, EPS)
• P45, P46, P60, P11D
• Statutory Payments (SMP, SSP, SAP, SPP, SHPP)
• Apprenticeship Levy
• Student Loans & Postgraduate Loans
• Auto-enrolment Pension
• Support statutory integration with HMRC

Analyze and resolve payroll issues related to:

• Payroll Elements and Balances
• Fast Formulas (Payroll, Calculation, Absence)
• Payroll Flow orchestration
• Costing and accounting integration
• Conduct Quarterly update (Patches) impact analysis and regression testing, ensuring UK statutory changes are validated
• Collaborate with business teams and provide functional requirements documentation, configuration and testing support
• Prepare support documentation (SOPs), issue RCA and functional design documents

Key skills/knowledge/experience :

• Strong hands-on understanding of UK-specific statutory rules:
• PAYE, NI categories, Tax codes
• RTI (FPS, EPS, NVR)
• Pension auto-enrolment
• Statutory Payments (SMP/SSP/etc.)
• Apprenticeship Levy
• Expertise in:
• Payroll configuration (Elements, Balances, Rate Definitions)
• Fast Formulas
• HCM Extracts
• HDL/HSDL
• Experience supporting monthly/weekly payroll cycles in a production environment with SLAs
• Strong experience handling Fusion quarterly statutory updates for UK

Person specification:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.