The posting
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.
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.
- 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).
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.
