Oracle Cloud Time and Labor / Absence Functional Lead (1652)

Oracle Cloud Time and Labor and Absence Functional Lead Public Sector K-12 | Maryland | Full-Time, Permanent ABOUT HIGHSTREET Highstreet helps public sector organizations modernize through Oracle Cloud technology and services. With more than 30 years of public sector experience, we combine deep Oracle expertise with a client-focused approach to delivering successful transformations. We offer a progressive work environment along with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. highstreetit.com OVERVIEW The Oracle Cloud Time and Labor and Absence Functional Lead will provide functional leadership for a full life cycle Oracle Cloud implementation for a public sector K-12 client located in Maryland. This role will lead the design, configuration, validation, testing, deployment, and stabilization of Oracle Time and Labor and Oracle Absence Management and their integrations with Global Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Financials, and related third-party systems. The Functional Lead will serve as the primary subject matter expert for time entry, time processing, scheduling, absence plans, accruals, eligibility, approvals, and Fast Formula. The role combines hands-on configuration expertise, strong client-facing leadership, and knowledge of complex public sector workforce and pay practices to deliver an accurate, compliant, scalable, and supportable solution. The client is transitioning from Oracle E-Business Suite R12 to Oracle Cloud. Experience assessing legacy time, labor, leave, accrual, formula, interface, report, and historical-data requirements and determining appropriate Oracle Cloud replacement and conversion strategies is strongly preferred. State, Local, and Education (SLED) experience, particularly with public sector K-12 organizations, is highly preferred but not required. Travel to the client site in Maryland Monday through Thursday may be required. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES •  Lead the Oracle Time and Labor and Absence Management workstream through discovery, requirements, design, configuration, conference room pilots, testing, deployment, stabilization, and transition to support. •  Facilitate client discovery and design workshops; gather and document business requirements; lead fit-gap analysis; and guide process improvements using Oracle leading practices. •  Own the end-to-end functional solution and hands-on configuration for time entry, time card layouts, time categories, time processing profiles, time consumer sets, approvals, validation rules, scheduling, absence types, absence plans, accruals, eligibility, certifications, carryover, donations, and applicable Fast Formula. •  Assess the client’s Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and other legacy time and absence solutions and support mapping of configurations, customizations, interfaces, reports, formulas, and data to Oracle Cloud. •  Partner with Global HR, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Financials, technical, integration, data, reporting, security, change management, and testing leads to deliver an integrated solution. •  Define functional requirements for time clocks, scheduling systems, payroll interfaces, conversions, reports, extracts, extensions, approvals, and third-party vendor integrations. •  Lead data conversion and validation activities for absence enrollments, balances, accruals, schedules, time-card history, and other approved legacy data. •  Develop testing strategies and detailed scenarios for unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, payroll-impact validation, and end-to-end time-to-pay processes. •  Validate the downstream payroll impact of time and absence configurations, including overtime, premiums, differentials, supplemental pay, retroactive changes, leave without pay, and costing. •  Lead client knowledge-transfer, validation, and training sessions for timekeepers, managers, HR and payroll administrators, business process owners, and support teams. •  Lead and coordinate onshore and offshore functional resources, assign configuration and testing activities, review deliverables, mentor team members, and hold resources accountable for quality and schedule commitments. •  Provide functional leadership during cutover, go-live, and stabilization, including production issue triage, root-cause analysis, correction, reconciliation, and support for at least 30 days after deployment. •  Communicate status, risks, issues, dependencies, scope impacts, decisions, and recommendations to the Project Manager, Project Director, client HCM and payroll leadership, and executive stakeholders. •  Identify requirements or decisions that affect scope and support the development and evaluation of change requests. •  Stay current on Oracle Cloud Time and Labor and Absence Management quarterly releases and regulatory changes and assess their impact on the solution and operating model. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS •  7+ years of Oracle HCM implementation experience, including substantial hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Time and Labor and Absence Management. •  Experience leading at least three Oracle Cloud HCM implementations, including hands-on configuration and full life cycle delivery responsibility. •  Deep functional knowledge of Oracle Time and Labor configuration, time entry and processing, approvals, schedules, time rules, validations, and integration with Payroll. •  Deep functional knowledge of Oracle Absence Management, including absence types, plans, accruals, eligibility, certifications, carryover, balance adjustments, and payroll integration. •  Strong Oracle Fast Formula skills related to Time and Labor, Absence Management, eligibility, accruals, validations, and payroll-impacting rules. •  Experience integrating Time and Labor and Absence Management with Global Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Financials, and third-party systems. •  Experience leading requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, solution design, conference room pilots, configuration, testing, training, deployment, and post-go-live support. •  Ability to translate business, collective bargaining, policy, and regulatory requirements into scalable Oracle Cloud configurations and clearly explain solution options, trade-offs, risks, and impacts. •  Experience developing functional design documentation, configuration workbooks, process flows, testing scenarios, test scripts, reconciliation procedures, and user-facing materials. •  Strong client-facing consulting, facilitation, presentation, stakeholder management, and decision-driving skills. •  Experience leading functional teams in an onshore/offshore delivery model and collaborating across functional and technical workstreams. •  Excellent written and verbal communication, analytical, organizational, mentoring, and problem-solving skills. •  Bachelor’s degree in human resources, information technology, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. PREFERRED EXPERIENCE •  Significant experience with Oracle E-Business Suite R12 or other legacy time and absence solutions and migration to Oracle Cloud Time and Labor and Absence Management. •  SLED experience, particularly with public sector K-12 school systems, higher education institutions, or other government organizations. •  Experience with complex public sector workforce requirements, including multiple employee groups, unions or collective bargaining agreements, multiple work calendars, school-year schedules, overtime, premiums, substitutes, supplemental assignments, and leave policies. •  Functional experience with Oracle Cloud Payroll, Global Human Resources, Benefits, Compensation, or related HCM modules. •  Oracle Cloud Time and Labor or Absence Management certification. •  Experience with Oracle Cloud release 21 or later and current quarterly release functionality. •  Experience working for a systems integrator or consulting organization and leading client-facing delivery teams. EMPLOYMENT TYPE / LOCATION / TRAVEL •  Full-time, permanent position. •  Travel to the client site Monday through Thursday may be required. Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer