Oracle Payroll Lead in Calgary

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.

As an Oracle consulting generalist at PwC, you will possess a broad range of consulting skills and experience across various Oracle applications. You will provide consulting services to clients, analysing their needs, implementing software solutions, and offering training and support for effective utilisation of Oracle applications. Your versatile knowledge will allow you to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency and achieving their strategic objectives.

The Opportunity

Your role will include, but isn’t limited to:

• Facilitate discovery, requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, payroll reconciliation and solution design workshops focused on Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll with business and IT stakeholders.
• Own the functional design and configuration of the Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll module, ensuring alignment with business requirements, compliance needs, and Oracle leading practices.
• Provide subject matter expertise on payroll processes, including payroll elements, balances, fast formulas, costing, payment methods, payroll flows, and legislative requirements.
• Develop and maintain key project deliverables, such as solution design documents, configuration workbooks, interface specifications, conversion mapping documents, and process maps.
• Collaborate with project managers on plans, RAID logs, resource estimates, and status reporting; accelerate risks and drive mitigation.
• Collaborate with technical teams on integrations, reports, data conversions, and extensions that support payroll processing and downstream financial or third-party vendor requirements.
• Provide cross-functional guidance on upstream and downstream impacts across related Oracle HCM modules, including Core HR, Absence Management, Time and Labor, Benefits, and Compensation.
• Demonstrate hands-on experience across the full implementation lifecycle, including discovery, design, payroll configuration and reconciliation, security, integrations, data conversion, payroll balancing, reporting, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and post-production hypercare.
• Hands-on proficiency with: Configuration: HCM design studio, page composer, Redwood UX, journeys/Oracle ME. Data migration: HDL/HSDL, Spreadsheet Loader, HCM Extracts. Reporting: OTBI, BI Publisher, dashboards, KPIs. Integrations: OIC/ICS, REST/SOAP APIs, HCM Extracts, SFTP/file-based. Fast Formulas (Absence, Benefits, Payroll, Time), payroll elements, balances (if applicable). Security: role design, duty roles, aggregate privileges, data roles, approval workflows.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and presentation skills; ability to translate complex concepts into business-friendly language.
• Oracle Cloud HCM Implementation Specialist certifications in one or more modules (e.g., Payroll, Global Human Resources, Absence Management, Time and Labor, Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits) strongly preferred.

What You’ll Bring

Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here’s what we look for:

• Minimum 6 Yrs. of relevant experience in Oracle Cloud HCM.
• Must have worked on a minimum of 2 end-to-end payroll implementations.
• The candidate is expected to be able to work independently and as part of a team, being able to demonstrate an ability to develop other colleagues.
• Must have at least 2 full projects experience, through go live, including payroll reconciliation.
• Ability to understand, analyze and solve both explicit and implicit requirements.

This newly created role reflects our commitment to growth and delivering distinctive value for our clients and stakeholders.

The salary range for this position is $112,400 - $162,400. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life.

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.