Senior Oracle Cloud Payroll Functional Consultant

Company Description

For over 29 years, Version 1 has partnered with leading global brands to deliver digital, cloud, and enterprise application solutions that drive business success. We are proud to be recognised as:

• Oracle Innovation Partner of the Year 2023 (EMEA)
• Microsoft Global Partner of the Year (Modernising Applications)
• AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year (EMEA)
• One of the Best Workplaces for Women in the UK & Ireland (2023)

Version 1 has 3,700+ people and revenues exceeding €347m/£302m, and is a market leader in Oracle, Microsoft, and AWS consulting services – and one of the fastest-growing digital consultancies in Europe.

Senior Oracle Cloud Payroll Functional Consultant

We’re a multi-award-winning, values-led consultancy trusted by global organisations and recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in the UK & Ireland. Our Oracle Cloud practice is growing rapidly and is widely regarded as one of the strongest and most credible in the market.

• Enterprise-scale Oracle Cloud programmes across a wide range of industries
• A senior, influential role shaping Payroll solutions, standards, and delivery approaches
• Funded Oracle certifications, structured career pathways, and long-term investment in you
• Hybrid working, real work-life balance, and a culture built on trust
• An employee Profit Share scheme, so you share directly in the success you help create

As a Senior Oracle Cloud Payroll Functional Consultant
, you will:

• Lead the end-to-end design of complex Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll solutions
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, guiding strategy, best practice, and solution direction
• Own and quality-assure functional configuration, documentation, and key deliverables
• Mentor, coach, and develop junior and mid-level consultants within the Oracle practice
• Play a pivotal role in pre-sales, including:
  • Delivering compelling, high-impact demonstrations
  • Shaping solution designs, scope, and proposals
  • Providing authoritative insight into Oracle Cloud Payroll capabilities and roadmaps
• Facilitate advanced design workshops and translate requirements into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions
• Work closely with technical, integration, and delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes

What You’ll Bring

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience delivering Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll, ideally across multiple end-to-end implementations
• Deep functional and configuration expertise, including:
  • Fast Formula
  • Element design
  • Payroll process flows
  • Calculation cards
• Strong workshop facilitation and solution documentation skills
• Confidence operating in pre-sales and client-facing environments
• OTBI reporting and/or SQL capability
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Desirable Experience

• Experience across related HCM modules, such as:
  • Absence Management
  • Benefits
  • Compensation Workbench
• Experience defining standards, accelerators, or methodologies within an Oracle Cloud practice

Why Version 1?

• Strong career progression & mentorship through our Strength in Balance and leadership programmes, including quarterly Pathways Career Development reviews.
• Significant training budget for certifications and further education.
• Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & Call-Out recognition platform celebrating achievement.
• Moments that matter & enhanced maternity/paternity leave policies to support your journey.
• Active ESG & CSR initiatives, allowing you to give back through fundraising, volunteering, and diversity, inclusion & belonging programmes.

• Quarterly performance-related profit share
• Hybrid / Remote working flexibility
• Pension, private healthcare, life assurance cover
• Certified Great Place to Work for 10+ years running

This is hybrid based with occasional travel to your nearest base office.

Ashley Billington, Head of Talent Acquisition – Enterprise Applications (Oracle Cloud - ERP, HCM, EPM)

We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at:
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Version 1 Careers

Please note:

We have an internal recruitment team and do not accept agency candidates. If you want to join the team here at Version 1, get in touch with us directly!