Sr Financial System Specialist - Oracle Fusion HCM (Payroll)

Job Purpose:
The Senior Financial Systems Specialist - Payroll role is responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and support of critical enterprise payroll systems while ensuring adherence to generally accepted accounting principles, regulatory reporting requirements and internal controls. Incumbents apply specialized knowledge in payroll, accounting, and systems to solve complex problems or implement new or modified business processes.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Implement new and on-going payroll initiatives while collaborating with HR, IT, and other business partners by taking accountability and ensuring work is accomplished proficiently.
• Lead and support quarter and annual work; W2/W2c processing, Incentive payments (annual & quarterly) and Open Enrollment initiatives and Year-End processing.
• Provides support for management of the payroll system, new reporting requirements, or improvements to current processes.
• Understands transaction level accounting flow and presents solutions to senior team members that lead to efficient accounting processes including associated financial system and process controls.
• Participates on project teams as a SME within or external to Finance on the payroll system, including participation in business requirement gathering, creation and review and may participate in system requirement development.
• Provides support on payroll applications for problem resolution, report writing and enhancements and monthly update processes. Provides support for management of a one or more financial system's new products, new reporting requirements, or improvements to current processes.
• Resolves system and/or business process problems and issues and/or mitigate risks to systems and business process.
• Configures the payroll and finance system to achieve desired outcomes including complex payroll rules and/or chartfield maintenance.
• Monitors interfaces between or within the payroll system and resolves out of balance issues identified in reconciliation processes in collaboration with IT.
• Assists in the development of business project plans and implementation plans to support major deliverables of applications.
• Validates system-testing results prior to implementation of new or enhanced interfaces and provide support to impacted areas.
• Identifies and recommends improvements to the payroll systems and to payroll team management.
• Assists senior team members in the development of training materials and may conduct training sessions on new processes and modules.
• Serve as a point of contact for Finance, HR, and IT to acquire and share information relative to new or existing payroll system interfaces which includes maintenance and implementation of interfaces.
• Collaborates with peers and different levels of management in Finance, HR, and IT to ensure priorities are clearly articulated. Responsible for escalating requests on behalf of business users.
• May be the single point of contact for finance areas and IT to acquire and share information relative to new or existing financial system interfaces which includes maintenance and implementation of financial interfaces.
• May develop data structures to support financial process (e.g. such as data cube, data transformation, etc.)
• May query data to support payroll process.
• May mentor junior team members.
• The essential functions listed represent the major duties of this role, additional duties may be assigned.

What You Must Have:

• 5+ years payroll related work experience
• Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience Payroll, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Information Systems or related
• End user experience using Oracle Fusion HCM
• Experience in multi-state taxation including but not limited to state, city, local, school district tax withholding requirements
• Experience in the set-up of benefit plans with a working knowledge of pre-tax, taxable and imputed income set-up
• Intermediate to proficient knowledge in accounting, auditing or business processes of the technology being supported.
  Working knowledge of and experience supporting HCM related financial systems
  Experience participating as a subject matter expert in system implementations or system upgrades of Oracle HCM.Familiar with project management terminology.

What We Would Prefer You Have:

• Bachelor's degree Accounting
  Master's degree MBA, MACC, MSIT or related
• Strong accounting or related auditing experience.
• Working knowledge of PeopleSoft HRIS and ERP Financial systems.
• Intermediate to advanced SQL knowledge or related query language
• Working knowledge of project methodologies including Waterfall or Agile.
• Experience with documenting Visio Process Flows and Application Integration Diagrams
• Experience working in a large, complex corporate environment
• Experience working in the health care industry
• May have a professional designation such as MBA or CPP.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to effectively collaborate within and across teams.
• Ability to multi-task and handle several assignments concurrently while still meeting deadlines.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

General Physical Demands
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

Physical/Environmental Activities
Must be able to travel to multiple locations for work (i.e. travel to attend meetings, events, conferences). Occasionally

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