Oracle Technical Manager, Payroll Solutions

Oracle Technical Manager, Payroll Solutions

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We’re hiring an Oracle Technical Manager – UK Payroll Solutions to lead the design, development, and delivery of high-quality technical solutions that enable seamless and compliant payroll operations across the UK.

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• Requirements Gathering & Analysis:
  Collect, analyse, and document business requirements for payroll, timekeeping, absence management, and related reporting, engaging stakeholders to translate needs into functional specifications.
• Techno-Functional Documentation:
  Develop detailed technical and functional documentation that translates business requirements into actionable specifications for implementation by self or application support teams.
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with cross-functional teams, including hotel and corporate HR and Finance teams, to ensure alignment with IHG’s system needs. Facilitate workshops and meetings to gather input and feedback from stakeholders, ensuring that both business and technical perspectives are considered.
• Facilitate Communication:
  Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, providing updates on project status and ensuring clarity on requirements and timelines.
• Problem Solving & System Validation:
  Identify and resolve payroll system issues, manage relationships with third-party providers, and conduct user acceptance testing to validate system changes.
• Process Optimization:
  Analyze current payroll, timekeeping, and absence management processes to identify opportunities for improvement. Provide techno-functional insights to enhance system capabilities, streamline workflows, and increase efficiency and accuracy.

• Strong knowledge of Oracle Fusion HCM (UK Payroll, Time & Labour, Absence modules) with a solid grasp of configuration of technical data and system architecture.
• Knowledge of statutory UK employment legislation, taxation, and/or payroll calculations.
• Experienced with UKG Workforce Management (Timekeeping, Accruals, Leave Management).
• Ability to bridge technical and functional requirements, ensuring payroll processes are accurate, compliant, and continuously improved.
• Exposure to managing absence plan solutions across multiple regions would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across business and technical teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and capable of interpreting complex requirements for informed decision making.
• Experience in project management or process improvement is a plus to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Closing date for applications Tuesday 6th January 2026.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life:…