Job Introduction
Join the Oracle Fusion Programme Team on an exciting transformational journey! Are you analytical, technically minded and curious by nature, and looking for a new opportunity to utilise your skills?
We are inviting applications to play a pivotal role in the implementation for our new Oracle Fusion Solution. This is a unique opportunity to shape a joined-up Finance, HR and Payroll system that helps ensure the tools we use every day truly work for us and end users across the authority. It’s also a chance for you to develop your strategic thinking and experience of change management within a supportive project team.
We are recruiting to a vacancy in our HR and Payroll workstream, for a 12-month period. If you are technically minded and have a curious nature, then this role could be for you. Working alongside the functional business analyst, this role will focus on the technical areas of reporting and integrations, and provide support for data migration, technical testing and solution readiness. Therefore HR/payroll experience is not essential, it is more important that you have analytical and problem-solving capabilities, attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
Main Responsibility
As a key member of the programme team, you will:
- Analyse and coordinate reporting, integrations, and technical solution readiness activities in the HR and Payroll workstream
- Document and define requirements and specifications for reports, HR & Payroll interfaces, and other non-functional solution components.
- Actas the liaison between the HR & Payroll workstream: functional business analyst, business stakeholders, implementation partners, technical teams, and third-party suppliers to ensure end-to-end solution design aligns
- Compile data and insight from multiple sources.
- Identify opportunities to cleanse and improve data quality across our existing solutions
- Attend and contribute torelevantworkshops.
- Support testing and validation activities for reporting, integrations, and migrated data, ensuring solutions meet business requirements and quality standards
- Support solution readiness activity, including data quality, technical dependencies, cutover inputs, and cut-over preparations
The Ideal Candidate
The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:
- A sound understanding of working with various data sources.
- A good understanding of reporting
- Prior knowledge or willingness to learn about system integrations and exchange of information between systems, to support business processes
- Ability to manage prioritisation methods(such as MOSCOW -Must have, Should have, Could have, Would like to have)
- Good communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders to adhere toourproject principles of 'Adopt not Adapt'
- Analytical and problem-solving capabilities, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
- A team ethos, able to work within a workstream as well as cross-functionally with wider programme colleagues and stakeholders (both internal and external)
- A calm and organised approach under pressure.
There will be a requirement for a significant amount of office based working to support configuration and training throughout the project.
Interviews - will be held week beginning 14 September 2026 and you will be required to start as soon as possible.
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Debbie Haines or Bronya Jeffryes at deborah.haines@staffordshire.gov.uk or bronya.jeffryes@staffordshire.gov.uk
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of applications.
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
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