Functional HRIS Analyst

Profile: 

Functional Ownership & Business Partnership:

• Act as a functional subject matter expert for Oracle HCM Cloud, ensuring system behavior accurately reflects HR business processes.

• Partner closely with HR process leads, HRBPs, Talent, Learning, and Absence stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable system solutions.

• Provide functional guidance and challenge requests where necessary to promote process standardization, data quality, and long term sustainability.

Requirements, Change & Governance:

• Conduct functional business analysis to assess impacts of new requirements, enhancements, and regulatory or organizational changes.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and configuration decisions.

• Contribute to HRIS governance, ensuring changes follow agreed design principles, documentation standards, and approval processes.

Release & Testing Management:

• Contribute to the functional impact analysis for Oracle quarterly releases.

• Define functional test scenarios and coordinate regression testing with HR stakeholders.

• Validate that delivered changes meet business expectations before production deployment.

Data, Reporting & Functional Controls:

• Ensure functional data integrity and consistency across employee, assignment, absence, and talent data.

• Define and validate functional reporting requirements (OTBI, extracts), ensuring outputs align with HR and business needs.

Stakeholder Enablement & Support:

• Support HR users through functional guidance.

• Act as an escalation point for complex functional questions related to Oracle HCM Cloud behavior.

• Contribute to building functional HRIS knowledge across the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Basic requirements (Education, Level of Experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/IT/related engineering. 

• Oracle HCM Cloud certification(s) are a must.

• Minimum 8-10 years of experience out of which 4-6 years in HRIS (Oracle HCM Cloud).

• Experience in a global or multi country HR environment, with understanding of global HR processes and governance, preferably with manufacturing companies.

Functional & System Knowledge

• Strong functional understanding of Oracle HCM Cloud, with hands on experience across the majority of below modules: 

• Talent Management

• Recruiting

• Learning

• Deep understanding of Oracle HCM module interdependencies and end to end HR process flows.

• Experience contributing to functional module implementations, upgrades, and process improvements.

• Exposure to reporting (OTBI, BIP) from a functional requirements and validation perspective.

• Awareness of Oracle release management, regression testing, and functional troubleshooting.

• Technical knowledge of integration tools or reporting technologies is considered an asset, but not the primary focus of the role.

Skills

• Strong functional and business acumen, with the ability to translate HR needs into system configuration decisions.

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

• Strong communication skills, able to explain system behavior and design choices to non technical stakeholders.