Principal Oracle HCM Payroll Consultant in London

Are you an Oracle Cloud Payroll Consultant ready to take the next step in your career and help shape a growing Payroll capability? Sopra Steria’s Oracle Practice is growing its Payroll capability, and we are looking for an experienced Oracle Cloud Payroll Consultant to play a leading role in shaping its future. This is an opportunity for a senior consultant who wants more than project delivery, someone ready to influence strategy, build capability, and take a leading role in shaping Oracle Payroll within our practice.

You will work on high profile Oracle Cloud programmes, helping design and deliver innovative Payroll solutions for both Public and Private Sector clients, while contributing to the growth of our delivery capability - it is a chance to own your space, grow your profile, and drive real change within a leading Oracle practice.

What you will be doing:

• Leading full lifecycle Oracle Cloud Payroll implementations, from design through go-live and post-implementation support.
• Acting as a senior Payroll specialist in pre-sales, shaping solutions, supporting bids, and helping win new work.
• Building and mentoring a high-performing Payroll consulting team, developing capability and strengthening our delivery reputation.
• Driving the Payroll go-to-market proposition, contributing thought leadership and innovative approaches that differentiate Sopra Steria.
• Working on complex, high-profile programmes that deliver visible, real-world impact for clients.
• Playing a key role in shaping the strategic direction and future growth of the Oracle Payroll capability.

What you will bring:

• Significant experience delivering full lifecycle Oracle HCM Cloud implementations, with deep Payroll expertise.
• Strong knowledge of UK Payroll legislation, calculations, and statutory reporting.
• Proven experience leading complex Oracle implementations and managing multiple workstreams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills.
• The ability to translate business requirements into robust, scalable Oracle HCM Cloud solutions.
• Consulting experience within a recognised systems integrator or consulting organisation.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience delivering into Healthcare, Blue Light and Defence environments.
• Oracle E-Business Suite experience.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Location: UK Hybrid

Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC clearance

Internal Recruiter: Josh

Salary: Up to £100k

Benefits: Bonus, 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days, single private health cover, life assurance, pension, generous flexible benefits fund and £6,600 car allowance.

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.