Oracle Fusion Cloud — Financials and HCM

Oracle integration, delivery and support.

Our teams work inside your programme — your change process, your approvals, your calendar — across the two Oracle systems every other number in the business eventually answers to, and across the interfaces that carry data between them.

Finance and HR run on separate lifecycles that read from the same records. Problems almost always surface further down these lines than they started, so we work backwards along them rather than patching where the noise is.

Financials

PurchaseSuppliers and commitments
PayablesInvoices and payment runs
ReceivablesBilling and collections
CashBank and reconciliation
AssetsCapital and depreciation
LedgerAccounting and intercompany
ClosePeriod end and adjustments
ReportStatutory and management

HCM

HireRequisition and offer
OnboardRecords and access
AbsenceLeave and time
PayPayroll and benefits
ProgressReviews and changes
ExitFinal pay and records

Where a mistake is most expensive to unwind, and where an error affects someone's pay.

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What we deliver on Financials

Three areas of work. We take ownership of what is assigned to our teams and deliver it to your definition of done.

The ledger between closes

The steady work that keeps the books accurate when nobody is watching: configuration changes, new requirements as the business adds entities or currencies, and the tickets your finance team raises when something does not behave the way it should.

  • Payables, receivables, cash management and fixed assets
  • General ledger, chart of accounts changes and intercompany accounting
  • Tax setup and expense management
  • Approval rules that match how your finance team actually works

Close and reporting

Close is where small configuration problems become visible and urgent at the same moment. We support the team through it, then fix the cause afterwards instead of the symptom during.

  • Close support and the reconciliations that stall it
  • Statutory and management reporting
  • Reports built so finance can answer its own questions without raising a ticket
  • Honest analysis of what slowed the last close and what would shorten the next one

Numbers you can stand behind

Reporting is only as honest as what sits underneath it. We spend real time at the unglamorous end: duplicates, orphaned records, mappings nobody has reviewed in years, and reconciliations that have quietly been balanced by hand every month.

  • Reconciliation between sub-ledgers and the general ledger
  • Master data quality across suppliers and customers
  • Mapping and hierarchy reviews
  • Controls, audit trails and access reviews
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What we deliver on HCM

Four areas of work. One employee record is read by pay, tax, access and reporting at the same time, so we hold this work to the discipline a finance system demands.

The employee record

The core that everything else reads from. When it is clean, the rest of HCM behaves. When it is not, the symptoms appear somewhere far from the cause.

  • Core HR, worker records and assignment structures
  • Organisation, position and grade structures as the business reshapes
  • Roles, security and who can see what
  • Data quality across joiners, movers and leavers

Absence and time

The part of HCM employees touch most often, and the part where local rules make a global system awkward.

  • Absence plans, accruals and entitlement rules
  • Time capture and the approvals around it
  • Country and policy variations that differ by entity
  • Feeds into payroll, so what was approved is what gets paid

Payroll support

We support the run rather than take it over. That means being available around pay dates, clearing what blocks the cycle, and treating a correction with the seriousness a payment to a person deserves.

  • Payroll cycle support, from validation through to payment
  • Elements, earnings, deductions and costing
  • Statutory and year-end reporting support
  • Connections to payroll providers, banks and benefits vendors

Benefits, compensation and approvals

The processes that carry the most sensitivity per change, and where a workflow that does not match how managers actually work quietly gets bypassed.

  • Benefits enrolment and life event handling
  • Compensation changes, cycles and approval routing
  • Workflow that reflects real reporting lines rather than the org chart on paper
  • Manager and employee self-service people can use without training
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Integrations and the data that moves between them

Very little of this data starts where it is used. Most of what goes wrong at close, or in a pay run, began as something that did not arrive cleanly three weeks earlier.

What arrives from elsewhere

Finance and HR both sit at the end of a queue of other systems — quoting and billing platforms, banks, tax engines, expense tools, payroll providers and benefits vendors. Each one is a place a file can fail quietly.

  • Interfaces between Oracle and the CRM or billing platform upstream
  • Bank, payment and tax connections
  • Payroll provider and benefits vendor feeds
  • Error handling and retry, so a failed file is visible the same day it fails
  • Data loads for new entities, acquisitions and structural change

Where Financials and HCM meet

The two systems share more than most programmes account for. A change made on one side arrives on the other whether or not anyone intended it to, which is where the expensive surprises live.

  • Payroll costing into the general ledger, and the reconciliation behind it
  • Joiner, mover and leaver events that move access, expense and payroll at once
  • Organisation and cost centre structures kept aligned across both
  • Headcount and cost reporting that agrees whichever side it is run from

Quarterly updates across both

Oracle updates the platform on its own schedule, not yours. Each one brings changes you did not ask for alongside features you might want. We test ahead of it so the quarter arrives as a routine event on both service lines.

  • Regression testing before an update reaches your production environment
  • What changes and what it touches, written in plain language for finance and HR
  • New features switched on deliberately, when they earn their place
  • Performance and error monitoring between updates
What these systems are judged on.

Finance systems are judged on two things: whether the number was right, and whether it arrived when it was needed. HCM is judged on what an employee sees — a payslip, a leave balance, an offer letter — and each of those is downstream of a record somebody typed months earlier.

Everything behind that — which team owned the change, which release it came in on, where the file failed — is our problem to solve rather than yours to chase.

That is the standard the commitments below are written to.

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What we commit to

Six promises we hold to on any engagement. If we cannot meet one of them on your programme, we will say so before we start rather than after.

Your calendar comes first

We work to your close calendar, your payroll calendar and your statutory deadlines. Nothing we control goes near production inside a close window or a pay cycle without your explicit sign-off, and we plan our own work backwards from your dates rather than asking you to accommodate ours. No delivery date of ours is worth a late or incorrect payment to an employee.

Employee data stays where it belongs

We work to the least access that lets the job get done, we do not move live employee data into test environments unmasked, and we treat what we see in the course of the work as private. This holds whether or not a contract spells it out.

Every change has a way back

Anything we put into production has been tested in a lower environment first and can be reversed. What changed, who approved it and how to undo it is written down before it ships, not reconstructed afterwards.

No surprises from the quarterly update

We test against each Oracle update before it reaches you and tell you what will change in language your finance and HR teams can act on. An update should be something they hear about from us in advance, not discover on a Monday.

We stay on it

If something we changed causes a problem, it stays ours until it is resolved, including out of hours when a close or a pay run depends on it. We do not hand a live issue back with an explanation of why it was not our component.

What we learn, you keep

Configuration decisions, integration behaviour and the reasoning behind both are documented as we go and left with you. What we come to know about your system should not walk out of the door with a person.

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The bar our teams are built to

Three things, weighted equally. Nobody works on a team of ours with only one of them.

The accounting, not just the screens

Knowing which field to change is the easy half. The people we put on finance systems understand what sits behind it: why a sub-ledger and the general ledger can disagree, what an accrual is doing there, and how a change to a supplier record eventually reaches the trial balance.

Knowing what the record feeds

A change to an assignment is never only a change to an assignment. The people we put on HCM know where that record travels next — into pay, into tax, into access, into a headcount number finance will be asked to explain — and check the far end before touching the near one.

The judgement to stop

Finance and HR systems punish confidence more than caution. We expect our teams to raise the risk nobody has mentioned, to say plainly when a request will not do what the requester thinks it will, and to hold a change back rather than push it through against the calendar.

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How we engage

The same across both service lines. We deliver inside programmes that are already running — the work is ours, the programme stays yours.

Shape

Delivery teams that join a programme already in flight, sized to the work in front of them

Overlap

Minimum four hours daily with US Eastern and Latin American hours

Base

Delivery from India, working alongside distributed client teams

Team formation

Everyone on a team of ours clears a two-stage technical panel run by our delivery leads

Method

Your change control, your approvals, your definition of done

Start

A short trial period on real work before either side commits further

Tell us what is sitting on your backlog

A 30-minute conversation with someone who has worked in these systems, not a sales call. If the work is not a fit for how we deliver, we will say so.

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