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Oracle Payroll

Oracle® Payroll is a highly efficient, graphical, rules-based payroll

management system that is designed to keep pace with the changing needs
of your enterprise and workforce in order to reduce costs, administrative
overhead and processing errors. Oracle Payroll is a key component of the
Oracle E-Business HCM suite of applications that are engineered to work
together. Oracle Payroll operates globally with consistency in each
supported country, using a highly scalable processing engine designed to
take full advantage of the Oracle database for parallel processing, resulting
in optimal performance.

KEY FEATURES
Rules-Based Payroll Solution
• Rules-Based Payroll Solution
Your company's unique payroll management requirements demand a highly
• Innovative Compensation Plans
configurable payroll solution with all the benefits of a standard, supported package.
• Paperless Payroll Processing
With its distinctive data-driven approach, Oracle Payroll enables you to define and
• Fast Formula
manage your diverse payroll requirements that reflect your business policies. Using
• Extensible, Efficient Administration Oracle Payroll, you can quickly and easily process payrolls based your organization’s
• Trusted Accuracy and Security required frequency. If you need to recalculate payments during a payroll run, Oracle
• Controlled Payroll Costs Payroll allows you to easily recalculate individual payments while preserving the
• Integrated Set of Applications integrity of the other payroll run results.
• Global Support For large worker populations, the Oracle Payroll system allows for multiple groups of
• Paperless Payroll Processing employees to be processed simultaneously allowing for a quicker processing window.
• Continuous Calculation Engine Oracle Payroll also provides concurrent post payroll reporting: Once the payroll
• Retroactive Processing calculation process completes, you can process payments, post-payroll reports and
• Ensure readiness and monitor payroll costing transfers to General Ledger all at the same time.
processes using the Payroll
Dashboard
• Complete Payment History
Innovative Compensation Plans
In today's rapidly changing, competitive workplace, you need to motivate your
employees with innovative and attractive compensation and benefits plans. Oracle
Payroll is fully integrated with Oracle’s Total Compensation approach to compensation
and benefits. Use our powerful eligibility and life event detection to automate every
aspect of cash and non-cash compensation management, while ensuring that these
changes are automatically processed within Oracle Payroll. From salary, overtime,
and union deductions to company cars, health insurance, and company pension
contributions, Oracle Human Resources manages every aspect of direct compensation
for your entire enterprise.
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KEY BENEFITS Fast Formula

• Monitor your regular payroll cycle, from
Oracle Payroll gives you complete control over even the most complex processing
data entry to fully reconciled results
and view the results. rules and calculations. Fast Formula is a powerful way to model business rules. Using
• Full local language and currency Fast Formula, Oracle Payroll's easy-to-learn calculation feature, you can quickly
support for employees and payroll specify detailed payroll calculations using conditional logic and references to any
professionals Oracle Human Resources, Oracle Payroll, and Oracle Advanced Benefits or Oracle
• Major global footprint with full payroll Time & Labor attribute.
support for over 30 countries
• Date, character set and monetary Payroll implementers and administrators can quickly create new Fast Formulas, copy
formatting supported by country, existing Fast Formulas, and test Fast Formulas using the Fast Formula Assistant a
allowing for a single global instance web-based, intuitive tool. Fast Formula Assistant enables you to quickly:
• International Payroll allows customers
 Select and compile multiple fast formulas
and implementers to configure payroll
calculations for countries not fully  Generate line numbers for formula text to easily locate errors
supported  Highlight syntax to differentiate comments from actual business rules
 Upload or download formula text into a file for use in an external editor
 Generate specific templates based on formula types
 Download and upload without using cut and paste
 Include required functions and database items in the formula text

Extensible, Efficient Administration

Oracle Payroll takes full advantage of the available comprehensive personal
information. Using standard product features, you can extend the database to
accommodate your unique information requirements. Oracle Payroll maintains a single
data repository to help eliminate duplication, reduce data entry time and streamline
administration.

Trusted Accuracy and Security

Oracle Payroll provides a trusted solution to the inherent payroll requirement for
accuracy and security. All the information you need to check and reconcile your
payroll is available easily and efficiently, and more importantly, only to the appropriate
individuals. A number of control points exist in the Oracle Payroll module, ranging from
security to exception reporting. Exception reporting will alert you to any “out of the
ordinary” conditions. Examples of exceptions include employees with gross but no net
earnings, earnings (broken down by type if desired) that exceed a given value or a
given percentage increase over last process, or expiring work permit/visa information.
All of these are in addition to the standard audit reports.

Controlled Payroll Costs

Oracle Payroll gives you online access to your payroll information, so you can track
and monitor employee labor costs, often your organization's highest expense. For
example, payroll users can view pay-related information including employer costs and
liabilities via reports and queries for instant answers to complex questions.

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Integrated Set of Applications

As part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Payroll is fully integrated with Oracle
General Ledger, Sub Ledger Accounting and Oracle Cash Management allowing you
to standardize and automate processes and streamline systems to increase
operational efficiency.

Sub Ledger Accounting allows multiple accounting representations for a single

business event, resolving conflicts between corporate and local fiscal accounting
requirements. It retains the most granular level of details in the accounting model, with
different summarization options in the General Ledger, increasing transparency by
allowing full audit ability and reconciliation.

Oracle Payroll supports the Common Single Bank Model that provides flexibility in
configuring and reconciling payroll disbursements without impacting the Payroll
payment model or its seeded configuration by legislation or customization. Bank
account data is also used by Oracle Cash Management, Oracle Payables, Oracle
Receivables, and more.

Multinational Support
Oracle Payroll supports a multinational workforce by providing payroll calculations in
each worker's local currency and automatically converting currency during the master
payroll process using tables stored in Oracle General Ledger.

Additionally, you are able to select your language preference for viewing applicable
reports and forms. For example, in the same payroll run, one Canadian payroll
manager can view a payroll report in Canadian French while another can view the data
in English.

Like all Oracle applications, the global character set (UTF-8) is supported which allows
for all countries to be processed in a single database. Local date Formats and
monetary formatting is also supported based on different country requirements.

Oracle Payroll’s architecture uniquely supports a global organization’s payroll

requirements. You can implement Oracle Payroll’s core payroll engine, and then install
each local extension to add the necessary functionality, reporting, and processes for
each country in which you process payroll. For countries that Oracle does not yet
provide a local extension, you can use the International Payroll solution to configure
the necessary payroll calculations. Standard configuration capabilities are used within
the Oracle Payroll module so they are fully upgradeable.

Paperless Payroll Processing

Using Oracle Self Service, your employees have the capability to make their own
updates to their payroll related data online. This minimizes transcription errors, reduces
the cycle time for data updates, and eliminates thousands of dollars in printing costs.
The global Oracle Payroll self-service components includes the ability to maintain
personal and direct deposit bank details, update voluntary deductions, and view
employee pay information. Configure online pay slips to only show employees
information that is pertinent to your organization.

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Continuous Calculation Engine

The Continuous Calculation Engine lets you spread the payroll processing workload
across the payroll period, reducing both cycle times and processing footprint. You can
perform payroll processing (including gross to net calculation, costing and
prepayments) at the beginning of the pay period; then as changes that impact
employees’ pay occur throughout the pay period, continuous calculation automatically
detects those changes and reprocesses those employees.

You can schedule the frequency of this reprocessing to daily, every other day, weekly,
and more, so at the end of the pay period, the outstanding payroll processing only
includes a small subset of employees with late changes affecting pay.

Paycheck Modeling
Employees can perform “what-if” paycheck modeling online to see the impact to take
home pay if making changes, for example, to deferred compensation or retirement plan
contributions or marital status. Payroll administrators can also perform modeling to
answer employee queries regarding their take-home pay or to perform what-if analysis
for payroll planning purposes.

Figure 1: Employee Self-Service Paycheck Modeler

Payroll Dashboard
The Payroll Dashboard provides at-a-glance readiness checks, validation and
analytical views of the entire payroll cycle. Payroll administrators gain valuable insight
into payroll processes to help avoid costly errors and improve productivity. Use the
Payroll Dashboard to:

 Perform readiness checks and validate employee data to correct any errors
or missing data before running the payroll process

 Initiate, and then monitor payroll and related processes

 View analytical data to highlight any discrepancies between the current and
previous payroll runs

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Figure 2: Payroll Dashboard Check Readiness Page

Retroactive Processing
You can make retroactive adjustments to employees’ past earnings or deductions
based on changes to pay rates, benefit elections, or other information. Retro
Notifications automatically detect and notify you of any changes that will impact pay.
The RetroPay process automatically calculates the difference between the newly
calculated and original amounts, and records the adjustment for subsequent
processing.

Complete Payment History

Using Date Track, you can examine employee payment history at any time. You can
change your current session date to a past date and see earnings, deductions, and
associated calculations exactly as they were on that day. Date Track History lets you
view changes to an employee's record over any time period you specify while also
allowing you to input start and stop dates on pay-related information. You can purge
any unneeded data at any time to minimize data storage.

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PRODUCT NAME

• Oracle Payroll Oracle E-Business Suite: The Complete Solution

RELAT ED PRODUCTS Oracle E-Business Suite enables companies to efficiently manage customer
As part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, processes, manufacture products, ship orders, collect payments, and more - all from
Oracle Payroll is fully integrated with: applications that are built on unified information architecture. This information
architecture provides a single definition of your customers, suppliers, employees, and
• Oracle Human Resources
products - all important aspects of your business. Whether you implement one module
• Oracle Self-Service Human Resources
or the entire Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite enables you to share unified information
• Oracle Time & Labor
across the enterprise so you can make smarter decisions with better information.
• Oracle iRecruitment
• Oracle Learning Management
• Oracle HR Intelligence
• Oracle Advanced Benefits
• Oracle Incentive Compensation
• Oracle General Ledger
• Oracle Cash Management

RELAT ED SERVICES

The following services support Oracle

Main Product:
• Update Subscription Services
• Product Support Services
• Professional Services

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