Senior Oracle ICM Advisor / Design Lead
We have partnered with our client in their search for a Senior Oracle Incentive Compensation Management Advisor / Design Lead. This individual will provide senior-level Oracle ICM design guidance, implementation expertise, decision support, and coaching during a critical phase of an enterprise implementation.
Role Summary
The Senior Oracle ICM Advisor / Design Lead will help the organization evaluate technical design options, identify implementation risks, avoid common configuration pitfalls, and make informed decisions as it progresses into its next deployment phase.
This role requires a highly experienced Oracle ICM professional who can operate as a trusted technical advisor while remaining close enough to the implementation work to provide practical, actionable guidance. The advisor will coach the internal team, strengthen its understanding of Oracle ICM, and help establish the technical foundation required for long-term ownership.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior-level guidance on Oracle ICM architecture, configuration strategy, and implementation decisions.
- Evaluate technical design options and recommend practical approaches based on business requirements and Oracle ICM capabilities.
- Review compensation plans, crediting structures, rate tables, formulas, calculation rules, and participant assignment designs.
- Identify configuration risks, design gaps, scalability concerns, and potential downstream impacts.
- Advise the team on common Oracle ICM implementation pitfalls and recommended mitigation strategies.
- Support technical decision-making during testing, stabilization, and preparation for subsequent deployment phases.
- Review complex defects and help determine whether issues originate from source data, configuration, crediting, integrations, or calculation logic.
- Provide guidance on transaction processing, data loads, reconciliation, testing, and control procedures.
- Coach internal configurators and technical stakeholders through design and implementation decisions.
- Challenge external implementation recommendations when necessary and provide an independent technical perspective.
- Help establish repeatable Oracle ICM configuration, governance, documentation, and support practices.
- Build internal confidence and capability so the organization can independently own future Oracle ICM configuration work.
Required Qualifications
- Deep Oracle Incentive Compensation Management expertise supported by multiple implementation or transformation initiatives.
- Recent experience designing or leading Oracle ICM implementations.
- Advanced knowledge of compensation plans, crediting rules, rate tables, formulas, calculation rules, participant assignments, and transaction processing.
- Strong understanding of Oracle ICM data flows, integrations, testing, reconciliation, and production stabilization.
- Demonstrated ability to assess design alternatives and explain technical trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience identifying implementation risks and resolving complex Oracle ICM design or calculation issues.
- Ability to provide strategic guidance while staying connected to detailed configuration and implementation activities.
- Strong coaching, facilitation, and knowledge-transfer capabilities.
- Experience collaborating with internal teams, system integrators, and senior business stakeholders.
About Korn Ferry
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