With a workforce of over 30,000 people, and opportunities in more than 1,000 different job categories, the City of Philadelphia is the fifth largest city in the United States and one of the largest employers in Southeastern Pennsylvania. As an employer, the City of Philadelphia operates through the guiding principles of service, integrity, respect, accountability, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. Through these principles, we strive to effectively deliver services, to resolve the challenges facing our city, and to make Philadelphia a place where all of our residents have the opportunity to reach their potential.  

AGENCY DESCRIPTION

The Office of Director of Finance was created by the Home Rule Charter to give the Mayor and the City government a principal officer responsible for the financial, accounting, and budgeting functions of the executive branch. The Director of Finance is thus the chief financial officer of the City and all powers and duties concerning finances, accounting, and budgeting in the executive branch are directly or indirectly the Director's.  Finance oversees the OnePhilly group, whose role is to manage the modernization of City’s human resources, payroll, pensions, and fringe benefits systems, along with associated business process improvements that will enable more efficient operations and improve services for employees.   OnePhilly has recently implemented a new integrated human resources, benefits, payroll and time and attendance system utilizing Oracle’s eBusiness Suite HCM modules. Oracle’s PeopleSoft Pensions Administration module is expected to follow to replace the City’s current Pensions application.  Oracle’s Business Intelligence and HR Analytics software was implemented for a data warehouse and Oracle’s User Productivity Kit (UPK) is used to facilitate training.     

This position requires a dynamic self-starter with strong analytical and practical knowledge in how the Oracle Time and Labor works.  The current team comprises of a core of highly motivated and experienced individuals in a high-paced Production Support environment that involves Time entry processing for City’s 50+ departments and making it available for Payroll processing, working with vendor resources to analyze and fix reported defects, gather requirements for enhancements, collaborate with vendor on a solution design, configuration, documentation, testing, and production implementation. This individual will be working with the Production Support Team in developing their knowledge and skills for the position as the stabilization progresses and will be working with the former lead to complete a successful transition.  The former lead will be available to provide mentoring and support until mid-July. 

Essential Functions: 

• Lead role and ownership of the OnePhilly Time and Labor functions
• OTL Data processing for production time entries from all 50+ departments
• Coordination of time and labor activities within the team and between all team members, including technical team
• Planning for new enhancements, design, configuration, testing and documentation of results
• Analysis/research and problem-solving activities for testing and certification of testing corrections
• Owner of time and labor documentation and responsible to update all documentation as the Support progresses for any changes
• Provide progress reporting on tasks and activities as directed by the Project Director and/or Program Manager
• Report to the Program Manager and/or Program Director
• Responsible to coordinate interactions with all departments as needed
• Prepares appropriate presentations as needed for time and labor related information
• Follows established support standards for all activities and work efforts, including documentation development and maintenance
• Participates in various presentation sessions as either direct or support staff
• Understand the overall City’s time and labor functions, rules, regulations, bargaining agreements, side letters, etc. to ensure a global application of the OnePhilly System
• Updates and maintains requirements documentation, including business process flow documents
• Assist in or facilitate meetings as appropriate
• Uses the shared calendar for all meetings and scheduling activities absences
• Coordinate and collaborate with vendor resources as required by working jointly with vendor resources and directing vendor resources for time and labor related requirements and activities
• Responsible for application, interfaces and reports analysis and development for the time and labor related data
• Contribute to the development of training materials, and will participate and support the delivery of training and deployment activities

• Completion of a bachelor’s degree program at an accredited college or university, with major course work in Information Technology, or, Computer Science or Business Administration, or Finance or Human Resources
• Three (3) years or more of applicable work experience
• Experience working in a large governmental environment preferred

What We Offer

• We are a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program qualified employer
• 25% tuition discount program for City employees (and sometimes spouses and dependents as well) in partnership with area colleges and universities.
• Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
• Wellness program that offers eligibility into a discounted medical plan
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
• Generous retirement savings options

Successful candidate must be a City resident within six months of hire

The City of Philadelphia is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not permit discrimination based on race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, source of income, familial status, genetic information or domestic or sexual violence victim status. If you believe you were discriminated against, call the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations at 215-686-4670 or send an email to [email protected]. For more information, go to: Human Relations Website: http://www.phila.gov/humanrelations/Pages/default.aspx