1. How do I initialize payroll balances for Ireland?
  2. Overview of Payroll Balances

1Overview of Payroll Balances

This playbook covers the concepts and tasks that are required to initialize balances.

When migrating payroll data from another application into Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Resources and Payroll, you might need to set the initial balance values.

Before performing balance initialization, make sure you’ve completed these tasks:

  1. Set up your organization and organization structures.
  2. Create your employee definitions.
  3. Attach payrolls to your employees.
  4. Define all employee calculation cards and their associations.
  5. Understand how to load balance values into batch views using the HCM Data Loader. For more information, see Initializing and Adjusting Balances.

There are several steps involved in the balance initialization process.


How to set initial payroll balances

  • Identify the balances you want to initialize.

    You can initialize legislative and user-defined balances. Each balance has its own initialization requirements.

  • Map the legacy balances to payroll.

    Once you've identified the balances you want to initialize, you must perform a mapping exercise from the legacy payroll to Oracle Fusion Cloud. Consider these points during this mapping activity:

    • One legacy balance can feed one or more Fusion balances.
    • Multiple legacy balances can feed one Fusion balance.
    • Your legacy balances can come from many sources (such as a payroll , benefits , or absence application)
  • Load balance values to PAY_BAL_BATCH_HEADERS and PAY_BAL_BATCH_LINES interface tables by using these two separate HDL files.
    • InitializeBalanceBatchHeader.dat

      Includes information for the batch header.

    • InitializeBalanceBatchLine.dat

      Includes details of the balance values to be initialized. Each line contains the balance type and associated contexts for a specific initial balance value.

  • Submit the Load Initial Balances process and check the balance load results to identify and correct any errors in the balances.
  • Use the View Person Process Results and View Payroll Process Results tasks to reconcile the loaded balances.