Transformation - Oracle Director

Grant Thornton•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Oracle Director, you’ll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Transformation Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Master’s degree is a plus
Minimum 6 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
Minimum of 5 full life cycle implementations of Oracle
Industry recognized professional certification required
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications
Experience installing/configuring/implementing Infor Applications
Exposure or training on Oracle Cloud Applications
Knowledge of Oracle Cloud Applications
Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects
Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives

Nice To Haves

Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%

Responsibilities

Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
Provide post-production support
Participate in full life cycle implementations
Assist in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
Communicate effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner to senior audiences, able to deliver difficult messages with persuasiveness and sensitivity
Drive the development of business cases (financial, quantitative, and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformations
Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
Coach and develop team members
Demonstrate executive presence
Contribute to the development of various service offerings and practice thought leadership
Other duties as assigned