Transformation - Oracle Director
About the role
As an Oracle Director, you’ll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Transformation Practice. From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients achieve their vision while advancing your own career. This position requires in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a Grant Thornton office or client site.
Responsibilities
- Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, and build phases
- Document business requirements, system design, and transformational goals
- Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
- Create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
- Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
- Provide post-production support
- Identify business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design and flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, and defining support procedures
- Communicate effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner to senior audiences, delivering difficult messages with persuasiveness and sensitivity
- Drive the development of business cases (financial, quantitative, and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvements, 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
- Travel as needed, up to 40%
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field (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 and back-end data connectivity applications
- Experience installing/configuring/implementing Oracle Applications
- Exposure or training on 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
About the team
The Transformation Practice team supports your growth through flexible work options, including hybrid work models, and prioritizes your well-being with work-life integration support. You’ll collaborate with a diverse, quality-driven team of professionals across the U.S., Ireland, and other global markets, benefiting from a cross-border culture and enhanced solutions.
Benefits
- Personalized and comprehensive benefits recognizing diverse identities, roles, and aspirations
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs
- Employee assistance program
- Paid sick leave (minimum 72 hours)
- Paid firm holidays
- Eligibility to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan (for seasonal employees, subject to plan terms)
- Discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance (for eligible employees)