Transformation - Oracle Director
Grant Thornton (US) · Portland, OR · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
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.
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
- Participate in full life cycle implementations
- 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 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
- Perform other duties as assigned
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 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
- Willingness to travel as needed (up to 40%)
About the team
The team you’re about to join is ready to help you thrive. Here’s how:
- Empowerment with work location, weekly schedule, and flex time off options to best serve your clients and personal life
- Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position requires in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site
- Support for prioritizing overall well-being through work-life integration options tailored to your needs
Benefits
We support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all identities, roles, and aspirations. For an overview of our benefit offerings, visit Grant Thornton Rewards and Benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs
- Employee assistance program
- Paid sick leave (minimum of 72 hours)
- Paid firm holidays that fall within the employment period
- Eligibility to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan (for seasonal employees, in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements)
- Discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance (eligibility subject to terms, conditions, and criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program; interns and seasonal employees are not eligible)