Financials Consultant (Oracle Cloud ERP) - CEDENT

Chicago, IL

About the Job

Title: Financials Consultant (Oracle Cloud ERP) @ Chicago, IL
Terms of Hire: Full Time.
Salary: $ Open / yr + Benefits.

Job description
Technology & Transformation – Oracle Cloud ERP Financials Consultant
Performs advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout the enterprise leveraging Oracle ERP. Manages complex large-scale implementations within our Oracle ERP practice. This role is expected to substantially focus on Oracle ERP Cloud implementation work, but may also involve other Oracle applications (EBS, PeopleSoft, etc.). Additionally, the role will require assistance in business development and practice development.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND 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
Manage full life cycle implementations
Manage resources and budget on client projects
Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
Identify business opportunities to increase usability and profitability of information architecture
Experience with program leadership, governance and change enablement
Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
Assist practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and work plans. Participate in other business development activities as appropriate
Interview campus and/or experienced candidates
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS or related field required. A Master’s degree is a plus.
6 to 10 years of related work experience in Oracle with exposure to Cloud in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
2 years of hands on Oracle Cloud implementation experience
Experience leading a project with various applications including Financials, SCM or similar
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics and reports
Experience with Enterprise Application Integration & back-end data connectivity applications
Experience installing/configuring/implementing Oracle 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
Experience managing complex full-life cycle technology projects
Proven experience with program leadership, governance and change enablement
Prior experience managing resources and budgets on client projects
Experience development of statements of work and/or client proposals
Must be able to scope out the effort and cost for an enterprise reporting solution
Ability to define how an enterprise information system will align with the organization’s business and strategic objectives
Must have eagerness to mentor junior staff
Ability to work additional hours and travel to client sites on short notice, as needed
Travel percentage: up to 100%