Financials Consultant (Oracle Cloud ERP) (Chicago, IL)

Cedent Consulting - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Financials Consultant (Oracle Cloud ERP) role involves providing advisory and implementation services for Oracle ERP solutions, focusing on large-scale implementations. The consultant will manage full life cycle projects, assist in business development, and support practice development while ensuring user adoption and post-production support.

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.
• Manage resources and budget on client projects.
• Lead teams in identifying business requirements, functional design, and process design.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS or related field required.
• 6 to 10 years of related work experience in Oracle with exposure to Cloud in a similar consulting practice.
• 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.
• Proven ability delivering complex and time-sensitive projects.
• Strong leadership skills; able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• A Master's degree is a plus.
• Eagerness to mentor junior staff.

Benefits

• An opportunity to be a part of a great culture.
• A challenging work environment.
• Team collaboration and support.