Portfolio Director for Financial Services & Banking – Oracle Enterprise Applications

Job Description The Portfolio Director role within the Enterprise Applications practice will help lead a teams within the practice of over 600 consultants to deliver a portfolio of c £/€10m project services in the Private Financial Services sector. Reporting to the Head of Private Sector in Enterprise Applications, you will lead a team of senior colleagues across the delivery and commercial roles. This is a senior role in Version 1, with opportunity for the right individual to further progress into senior practice leadership roles across Version 1.In this role you will have full ownership for the P&L of the portfolio and as such, you will likely have held portfolio or programme management roles in the past with responsibility for budgets in the region of £/€500k to £/€5m, or beyond. You will have experience in delivering Customer First outcomes and will understand the challenges in delivering transformational change involving Finance and HR systems . Skills such as the ability to inspire and drive teams, commercial acumen, ability to ask tough questions, curiosity and willingness to learn are regarded as more important in this role than a deep understanding of Oracle ERP, EPM or HCM. Oracle experience is NOT mandatory for this role. The role will suit experienced Portfolio Directors who have worked in Finance and\or HR transformation projects, with Oracle or other technologies such as SAP, Workday, Sage, etc.You will be seen as central in the shaping and delivery of key proposals and will be recognised by customers and colleagues as a leader who can bring together the right group of people to deliver the right solution. Qualifications You will have experience in leading a team, in managing and growing a portfolio of projects/customers and you will be passionate about defining and developing solutions which meet customer challenges and understand the commercial balance required to deliver these solutions between top and bottom-line growth. You’ll enjoy customer engagement and be comfortable with balancing multiple competing demands whilst leading and developing a diverse and highly talented team and promoting and inspiring our core values right across the delivery team.Role Requirements:The role will be divided across three areas of responsibility – Customer Delivery, Commercial Growth and People Leadership.Customer DeliveryYou will have full accountability for the delivery of end-to-end Customer engagements ensuring our customer is at the heart of everything we do, we understand their ways of working and that we deliver successfully for them. You will likely spend a considerable amount of time engaged in Customer forums (e.g., Steering Groups etc) and travel to Customer sites from time to time.Commercial GrowthYou will work closely with Commercial colleagues to build and support compelling proposals and customer offerings which will enable and support our continued growth ambition for the practice and deliver profitable outcomes. You’ll have your own P&L and be accountable for that.People LeadershipYou will help lead a team of diverse professionals across our ERP, EPM and HCM teams located across the UK, Ireland and India in the Financial services & Banking area. You will ensure that we continue to have world class levels of engagement and that we are ensuring that our teams deliver excellently through the use of our methodologies and accelerators and are suitably skilled and informed in line with the continuously changing nature of Oracle Fusion Cloud products.