Digital Consulting Senior Manager, Oracle ERP Higher Education

Overview

This role supports outward-facing, hands-on consulting engagements focused on organizational effectiveness and improved student outcomes for higher education institutions and academic medical centers. Responsibilities span project and engagement management, client-facing work across all project phases (pursuit through delivery), team leadership, and intensive data analysis to deliver impactful recommendations.

Senior Managers also contribute to practice development, mentor consulting staff when assigned, and manage administrative and project-related tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of Chart of Accounts and end-to-end accounting in cloud-based ERP Financials and EPM implementations for higher education and public sector organizations.
• Ensure alignment with fund accounting principles, FASB and/or GASB standards, regulatory requirements, and operational best practices.
• Lead functional design for Chart of Accounts governance enabled by Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM), with hands-on functional application support (technical expertise not required).
• Evaluate institutions’ use of Oracle Cloud ERP and identify optimizations related to financial management and reporting, accounting, controls, and reconciliation.
• Partner with finance leaders and stakeholders to translate accounting, budgeting, and financial management requirements into future-state ERP designs that support transparency, control, and scalability.
• Provide functional expertise across financial operations and accounting, including general accounting, endowment accounting, payroll accounting, research accounting, budgeting, and related financial reporting.
• Collaborate with integration, conversion, reporting, finance, grants, payroll, and student or affiliate systems teams to ensure end-to-end financial process alignment.
• Support pre-sales and business development activities, including contributing to solution approaches, proposals, and client presentations for higher education and public sector engagements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on ERP and financial management trends, cloud transformation strategies, and vendor roadmaps (Oracle or comparable platforms).
• Contribute to the development of standards, templates, and best practices to support consistent, high-quality ERP implementations across public sector and higher education clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Public Administration, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5–7 years of experience supporting financial management, accounting, or ERP implementations for higher education and/or public sector organizations.
• Demonstrated experience with FASB and/or GASB accounting standards, fund accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting.
• Experience working with Oracle Financials Cloud or another ERP financial system (e.g., Workday, SAP, Unit4, PeopleSoft), ideally as part of an implementation team, business analyst, or accountant.
• Strong functional understanding of higher education or related business functions, including General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, and financial reporting.
• Ability to bridge finance, accounting, and technology by translating business and regulatory needs into practical system designs.
• Experience supporting or leading workshops, stakeholder discussions, and design sessions with finance and institutional leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build credibility with clients and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Interest in mentoring and supporting the development of consulting staff, particularly in public sector and higher education finance domains.
• Proven ability to support multiple concurrent initiatives across varying scopes and timelines.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%, as needed, to support client engagements and project teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• None listed.

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated base salary range: $165,000 - $190,000.
• Estimated total compensation range (including annual incentive compensation opportunity): $198,000 - $228,000.
• Eligible for benefit plans including medical, dental, and vision coverage and other wellness programs.

Location

• United States of America