HRIS Oracle HCM Recruiting Associate Director

Position Summary The Associate Director, Oracle HCM Recruiting serves as the strategic, functional, and delivery leader for Grant Thornton’s Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) platform. This role owns the global recruiting technology roadmap, leads enterprise‑scale recruiting initiatives including global implementations, regional expansions and complex multi‑workstream programs, and partners with Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, People & Culture, HRIS, Technology, Compliance and vendors to ensure solutions are designed, governed and delivered for business growth and excellent candidate and recruiter experience. Key Responsibilities Oracle Recruiting Platform Leadership Serve as the functional and strategic owner for Oracle Recruiting Cloud, including requisitions, job postings, candidate lifecycle, offers, hiring flows, and recruiting security. Define and maintain the global ORC roadmap, aligning enhancements and priorities to Talent Acquisition strategy, workforce planning and firm growth. Provide strategic direction for recruiting process design, platform scalability and user experience modernization, including Redwood UX. Global Program & Project Management Leadership Serve as the program lead for large, complex Oracle HCM Recruiting initiatives, including global rollouts, phased regional deployments, new entity onboarding and operating model transformations. Own end‑to‑end project governance, including scope definition, integrated planning, milestones, dependencies, risk and issue management, and executive‑level status reporting. Partner with HRIS PMO, Technology, Oracle and third‑party vendors to ensure delivery aligns with enterprise standards, timelines and quality expectations. Coordinate recruiting workstreams within broader Oracle HCM transformation programs to ensure alignment with Core HR, Onboarding, Compensation, Security and downstream systems. Provide clear visibility into delivery progress, trade‑offs and risks, enabling informed decision‑making by leadership. Global Oracle HCM Recruiting Implementation & Deployment Lead and support global and multi‑country implementations of Oracle Recruiting Cloud, including regional expansions and country‑specific deployments. Ensure recruiting solutions accommodate global and local requirements, including regulatory compliance, data privacy, approval frameworks and regional business practices. Own integration and handoff between Oracle Recruiting and Pending Worker processes, ensuring accurate pre‑hire data creation and readiness for Core HR and Onboarding. Balance global standardization with regional flexibility, establishing clear decision frameworks for when processes and configurations should be global versus localized. Oversee go‑live readiness activities, including data validation, cutover planning, access provisioning, training readiness and post‑deployment hyper‑care support. Serve as the primary escalation point during deployments, ensuring rapid resolution of issues with minimal impact to recruiting operations. Stakeholder Partnership & Governance Act as the senior HRIS partner to Talent Acquisition leadership globally, translating recruiting strategy into sustainable Oracle configurations and delivery plans. Establish and enforce governance standards for requisition approvals, templates, job families, security roles and recruiting data usage. Partner with Compensation, Core HR, Compliance and Technology teams to ensure job data, offers and hiring transactions are consistent, compliant and audit‑ready. Advise stakeholders on sequencing, readiness and risk related to global recruiting initiatives and releases. Configuration & Solution Design Oversight Lead and approve complex ORC configurations, including requisition structures, approvals, posting rules; candidate application flows; offer frameworks, templates and integration points to Core HR; recruiting security roles and access models. Oversee adoption of advanced capabilities such as Recruiting Booster, Talent Pools, Campaigns, and Recruiting Analytics, ensuring scalable and compliant global use. Approve and govern Pending Worker and pre‑hire configurations, including templates, legal employer mapping, work relationships, hire actions and downstream integrations. Delivery Excellence, Testing & Risk Management Establish delivery standards for design documentation, configuration quality, testing rigor and release readiness across global initiatives. Oversee recruiting‑related SIT/UAT, ensuring test strategies reflect global business scenarios, multi‑country data considerations and real‑world recruiting use cases. Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data quality, regional readiness, change saturation, testing constraints and vendor dependencies. Ensure all changes meet enterprise change and release management standards prior to production deployment. Change Enablement, Adoption & Optimization Partner with regional Talent teams to support global adoption strategies, training approaches and communications. Ensure recruiters, hiring leaders and HR partners are prepared for system and process changes associated with Oracle Recruiting releases. Monitor platform usage and outcomes to identify opportunities for simplification, efficiency and improved candidate experience. Reporting, Insights & Analytics Drive adoption of Recruiting Analytics, OTBI and dashboards to support TA performance, workforce planning and leadership reporting. Use data and insights to inform roadmap priorities, process optimization and continuous improvement. Team Leadership & Resource Management Lead, coach and develop HRIS Recruiting resources (Associates, Senior Associates, Managers as applicable). Provide design guidance, quality assurance and mentorship across configuration, testing, documentation and support activities. Serve as the escalation lead for high‑visibility recruiting incidents and production issues. Required Qualifications & Experience 8+ years of progressive, global experience with demonstrated depth in Oracle Recruiting Cloud. Proven experience leading enterprise‑scale, multi‑workstream HR technology initiatives. Strong understanding of end‑to‑end recruiting and hiring processes, including compliance, audit and data privacy considerations. Experience supporting multi‑entity, multi‑country, or highly complex recruiting environments. Demonstrated ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders across HR, Technology and the business. Preferred Qualifications Experience integrating Oracle Recruiting with Core HR, Onboarding/Journeys, OIC, HDL/HSDL and reporting solutions. Prior people‑lead, product‑owner or HRIS capability‑lead experience. Experience supporting broader Oracle HCM implementations or global transformations. Skills & Competencies Strategic platform and product ownership Oracle Recruiting Cloud functional mastery Enterprise‑scale program and project management Global implementation and deployment leadership Executive‑level stakeholder communication Governance, controls and global decision frameworks Risk management and delivery excellence Team leadership, coaching and talent development Change management and adoption enablement Compensation The base salary range for this position is between $152,000 and $228,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location and internal equity. Benefits Benefits for full‑time employees include medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, paid sick leave, 401(k) savings plan, retirement plan and discretionary annual bonus based on performance. Interns and seasonal employees are eligible for the medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the employee assistance program, receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave and, for seasonal employees, a 401(k) savings plan. Internship and seasonal benefits are limited to the stated provisions. Equal Employment Opportunity It is the policy of Grant Thornton to promote equal employment opportunities. All personnel decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital or civil union status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, veteran status, disability, handicap, genetic predisposition or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Grant Thornton provides reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause undue hardship. For Los Angeles applicants, all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, will be considered in compliance with local laws. For Massachusetts applicants, Grant Thornton does not require or administer lie detector tests. #J-18808-Ljbffr