Lead a major Oracle upgrade for a large utility. 12-month contract, national applicants, likely extension. Your new company Join a major multi-year transformation program delivering critical business-sustaining capability uplift. This is an opportunity to lead a high-profile Oracle Finance System Upgrade within a large, complex utility and play a key role in strengthening asset management, financial reporting, and enterprise integration. Your new role As the Senior Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of an Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and Oracle EPM upgrade as part of a wider Core Capability Program. This initiative supports significant organisational change driven by new technologies, regulatory obligations, modernised service models, and improved customer and community expectations. Working closely with a system integrator, business SMEs, system accountants, BA teams and design teams, you will drive planning, governance, scope, schedule, risk management, vendor performance and stakeholder alignment across a multi-stream environment. You will be accountable for: Leading all aspects of project delivery, including planning, governance, reporting, business case support, risks/issues, budget, scope and change. Managing the system implementor and ensuring contracted deliverables are met on both sides. Steering the design, "to-be" processes, and solution integrity across finance, asset management and integration streams. Leading BA's design and business engagement teams to close design gaps and support data, requirements and transition activities. Liaising across core build, integration, testing, non-core build, training, change and release management streams. Preparing high-quality updates, proposals, documentation and presentations for senior stakeholders. What you'll need to succeed Minimum 3-7 years delivering Oracle EBS and/or Oracle EPM projects - this must be your core background and the Oracle Project exposure must have been recent. Demonstrated success leading system upgrades/implementations (not supporting them). Strong vendor management experience, ideally with recognised Oracle system integrators. Ability to work with system accountants and understand finance/reporting challenges. A business-focused mindset rather than purely technical orientation. Proven ability to articulate project risks ("what 5 things will go wrong") and strategies to prevent them. Experience in utilities is desirable but not essential. Ability to travel to Darwin at least one week per month; if Melbourne-based, attend the Melbourne office once per week as well as monthly travel to Darwin. What you'll get in return 12-month contract with strong potential for extension. Daily rate with weekly pay. Ability to work remotely for 3 weeks each month and travel to Darwin for one week per month (flights and accommodation paid for and daily allowances included) Work on a major capability uplift program with national visibility. A collaborative, pragmatic team with a good sense of humour. National applicants encouraged. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. 2987830