Oracle is strongly committed to the global financial services industry. In order to assist financial institutions, Oracle has brought together the industry's best application and technology ecosystem for evolutionary transformation, providing customers with the largest footprint of functional assets. Oracle's transformation strategy for financial services industry is executed through the Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit (FSGBU).

 Job Overview:

For the role of Principle Sales Consultant, we are searching for a motivated and passionate individual, who can lead client engagements in retail, corporate and transaction banking and take Banking Solutions towards excellence across the regions in Africa. With your drive and a go-getter attitude, you will play a key role in driving the sales of Oracle banking applications.

You will be responsible for supporting the Oracle Banking Sales Managers in Africa from both a functional and commercial perspective in the Retail, Corporate and Financial Institutions Banking domain and enable selling Oracle’s market-leading Banking Solutions. The candidate will be responsible for leading the sales cycle end-to-end and will be responsible for the overall solution design, ensuring that the business requirements are met, and to present value proposition, demonstrations and user stories to various stakeholders.

As a Banking Solutions Consulting Lead, the candidate should have extensive hands-on experience in a variery of Retail and Corporate domains including core banking, Credit and Lending, Payments processing as well as other areas such as Trade finance and Supply Chain Finance. This experience could have been with one or several bank(s) or with an IT product/services vendor, or preferably a combination of both. Prior experience with IT products & solution in these areas will be highly desirable if not mandatory.

In addition, the Banking Solution Consultant Lead will also be responsible for developing thought leadership in the domain through research and analysis, industry engagements and client interactions. Being a thought leader, the Solution Lead will mould the thinking of our prospects as well as actively interact with FSGBU product management to give definitive product development directions.

Career Level - IC4