Functional Consultant - D365 F&O
Our client is one of the largest and leading social housing associations in the UK.
We are looking for an experienced Functional Consultant with expertise in Dynamics 365 F&O (Finance) to be a strategic partner, guiding the business through their adoption of D365 solutions at scale.
Your role will be to provide functional consulting that ensures we have an industry leading and proactive approach to getting the best out of D365.
You will bridge the gap between technical solutions and business strategy, requiring an expert understanding of both technical (e.g. system configuration and solution options) and functional capabilities of D365 F&O
You will contribute to the functional architecture and roadmap for D365 F&O as part of a team of internal functional consultants.
Responsibilities
- Working to achieve a common set of business goals utilising the very best of D365 F&O and its future roadmap.
- Assisting in the setup of new ways of working, and a new operating model from scratch so that functional consulting becomes a sector-leading approach
- Translating the company strategy and other business needs into packaged software solutions.
- Contributing to, maintaining and communicating the D365 F&O roadmap, continuously looking to adopt the very best of features and functionality including AI.
- Implementing the roadmap in partnership with business stakeholders and product owners, as part of both continuous and project-based methods, owning functional solutions.
- Ensuring there is a close and vibrant relationship between the team and all participants and stakeholders in the software development lifecycle.
- Evangelising D365 F&O solutions for the client, both externally and with the leadership team.
- Supporting the solution and resolving issues as part of a cross-functional support and improvement team.
- Mentoring less experienced members of the team, including associates at the start of their journey.
- Acting as an in-house expert on the function and art of the possible with D365 F&O.
- Contributing to a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Maintaining professional standards including standard, mandatory certification pathways and other personal development.
Experience and Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience and mastery of D365 F&O is essential.
- Seasoned experience of functional consulting as a practice is essential.
- Ideally has worked at scale within Dynamics (we have 3500 colleagues, 80,000 properties, 200,000 customers).
- Must be able to influence leaders.
- Multiple full-lifecycle D365 F&O Core Finance implementation experience.
- Ideally has a Finance Accounting qualification
- Ideally has worked in a continuous change environment.
- Housing experience desirable but not essential with the right functional coverage of expertise as above.
Essential qualities:
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- Influential.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Solves complex problems.
- Self-starter with ability to handle multiple tasks and shifting priorities.
- Thinks clearly and calmly under pressure.
- Places emphasis on customer and stakeholder satisfaction.
If this seems like the role for you, then please apply with your most up-to-date CV for immediate review.