A bit about us
At Barhead, our specialised consultants focus on delivering business solutions, leveraging Microsoft’s Technology Stack. We believe that it is a combination of people, technology, and business drivers that underpin the most successful implementations.
As a leading Microsoft Business Applications partner with global cross industry expertise, we cover the diverse product offerings from Microsoft and the broader ecosystem, supporting our clients to modernise their systems and processes. Our collaborative client engagement model centred on business outcomes enables us to deliver the most innovative use of technology.
Our consulting expertise and offerings span the entire Microsoft stack – Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure, anchored around a business solution. We cover Dynamics 365 applications (Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Business Central, Project Service Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Customer Insights), and Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agent).
Our expertise extends to independent software vendor (ISV) product development, utilising Microsoft’s Power Platform. We are one of nine certified Microsoft Business Applications ISV Development Centre organisations in the world.
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Primary objective
As a Senior D365 Finance & Operations Functional Consultant, you will be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the functionality of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (or Dynamics AX) and how it applies to support financial business processes. Working with our most important customers, you will be part of a virtual team of technical and functional consulting resources collaborating with Client teams to deliver one set of business outcomes.
In this role, you will transform customer business requirements by matching these to D365 Finance and Operations application processes.
Your business process and/or solid product knowledge and expertise will enable you to deliver and implement technology to support and excite client Finance and Operational Teams. You should also have experience running workshops to confirm customer business process requirements against solution designs. You will help customers evaluate their applications, recommend solutions that meet their requirements, remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
The Senior D365 Finance & Operations Functional Consultant is an accomplished communicator and advisor with a proven track record of driving complex digital transformation with ERP solutions. Specifically, this includes:
- Work as part of a D365 Finance and Operations implementation team to own the configuration design and functional rollout of the solution to achieve customer business outcomes.
- Utilise your business background to propose to customers the optimal functional configuration of the D365 Finance and Operations solution utilising both core functionality and any potential extensions using partner ISV or Microsoft platform solutions including Power Platform, Power BI reporting and Azure Services.
- Develop deep trusted business advisor relationships with customer Business Decision Makers by actively understanding customer business pains, requirements, strategic growth objectives, industry trends and providing business-value-outcome-based solutions.
- Develop, maintain, and document comprehensive D365 F&O configuration requirements resulting from joint customer planning and discovery workshops which address customer strategic priorities for digital transformation.
- Discover, assess, evaluate, and challenge strategic customer objectives by translating them into digital transformation opportunities that leverage Microsoft D365 Finance and Operations.
- Work with the technical team to address any gaps highlighted in the functional review process.
- Ability to meet deadlines utilizing strong organizational skills and habits.
- Address key change request scenarios with quantifiable business value outcomes and justifications.
- Be a disciplined operator, collaborating with both internal and client teams to ensure expectations are clearly understood and met.
- Prepare your Clients to use the system by supporting testing and providing functional training to users.
Key Skills/Competencies
Due to the nature of our some of our clients, this role requires Australian Citizenship.
The Key skills required for this role are:
- Proven implementation experience in D365 Finance and Operations or prior experience implementing Dynamics AX 2012 R3 or R2.
- Prior experience with the following D365 Finance and Operations modules: Core Financial Modules: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Budgeting, Cash at Bank, Fixed Assets and GST, Financial Reporter.
- Desirable: Consolidation Accounting, Employee Expense Management, Foreign Currency revaluation, Intercompany Accounting.
- Experience implementing the Purchasing Procurement and Project Accounting modules will be a bonus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Computer Science or related degree from an accredited University or College (desired).
- At least 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst or Functional Consultant.
- Barhead will also consider 5 years’ experience working as a business end-user with corporate, public sector or enterprise customers directly with the D365 Finance and Operations solution.
- Functional Expertise. Experience and ability to explain key solutions and architectures in the D365 Finance and Operations (ERP) space to key customer business stakeholders.
- Experience managing offshore functional consulting resources.
- Desirable to have any or all of the following Microsoft Business Applications certifications:
- MB 300 – D365: Core Finance & Operations.
- MB 310 – Dynamics 365 Finance.
- MB 330 – Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.
- Support the solution sales team for ERP or similar business applications.
- Digital transformation management consulting experience with leading international firms would be helpful.
- Bringing innovative ideas to customers’ problems and being customer focused.
- Assessing strategic customer objectives, digital transformation opportunity discovery, key improvement scenarios, and an ability to measure and present incremental and new economic value.
- Excellent communications skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts in simple terms.
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of technology and business stakeholders.
- Commercial and customer focused mindset.
- Ability to be agile in the ever-changing environment in which we operate.
- Growth Mindset. Experience and passion for learning (technical and professional skills); implementing practices from others; trying, failing and learning from that; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit.
Why join us?
This pivotal role provides an opportunity to work with the most innovative tech solutions in an award-winning and growth-oriented practice. We offer a culture that encourages out of the box thinking, where delivering challenging, creative and commercially sound client project solutions is the end goal. If you are someone who can rise to the challenge of helping clients make the seemingly impossible, possible, apply now.
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