Dynamics 365 Project Operations Functional Consultant

Dynamics 365 Project Operations Functional Consultant –  Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, D365 FO, Project Operations, Project Management and Accounting, PMA, projects accounting, WBS, estimates, resource scheduling, time and expense, procurement for projects, intercompany projects, multi entity, multi currency, fixed price, milestones, revenue recognition, WIP, project invoicing, O2C, P2P, AR, AP, GL, TAX, UAT, cutover, training, continuous improvement.

Join a trusted Microsoft Partner delivering outcomes for project based organisations. You will work across an existing D365 implementation to drive continuous improvement in project processes using either Project Operations or Project Management and Accounting. This is a hands on functional role covering discovery, fit gap, design, configuration, testing, training and cutover support. You will collaborate closely with a Solution Architect, technical teams and business stakeholders to stabilise, enhance and extend project capabilities tied into core finance.

Main Responsibilities:

Project delivery

• Run discovery, fit gap and process design workshops across the projects lifecycle, from quotation and contracts through delivery and billing.
• Produce clear deliverables including process maps, BRDs, FDDs, configuration workbooks, test scripts and training materials.
• Plan and execute configuration for Project Operations or PMA, including project structures, pricing, cost rates, budgets, resourcing, time and expense, procurement for projects and billing.
• Define and support data migration activities for project master and transactional data, working with technical teams.
• Lead functional testing and UAT, manage defects and acceptance, and support cutover and hypercare.

Finance integration

• Align projects with finance processes across GL, AR, AP, TAX, O2C and P2P.
• Configure project billing scenarios, T and M, fixed price and milestone, revenue recognition and WIP.
• Support multi company and intercompany project scenarios, multi currency and statutory needs.

Governance and quality

• Maintain traceable requirements, assumptions and decisions.
• Provide regular status updates, risks and issues, and contribute to release planning.
• Stakeholder engagement
• Work with project managers, project accountants, finance leads and resource managers to land process change.
• Partner with developers and technical architects to shape extensions and integrations where required.
• Report directly to the Solution Architect, aligning design and delivery to the programme plan.

Key Stakeholders

• Solution Architect, design authority and oversight.
• Practice and delivery leadership.
• Technical Architects and Developers.
• Project Managers, Project Controllers and Resource Managers.
• Finance leadership, AR, AP and Tax.
• Business SMEs and end users.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.
• Microsoft certifications welcome, for example MB 300, MB 700 or Project Operations, but not required.
• At least one end to end implementation on Project Operations or PMA.
• Strong D365 Finance and Operations experience across core finance modules.
• Proven delivery of functional consultant responsibilities, discovery to hypercare, within partner or end customer settings.
• Experience operating on an in flight implementation and delivering continuous improvement.

Technical and Professional Skills

• Hands on configuration for projects, project contracts and quotations, WBS and estimating, pricing and cost rates, budgeting and forecasts, resourcing and scheduling, time and expense, procurement for projects, project billing, revenue recognition and WIP.
• Solid understanding of finance integration points, GL, AR, AP, tax and period close impacts.
• Strong documentation, workshop facilitation, testing and training capability.
• Clear communication, stakeholder management and the ability to translate business needs into working D365 solutions.

Behavioural Attributes

• Consultative, organised and delivery focused.
• Comfortable owning workshops, decisions and outcomes.
• Collaborative team player who builds trust with business and technical stakeholders.
• Proactive, hands on and able to work independently in a remote environment.

Additional Information:

• Short interview process.
• Initial three month contract with realistic extension for a further six to twelve months based on performance and pipeline.
• Outside IR35.

Candidates must be eligible to work in this country.