D365 F&O Functional Consultant - London/Hybrid - 6 month Outside IR35

D365 F&O Functional Consultant - Finance Workstream Lead - 6-month Outside IR35 Contract - London/Hybrid

We are supporting a London based client who are looking for a strong Functional Consultant with exceptional experience across Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O), with a particular focus on Finance modules.

This is an inflight programme so the successful Functional Consultant will need to demonstrate that they can quickly understand the existing solutions, business processes and delivery landscapes, and provide immediate value across functional delivery, issue resolution and stakeholder management.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can operate confidently with Finance and business stakeholders, work through complex functional issues and drive them through to resolution. The successful candidate should also have the experience and delivery capability to step into Workstream Lead or Project Management responsibilities when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level functional expertise across the existing D365 F&O solution, with a strong focus on Finance.
• Work closely with Finance stakeholders to understand and resolve functional issues, process challenges and outstanding requirements.
• Provide deep expertise across areas including:
• General Ledger
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Cash & Bank Management
• Fixed Assets
• Budgeting
• Financial dimensions
• Tax
• Intercompany
• Period and year-end close
• Financial reporting
• Multi-company/multi-currency environments
• Analyse existing functionality and determine the most appropriate D365 F&O solution to meet business needs.
• Review and challenge existing processes and designs where improvements or corrections are required.
• Support the resolution of complex functional issues, including investigation of root cause and coordination with technical teams where required.
• Work closely with technical, integration and data teams to ensure Finance-related issues are understood and resolved effectively.
• Support ongoing testing, defect resolution, regression testing and business acceptance activities.
• Support deployment, cutover, go-live and post-go-live activities as the programme progresses.
• Ensure functional decisions, changes and solutions are properly documented.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for Finance stakeholders and provide clear advice on D365 F&O capabilities and limitations.
• Take ownership of Finance or other functional workstreams when required.
• Provide structure and direction across existing workstreams, ensuring activities, actions and dependencies remain on track.
• Coordinate technical teams, business SMEs and third parties.
• Manage workstream plans, milestones, risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Drive outstanding actions and decisions through to resolution.
• Facilitate workshops, design discussions, issue-resolution sessions and stakeholder meetings.
• Provide clear and concise status reporting to programme leadership.
• Proactively identify delivery risks and escalate where appropriate.
• Step into broader Project Management responsibilities when required, helping manage scope, priorities, timelines, resources and dependencies.
• Support programme leadership in maintaining momentum across the existing delivery plan.

Experience & Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.
• Strong functional expertise across D365 Finance, ideally gained across multiple complex programmes.
• Significant experience working on live/in-flight D365 F&O programmes, rather than solely greenfield implementations.
• Proven ability to quickly understand an existing D365 F&O solution and become productive within an established programme.
• Strong understanding of core Finance processes and how they operate within D365 F&O.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving complex functional issues and defects.
• Experience working through testing, deployment, cutover, go-live and post-go-live activities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working directly with senior Finance stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively across business, functional and technical teams.
• Proven experience acting as a Functional Lead or Workstream Lead within an ERP programme.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• D365 F&O certification(s).
• Experience with Power Platform, Power BI or associated Microsoft technologies.
• Experience with integrations, data migration and reporting.
• Previous consulting or systems integration experience.
• Experience managing third-party implementation partners.
• Formal project management qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience.

If this role is of interest please share your CV and we will reach out at our earliest possible convenience.