Finance Consultant – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations
Location: UAE
Experience: 6+ years of relevant experience, including 2+ years in a Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant or similar role.
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O) Finance Consultant to deliver finance digital transformation and ERP implementation initiatives. The role covers financial process design, configuration, functional design, testing, reporting, integrations, data migration, and regulatory compliance.
The consultant will work closely with finance and technical teams to translate business requirements into scalable, compliant, and effective D365 Finance solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver finance digital transformation initiatives using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.
- Conduct business process analysis, requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, and functional solution design.
- Translate finance and accounting requirements into functional designs and D365 Finance configurations.
- Configure and support General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash & Bank Management, Fixed Assets, Credit & Collections, Budgeting, and Financial Reporting.
- Configure financial dimensions, chart of accounts, ledger structures, multi-entity, multi-currency, and consolidation requirements.
- Support taxation and VAT configuration, reporting, and compliance.
- Support treasury processes including cash positioning, liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, and treasury reporting.
- Support budgeting, budget control, budget-versus-actual reporting, and variance analysis.
- Support financial consolidation, statutory reporting, trial balance reporting, and bank reconciliation.
- Support Fixed Asset management and reconciliation.
- Ensure finance solutions support IFRS and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Design and support integrations with banking platforms, treasury systems, tax solutions, reporting platforms, and other third-party applications.
- Use Data Management Framework (DMF) for data migration, validation, and reconciliation.
- Work with technical teams on APIs, interfaces, middleware, and integration requirements.
- Prepare Functional Design Documents (FDDs), process documentation, and test scenarios.
- Support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect resolution, deployment, and go-live.
- Support finance data migration, validation, reconciliation, and cutover activities.
- Provide post-go-live support and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with finance, functional, technical, integration, and business teams.
Technical Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.
- Strong functional knowledge of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash & Bank Management, Fixed Assets, Budgeting, Credit & Collections, and Financial Reporting.
- Experience with financial consolidation, multi-entity, multi-currency, financial dimensions, and ledger structures.
- Strong finance and accounting process knowledge.
- Experience with IFRS, statutory reporting, VAT reporting, trial balance, and financial reconciliation.
- Experience with budgeting, budget controls, budget-versus-actual reporting, and variance analysis.
- Experience with bank reconciliation and Fixed Asset reconciliation.
- Experience with treasury processes, liquidity management, and cash flow forecasting.
- Experience with Data Management Framework (DMF), data migration, validation, and reconciliation.
- Experience integrating D365 Finance with banking, treasury, tax, reporting, and third-party platforms.
- Understanding of APIs, interfaces, middleware, and enterprise integration concepts.
- Experience with fit-gap analysis, FDDs, SIT, UAT, cutover, and go-live support.
- Microsoft Dynamics AX experience is an advantage.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 6+ years of relevant experience, including at least 2+ years in a Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant or similar role.
- Hands-on experience across full Microsoft Dynamics AX / Dynamics 365 F&O implementation lifecycles.
- Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate or relevant Microsoft Dynamics 365 certification is preferred.
- Strong finance or accounting background is highly preferred.
- Experience with large-scale ERP or finance transformation initiatives is preferred.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
Key Skills
Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O | D365 Finance | Dynamics AX | General Ledger | Accounts Payable | Accounts Receivable | Cash & Bank Management | Fixed Assets | Financial Consolidation | Budgeting | Credit & Collections | Treasury | IFRS | VAT | Financial Reporting | Bank Reconciliation | Financial Dimensions | Multi-Entity | Multi-Currency | Fit-Gap Analysis | FDD | DMF | Data Migration | Integration | SIT | UAT
