D365 F&O Senior Functional Consultant – Manager

PwC.
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.
D365 F&O Senior Functional Consultants ae responsible for leading D365 F&O functional workstreams for design & implementation on delivery projects. They are also responsible for delivering D365 F&O functional responses and providing demos on sales pursuits, managing D365 F&O functional input to IP and asset development, and meeting the general expectations in line with their consulting grade

Responsibilities & Duties:

– Leading cross-functional teams in client-facing delivery roles
-Providing technical design authority oversight on complex delivery programmes
-Providing oversight across multiple projects simultaneously to deliver client success
-Engaging with senior client stakeholders to promote customer outcomes and challenge existing approaches.
-Building relationships with new and existing clients
-Modelling commercial delivery models to ensure accurate estimation and budgeting while remaining competitive
-Leading the build of re-usable assets that will increase the efficiency and go-to-market offerings of PwC
-Documenting, proposing and discussing solution options as a part of the programme team (high level design / low level design)
-Configuring and developing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solutions to fit project requirements.
-Engaging with team members to contribute towards successful project outcomes.
-Working closely with technical development capability, including nearshore and offshore teams.
-Understanding business requirements and scope changes and highlight any impact on delivery teams or technical solution.
-Providing SME input across a variety of programme workstreams, including testing, training, data, reporting, and business change.
-Formally coach and manage people within the team
-Build and maintain relationships with Microsoft and help support their go-to-market strategies

PwC Consulting Manager Grade Expectations:

Project Management
-Responsible for planning and managing the workstreams they are assigned
-Runs workstream meetings
-Manages workstream issues & risks

Delivery Management
-Manages quality of deliverables across the workstreams they are assigned
-Manages relationships with other workstreams

People Management
-Responsible for development of coachees
-Responsible for skills development of less experienced team members

Stakeholder Management
-Manages PwC and client stakeholder expectations
-Advocate for Microsoft within the firm

Sales Support
-Able to plan and deliver sales demos
-Seen as a specialist to support sales pursuits in areas of Microsoft product expertise

Desired Experience:

-University graduate or professionally qualified (or part qualified) with a relevant degree within finance or business discipline would be beneficial but not essential
-Established experience delivering Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solutions
-Ideally, experience in a client-facing role with a Microsoft Gold Partner
-Experience deploying Finance and Operations on a global scale would be advantageous
-1 or more intermediate / expert level relevant Microsoft certifications
-Hands on experience working in a finance, HR, logistics or manufacturing function within an organisation wound be beneficial
-Leading and overseeing agile project delivery teams
-Bid preparation and presentation, including system demos
-Training in project management methodologies (such as PRINCE2, Agile or Scrum) would be beneficial but not essential

Desired Attributes:

-Strong presentation and demonstration skills
-Business process mapping, modelling and documentation knowledge
-Able to confidently understand not only business process design at feature or user story level but on the wider enterprise or end to end process level
-Confident and effective communication skills
-Thinks clearly and calmly under pressure
-Able to manage client expectations
-Investigates problems to establish real or hidden causes
-Solves complex problems with creative solutions
-Places emphasis on user satisfaction
-Ability to prioritise and successfully manage multiple projects/deadlines simultaneously
-Must have the ability to work independently as well as within a team environment