Package Consultant, D365 Finance

Role Overview

A career in IBM Consulting involves working with leading companies across industries to help them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. The role encourages innovation and leverages diverse skills and experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing finance workstreams across discovery, design, build, test, cutover, and post-go-live support.
• Facilitate workshops with CFOs, controllers, finance directors, and process owners to define requirements, validate processes, and align on design decisions.
• Translate finance priorities into fit-to-standard D365 Finance solutions that support close, reporting, controls, compliance, working capital, and operational efficiency.
• Configure and advise on D365 Finance capabilities including GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Cash and Bank, Credit and Collections, Cost Accounting, Budgeting, and Financial Reporting.
• Support executive conversations by clearly explaining solution options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and business value.
• Manage finance backlog items, design decisions, scope, risks, issues, and deliverables in coordination with client and IBM project leadership.
• Partner with technical, data, integration, reporting, security, change management, and offshore teams to deliver an integrated finance solution.
• Coach junior consultants and client resources while maintaining high-quality, billable delivery standards.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of finance, accounting, ERP, or finance transformation experience, including 5+ years of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations experience.
• Deep functional knowledge of core finance processes including Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Cost Accounting, Budgeting, and Financial Reporting.
• Proven experience in client-facing consulting or billable delivery roles, including workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, documentation, and solution ownership.
• Ability to engage CFO-level and senior finance stakeholders and connect D365 Finance capabilities to business outcomes.
• Experience designing chart of accounts, financial dimensions, account structures, posting profiles, allocations, intercompany, period close, and reporting structures.
• Track record delivering full lifecycle ERP implementations using Agile, hybrid Agile, or Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, testing cycles, data migration, cutover planning, and post-go-live support.
• Strong communication, analytical, commercial, and delivery management skills across onshore and offshore teams.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform, reporting/analytics, workflow automation, and Copilot/AI-enabled finance capabilities preferred.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Advanced Consulting Skills: Experience with managing complex consulting projects, leveraging expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations to drive business transformation and process improvement.
• Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with Distribution industry business processes and requirements, enabling effective integration of Dynamics 365 FnO modules into clients' business environments.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to guide and mentor junior consultants in the selection, configuration, testing, and support of Dynamics 365 applications.