Package Consultant, D365 Finance

Role Overview

A career in IBM Consulting involves collaborating with leading companies worldwide to help them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. We encourage innovation and foster a culture of growth and empathy, focusing on your long-term career development while valuing your unique 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.
• Support finance data migration, testing, reconciliation, training, cutover, and stabilization activities.
• 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 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.