About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead end-to-end Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations implementations, upgrades and rollouts. The ideal candidate has grown from a strong functional consulting background, preferably in Finance, and now owns delivery: scope, timelines, budget, quality, and client relationships. They will lead cross-functional teams of functional consultants, technical developers and business stakeholders, and make sure the solution delivers measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities:

Project planning and delivery

- Lead full-lifecycle D365 F&O; implementations, from discovery and fit-gap analysis through design, build, testing, cutover, go-live and hypercare.
- Define project scope, plans, milestones, resource requirements and budgets; track and report progress against them.
- Apply Microsoft's Success by Design framework and a suitable delivery approach (Waterfall, Agile or hybrid).
- Manage change requests, scope control and project financials, including effort estimation and margin tracking.

Stakeholder and client management

- Act as the primary contact for client sponsors, business process owners and IT teams.
- Run steering committee meetings, weekly status reviews and project reporting.
- Manage expectations, resolve escalations and keep stakeholders aligned on priorities.
- Coordinate with Microsoft, ISV partners and third-party vendors where needed.

Functional leadership

- provide functional direction across D365 F&O; modules, particularly General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cash & Bank Management, Budgeting and Project Management & Accounting.
- Review and sign off solution designs, functional design documents (FDDs) and configuration decisions.
- Guide the team on integrations, data migration, reporting (Financial Reporting, Power BI)



and localization requirements such as GST and VAT.
- Act as the escalation point for complex functional and business-process issues.

Stakeholder and team management

- Be the primary point of contact for client sponsors and senior stakeholders; run steering committee meetings and status reviews.
- Lead, mentor and allocate work across functional, technical and data teams, including offshore and onsite resources.
- Coordinate with Microsoft, ISV partners and third-party vendors where required.

Risk, quality and governance

- Identify, track and mitigate project risks, issues and dependencies.
- Oversee test strategy, including SIT, UAT and regression testing, and ensure quality gates are met before go-live.
- Plan cutover, go-live readiness, user training and organizational change management.
- Maintain project documentation and ensure adherence to governance and compliance standards.

Business development support

- Support pre-sales activities: solution demos, effort estimates, proposals and responses to RFPs.
- Identify opportunities for further phases, enhancements and support engagements with existing clients.

Required qualifications and experience

- 10 to 15 years of experience as a functional consultant in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, including its predecessor Dynamics AX (2009 / 2012).
- Deep expertise in at least one D365 F&O; module, preferably Finance (GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Cash & Bank, Budgeting, Consolidation).




- At least 3 to 5 years in a project management or delivery lead role on D365 F&O; engagements.
- Delivered a minimum of 3 to 4 full-cycle D365 F&O; implementations end to end, including at least one in a lead or PM capacity.
- Sound understanding of core business processes such as Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash.
- Working knowledge of Lifecycle Services (LCS), Azure DevOps, data management framework and integration approaches.
- Solid client-facing, communication and presentation skills, with experience managing senior stakeholders.
- Bachelors degree in commerce, Finance, Accounting, Engineering or a related field.

Preferred skills, certifications and competencies

Certifications (preferred)

- Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate (MB-310)
- Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert (MB-700)
- PMP, PRINCE2 or an equivalent project management certification
- Chartered Accountant (CA), CMA, MBA (Finance) or equivalent finance qualification

Preferred experience

- Upgrades or migrations from Dynamics AX 2012 to D365 F&O.;
- Multi-country or multi-entity rollouts, including India (GST) and GCC (VAT) localizations.
- Exposure to Power Platform, Power BI and Dual-write with Dataverse.
- Experience managing distributed onsiteoffshore delivery teams.

Core competencies

- Leadership and team building
- Structured problem-solving and decision-making
- Stakeholder and expectation management
- Commercial awareness and budget control
- Clear written and verbal communication

Job Location

- Remote

To know more details about the organization, please visit our website and LinkedIn page:

- https://thesolutionglobal.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/thesolutionconsulting/posts/?feedView=all

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