Senior / Lead - D365 F&O - Finance & SCM Functional

Job Title: Senior / Lead D365 F&O + SCM Functional Consultant Job Location: Bangalore Job Type: Full Time Permanent Experience: 10+ years Mode of Work: Hybrid Working Salary (CTC): Budget Upto 20 LPA(Can be discussed further) Job Title : Senior / Lead Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) Functional Consultant Finance & SCM Experience 712 years of ERP experience with strong endtoend D365 Finance & Operations implementation exposure, including functional leadership, technical solution awareness, automation enablement, and environment governance. Role Summary We are looking for a Senior / Lead D365 F&O Functional Consultant with strong expertise across Finance and Supply Chain Management (SCM). The role involves translating complex business requirements into scalable D365 F&O solutions, driving fitgap analysis, supporting automation and intelligent process improvements, and ensuring technical architecture and environment governance alignment. The consultant will work closely with CFOs, finance leaders, and operations stakeholders and play a key role in large, enterprise ERP programs. Key Responsibilities 1) Requirements, FitGap & Solution Design Lead structured business and finance workshops to gather and analyze requirements across Finance and SCM.Map business requirements to D365 F&O standard functionality, leveraging best practices and reusable patterns.Perform FIT/GAP analysis, document gaps, and define configuration, extension, integration, or automation approaches.Use Business Process Priorities (BPP) to guide solution design, prioritization, and phased implementation.2) Finance Functional Ownership Handson responsibility for core Finance modules, including:General Ledger (GL)Accounts Payable (AP)Accounts Receivable (AR)Strong expertise in:Cash & Bank ManagementBudgeting and Budget ControlDeep understanding of invoicing and AR lifecycle processes (billing, collections, settlements, aging, disputes).3) Supply Chain Management (SCM) Exposure Functional exposure to D365 F&O Supply Chain modules, including:Procurement & SourcingOrdertoCash and ProcuretoPay flowsAbility to assess and design FinanceSCM integration touchpoints, including:Sub-ledger to GL postingsCosting, inventory valuation, and landed cost impactsPreferred experience in Service industry environments.4) Automation, LowCode & Intelligent Capabilities Exposure to process automation in D365 F&O, including:Power Automatebased approvals and notificationsBusiness events and integration triggersAwareness of automation and agentbased scenarios in Finance and SCM:Reducing manual accounting and operational tasksEnhancing controls, alerts, and exception handlingAbility to identify automation opportunities and guide their implementation with governance controls.5) Technical Architecture Awareness Strong functional understanding of D365 F&O technical architecture, including:Extensionbased customization modelIntegration patterns (data entities, APIs, middleware)Data migration and reporting considerationsAbility to work closely with architects and developers to:Validate functional designsReview technical solutions for scalability and performanceEnsure alignment with platform standards6) Environment Governance LCS & PPAC Good understanding of D365 platform administration and governance, including:Lifecycle Services (LCS) implementation management, issue tracking, updates, monitoringPower Platform Admin Center (PPAC) environments, security, automation governanceAwareness of:Environment strategy (DEV / TEST / UAT / PROD)Access control, SoD considerations, and change governanceAuditready and compliancedriven delivery practices7) Documentation, Training & Change Enablement Own and maintain:FRDs / FDDsBusiness process flowsConfiguration and setup workbooksTraining material and SOPsConduct solution walkthroughs, training sessions, and knowledge transfer.Drive user adoption and readiness.8) Testing, Deployment & PostGoLive Prepare and review test scenarios and scripts.Lead and support SIT and UAT cycles with business users.Support cutover, golive, hypercare, and transition to support teams.Project Leadership & Delivery Expectations Experience managing functional teams of 1015 members.Successfully delivered minimum 2 ERP implementations with effort size exceeding 40 manmonths.Strong exposure to:Modulewise estimation and effort sizingWBS, delivery planning, dependency and risk managementHandson experience with Microsoft Sure Step or equivalent ERP delivery methodologies.Strong experience with master data setups and core configuration (legal entities, dimensions, posting profiles, parameters).Required Skills & Competencies MustHave Strong D365 F&O Finance + SCM functional expertise.Proven experience working with CFOs and senior finance/operations stakeholders.Integrated exposure to business processes, automation, technical architecture, and governance.Excellent communication, leadership, and Job Titl