Fo Technical Consultant

**Job details**:
**Location**:Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Leeds, Leeds Broadgate, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, Sheffield, South Coast, Watford

**Capability**:Consulting

**Experience Level**:Associate/Assistant Manager

**Type**:Full Time

**Service Line**:MBS

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Job description**:
**FO Technical Consultant**

We are looking for an experienced Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365FO) Technical Consultant to be accountable for the technical design of D365FO solutions and the supporting infrastructure. You will work closely with both the functional team and the clients of KPMG. Your day-to-day function will require you to work closely with Consultants in designing solutions tailored to the customers’ requirements, which are often large-scale enterprise D365FO projects. This will require you to take a hands-on approach in designing and leading the technical implementation of Dynamics products, working with both onshore and offshore development teams. You will need to demonstrate an effective balance between management skills and a broad range of technical skills.

The D365FO Technical Architect is a key role to KPMG. It is a dynamic and exciting opportunity to join a rapidly developing business area within an established and market-leading global firm that is KPMG.

**Responsibilities**
- The D365FO Technical consultant will assist with the technical delivery of D365FO.
- Be a champion for technical solutions on the Microsoft platform with a strong understanding of Dynamics D365FO development practices, and a good knowledge of other development techniques;
- Provide capability to develop sector specific templates to enhance the out of the box D365FO functionality, giving KPMG a unique selling point and also a resalable asset;
- Deliver high quality development services to clients;
- Work closely with the architecture team to design and develop our most complex customer needs, providing development only where these requirements cannot be met through configuration - Creating high quality and sustainable client solutions and project documentation;
- Deliver training needs within the team and coach junior staff members;
- Meet and exceed customer expectations of business knowledge, skills and behaviour;
- Identify business/project risk and mitigate or communicate as necessary;
- Communicate progress updates to relevant parties both formally and informally;
- Participate in pre-sales activities as requested;
- Support practice development activities such as defining and configuring industry specific templates;
- Carry out additional duties as may occur from time to time as instructed and agreed by the directors;
- In all activities, ensure timely completion of internal processes and mandatory training;
- Represent KPMG in a professional and positive manner at all times.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Excellent presentation and consultancy skills;
- Good hands-on experience with Dynamics AX 2012 and 2009, including appropriate certification;
- Experience with or exposure to Dynamics 365FO will be considered a strong positive;
- Experience of using PowerApps, Logic Apps, Common Data Service and other Azure Services;
- Knowledge of Lifecycle Services and Visual Studio Team Services;
- Experience in other technologies such as SQL, PowerBI, SharePoint along with a good knowledge of net;
- Knowledge of end to end D365FO implementation;
- Experience with D365FO interfacing and integration;
- Knowledge in gathering technical requirements;
- Knowledge of Agile and other Sure Step methodologies;
- Good understanding of functional capabilities of D365FO - including certification in one of the following:

- Financials
- Human Resources
- Project Management and Accounting
- Procurement & Sourcing
- Trade & Logistics
- Retail
- Others
- Experience in responding to RFPs and RFQs would be beneficial;
- Knowledge of best practices for working with offshore teams;
- Graduate degree from a University;
**Experience and Background**
- Expertise in providing development solutions in a D365FO environment; Extensive experience as an ERP consultant;
- Experience with D365FO in a Development Consulting role;
- Experience of at least two large scale ERP implementations;
- Adept at Business Requirement Analysis with a focus on reducing development effort;
- Pre-sales experience;
- Excellent presentation and demonstration skills;
- Business process mapping, modelling and documentation knowledge;
- Experience of mentoring junior and offshore staff.
- Experience defining and implementing Integration Design Patterns
- Experience defining and implementing a Data Migration Strategy
- Experience working with and deploying code packages and environment update releases
- Experience defining and implementing a BI Repor