Senior D365 Functional Consultant

Candidate Description

Specialising in financial ERP transformation, the candidate brings more than 25 years of commercial experience across a diverse customer and industry base. Their expertise spans Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Dynamics AX, TechnologyOne, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle and Movex. They combine senior business analysis with functional consulting, financial accounting knowledge and implementation delivery. Core strengths cover general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, procurement, reporting and business intelligence. Their assignments include a healthcare organization, a government healthcare organization, an energy utility, a local government organization and a vocational education provider. Analytical problem-solving and the ability to translate complex processes into practical system requirements underpin their approach.

Their delivery record combines hands-on financial configuration, data migration, integration and measurable process improvement. At an education organization, they helped deploy Oracle across 12 Asia Pacific countries and progressed to Project Manager for completion of phase one and phase two CRM integration. At a waste management company, they mapped 30 legacy charts of accounts, consolidated 2,500 accounting codes to 700 and streamlined 12 finance processes. Their work at a manufacturing company cut four days from the finance month-end process and reduced cutover effort through a new open-invoice upload method. At a law firm, they used SQL for reporting, established TM1 cube structures and helped resolve a $200k bank reconciliation issue. Their implementation experience incorporates Agile and PRINCE2, together with requirements analysis, testing, training and cutover planning.

Leadership experience ranges from functional finance ownership and project team recruitment to managing analysts and training resources. At a vocational education provider, they contributed to steering committee governance while aligning business stakeholders, technical teams and the managed services provider. They developed training documentation, supported user acceptance testing and helped close functional gaps between business requirements and service delivery. Their regional experience includes supporting seven Asia Pacific Finance Controllers at a consumer products company and training super users in Hong Kong at an education organization. Adaptability across healthcare, government, education, utilities, manufacturing and professional services enables them to connect financial controls with operational priorities. An Australian citizen based in Brisbane and immediately available for contract work, the candidate offers a combination of financial domain depth, ERP delivery experience and collaborative business analysis leadership.