D365 F&O Techno-Functional Consultant
SYSCORT FINTECH PRIVATE LIMITED Ras Al-Khaimah, Other / Non-US, U.A.E.
About this position
About SYSCORT
Syscortis a global consulting and technology services firm based in the UAE, delivering business transformation solutions across MENA, APAC, UK, US, and Europe. We specialize in Treasury & Risk Consulting, Financial Transformation, Data & Analytics, AI & Automation, and TechnologyConsulting, helping organizationsoptimizeoperations, unlock insights, and build future-ready enterprises.
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) Techno-Functional Consultant to work closely with CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, and business stakeholders at a real estate organization.
The role combines CFO-level business process consulting, finance transformation, Dynamics 365 F&O functional expertise, and technical solution delivery .
The successful candidate will assess existing finance and ERP processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, recommend best practices, design optimized workflows, and translate business requirements into scalable Dynamics 365 F&O solutions.
The candidate will also work hands-on with configuration, solution design, integrations, reporting, customizations, testing, and implementation, coordinating with technical teams wherever required.
This is a consulting-oriented role for someone who can understand the business problem first and determine how Dynamics F&O can solve it, rather than simply implementing predefined requirements.
Key Responsibilities
1. CFO Advisory & Finance Process Assessment
- Work directly with the CFO, Finance Director, Financial Controller, and finance teams to understand business objectives, existing processes, pain points, and operational challenges.
- Conduct finance process assessments and workshops covering Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), budgeting, forecasting, treasury, and financial reporting.
- Identify gaps in existing ERP workflows, manual processes, spreadsheet dependencies, internal controls, and financial reporting.
- Assess the effectiveness of the current Dynamics 365 F&O environment and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Develop current-state and future-state process maps, gap assessment reports, and actionable improvement roadmaps.
- Recommend process standardization, automation, stronger financial controls, and improved visibility for finance leadership.
- Translate CFO and business priorities into practical ERP transformation initiatives, with clear business benefits and implementation priorities.
2. Real Estate Finance & Business Process Consulting
- Understand real estate business models, including property development, property management, leasing, rental income, service charges, project accounting, and property-related operating expenses.
- Assess finance processes across multiple legal entities, subsidiaries, properties, projects, and cost centres.
- Support financial management for property acquisition, development expenditure, capitalisation, fixed assets, construction-in-progress, and project cost tracking.
- Review budgeting and forecasting processes for property-level profitability, development projects, rental income, operating expenses, and cash flow.
- Evaluate tenant billing, rent receivables, collections, vendor payments, service charges, and related financial controls, identifying where F&O should integrate with specialist property management systems.
- Support intercompany accounting, consolidation, financial reporting, and management reporting across multiple entities.
- Recommend improvements in financial visibility, project profitability, cost allocation, and period-end closing.
3. Dynamics 365 F&O Functional Solution Design
- Lead requirement gathering and functional discovery workshops with finance, procurement, project management, and other business teams.
- Assess existing Dynamics 365 F&O configurations against business requirements and Microsoft best practices.
- Design and configure relevant F&O modules, including:
- General Ledger and Financial Dimensions
- Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
- Cash and Bank Management
- Fixed Assets
- Budgeting and Financial Reporting
- Project Management and Accounting
- Procurement and Sourcing
- Tax configuration and financial controls
- Design workflows, approval hierarchies, chart of accounts, financial dimensions, posting profiles, and reporting structures.
- Prepare functional specifications, solution design documents, business requirement documents, and configuration documentation.
- Identify opportunities to use standard product capabilities before recommending custom development.
- Support integrations with property management platforms, banking systems, reporting tools, and other enterprise applications.
4. Technical Analysis & Implementation
- Analyse technical requirements and translate functional needs into technical solution specifications.
- Work with developers on X++, extensions, customizations, integrations, data entities, APIs, and Electronic Reporting where applicable.
- Understand the Dynamics 365 F&O technical architecture, development lifecycle, environment management, and deployment processes.
- Assess existing customizations and identify opportunities to simplify the application, reduce technical debt, and improve system performance.
- Support data migration, data validation, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and production deployment.
- Troubleshoot functional and technical issues and coordinate resolution with Microsoft partners, developers, and internal IT teams.
- Ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with Microsoft's recommended implementation practices.
5. Finance Automation, Reporting & Optimization
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring finance activities, reconciliations, journal processing, invoice workflows, and period-end close activities.
- Improve financial reporting through management reports, financial statements, dashboards, and analytical outputs.
- Work with Power BI and other reporting solutions to improve visibility into property-level financial performance, cash flow, budgets, and profitability.
- Identify manual spreadsheet-based activities that can be standardized or automated through F&O, integrations, or complementary data and automation tools.
- Establish measurable outcomes for process improvements, including reduced manual effort, faster closing cycles, better data quality, and stronger financial controls.
6. Implementation, Stakeholder Management & Delivery
- Own assigned workstreams from discovery and solution design through configuration, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
- Coordinate with CFO stakeholders, finance users, project managers, developers, and external implementation partners.
- Prepare project plans, functional deliverables, risk logs, issue trackers, and progress updates.
- Conduct user training, process walkthroughs, and knowledge-transfer sessions.
- Challenge requirements where appropriate and recommend simpler, more cost-effective alternatives.
- Ensure that implemented solutions address the original business problem and deliver measurable business value.
Required Skills & Experience
- 6–10 years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics AX / Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations consulting, implementation, or optimization.
- Strong functional understanding of core finance processes, including R2R, P2P, O2C, fixed assets, budgeting, cash management, and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated experience in Dynamics 365 F&O configuration, functional solution design, gap analysis, and implementation.
- Working knowledge of Dynamics 365 F&O technical concepts, including X++, extensions, data entities, integrations, APIs, and customizations.
- Ability to engage confidently with CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, and senior business stakeholders.
- Experience conducting workshops, documenting business requirements, challenging existing processes, and recommending improved solutions.
- Understanding of financial dimensions, chart of accounts, posting profiles, workflows, and multi-entity accounting.
- Experience with Power BI, financial reporting, data migration, and ERP integrations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver in a client-facing consulting environment.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with real estate developers, property management groups, real estate investment businesses, or construction and development organizations.
- Exposure to property accounting, project accounting, rental income, tenant receivables, service charges, capital expenditure, and property-level reporting.
- Experience optimizing an existing Dynamics 365 F&O environment rather than exclusively participating in new implementations.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance certification or relevant Microsoft credentials.
- Exposure to UAE VAT, corporate tax considerations, multi-currency accounting, and regional financial reporting requirements.
- Familiarity with Power Platform, Power Automate, data analytics, and finance automation solutions.
Key Success Measures
The successful candidate will be evaluated on:
- Quality and depth of CFO-level discovery and finance process assessments.
- Identification of business gaps and practical optimization opportunities.
- Quality of future-state process design and Dynamics F&O solution recommendations.
- Successful delivery of functional configuration, technical workstreams, integrations, and testing.
- Reduction in manual processes, reconciliation effort, and reporting turnaround time.
- Improvements in financial controls, data quality, visibility, and period-end close efficiency.
- Stakeholder satisfaction, adoption, and measurable realization of business benefits.
Ideal Candidate Profile
We are looking for a consultant who combines the mindset of a finance transformation advisor with the execution capabilities of a Dynamics 365 F&O consultant.
The ideal candidate can sit with a CFO, understand how the finance function operates, identify gaps in processes and systems, recommend a better operating model, design the appropriate F&O solution, and work with technical teams to implement it successfully.
The emphasis is on business problem-solving, finance process optimization, and hands-on Dynamics 365 F&O delivery—not just ERP configuration or support.
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