Finance Lead, Microsoft Dynamics 365 - Toronto, Ontario

Huron Consulting; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Huron Consulting in Canada is seeking a Finance Lead for Dynamics 365 to guide finance design across manufacturing and automotive clients. You will own close processes, cost accounting, and financial reporting, shaping the future-state finance design alongside architecture and technical teams.

This on-site role is based in the Toronto area, requiring Canadian citizenship and occasional travel. The role emphasizes AI-enabled delivery, including Copilot and Dynamics 365 AI-driven forecasting, to

Qualifications

• Deep finance business process knowledge: financial close, cost accounting, treasury, reporting.
• Experience leading finance design and requirements for ERP implementations, accountable for business outcome.
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops with finance executives and SMEs.
• Ability to build durable client relationships and serve as trusted advisor.
• Willingness to work on-site at client locations in Toronto area with travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead client business process reviews across financial close, cost accounting, treasury and reporting.
• Own functional requirements for the finance workstream and translate needs into design for config and build.
• Facilitate design sessions with finance stakeholders to confirm requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Supply Chain and Manufacturing leads to align finance impact.
• Direct AI-enabled delivery through Copilot and AI forecasting to accelerate timelines.

Skills

Finance acumen

ERP implementation

Facilitation

Client relationship

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Copilot / AI tools

Job description

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

About Huron

Huron is a global professional services firm that helps organizations in healthcare, education, financial services, and commercial industries solve their most complex challenges and build sustainable success. The Digital, Marketing & Analytics practice designs and delivers technology solutions, including the Microsoft Business Solutions (MSBS) practice, which focuses on Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management, Microsoft Fabric, the Power Platform, and applied AI, delivered through a global model spanning the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

Position summary

Huron Canada is looking for a Finance Lead to bring deep finance business acumen to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementations for manufacturing and automotive clients. This is a Lead role, not a Solution Architect role: the primary mandate is to understand a client's financial operations, close process, cost accounting, and financial reporting, deeply enough to shape business process design and hold finance stakeholders through it, working side by side with the solution architecture and technical teams who own the underlying system build. The Lead directs how AI-enabled tools, including Copilot and Dynamics 365 AI-driven forecasting and automation capabilities, are used in workshops, requirements capture, and testing to increase the speed and quality of the implementation. This is an on-site role based in the Toronto, Ontario area and requires Canadian citizenship.

Finance Lead, Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Manufacturing and Automotive

Toronto, Ontario area. On client site, with travel as the engagement requires.

Key responsibilities

Business process leadership

• Process ownership. Lead client business process reviews across financial close, cost accounting, treasury, and financial reporting, assessing current-state maturity and shaping future-state design.
• Requirements ownership. Own functional requirements definition for the finance workstream, translating business needs into a solution design that the architecture and technical teams configure and build.
• Design facilitation. Facilitate and document design sessions with client finance process owners and subject matter experts to confirm requirements are met and understood.
• Cross-functional alignment. Understand the cross-functional effect of supply chain and manufacturing transactions on financial performance and reporting, and coordinate with the Supply Chain and Manufacturing Leads accordingly.

AI-enabled delivery acceleration

• AI-enabled acceleration. Direct the use of AI-enabled tools, Copilot, and Dynamics 365 AI-driven forecasting and automation capabilities in discovery, requirements capture, test scripting, and user enablement to compress timelines without sacrificing quality.
• AI-informed design. Identify where AI-driven forecasting, predictive analytics, or intelligent automation can strengthen the client's future-state finance design.

Client relationship and stakeholder management

• Relationship building. Build and sustain trusted, on-site relationships with client finance executives, controllers, and process owners, serving as a trusted advisor.
• Client point of contact. Serve as the client's day-to-day point of contact for finance questions throughout the implementation.

Team leadership and delivery quality

• Delivery leadership. Lead and guide internal and client team members through finance configuration validation, testing, training, and deployment.
• Mentorship. Mentor consultants on finance business process design and client-facing delivery discipline.

Required qualifications

• Canadian citizenship (required for this client engagement).
• Willingness and ability to work on-site at the client location in the Toronto, Ontario area, with travel as the engagement requires.
• Deep business acumen in corporate finance and accounting operations: financial close, cost accounting, treasury, and financial reporting, gained through industry or consulting experience.
• A track record of leading finance business process design and requirements definition on ERP implementations, in a role accountable for the business outcome rather than the technical build.
• Demonstrated experience working in or with a manufacturing environment, including understanding of how supply chain and production activity flows into financial results.
• Strong facilitation skills, with experience leading design workshops with finance executives and subject matter experts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build durable client relationships.

Preferred qualifications

None of