Functional Consultant (Dynamics 365)

Benefact Group plc; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial services group is seeking a Dynamics 365 Functional Consultant to enhance the adoption of their D365 platform. This role involves engaging with business teams to identify development opportunities that support growth and efficiency. You'll bridge the gap between architecture, product, and engineering teams, shaping the enterprise platform roadmap. The company values talent and offers a collaborative environment, alongside a competitive salary and a range of health and wellbeing benefits. Join a community dedicated to kindness, ambition, and making a positive impact.

Benefits

Generous annual bonus scheme up to 30%

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private healthcare

Income protection

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for professional qualifications

Access to virtual GP

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Up to £400 annual personal grant to charity

Qualifications

• Deep functional knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics and D365 Modules.
• Experience as a functional consultant or architect with D365.

Responsibilities

• Develop solution designs balancing technical and user needs.
• Conduct workshops to understand customer requirements.
• Act as an ambassador for the D365 platform across the group.

Skills

Microsoft Dynamics

D365 Modules

Power Platform

Technical Authoring

CI/CD

Data Management

Test Automation

Strong Communication

Education

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Functional Consultant Associate Certification

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref:203803

About the role

Benefact Group is looking for a Dynamics 365 Functional Consultant to join our Gloucester office.

You will be responsible for advancing and maturing the adoption of the D365 platform through engagement with business teams to understand development opportunities that help support company growth and efficiency. The role bridges engagement between architecture, product, and engineering teams to help shape the enterprise platform roadmap and capability view.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and technically author appropriate solution designs, ensuring fit-for-purpose, balancing technical decisions with user needs and commercial constraints.
• Conduct discovery workshops to understand customer and business opportunities and requirements.
• Lead on proof of concept and innovation work where required, either independently, leading a team, or with delivery partners.
• Technical author of functional requirements and implementation design.
• Act as an ambassador for the D365 platform across the group.
• Act as a technology and development practice coach and mentor.

Knowledge, skills, and experience

• Deep functional knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics, integrations for D365 Modules, and the Power platform.
• Experience of working as a functional consultant or architect with the D365 platform, working closely with business stakeholders to support requirement elicitation.
• Experience of enterprise integration practices, data management, CI/CD, test automation, and platform monitoring.
• Experience of technical authoring, developing and embedding coding standards, patterns, and practices.
• Strong communicator with the ability to converse and translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Functional Consultant Associate certified or equivalent.
• Familiar with scaled agile delivery and CI/CD practices.
• Experience in general insurance or financial services is desirable but not essential.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it.
• Hybrid working.
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution.
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 30%.
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme.
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection, and life assurance.
• Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice.
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications.
• Access to virtual GP.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow, and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history, and the diversity of what we do have enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs, and interests, and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

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