Senior Technical F&O Consultant

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner, specialising in end-to-end transformation. As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, including Azure, Application Modernisation and Data & Analytics. Our highly skilled team help drive improvements, creating efficiency and growth within organisations. We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionise modern businesses. To achieve this we employ the best, most dedicated talent to deliver outstanding technology solutions to both our local and global clients.

Hitachi Solutions offers competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses), pension and benefits plans. Work/Life balance is an essential part of our culture, and all our employees are home workers, although you will be expected to come into our or customer’s offices regularly. We operate a comprehensive career development programme that includes mentoring and training plans to ensure that you will continue to grow and develop your career at Hitachi.

The main areas of responsibility for a Senior Technical DM F&O Consultant at Hitachi Solutions are:

• Developing long lasting and high-quality business relationships with clients by instilling trust and confidence
• Working directly with clients to understand their business processes and determining project deliverables
• Utilising specialist knowledge of Finance/ Project Accounting/ Distribution & Trade/ HR processes and the Microsoft Dynamics product to support data migration
• Utilising specialist knowledge of the services, retail, finance, manufacturing or public sector industries
• Developing original approaches to improve or replace existing processes and procedures
• Working alongside the Data Migration Capability to facilitate continuous improvement of our processes and tools
• Supporting data migration cutover activities and hypercare
• Writing migration specifications
• Acting as the translation point between functional and technical teams so that migration solutions can be developed
• Effectively managing scope, meet or exceed project schedule and remain within the approved budget
• Guiding Project Managers and keeping them informed
• Involvement in estimation and planning activities
• Delivering migration training to less experienced consultants
• Preparing our Managed Services team for the transition to support
• Sharing knowledge with other team members through whitepapers on relevant project experience or training events.

Qualifications

Essential skills:

• A strong ERP background, with demonstrable experience in using the Microsoft Dynamics product.
• Demonstrable experience undertaking data migration activities, and with the Data Management Framework, including experience of data profiling, mapping, cleansing, transformation, enrichment, writing migration specification documents, and an understanding of data reconciliation.
• Demonstrable experience delivering against data migration strategy documents and specifications.
• Demonstrable experience using SQL Server T-SQL, SSDT (SSIS) is desirable.
• Understanding of data entities across various modules in Microsoft Dynamics 365 including F&O, SCM, and HR.
• The ability to work directly with clients to understand their business processes and determine project deliverables.
• Ensuring compliance with data policies e.g. personal data, retention policies.
• A logical approach to problem solving and structured approach to introducing change into operational systems.
• A strong knowledge of methodologies around ERP implementations, and demonstrable experience in these implementations.
• Strong presentation skills, and written and verbal communication skills.
• A familiarity with Azure DevOps, PowerBI, and SharePoint is desirable.