Solutions Architect -D365 Finance and Operations

Job Summary

BDO Digital, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of BDO USA, P.C. is a rapidly growing digital advisory organization dedicated to helping middle-market organizations capture the full power of technology, adapt to disruption, increase operational efficiencies, improve risk management effectiveness, and uncover new sources of revenue. Our collaborative, cross-disciplinary team is comprised of digital strategists, systems integrators, data scientists, software developers, change management professionals, and industry-specific advisors who work together to solve clients immediate digital needs and unearth new opportunities to drive competitive advantage. Our goal is to help our clients become faster, smarter, and more resilient to change.

To support our double-digit growth goals, BDO Digital seeks an Experienced Senior Consultant will be part of an Enterprise Business Applications (EBA) team supporting projects in the areas of EBA strategy and implementation, in addition to Business Transformation and Operational Excellence efforts. This role will conduct discovery, requirements gathering, process documentation, configuration, and implementation management of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), HCM (Human Capital Management) and other related business applications functioning as a key resource for our clients spanning, finance, product distribution, manufacturing, job costing, field service, sales, marketing, service, and reporting.

Job Duties

The Experienced Senior Consultant will participate in and lead the following job duties as directed:

• Strategy, Requirements & Selection: Participates in defining needs for existing and new EBA solutions
• Documents existing enterprise business applications, related business processes, and personas impacted
• Identifies existing inefficiencies, potential improvement opportunities, and critical differentiating business requirements
• Envisions and develops representations of recommended future state options for evaluation by clients
• Understands related security structures and best practices
• Designs and develops scorecards for evaluation of candidate business applications
• Creates dashboard presentations of quantitative and qualitative scoring of candidate options
• Supports Technical Leads, Developers and Managers by providing functional clarifications and setting expectations with team and client
• Solution Functional Design: Performs functional (business process) solution design in business applications (ERP, HCM, CRM, & related) contexts, to provide maximized business value and deliver strong business agility while meeting applicable requirements and constraints
• Consulting: Gains a deep understanding of client needs, analyzes best practices, and plays an integral part in defining and proposing business value solutions that meet or exceed client expectations
• Implementation and Support: Functional support of EBA solutions and related technologies
• Manages and resolves issues, defects, and change requests
• Manages and performs systems configuration tasks (but not coding/development) for process workstreams as directed
• Provides on-going support during project implementations and post-go-live support
• Responsible for configuration of solution based on requirements
• Fosters a positive demeanor, learning attitude, and client service mentality with the team
• Time zone requirements: Need updates from Anoop
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Owns and drives completion of key workstreams as directed by project leaders
• Manages project workstreams as directed
• Mentors and develops entry level consultants and senior consultants

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Education:

• Bachelors Degree and five (5) or more years of industry experience with ERP systems, required; OR
• High School Diploma/GED and seven (7) or more years of industry experience with ERP systems, required

Experience:

• Five (5) or more years of business process analysis and/or business application education or experience, required
• Two (2) or more years of education or experience with ERP, HCM or CRM Product, required
• Some client facing best practice consulting experience, preferred
• 8 years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics D365 FO with at least 5 End-to-End implementations and support experience.

License/Certifications:

• N/A

Software:

• Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint, required
• Experience with one or more ERP/Microsoft experience Solutions technology, required:
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), CRM, Business Central, F&SCM), Ceridian Dayforce Solutions (Talent & Benefits Intelligence, Workforce Management (WFM), HR, Advanced HR Analytics, or Payroll), Salesforce, Oracle NetSuite, Acumatica, SAP, Infor, Sage, Syteline, JDE, IFS, or any other ERP/CRM Software
• Enterprise software strategy, selection, and implementation experience, preferred
• Smartsheet, preferred
• One or more current business applications technology certifications, preferred

Language:

• English

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong analytical, problem solving, facilitation, documentation, and communication skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
• Business process analysis, design, and process flow skills
• Excels at operating in a fast-paced technical environment