D365 Finance SME (6 month Contract)

This role is responsible for supporting the delivery of Dynamics 365 and the associated finance optimisation programme as a technical SME. The Finance SME will work with the global sites to ensure they are aligned with best practices as part of entity readiness, and ensure they are ready to deploy D365.,

• Develop a plan to align entity sites to the D365 global blueprint in line with the overall project plan timelines.
• Provide knowledge transfer on D365 across all areas of Finance for both Fin/Ops solution.
• Lead superusers through change management to adopt the core D365 solution.
• Work with local superusers and Business Analysts to define, validate, and sign off requirements/deliverables to ensure the solution meets global best practices or local needs.
• Hold and report upon the view of progress against solution and business readiness for finance tasks.
• Work with the cross-functional team of SMEs to ensure data quality and lead on all data migration (ETL) cycles for Finance.
• Support coordination of finance cutover activities for Rotork sites.
• Support solution deployment through testing, training and go live.
• Maintain the Global toolkit utilised for managing various stages of implementation at a functional and program level, adding any additional as required to support localisations.
Process & Data:
• Work with global process owners, business analysts, and enterprise architects to ensure the global process changes are delivered in time for go live for each entity.
• Work with the data migration team to complete data profiling and mapping as part of business readiness, as well as leading on the issue resolution for each data transformation cycle across all entities
Change Management/Localisations Capture:
• Prepare content for any workshops, taking users through the key areas of change, drawing out high-level discussions on potential changes between "as is" and "to be".
• Where localisations are required, work with the relevant programme teams to translate Engineering needs into system configuration requirements and provide solution testing once developed.
• Where changes from current ways of working need to be managed, identify, monitor, and manage any actions required to prepare for and embed the change.
• Support local leadership teams in leading the change.
• Provide on-site support to all entities to ensure readiness for the go-live of D365.