D365 P2P (Procure-to-Pay) Lead

D365 Finance and Operations P2P (Procure-to-Pay) TDDI lead is responsible for implementing, configuring, and managing solutions within the D365 F&O platform for these specific business cycles for financial management.
• Requirements Analysis: Conduct workshops and collaborate with stakeholders to gather, document, and analyse business requirements and pain points for P2P processes.
• Solution Design: Perform fit-gap analyses to determine how standard D365 F&O functionalities of P2P can meet business needs, and design solutions (including potential customizations or integrations) to bridge any gaps.
• System Configuration: Configure relevant D365 F&O modules, including Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), General Ledger (GL) and Cash and Bank Management, to align with the designed solution.
• Documentation: Create comprehensive functional design documents (FDDs), business requirements documents (BRDs), user manuals, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Develop test cases and support various testing phases, including system testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and data acceptance testing, to ensure the solution's functionality and integrity.
• Data Migration Support: Assist with data migration activities, ensuring data accuracy and integrity when moving master data and transactional records into D365 F&O.
• User Training and Support: Plan and conduct end-user training sessions, provide go-live support, and offer post-go-live troubleshooting to ensure smooth system adoption and issue resolution.
• Collaboration: Work closely with project managers, technical consultants, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration with other systems and successful project delivery within established timelines and methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps).
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify opportunities to optimize and enhance P2P functionalities and related business processes within D365 F&O.
• Requires a high understanding of the regional specificities, needs and constraints in terms of solution & technology.
• Implements the regional D365 ERP solution as an incremental version of the implemented D365 ERP solution while keeping aligned with the country specific requirements – regulatory/compliance for the domains not limited to Finance, food, FM business.
• Requires the ability to adapt constantly and increasingly frequent legal and functional changes.
• The job holder will need to capitalize on the work already done (documented processes, core data model, taxonomy, etc.). A focus on operational needs and experience is needed to Build and maintain effective partnerships with key functional leaders and project team members within a Matrix organization to bring simplification to our end-to-end processes.

Key Responsibilities:

P2P Specific Responsibilities
• Configuring purchase order (PO) management, purchase requisitions, and invoice processing workflows.
• Managing vendor information, quotations, and payment processing.
• Ensuring integration with inventory and supply chain management modules as needed.
• Ensuring D365 Core solution management for P2P operations

ALIGNMENT BETWEEN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL LEVEL
• It offers global stakeholders with regional specificities, needs and constraints.
• Close working with Global & Regional team for process, documents and data

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• Conducts research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommends technologies/processes that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.

COMMUNICATION
• Acts as a coach for senior leaders and executives in helping them understand the current solutions architecture and gains endorsement for future solutions and spend.
• Presents solutions from a functional/business point of view to internal and external customers.

Required Skills:

Hard Skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
• Minimum of 10 – 15 years of experience working in ERP applications and min. 5 years as an D365 as Functional Consultant.
• Good experience of implementation project for D365 F & O
• Excel in implementing, configuring, and managing solutions within the D365 F&O platform for specific business cycles for financial management
• Demonstrate ability to communicate the solution for complex business process in D365 F & O.
• Good hands on with functional process testing for financial management in form of SIT, UAT etc.
• Deep knowledge of Master data setups and configuration for D365 F & O for Financial management
• Skilled in leading training sessions for D365 system business process and demonstration of standard functionalities
• Detail-oriented & customer oriented, ability to develop and entertain intimacy with business and operations stakeholders.
• Strong hold in preparation of documents like BRD, FDD, Test cases etc.
• Experience working in an international environment and understanding of complex organizations.
• Oriented professional having worked in International and Multi-cultural environment with excellent people management skills and an ability to manage change with ease.

Soft Skills
• Service Spirit & Teamwork, collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills
• Detail-oriented, thorough, and deep analytical skills.
• Project and resource management skills