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.

Be part of our Hitachi family

We place value on collaboration, open communication, and transparency. We emphasise the importance of team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation – And through our talented people, innovative culture, and technical and business expertise, we deliver game changing outcomes every day. Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success. But don´t take our word for it – Have a look at what our employees are saying: Hitachi Solutions: Recruiting the best talent and offering outstanding career opportunities (hitachi-solutions.co.uk)

What to expect, your benefits

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.

We are growing our consulting team and looking for Lead Functional Consultants D365 Finance to join us on our exciting journey and be part of the Hitachi Solutions family.

The main areas of responsibility for a Lead Functional Consultant Finance 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 the development and expansion of Dynamics AX
• Utilising specialist knowledge of the services, retail, finance, manufacturing or public sector industries
• Developing original approaches to improve or replace existing processes and procedures
• Taking ownership of the design of bespoke AX solutions, which may include complex integrations or significant module changes or even designing a new module
• Writing complex functional specifications
• Acting as the translation point between functional and technical teams so that solutions can be developed
• Effectively managing large work streams to stay within scope, meet or exceed project schedule and remain within the approved budget
• Guiding Project Managers and keeping them informed
• Delivering end user training
• Prepare our Managed Services team for the transition to support
• Sharing knowledge with other project team members or other Hitachi Solutions functional
  consultants through whitepapers on relevant project experience or training events.

• Typically, 5+ years’ experience working in a Functional Finance/ Project Accounting/ Distribution & Trade/ HR consulting role
• A strong ERP background
• A working knowledge of best practices in their area of specialism
• An industry specialism or specialisms
• A logical approach to problem solving and structured approach to introducing change into operational systems
• At least 2 full life cycle implementations
• A strong knowledge of methodologies around ERP implementations
• Stakeholder management skills
• People management skills
• Excellent documentation and communication skills

Diversity and Inclusion at Hitachi Solutions

Diversity is the wellspring of our innovation and our growth engine, and we believe that creativity is fuelled by diversity. To be truly user centric, we need to ensure that the teams developing products and services are representative of the communities they serve. Our collective success is achieved by fostering and respecting our employees’ and customer’s individualities coming together as One Team. Hitachi strives to create an environment not only where genders, races, cultures, sexual orientations, and identities can work together, but where the beliefs and views of those participating feel equally represented.

If you are interested and want to know more about this opportunity, apply directly and have a chat with us.

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