Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) Techno-Functional Consultant to work closely with CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, and business stakeholders at a real estate organization.

The role combines CFO-level business process consulting, finance transformation, Dynamics 365 F&O functional expertise, and technical solution delivery.

The successful candidate will assess existing finance and ERP processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, recommend best practices, design optimized workflows, and translate business requirements into scalable Dynamics 365 F&O solutions.

The candidate will also work hands-on with configuration, solution design, integrations, reporting, customizations, testing, and implementation, coordinating with technical teams wherever required.

This is a consulting-oriented role for someone who can understand the business problem first and determine how Dynamics F&O can solve it, rather than simply implementing predefined requirements.

Key Responsibilities

1. CFO Advisory & Finance Process Assessment

• Work directly with the CFO, Finance Director, Financial Controller, and finance teams to understand business objectives, existing processes, pain points, and operational challenges.
• Conduct finance process assessments and workshops covering Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), budgeting, forecasting, treasury, and financial reporting.
• Identify gaps in existing ERP workflows, manual processes, spreadsheet dependencies, internal controls, and financial reporting.
• Assess the effectiveness of the current Dynamics 365 F&O environment and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Develop current-state and future-state process maps, gap assessment reports, and actionable improvement roadmaps.
• Recommend process standardization, automation, stronger financial controls, and improved visibility for finance leadership.
• Translate CFO and business priorities into practical ERP transformation initiatives, with clear business benefits and implementation priorities.

2. Real Estate Finance & Business Process Consulting

• Understand real estate business models, including property development, property management, leasing, rental income, service charges, project accounting, and property-related operating expenses.
• Assess finance processes across multiple legal entities, subsidiaries, properties, projects, and cost centres.
• Support financial management for property acquisition, development expenditure, capitalisation, fixed assets, construction-in-progress, and project cost tracking.
• Review budgeting and forecasting processes for property-level profitability, development projects, rental income, operating expenses, and cash flow.
• Evaluate tenant billing, rent receivables, collections, vendor payments, service charges, and related financial controls, identifying where F&O should integrate with specialist property management systems.
• Support intercompany accounting, consolidation, financial reporting, and management reporting across multiple entities.
• Recommend improvements in financial visibility, project profitability, cost allocation, and period-end closing.

3. Dynamics 365 F&O Functional Solution Design

• Lead requirement gathering and functional discovery workshops with finance, procurement, project management, and other business teams.
• Assess existing Dynamics 365 F&O configurations against business requirements and Microsoft best practices.
• Design and configure relevant F&O modules, including:
• • General Ledger and Financial Dimensions
  • Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
  • Cash and Bank Management
  • Fixed Assets
  • Budgeting and Financial Reporting
  • Project Management and Accounting
  • Procurement and Sourcing
  • Tax configuration and financial controls
• Design workflows, approval hierarchies, chart of accounts, financial dimensions, posting profiles, and reporting structures.
• Prepare functional specifications, solution design documents, business requirement documents, and configuration documentation.
• Identify opportunities to use standard product capabilities before recommending custom development.
• Support integrations with property management platforms, banking systems, reporting tools, and other enterprise applications.

4. Technical Analysis & Implementation

• Analyse technical requirements and translate functional needs into technical solution specifications.
• Work with developers on X++, extensions, customizations, integrations, data entities, APIs, and Electronic Reporting where applicable.
• Understand the Dynamics 365 F&O technical architecture, development lifecycle, environment management, and deployment processes.
• Assess existing customizations and identify opportunities to simplify the application, reduce technical debt, and improve system performance.
• Support data migration, data validation, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and production deployment.
• Troubleshoot functional and technical issues and coordinate resolution with Microsoft partners, developers, and internal IT teams.
• Ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with Microsoft's recommended implementation practices.

5. Finance Automation, Reporting & Optimization

• Identify opportunities to automate recurring finance activities, reconciliations, journal processing, invoice workflows, and period-end close activities.
• Improve financial reporting through management reports, financial statements, dashboards, and analytical outputs.
• Work with Power BI and other reporting solutions to improve visibility into property-level financial performance, cash flow, budgets, and profitability.
• Identify manual spreadsheet-based activities that can be standardized or automated through F&O, integrations, or complementary data and automation tools.
• Establish measurable outcomes for process improvements, including reduced manual effort, faster closing cycles, better data quality, and stronger financial controls.

6. Implementation, Stakeholder Management & Delivery

• Own assigned workstreams from discovery and solution design through configuration, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Coordinate with CFO stakeholders, finance users, project managers, developers, and external implementation partners.
• Prepare project plans, functional deliverables, risk logs, issue trackers, and progress updates.
• Conduct user training, process walkthroughs, and knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Challenge requirements where appropriate and recommend simpler, more cost-effective alternatives.
• Ensure that implemented solutions address the original business problem and deliver measurable business value.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6–10 years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics AX / Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations consulting, implementation, or optimization.
• Strong functional understanding of core finance processes, including R2R, P2P, O2C, fixed assets, budgeting, cash management, and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in Dynamics 365 F&O configuration, functional solution design, gap analysis, and implementation.
• Working knowledge of Dynamics 365 F&O technical concepts, including X++, extensions, data entities, integrations, APIs, and customizations.
• Ability to engage confidently with CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience conducting workshops, documenting business requirements, challenging existing processes, and recommending improved solutions.
• Understanding of financial dimensions, chart of accounts, posting profiles, workflows, and multi-entity accounting.
• Experience with Power BI, financial reporting, data migration, and ERP integrations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver in a client-facing consulting environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with real estate developers, property management groups, real estate investment businesses, or construction and development organizations.
• Exposure to property accounting, project accounting, rental income, tenant receivables, service charges, capital expenditure, and property-level reporting.
• Experience optimizing an existing Dynamics 365 F&O environment rather than exclusively participating in new implementations.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance certification or relevant Microsoft credentials.
• Exposure to UAE VAT, corporate tax considerations, multi-currency accounting, and regional financial reporting requirements.
• Familiarity with Power Platform, Power Automate, data analytics, and finance automation solutions.

Key Success Measures

The successful candidate will be evaluated on:

• Quality and depth of CFO-level discovery and finance process assessments.
• Identification of business gaps and practical optimization opportunities.
• Quality of future-state process design and Dynamics F&O solution recommendations.
• Successful delivery of functional configuration, technical workstreams, integrations, and testing.
• Reduction in manual processes, reconciliation effort, and reporting turnaround time.
• Improvements in financial controls, data quality, visibility, and period-end close efficiency.
• Stakeholder satisfaction, adoption, and measurable realization of business benefits.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for a consultant who combines the mindset of a finance transformation advisor with the execution capabilities of a Dynamics 365 F&O consultant.

The ideal candidate can sit with a CFO, understand how the finance function operates, identify gaps in processes and systems, recommend a better operating model, design the appropriate F&O solution, and work with technical teams to implement it successfully.

The emphasis is on business problem-solving, finance process optimization, and hands-on Dynamics 365 F&O delivery—not just ERP configuration or support.

About SYSCORT

Syscort is a global consulting and technology services firm based in the UAE, delivering business transformation solutions across MENA, APAC, UK, US, and Europe. We specialize in Treasury & Risk Consulting, Financial Transformation, Data & Analytics, AI & Automation, and Technology Consulting, helping organizations optimize operations, unlock insights, and build future-ready enterprises.