Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Platform Lead

Purpose Lead the move from legacy Dynamics NAV to a single Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform for the Pickfords group, then stay on as the owner of the platform you built. In the first year you will architect the solution and deliver it hands-on: the group chart of accounts, the migration strategy, the build, the test cycles and the phased go-lives. Once the group is live, you run and develop what you built: release waves, an improvement roadmap agreed with the businesses, the operational scope, group reporting, and a small team to support it all. Context Pickfords is one of the oldest and best-known names in British moving, with roots in the seventeenth century. The programme consolidates the group onto one BC platform in two phases. Phase one delivers the group chart of accounts and dimension design, the financial ledgers across the entities and consolidated group reporting in Power BI, with the first go-live targeted within months of joining. Phase two brings the operational scope onto the platform: job costing and billing, per-job profitability across every business, the integrations to the operational systems that feed the ledgers and the remaining migrations off the legacy estate. BC SaaS is the preferred target; validating the final tenant and environment architecture is part of mobilisation. The role runs in two chapters. The first, roughly a year, is delivery: leading the re-platforming from mobilisation through phased go-lives and hypercare, hands-on ..... full job details .....