Microsoft D365 Business Analysis Senior Manager

Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, combines the best in strategy and technology to allow clients to unlock more value from their businesses. With our ambitious growth plan opportunities arose to join us at the newly created position of D365 Business Analysis Senior Manager. 

As an ERP Business Analysis Senior Manager, you will translate the Avanade Consulting strategy into objectives and work plans. You are a liaison between Avanade clients and ERP consultants, creating and implementing work plans for assigned projects, programs, and clients against established operational objectives. Together with other managers you will build the team of strong professionals to solve our clients’ business challenges using ERP solutions. You also will be responsible for key competencies development plans, provide supervision and mentoring to your team. 

Your role:

Transform the customers’ performance by evaluating the customer's business process, defining the functional and non-functional requirements, prototyping, and configuring the respective business processes in D365 or AX and making sure the system reacts in the manner according to the constraints defined by the customer 

Our offer includes:

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (17 of the last 20 years!)

• Exceptional development and training with a minimum 80 hours/year of training and paid Microsoft certifications

• Dedicated career adviser to encourage your progression, engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

• Contract of employment or B2B contract

• For contract of employment: company car and petrol card for manager level and above, private medical care for you and your family, cafeteria platform with sport card, annual bonus, internal rewards program

Day-to-day you will:

• Lead client workshops with C-level stakeholders to analyze and design solutions for any application and/or process gaps

• Gather information about business process and customers’ requirements, document functional specifications, interfaces, settings, and customer specific system

• Assist the technical staff by testing the behavior of the system, support the key-users in user acceptance testing of the system, train key-users and/or end-users

• Transition the solution to the support organization

• Build, manage and develop the team of D365/AX professionals 

Your technical and non-technical skills include:

• Track record of realized implementations of Microsoft D365 or AX, knowledge of Microsoft platform

• Practical experience of at least one software development methodology

• Results-oriented, self-directed attitude with ability to drive change in unstructured environment

• Strong client interface including relationship building, presentation, customer expectations management skills

• Strong management skills including planning and organizing the team’s work to meet the business objectives in efficient way, the ability to set and obey priorities, ability to build the team and develop its potential

Your added value:

• Certifications: Project Management Institute (PMI) certification, additional certifications (e.g. Agile/SCRUM, ITIL etc.) are an advantage

• Academic Background: Bachelor's degree + in business or technology-related field 

• Working knowledge of other Microsoft platform technologies

What we offer you:

Come for the distinctive experiences you have helping forward-thinking corporations, non-profits, and governments push the boundaries of digital innovation. Stay for the limitless learning opportunities that encourage you to master Microsoft and pursue big ideas. Enjoy ambitious growth for yourself as part of Avanade’s people-first culture with benefits like employee stock purchasing, flexible work arrangements, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and competitive pay.