Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Platform Lead

Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Multiple full-cycle Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central implementations delivered end to end, led from the finance side, including at least one greenfield chart of accounts and dimension design.
• Strong Dynamics NAV and C/AL background combined with Business Central SaaS implementation experience.
• Data migration ownership on at least one implementation, from legacy extraction through reconciled opening balances.
• In-depth BC finance configuration experience, including posting groups and setups, dimensions, journals, approvals, permissions, and core sales, purchase and finance flows.
• Integration design experience using APIs and OData, including at least one delivered interface to a non-Microsoft operational system.
• Production AL experience, with the ability to set extension standards, review code, and write production AL.
• Experience with source control and controlled deployment through sandbox and production environments.
• Power BI experience against ERP data, with the ability to define the BC data model and reporting architecture and build hands-on where needed.
• Experience running a BC platform after go-live, including release wave management, support, upgrades and continuous improvement.
• Ability to explain technical and data issues clearly to finance users and senior stakeholders, in person and in writing.
• Desirable: personally led an end-to-end NAV or on-prem BC migration to BC SaaS.
• Desirable: familiarity with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, data lake patterns and Fabric.
• Desirable: sector exposure to job-costed or project-based businesses.
• Desirable: jobs, projects or costing module experience.
• Desirable: AP automation ISVs such as Continia or similar.
• Desirable: experience building or leading a small in-house ERP or BC team.
• Desirable: Microsoft certification such as MB-800 or equivalent.

Responsibilities:

• Own the solution architecture, including the group chart of accounts, dimension design, company structure, intercompany and consolidation.
• Validate the target tenant and environment architecture during mobilisation, with BC SaaS as the preferred destination.
• Own the migration strategy for Pickfords and the other businesses on legacy NAV and deliver it end to end, including extraction, transformation, opening balance loads and reconciliations.
• Design the interim bridge from the legacy NAV estate into BC while the two systems run alongside each other.
• Lead configuration, data loads, test cycles and cutover through each phased go-live.
• Write production AL where needed.
• Design the integration layer to the groups operational systems and set the development standards.
• Work with finance superusers on process design at the platform boundary and agree what BC does and what stays in the systems feeding it.
• Run each cutover in person, including training, floor-walking, first-weeks support and hypercare.
• Direct any contract development capacity on the programme and coach the internal people who will support the platform.
• Own the run model, including release wave management, environment and permissions management, upgrade testing, and the internal support model.
• Deliver the operational scope, including job costing and billing on BC, per-job profitability across every business, and integrations to the operational systems that feed the ledgers.
• Own the reporting architecture, including the BC data model, the Azure data estate around it and consolidated group reporting in Power BI.
• Own the roadmap as a prioritised backlog agreed with Finance and the businesses, delivered in regular drops.
• Manage the Microsoft estate around BC, including ISV partners, CSP licensing and specialist partner relationships.
• Keep the platform current and controlled, including extension compatibility across release waves, permissions and segregation of duties, audit trail, and Finance controls.

Technologies:

• Azure
• CRM
• ERP
• Fabric
• Support
• Power BI
• Office 365
• Cloud
• Architect

More:

Pickfords is one of the oldest and best-known names in British moving, with roots in the seventeenth century. The role is based in London and Kings Langley with 3 days in the office and 2 days hybrid, plus travel to group sites around cutovers. We are consolidating the group onto a single Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform in two phases, with the first go-live targeted within months of joining. This is a hands-on delivery role in year one, then an ownership role as we run and develop the platform, roadmap and small support team around it. The programme is sponsored by our chief executive and governed through a fortnightly steering group, with support from group IT, finance superusers and an incumbent BC support partner. There is scope to shape our wider Microsoft estate, including Azure data platform, Power BI and a future CRM decision, as the platform matures.

last updated 38 week of 2026