D365 Finance & Operations (F&O) Implementation Project Director

Additional Locations: Brookfield WI, Ocala EONE FL, or Decatur IN 
Requisition ID: 20985

REV Group (NYSE: REVG) is a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of specialty vehicles and related aftermarket parts and services. REV serves a diversified customer base primarily in the United States through three segments: Fire & Emergency and Recreation. REV provides customized vehicle solutions for applications including: essential needs (ambulances, fire apparatus and mobility vans), industrial (terminal trucks and street sweepers) and consumer leisure (recreational vehicles (“RVs”)). REV’s brand portfolio consists of 30 well-established principal vehicle brands including many of the most recognizable names within our served markets. Several of REV’s brands pioneered their specialty vehicle product categories and date back more than 50 years.

 

The D365 Finance & Operations (F&O) Implementation Project Director is to function as an internal ERP Project Leader and facilitate and project manage the rollouts of D365 across our REV sites. This position will add value to REV by project managing the D365 internal team as well as work with the internal Business Project Manager and internal business team in rolling out Microsoft D365 Finance and Operations at selected REV sites. This person will lead the team that understands business process and configure and rollout Microsoft D365 Finance and Operations while upholding setup standards so the system is properly configured with minimal customizations. This position will continue to expand in responsibility as we continue to grow and support D365. This role will work hybrid onsite at either our Ocala FL E-ONE, Decatur IN Fleewood or Brookfield WI Corporate office and requires travel 30% of the time at specified times to our sites during conference room pilots, user acceptance testing and go live timeframes during the implementation.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This job description and the list of duties and responsibilities indicate the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent and is not all inclusive. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, responsibilities, or physical requirements of the incumbent and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as management may deem necessary from time to time. 

• Actively participate in the first implementation of D365 Finance and Operations. Work with external vendor that will be assisting with first rollout to help understand the setup, configure, and test the system.
• After the first rollout is complete, lead the internal team during the second implementation (with some consulting presence) and directly project manage. Lead and project manage future implementations.
• Oversee the setup and configuration and establish gold standard of D365 Finance and Operations. Document global standards and streamline the process to set up and configure companies that are moving onto the D365 platform, so it can be a repeatable process.
• Act as project manager and manage objectives, scope, project plan, timeline, budget, & resource plan for D365 Business Central implementations.
• Hire, train, and monitor performance of IT professionals to be part of the implementation team to rollout D365.
• Manage effective transition of requirements to delivery team, ensuring a clear & complete understanding of requirements.
• Facilitate weekly status meetings with business teams. Maintain budget, weekly status reports, issue lists and communication plans.
• Leveraging technology expertise and prior experience, translate business processes, master data and other operational requirements into requirements.
• Meet with decision makers, system owners and end users to define business, financial and operations requirements and system goals and identify and resolve system issues.
• Establish support structure once live at time, complete closeout of project and lessons learned.
• Maintain systems documentation by writing and updating procedures.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent Project Management skills.
• Working knowledge of functional ERP setup.
• Able to analyze the gap between a user request and the capability of the support application to determine if a customize is needed or the functionality exists.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Acute attention to detail.
• Sense of urgency to complete activities during implementation as well as when supplying support.
• Comfortable traveling to business sites and working with teams to complete implementations.
• Some basic programming skills to pull data out of system.
• General knowledge of netw