Finance Lead – Toronto

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

About Huron: Huron is a global professional services firm that helps organizations in healthcare, education, financial services, and commercial industries solve their most complex challenges and build sustainable success. The Digital, Marketing & Analytics practice designs and delivers technology solutions, including the Microsoft Business Solutions (MSBS) practice, which focuses on Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management, Microsoft Fabric, the Power Platform, and applied AI.

Position summary: Huron Canada is looking for a Finance Lead to bring deep finance business acumen to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementations for manufacturing and automotive clients. This is a Lead role, not a Solution Architect role: the primary mandate is to understand a client's financial operations, close process, cost accounting, and financial reporting, deeply enough to shape business process design and hold finance stakeholders through it, working side by side with the solution architecture and technical teams who own the underlying system build.

Key responsibilities:

• Business process leadership: Lead client business process reviews across financial close, cost accounting, treasury, and financial reporting, assessing current-state maturity and shaping future-state design.
• Requirements ownership: Own functional requirements definition for the finance workstream, translating business needs into a solution design.
• Design facilitation: Facilitate and document design sessions with client finance process owners and subject matter experts.
• Cross-functional alignment: Understand the cross-functional effect of supply chain and manufacturing transactions on financial performance and reporting.
• AI-enabled delivery acceleration: Direct the use of AI-enabled tools in discovery, requirements capture, test scripting, and user enablement.
• Client relationship and stakeholder management: Build and sustain trusted relationships with client finance executives, controllers, and process owners.
• Team leadership and delivery quality: Lead and guide internal and client team members through finance configuration validation, testing, training, and deployment.

Required qualifications:

• Canadian citizenship (required for this client engagement).
• Willingness and ability to work on-site at the client location in the Toronto, Ontario area.
• Deep business acumen in corporate finance and accounting operations.
• A track record of leading finance business process design and requirements definition on ERP implementations.
• Demonstrated experience working in or with a manufacturing environment.
• Strong facilitation skills, with experience leading design workshops.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Direct, hands-on functional experience with Dynamics 365 Finance.
• Automotive industry experience.
• Experience with AI-driven forecasting, predictive analytics, or intelligent finance automation tools.
• Microsoft certifications relevant to Dynamics 365 Finance.
• CPA, CMA, or equivalent accounting designation.
• Prior consulting experience at a systems integrator or professional services firm.

What makes you successful in this role:

• Deep business acumen.
• Self-starter and motivator.
• Meticulous.
• Relationship builder.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience.
• 5-7+ years of related experience with cloud implementations in a consulting role.
• End-to-end project implementation experience in Cloud ERP, EPM, or CRM offerings.
• Experience as a functional application specialist.
• Excellent communication skills – oral and written.
• The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff.
• Proven ability to contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% as needed.

Compensation and benefits: The estimated base salary for this job is $130,000.00 - $160,000 CAD. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program and benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment.