Mathew Oyeniyi

Microsoft-certified Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant with 9 years of combined experience in ERP implementation and support, enterprise application administration, audit, internal controls, data governance, and technology-enabled business operations. Experienced in analysing business requirements, mapping processes, configuring Business Central, supporting data migration, coordinating user acceptance testing, training users, and providing go-live and post-go-live support. Functional exposure spans financial management, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, sales, purchasing, inventory, warehouse, manufacturing, payroll, HR, workflows, permissions, and operational reporting.

Combines strong functional consulting capability with a control-focused background, structured troubleshooting, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to translate business needs into practical, supportable ERP solutions.

ERP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT at Gems Consulting Limited (2023 – Present)

• Administer and support Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations solutions serving finance, procurement, inventory, payroll, HR, manufacturing, sales, and other operational functions.
• Engage business process owners and end users to understand operational challenges, gather requirements, clarify expected outcomes, and document functional needs for new implementations, enhancements, and support requests.
• Review current business processes, identify process and control gaps, and contribute to future-state process design using standard ERP capabilities wherever practical.
• Translate approved business requirements into system configurations, functional specifications, process documentation, test scenarios, training materials, and user guidance.
• Configure companies and core application settings, including financial and operational parameters, users, permission structures, approval workflows, posting controls, and supporting master-data requirements.
• Support Business Central financial-management processes covering General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, budgeting, financial reporting, and related posting and reconciliation activities.
• Configure and support sales, purchasing, procurement, inventory, warehouse, manufacturing, and vendor-management processes in line with agreed business requirements.
• Implement workflow and approval control points for procurement, payroll, expenses, and financial-reporting processes to reduce manual handling and strengthen accountability.
• Plan and execute data-migration activities, including source-data review, cleansing, field mapping, import preparation, migration execution, validation, reconciliation, and resolution of data exceptions.
• Work with business users to verify migrated opening balances, master records, and transactional data before production use, helping protect data accuracy and operational readiness.
• Develop functional test scenarios and expected results for configured processes, integrations, reports, and customizations across test and production-readiness activities.
• Coordinate and support user acceptance testing, maintain issue and defect logs, reproduce reported problems, track remediation, retest fixes, and obtain confirmation that requirements have been met.
• Support cutover planning, go-live readiness reviews, deployment activities, user communication, post-go-live stabilization, and ongoing application improvement.
• Own functional incident investigation from initial triage through root-cause analysis, testing, resolution, escalation, and communication with affected users and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with developers and technical consultants on integrations, extensions, customizations, report changes, and complex defects, providing functional context and validating delivered outcomes.
• Coordinate application releases and configuration changes across test and production activities, with emphasis on controlled deployment, traceability, service continuity, and minimal disruption to users.
• Develop and support Power BI and Dynamics reports for operational monitoring and management decision-making; use SQL Server and advanced Excel for analysis, data validation, reconciliation, and exception review.
• Create system documentation, configuration notes, process guides, training materials, and user manuals that support knowledge transfer, adoption, and consistent system use.
• Deliver administrator and end-user training through demonstrations, guided exercises, and practical process walkthroughs, helping users understand both system steps and underlying business controls.
• Work with finance leaders, operations teams, business managers, vendors, developers, and project stakeholders to prioritise requirements, manage changes, resolve issues, and deliver agreed project outcomes.

AUDIT AND INTERNAL CONTROL OFFICER at UBA Pensions Custodian Limited (2017 – 2023)

• Audited and archived departmental transactions, ensuring that records were complete, traceable, appropriately supported, and retained in accordance with established operational procedures.
• Performed call-over and control reviews for Settlement, Benefits, and Contributions transactions, checking accuracy, completeness, authorization, and compliance with approved procedures.
• Reconciled Pension Fund Administrator client accounts, investigated exceptions, followed up on unresolved items, and supported timely correction of identified differences.
• Prepared audit reports and documented findings, exceptions, supporting evidence, and follow-up actions for management review and audit readiness.
• Retrieved archived instructions and supporting documents in response to operational, management, and audit enquiries, maintaining dependable evidence trails.
• Conducted security reviews, spot checks, CCTV reviews, and inventory counts; escalated control weaknesses and supported corrective and preventive actions.
• Developed strong practical knowledge of risk, controls, transaction integrity, access governance, evidence management, and compliance—capabilities now applied to ERP security, workflows, data migration, change control, and application support.

B.Sc. in Computer Science – Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (2018 – 2020)

National Diploma in Computer Engineering – Osun State Polytechnic (2015 – 2016)