Dynamics 365 Business Central Finance Consultant, £450-500 p/day Outside IR35, 6–12-month contract. Remote based / with ad-hoc expensed travel

Outside IR35 contractor required for a Microsoft Dynamics Business Central 365 Finance Functional consultant.  

You'll need to be experienced as a finance functional consultant within D365 BC and have experience as an independent contractor.  You will also need to be experienced with billing and subscription licenses. This role is through a Microsoft partner providing Microsoft dynamics ERP and transformation projects.

If you have solid experience as a Dynamics Business Central Finance consultant, available to work Outside IR35, happy with home based with some travel (expensed) – please apply. 

This project would be circa 12 months, with an initial 6-month contract.

Project Director – Technology Consulting
£110,000–£120,000 + Bonus + Benefits
UK based, home working with travel

A senior delivery leadership role operating at executive level across large, complex transformation programmes.

This position sits above programme management. It carries accountability for strategic direction, commercial performance, governance integrity and C-suite relationships across major ERP, CRM and enterprise business applications engagements. You will lead senior programme leaders, protect margin, manage risk and ensure delivery remains aligned to client outcomes.

This requires presence and credibility. Someone comfortable walking into a room of executive stakeholders, bringing clarity, challenging constructively and commanding respect quickly.

You will own strategic engagement across major transformation programmes, acting as the senior escalation point and trusted advisor to executive stakeholders. You will lead and mentor senior delivery leaders, ensuring governance standards are upheld while protecting utilisation, revenue and margin performance across the portfolio.

You will identify and mitigate strategic risk early, challenge forecasts and change controls where required, and maintain commercial grip across complex engagements. You will also represent delivery capability in senior prospect conversations, articulating governance, risk management and best practice with authority.

What you need to bring:

• Significant experience leading enterprise business applications programmes.
• Strong consulting background preferred, though major end-client transformation experience will be considered.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives and navigate complex stakeholder environments.
• Commercially astute, outcomes driven and confident managing large delivery teams.
• Flexible to travel as required.

A high-visibility leadership role for someone who operates with authority and wants accountability at the highest level of delivery.

Financial Controller
£450–500 per day (Inside IR35, 6-month contract)
Southampton – Hybrid (2–3 days per week onsite)

A visible, high-impact interim role for a technically strong Financial Controller to take ownership of governance, reporting and financial control within a nationally recognised organisation. Sitting at the centre of finance operations and transformation, this position requires both technical rigour and confident leadership across systems, compliance and continuous improvement.

You will lead central finance operations across billing, accounts receivable/payable, general ledger, and cost, inventory and revenue accounting, ensuring strong processes, accountability and accuracy across core activities. Ownership of month-end and year-end close will sit firmly with you, delivering timely, high-quality reporting that supports confident decision making at senior level.

A key focus will be maintaining and enhancing the accounting framework and financial controls to ensure full compliance with statutory requirements, accounting standards and shareholder expectations. You will strengthen audit readiness, embed financial policies across the organisation and address non-compliance constructively while promoting robust financial stewardship.

Acting as business owner for Dynamics 365 Finance, you will ensure reporting integrity while shaping a clear roadmap for continuous improvement across processes, data governance and automation, including AI-enabled control approaches. You will also provide clear technical accounting insight and informed recommendations that influence strategic direction.

Experience required

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong technical accounting expertise with experience preparing annual statutory accounts
• Proven leadership of high-performing finance teams
• Strong finance systems knowledge (Dynamics 365 desirable)
• Track record of strengthening controls and improving processes

This is a role for a finance leader who combines technical depth with operational authority and wants their expertise to have immediate, visible impact across the organisation.

Lawyer / Solicitor / Legal Counsel – SaaS | 12-month contract, Outside IR35 £600-750 per day
London (Hybrid – 1 day per week in office)
Start: ASAP

A fast-growing international SaaS business is seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to join its in-house team. This is a genuine “hit the ground running” opportunity where you’ll have immediate impact in a high-performing, sales-driven environment.

You’ll join a team of 8 and support operations across Europe and the Middle East. The focus will be triaging and negotiating a high volume of commercial contracts, including NDAs, SaaS agreements and amendments, while also stepping into more complex agreements where capable. Sales teams operate with pace and urgency, so you must be confident working independently, managing pressure and delivering pragmatic, commercially focused advice.

You’ll embed into established legal processes (Ironclad, Salesforce, risk/playbook systems) with onboarding provided.

About You:
UK-qualified (circa 4–5 PQE, flexible), with proven in-house SaaS experience and strong Sales partnering exposure.

If you’re ready to step into a visible, high-impact role where your ceiling of complexity is genuinely uncapped, this is one not to miss.

Senior Project Manager (Microsoft Dynamics 365) - £85k - £100k + bonus, private medical, life insurance, 25 days holiday (option to buy up to 6 additional days) and more – Home-based with ad hoc to client

Are you looking for the next step in your career? Are you working on Microsoft Dynamics projects and want to make the jump to a consultancy? Do you want the opportunity to work on various large-scale transformation programmes?

Working for a well-known and reputable Microsoft consultancy, you will be accountable for the delivery of large and complex Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects and programmes. You will be responsible for a defined set of clients and all the projects within that client's account, ensuring client satisfaction, and that projects are delivered in adherence to the company’s quality assurance requirements and delivery methodology. You will be responsible for managing delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring projects are controlled effectively and delivered to time, quality and budget.

In addition to working on major Dynamics 365 and Power Platform transformations, you will have a personalised and tailored training and development plan to help you get where you want in your career, there is a lot of opportunity for growth and progression.

What will you be doing on a day-to-day?

• You will be accountable for the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects, ensuring they adhere to the agreed timelines and maintain a high standard of work
• Communicating with senior management to ensure the commercial management of the account, including forecasting and client reporting
• Ensuring the project is adhering to the agreed delivery methodology and project controls
• Oversee the overall performance of the project delivery work, ensuring the quality of all deliverables and compliances
• Ensuring the work being submitted meets the required company quality standards and promptly addressing any concerns

What experience and skills do you need?

• The ability to manage multidisciplinary teams of up to 25 people
• Strong experience delivering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications and/or Power Platform projects end-to-end
• Demonstrable experience managing large scale programmes / projects across a range of clients in complex environments
• You must be able to manage stakeholders at all levels and have a clear level on communication
• SAFe / Scaled Agile Framework (or other) agile experience
• Knowledge and understanding of project governance, project controls, scope management and change control

This role is home-based and will be ad hoc travel to client sites.

Linux Engineer (Ubuntu Migration) – Contract, Outside IR35 £500 per day outside IR35, Farnborough 3-5 days per week
3 months initial contract, extendable
SC clearance required prior to start

This engagement is focused, delivery-driven and sits within a Defence / MOD-aligned environment. The platform is Ubuntu-based, and the immediate priority is a structured migration from an older Ubuntu version to a newer release within a compressed timeframe.

You’ll take a hands-on role in planning and executing the migration across a secure, protectively marked estate, ensuring stability, compliance and minimal operational disruption. This includes assessing the current environment, identifying dependencies and risks, completing upgrade testing, resolving technical issues and supporting cutover activities.

Strong enterprise Ubuntu administration experience is essential, alongside proven involvement in version-to-version migrations. Experience working within Defence, MOD or similarly regulated secure environments would be highly advantageous.

This role suits a Linux engineer who can hit the ground running, operate with minimal oversight and is comfortable focusing on migration delivery within a security-first setting where precision matters.

CNC Machinist

Bedford | Full Time | Permanent

£35,000 - £45,000

Talent Locker are pleased to be partnered with a specialist engineering organisation, recruiting for an experienced CNC programmer/ Operator to join their highly skilled manufacturing team in Bedford.

Our client is an established SME operating at the forefront of advanced engineering, product development and delivering complex, high precision components and research led solutions to a global customer based. Their work supports innovative engineering programmes and involved bespoke manufacturing processes with a strong focus on precision, collaboration, and technical excellence.

This is an opportunity to join a business where quality and craftsmanship are paramount. The work is varied and technically challenging, focussed on low volume, one off and bespoke components rather than high volume production.

The CNC Machinist/ Operator will play a key role in the manufacture of high quality, high value precision components. You will be responsible for setting, programming and operating CNC machinery to exact standards. Working closely with the engineering and production teams, the priority will be delivering complex parts efficiently and accurately.

Essential experience:

• HNC, HND, City & guilts qualification apprenticeship or equivalent practical experience
• Strong attention to detail and a quality focussed mindset
• Experience working with Heidenhain, Fanuc, Siemens or a similar control system
• Working experience of online programming and problem solving during set up and machining
• Experience of 3-axis or 5-axis machining
• Strong set up experience including tooling and fixture preparation

This position operates on a 38 hour working week, Monday – Friday (0700 -1500). Occasional shift work may be required, and overtime is paid at an enhanced rate.

Please note – It is an essential requirement for the successful applicant to obtain UK SC clearance prior to appointment.

To find out more information or to apply, please send your CV to Emma on emma@talentlocker.co.uk

Contract Network Engineer – Cisco ISE / Aruba ClearPass – Network Access Controls SME
Inside IR35, £525 per day – initial 6 month contract (extension for another 6 months)
Southampton 3 days per week + Travel (fully paid and abroad)

Fancy a great contract involving luxury travel included?! This is contract role for a network engineer with strong expertise in NAC (Network Access Controls) with experience of deploying Cisco ISE or Aruba ClearPass for a cruise company.

A major Network Access Control rollout is underway across ship and shore environments, and this is a chance to step in as the technical lead driving it forward. You’ll act as the SME for Cisco ISE and or Aruba ClearPass, owning the design, deployment on board cruise ships and operational performance of the NAC environment while delivering to tight timelines.

This is a hands on role. You’ll configure, integrate, test and troubleshoot complex solutions, act as the escalation point for NAC issues, and identify risks and improvement opportunities. You’ll also collaborate with internal teams and vendors, while mentoring engineers to raise overall capability.

Strong enterprise NAC delivery experience is essential, alongside deep knowledge of Cisco ISE and or Aruba ClearPass. You’ll understand 802.1X, MAB, RADIUS, EAP, certificate based authentication, guest and BYOD workflows, and integration across wired, wireless, firewall and identity platforms.

This would be Southampton to install knowledge to the team 3 days per week, and travel on board a cruise ship (fully paid for) likely 1 week or 2 weeks every 6-8 weeks.

Infrastructure Engineers (Mid–Senior) | Farnborough | £65,000–£80,000 | SC Cleared

Momentum. Investment. Big, complex projects landing and a pipeline that keeps building. If you’re an Infrastructure Engineer who wants to work in the defence industry who thrives when things are busy, evolving and technically stretching, this is the kind of environment where you’ll genuinely grow.

This organisation operates at the top end of National Security and Defence, delivering secure-by-design solutions across multi-classification environments. With new work being won and existing programmes expanding, they are hiring both mid-level and senior engineers to strengthen an experienced, high-performing team.

You’ll be maintaining, improving and securing virtualised, collaboration and development environments across public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. Expect hands-on involvement in Windows Server (2016+), Linux (CentOS/RedHat/Ubuntu), VMware, Azure and Microsoft 365, alongside patching, monitoring, automation and incident management within protectively marked environments.

Senior engineers will also bring experience across networking, automation (PowerShell/Ansible), OpenShift/Kubernetes and DevSecOps tooling, while contributing to technical direction and supporting business growth.

Desirable exposure includes Terraform, Vault, Elastic, Nessus, application packaging and Agile delivery environments.

You would need to be eligible for Security Clearance during onboarding.  This would be on site in Farnborough.

If you’re looking for a role where there’s real technical depth, visible impact and a steady stream of meaningful projects to get stuck into, this is a brilliant time to join and make your mark.