Shailesh Apte is a Director Solution Architect at Mercurius IT, specializing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. UK-based, he is a Chartered Accountant (ACA, ICAEW; BFP, ICAEW) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP); a combination that lets him work on both sides of a finance transformation: the system, and the standards it has to honor.

He writes bcforfinance.com, an IFRS-for-Business-Central series translating standards like IFRS 15, IFRS 16 and IFRS 9 into practical BC configuration, and speaks regularly at Dynamics user groups including D365PPUG UK, focusing on where IFRS meets real-world BC configuration.

He has led BC finance implementations across Manufacturing, Wholesale & Distribution, Construction & Utilities, Financial Services & Asset Financing, Public Sector & Not-for-Profit, Retail, and Life Sciences; working alongside ISV partners including Continia, GYDE 365, Yavrio, EMBAT, Jet Reports, Dimension Path and LS Retail. At Mercurius IT he has also served as Solution Architect for in-house ISV solutions covering CIS (Construction Industry Scheme), ProCon (Projects & Construction), Purchase Requisition, and Commitment Accounting. He holds Microsoft's Business Central & Power Platform certifications.