Senior Functional Lead – ERP Project

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Part time Contract

Work arrangement: Primarily remote

Weekly hours: 20–25 hours; actual hours may vary based on project requirements and milestones.

Contract duration:18–24 months The Senior Functional Lead will provide senior-level functional leadership across multiple ERP workstreams, including Finance, Payroll, Human Capital Management (HCM), and Procurement.

This individual will serve as a trusted functional advisor to the City, reviewing and validating functional designs, supporting decision-making, resolving functional conflicts, and helping prepare the organization for testing, data conversion, and training.

This is a client-side functional leadership position—not a technical configuration, software development, or overall project management role.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide senior functional leadership throughout the City's Workday ERP implementation.

- Represent the City's business interests when working with the System Implementor.

- Collaborate with City functional leads, departmental stakeholders, and subject-matter experts.

- Support functional workstreams across Finance, Payroll, HCM, and Procurement.

- Review and validate functional designs, business requirements, and configuration decisions.

- Challenge proposed solutions when they do not adequately address City business needs.

- Identify and resolve cross-functional issues, conflicts, dependencies, and implementation risks.

- Facilitate functional discussions and support consensus-building among departments.

- Provide recommendations and decision support to City project leadership.

- Track functional decisions, dependencies, and escalations.

- Support end-to-end testing readiness and functional validation.





- Support data-conversion readiness and validation activities.

- Support training readiness across affected business areas.

- Work collaboratively with the System Implementor while maintaining the City's independent interests.

- Escalate complex functional issues and present options for resolution.

Required Qualifications

- Minimum 10 years of senior functional leadership experience on ERP implementations.

- At least one public-sector ERP implementation completed or substantially underway within the past five years.

- Experience leading at least two functional areas on the same ERP implementation, selected from:

- Finance

- Payroll

- Human Capital Management (HCM)

- Procurement

- Experience must be from the client or implementing-organization side, rather than solely from an ERP software vendor or System Implementor.

- Demonstrated ability to review functional designs and configuration decisions.

- Experience resolving functional conflicts, dependencies, and stakeholder disagreements.

- Ability to work effectively with business stakeholders and an ERP System Implementor.

- Availability for approximately 20–25 hours per week throughout the engagement.

- Willingness to travel to Victoria, BC, when requested by the City.

Preferred / Rated Qualifications

- Workday implementation experience.

- Workday experience across Finance, Payroll, HCM, and Procurement.

- Canadian municipal or local-government ERP implementation experience.

- Experience working alongside an ERP System Implementor.

- Experience representing the client organization during ERP transformation.

- Experience with testing, data conversion, and training readiness.

- Relevant professional education, training, or certifications.

- Strong communication, facilitation, conflict-resolution, and decision-support capabilities.

📌 Senior Functional Lead – ERP Project (Victoria)
🏢 Veracity
📍 Victoria