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: o Finance o Payroll o Human Capital Management (HCM) o 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 qualified education, training, or certifications.
• Strong communication, facilitation, conflict-resolution, and decision-support capabilities.

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