Job Summary:
The Senior Functional Lead - Part Time will provide expert functional leadership for an ERP implementation project, focusing on Finance, Payroll, Human Capital Management, and Procurement. This role involves part-time remote work with periodic travel to Victoria, BC, supporting the project through its milestones over an 18 to 24 month contract with the possibility of extension.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with City functional leads, subject matter experts, and the System Implementor to validate and approve functional designs and business process changes.
- Resolve cross-functional conflicts, manage dependencies, and support timely decision-making and escalation management.
- Drive functional readiness activities such as testing, data conversion, and training, including defining and validating end-to-end scenarios.
- Maintain consistent interpretation of requirements, decisions, and impacts between the implementing organization and system implementor.
- Provide leadership and guidance throughout the ERP implementation lifecycle in alignment with project milestones.
Required Skills & Certifications:
- Minimum 10 years of senior functional leadership experience on ERP implementations.
- Experience leading at least one ERP implementation in a public sector organization within the last 5 years.
- Functional leadership experience across two or more of Finance, Payroll, Human Capital Management, and Procurement on a single ERP implementation.
- Experience leading functional delivery on behalf of the implementing organization (not a vendor or system implementor).
- Availability to deliver approximately 20 to 25 hours per week as project demands fluctuate.
- Ability to provide three professional references from recent ERP implementations, including at least one public sector client.
Preferred Skills & Certifications:
- Experience implementing the Workday Enterprise Platform across relevant functional areas.
- Experience in Canadian municipal or local government settings with transferable knowledge to the City's context.
- Professional credentials relevant to ERP functional leadership.
- Experience working alongside system implementors to coordinate functional delivery.
- Proven approaches to conflict resolution, escalation management, and functional readiness.
- Experience with Workday in a Canadian local government context.
Special Considerations:
- Part-time remote work with periodic required travel to Victoria, BC for project kick-offs and workshops.
- Must be available to scale hours up or down based on project milestones and demands.
- References must be from client organizations, not vendors or system implementors.
Scheduling:
- Approximately 20 to 25 hours per week, with flexibility to adjust hours as the project progresses.
- Contract duration of 18 to 24 months starting November 4, 2026, with an option to extend up to one additional year.