Strategic Enterprise Integration & Modernization Lead (Data Management-Budget Tool Revitalization)

City of Toronto; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

A municipal government in Toronto is seeking a Strategic Enterprise Integration & Modernization Lead. This role focuses on managing data for the Budget Tool Revitalization project, requiring a degree in Finance or related field and experience with Anaplan. The ideal candidate will supervise a team, lead project management tasks, and ensure effective data governance. You will enjoy a supportive work environment, competitive salary, and a focus on equity and diversity.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Defined benefit pension plan

Vacation and benefits package

Qualifications

• University degree in Finance or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Anaplan implementations preferred.
• Extensive experience in data management and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Implement detailed plans for program requirements.
• Supervise and train assigned staff to ensure effective teamwork.
• Lead project management activities and provide strategic advice.
• Collaborate with internal and external customers on projects.

Skills

Data management

Financial Planning

Anaplan experience

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Project management

Education

University degree in Finance or related discipline

Tools

Anaplan

Data analytics tools

Job description

STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION & MODERNIZATION LEAD (Data Management-Budget Tool Revitalization)

• Job ID: 58474
• Division & Section: Chief Financial Officer's Office, Strategic Enterprise Integration & Mod
• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, 1 Temporary Vacancy (12 months)

Salary Range: $113,683.00-$155,216.00, TM5448 and wage grade 7.5. (2025 rate)

Ideal Hiring Zone: $121,341.00 to $131,559.00

• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: Non-Union
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 13-JAN-2026 to 27-JAN-2026

The Strategic Enterprise Integration and Modernization (“SEIM”) Division within the City of Toronto, Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer provides business transformation and modernization across Finance and Treasury Service Area.

The SEIM Lead will develop and implement complex, large-scale programs, projects and policy initiatives to deliver project mandates, on behalf of the client Division: Financial Planning. This includes the Budget Tool Revitalization project, which sets out to replace the City of Toronto’s current existing operating and capital financial planning software with Anaplan, a single cloud-based solution and deliver budget modernization initiatives.

In this temporary role, the SEIM Lead, will support the Senior Project Manager on the Budget Tool Revitalization leading project Data Management activities, including but not limited to data governance, analytics, privacy, reconciliation and cleansing. This involves reviewing, preparing, and validating all material master and other relevant data to ensure accuracy and integrity throughout the transformation.

Major Responsibilities:

• Implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.
• Supervises, motivates and trains assigned staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.
• Supervises the day to day operation of all assigned staff absolutamente including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work. Authorizes and coordinates vacation and overtime requests. Monitors and evaluates staff performance, approves salary increments, hears grievances and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.
• Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
• Leads project management activities and provides strategic advice for various projects, activities and assignments to deliver projects and programs in a complex municipal environment. Applies the project management body of knowledge (e.g. Project Management Institute) to the planningərək execution of assigned capital projects. Manages time, budget and scope to ensure successful project execution.
• Coordinates inter-divisional programs, including program development, resource allocation, monitoring service standards and delivery levels.
• Creates and manages interdivisional, interdisciplinary and interagency teams and consultation processes to plan toward and support capital works delivery while addressing political, community, business and other partner interests. Negotiates and coordinates with both internal and external partners on various committees and provides advice to community groups.
• Leads project streams across various project domains including business process Connections, data management, test management, interface management, reporting and training/communications.
• Supervises, motivates and trains assigned project team staff regarding data requirements for the future state solution, data analysis of the existing data in the City that requires cleansing, mapping and approaches to prevent data inaccuracies in the current and future state solution.
• Works with Divisions to drive data migration, cleansing, transformation and load to future state solution.
• Utilizes technology to analyze data and/or metrics from applicable systems to review data processes, identify issues, determine actions to resolve or escalate problems that require system or process improvements.
• Documents Divisional impacts based on the future state processes based on the degree of changeforces from the current state process.
• Leads the documentation of project deliverables based on the work packages assigned by the Manager. Works in partnership with the implementation vendors.
• Collaborates with internal and external customers to elicit requirements for the future state solutions. Works with consultants, staff, and other key partner in planning initiatives, feasibility studies, cost/benefit analysis and the development of future state design solutions.
• Collaborates with the Technology Services Division as a partner in delivering the implementation of the future state solution.
• Applies knowledge to develop cost effective solutions, workarounds and contingency plans to remove obstacles impeding project deliverables impacting project schedule milestones. toet>
• Advises and responds to requests from senior management and Division Head on project issues, status and technical matters.
• Leads end-to-end project testing including unit, functional, quality assurance, integration, parallel, regression and cutover tests.
• Creates, documents and maintains test strategies, plans, cases and scripts.
• Executes test plans and cases utilizing testing tools across technical landscapes including development, quality assurance and pre-production.
• Performs troubleshooting and debugging of test case'.
• Monitors and reports progress on test plans and cases working in collaboration with Technology Services Division ensuring successful applications are defect free.
• Trains project staff in software testing/quality assurance methodology and ensures adherence to quality standards and progress through testing lifecycles.
• Leads and documents and reports daily/weekly progress on milestones for the team.
• Leads and documents and reports issues, risks and decisions following the project management standards provided by the Manager.
• Provides solutions to resolve issues, risks that impede meeting critical milestones.
• Leads and prepares decision documents with option analysis, cost/benefit analysis and recommendations to Project Sponsors.
• Reviews, monitors and approves system, business and training documentation including configuration documentation, testing documentation and results, business process procedures, directives and job aids. Ensures adequate documentation is maintained.
• Develops training curriculum, training plans, training schedules. Leads training to project team or end users.
• Represents the Division regularly at meetings for large scale, complex initiatives concerning divisional projects and leads project team meetings and presents statusauthentication updates.
• Participates in project governance meetings as required.
• Provides input to organizational change management strategies and plans as required. Leads and communicates cutover plan tasks for project work stream and manages delivery. Leads and plans production end user readiness for project work stream.
• Leads reporting analysis through requirements gathering and future reporting capabilities.Offers &plans,
• Researches and reports on projects and initiatives, including writing and preparing reports to City Council and Standing Committees.
• Organizes and delivers presentations to Committees گیا Council and/or senior management, as required.

Key Qualifications

• University degree in Finance or related discipline or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.DE funde with strong focus on Financial Planning in public sector or municipal environment are strongly preferred.
• Experience in Anaplan implementations, including the design of workflows, development of data models, system integrations, data migration, analytics, disclosure management reporting, and automation of financial planning processes. Anaplan certification(s) is an asset.
• Experience in providing work direction, training, guidance and support to staff with the ability to work closely with a high-performance team.
• Extensive experience in data management, analytics, or data privacy, data reconciliation with strong expertise in data governance. Focus on financial planning data is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing, and ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels.
• Superior analytical, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage workload with strict time constraints.
• Ability to make recommendation to effect improvement management and operation of processes.
• Ability to work cooperatively as part of a team and to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to exercise independent judgement and discretion in dealing with sensitive and confidential operational matters.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, client divisions, unions, outside agencies and/or politicians and other levels of government.
• Familiarity with relevant legislation including, Occupational Health and Safety, Employment Standards Act, labour relations, human rights, Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB), and other applicable.lifecycle legislation.
• Ability to support the Toronto Public Service values to ensure a culture that champions equity, diversity and respectful workplaces.

Why You Will Love Working at The City:

We are committed to building a high-performing public service with strong and effective leaders to enable service excellence, through high engagement and healthy wereldwijd workplace. We recognize the need for flexibility and offer a hybrid working environment that will provide you with an appropriate work-life balance required to thrive in today’s fast paced world. A strong benefits package which includes competitive salaries, vacation and other unique offerings. We offer an excellent defined benefit pension plan bringing added value to our overall compensation package through OMERS.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The City is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace culture of inclusiveness that reflects the diverse residents that we serve. Learn more about the City’s commitment to employment equity.