ERP Finance / Budget Functional Lead

The Morganfield Group; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel reimbursement

Remote work

Phased commitment with start dates

Job summary

The Morganfield Group is assembling a senior advisory role to lead strategy and business-case development for a multi-year ERP transformation in a U.S. county government.

You will define fund accounting, budget controls and capital assets requirements, and ensure end-to-end validation from payroll to GL. You will translate government finance needs into concrete requirements, demonstrate scenarios, and oversee acceptance testing and program governance while coordinating with the SI/vendor teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in public-sector finance/budget ERP projects with fund-accounting, budget-control and asset depth.
• Ability to perform financial conversion reconciliation and end-to-end validation from payroll/purchasing to GL with tolerances and named approvers.
• Proven capability in business-case modeling; relevant finance credentials (CPA, CGFM or similar) and local-government experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate government finance, budget, payroll-accounting and capital-asset needs into requirements, demonstration scenarios and future-state controls.
• Coordinate payroll postings, ledger mappings, asset tracking and depreciation, reconciliation and interfaces with retained systems.
• Validate conversion and end-to-end financial scenarios, support business acceptance, and identify opportunities for simplification and system retirement.

Skills

Public-sector finance

Budget ERP projects

Financial reconciliation

Business-case modeling

Independent advisory

Education

CPA

CGFM or similar

Job description

TMG is assembling the key-personnel team for a prospective multi-year ERP transformation at a U.S. county government: HR, payroll, benefits, finance, budget, procurement and capital assets, moving off a legacy platform. TMG's proposed role is independent: strategy and business case, requirements, ERP vendor and systems-integrator selection, program governance, business readiness and assurance. The selected vendor and SI build, configure, convert and unit-test. Final responsibilities follow the approved statement of work.

The role

Lead financial business-case analysis and the finance, budget and capital-asset requirements across the journey: fund accounting, budget control and pre-audit, capital assets and depreciation (GASB 34/87/96), payroll-to-ledger links, conversion reconciliation and acceptance.

What you will do

• Support program budgeting, funding and phasing alternatives, benefits baselines and ROI scenarios behind the release-strategy business case.
• Translate government finance, budget, payroll-accounting and capital-asset needs into requirements, demonstration scenarios and future-state controls.
• Coordinate payroll postings, ledger mappings, asset tracking and depreciation, reconciliation and interfaces with retained systems.
• Validate conversion and end-to-end financial scenarios, support business acceptance, and identify practical simplification and system-retirement opportunities.
• Own the finance and budget acceptance evidence at each decision gate.

Commitment and terms

Phase 1 at 0.40 FTE; Phase 2 at 0.50 FTE; full-time from solution design through go-live (Phases 3–6, late 2027 to end 2029); Phase 7 at 0.50 FTE. Starts early 2027.

This is contract consulting, contingent on contract award, client approval and a mutually agreed engagement. Staffing is phased and start dates are staggered from early 2027; continuous full-time work is not assumed. Work is remote for analysis and documentation, with occasional travel to Greensboro, North Carolina, for workshops, design sessions, test starts, rehearsals and cutover. Travel frequency is agreed before you accept.

About The Morganfield Group

The Morganfield Group helps organizations lead complex transformations: enterprise modernization, M&A integration and the recovery of critical programs. Founded in 2013, the firm pairs executive advisory with hands‑on delivery leadership, serving executive teams, private-equity operating partners and portfolio companies facing significant change, delivery risk or gaps in transformation leadership. Engagements range from diagnostics and advisory to interim leadership and full program management.

Requirements

Experience we want to see

• Public-sector finance/budget ERP projects with fund-accounting, budget-control and capital-asset depth.
• Financial conversion reconciliation and end-to‑end validation from payroll or purchasing through the general ledger, with agreed tolerances and named approvers.
• Business-case modeling; relevant finance credentials (CPA, CGFM or similar) and local-government experience preferred.

How we evaluate

For each role we compare two relevant projects where available: type and scale, your own authority and deliverables, phases completed, decisions you made and measurable results. Verified delivery evidence, sound independent judgment and practical lifecycle-cost reductions count for more than titles or certification lists. Every application is read by a person; there are no automatic cut-offs on years, degrees or certifications.

Independence and consent

You will be asked to disclose current ERP vendor or SI affiliations, referral fees or other financial interests that could bear on independent advice. We assess the actual conflict rather than screening out everyone with prior SI experience. Before any shortlisted candidate is named in a client proposal, TMG obtains explicit written permission and confirms role, availability and commitment. Applying does not authorize proposal inclusion. References are requested separately, with your permission.

Benefits

Consulting rate agreed individually by role and phase. Client-site travel reimbursed at cost under the engagement's pre-approved travel terms. Phased commitment with written confirmation of start date, hours by phase and competing commitments. Engaged as a TMG employee or TMG subcontractor (individual) under a standard subcontract, confidentiality undertaking and insurance requirements. C2C or W2. Individual consultants only; no agencies or third-party submissions. U.S. work authorization required; no visa sponsorship for this engagement.