Job Summary:
The Senior Functional Lead will provide senior functional leadership across Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM) workstreams, including core financials, payroll, and procurement. The role will ensure aligned business processes and integrated outcomes across Finance and People & Culture functions. The position will lead cross-functional decision-making, validate functional designs and configuration decisions, and drive readiness across testing, data conversion, and training activities throughout the ERP implementation lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provide decisive functional leadership across Finance and HCM workstreams, including core financials, payroll, and procurement.
• Ensure aligned business processes and integrated outcomes across Finance and People & Culture functions.
• Resolve cross-functional conflicts, dependencies, and configuration issues.
• Support timely decision-making and escalation management for functional issues.
• Validate and approve functional designs, business process changes, and configuration decisions in collaboration with functional leads and subject matter experts.
• Drive functional readiness across testing, data conversion, and training activities.
• Ensure end-to-end business scenarios are defined, documented, and validated.
• Coordinate with system implementor functional teams and organizational stakeholders to maintain consistent interpretation of requirements, decisions, and impacts.
• Maintain and action a cross-functional decision and dependency log throughout design, build, and testing phases.
• Review and approve functional design documents and configuration decision records.
• Provide readiness inputs for end-to-end testing, training readiness, and data conversion validation.
• Prepare escalation and options briefs for cross-functional trade-offs requiring project management or executive sponsor decisions.

Required Qualifications:
• 10+ years of senior functional leadership experience on ERP implementations.
• Experience serving in a senior functional leadership role on at least one ERP implementation within a public sector organization that was completed or substantially underway within the past 5 years.
• Functional leadership experience across at least two of the following areas on a single ERP implementation: Finance, Payroll, Human Capital Management, or Procurement.
• Experience leading functional delivery on behalf of the implementing organization rather than on behalf of a software vendor or system implementor.
• Strong experience managing cross-functional dependencies, functional decisions, configuration issues, and escalation processes within ERP implementations.
• Experience supporting ERP testing, data conversion, training readiness, and end-to-end business process validation.