Senior Functional Lead ERP Project

Job Description

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide decisive leadership across the Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM) functional workstreams, covering core financials, payroll, and procurement within Finance
• Ensure aligned business processes and integrated outcomes across all divisions of the Finance and People & Culture departments
• Resolve cross-functional conflicts, dependencies, and configuration issues
• Support timely decision-making and escalation management
• Validate and approve functional designs, business process changes, and configuration decisions in collaboration with City functional leads and subject matter experts
• Drive functional readiness across testing, data conversion, and training activities, including ensuring end-to-end scenarios are defined and validated
• Coordinate closely with the System Implementor's functional counterparts and City stakeholders to maintain a consistent interpretation of requirements, decisions, and impacts
• Maintain a cross-functional decision and dependency log throughout design, build, and test phases
• Produce reviewed and approved functional design documents and configuration decision records
• Prepare readiness inputs supporting end-to-end testing, training readiness, and data conversion validation
• Prepare escalation and options briefs for cross-functional trade-offs requiring ERP Project Manager or sponsor decisions
• Participate in project governance cadence, including functional leadership meetings, cross-functional checkpoints, and milestone readiness reviews
• Provide timely status, risks, issues, and decision support to the ERP Project Manager, City stakeholders, and sponsors
• Work collaboratively with City functional leads and subject matter experts and with the System Implementor's functional counterparts