Business Transformation Director - Functional

Business Transformation Director - Functional

Salary

$155,000.00 - $175,000.00 Annually

Location

Thurston County - Olympia, WA

Job Type

Exempt

Remote Employment

Flexible/Hybrid

Job Number

2026-07205

Department

Office of Financial Management

Division

One Washington

Opening Date

09/09/2026

Closing Date

9/23/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

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Description

Please note: The starting salary offer will be determined based on the successful candidates' qualifications within the budgeted salary range of $155,000 - $170,000 annually. However, there is the potential for longevity, growth, and salary progression for the individual once employed.

Why work for OFM

The Office of Financial Management (OFM)serves as the backbone of Washington state government. Our mission is to make our state a better place by connecting people, budgets, policies, data, and systems for state agencies and the Legislature. Our team includes budget advisors, researchers, and other experts, all dedicated public servants working towards an equitable future for every Washingtonian.

If you want to play a key role in enhancing how state government serves its citizens, you've found the right place. Join us in making a meaningful difference for every Washingtonian!

The job opportunity

The Business Transformation Director provides strategic leadership for the One Washington Program's functional transformation work, ensuring the Workday enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution and future-state business processes align with Washington State's enterprise business, operational, policy, and workforce needs. The position leads the integration of business requirements, functional design, and agency and stakeholder input into effective transformation strategies and works closely with program leadership and the Agency Readiness Director to align functional transformation with agency readiness and implementation priorities. The role provides leadership across finance, budget, procurement, human capital management, payroll, and other enterprise functions to support consistent, effective, and sustainable future-state processes.

This position leads the resolution of complex, enterprise-level business transformation issues involving competing requirements, agency impacts, policy and legal considerations, operational needs, implementation constraints, and technology capabilities. The Business Transformation Director brings diverse perspectives together to evaluate options, resolve competing priorities, guide decisions, and determine when issues require additional analysis, escalation, or executive direction. Success in this role requires strong strategic leadership, collaboration, communication, and decision-making skills, along with the ability to navigate complex environments and build alignment around enterprise solutions that support successful implementation and long-term program outcomes.

One Washington (OneWA), led by the Office of Financial Management, is an enterprise-wide transformation project focused on replacing 1960s-era technology with a cloud-based Workday solution for finance, procurement, budget, HR, and payroll processes. OneWA is a long-term, yet extremely fast-paced project anticipated to fully implement all phases by 2030. The project's core business hours are Monday through Friday, and all project positions are full-time. We offer some flexibility in schedules oriented around core business hours with prior supervisory approval. However, it is very common to work beyond the typical 40-hour workweek to meet the rigorous operational needs and business deliverables required for the go-live timelines.

What you'll work on:

Functional transformation strategy and leadership

• Provide strategic leadership for the One Washington Program's Functional Transformation workstream, establishing priorities, direction, and approaches that ensure the Workday ERP solution and associated business processes support state enterprise business, operational, policy, and workforce needs.
• Lead the development and execution of functional transformation strategies and plans, integrating enterprise business requirements, policy considerations, process transformation opportunities, stakeholder needs, and implementation priorities into actionable strategies that support One Washington program outcomes.
• Establish and oversee functional decision-making and governance processes that ensure business requirements, enterprise impacts, agency needs, and business partner perspectives are appropriately considered in the design and implementation of the Workday solution.
• Provide strategic direction on business process transformation and functional design, identifying opportunities to standardize, simplify, modernize, and improve business processes while balancing enterprise objectives, operational requirements, policy considerations, and implementation constraints.

Enterprise business function ownership and alignment

• Lead relationships with the state's enterprise business owners for finance, budget, procurement, Human Capital Management, and other assigned business functions, ensuring requirements, priorities, policy considerations, and business outcomes are understood and appropriately represented throughout the program lifecycle.
• Ensure agency and participant perspectives are incorporated into functional transformation activities, establishing effective mechanisms to gather, analyze, validate, and communicate feedback and ensuring that significant impacts and competing interests are addressed through appropriate decision-making processes.
• Work closely with the Agency Readiness Director and Program Solutions Officer to align functional transformation decisions and implementation strategies with agency readiness, impacts, adoption considerations, and broader program solutions.

Solution design, implementation, and business outcomes

• Provide functional leadership throughout the design, configuration, testing, and implementation of the Workday solution, ensuring that functional decisions and deliverables align with approved business requirements, enterprise objectives, and future-state business processes.
• Lead collaboration with the System Integrator, Workday, and other implementation partners to evaluate proposed solutions, leverage applicable leading practices, resolve functional issues, and ensure effective knowledge transfer between implementation partners and state staff.
• Direct the functional review and evaluation of deliverables, ensuring deliverables meet established business, functional, policy, and program requirements and that issues or deficiencies are appropriately resolved or escalated.
• Identify and resolve barriers to functional transformation and implementation, including competing priorities, resource constraints, unresolved decisions, dependencies, and other risks; adjust priorities and resources or escalate issues as appropriate to maintain progress toward program objectives.

Functional team leadership and capability

• Provide leadership, supervision, and direction to the Functional Transformation workstream team members, establishing expectations, priorities, and accountability for successful delivery of functional transformation activities.
• Build and sustain a high-performing functional team by providing coaching, feedback, professional development, and resources; fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, accountability, and effective coordination across functional areas.
• Ensure the Functional Transformation team has the information, tools, resources, and organizational support necessary to effectively execute its responsibilities and contribute to program outcomes.

Program leadership, governance, and external oversight

• Serve as a member of the One Washington program leadership structure, providing the functional transformation perspective in program strategy, governance, planning, risk management, and decision making, and partnering with other program leaders to advance integrated program outcomes.
• Represent the Functional Transformation workstream with program governance bodies, oversight organizations, advisory groups, and other internal and external business partners, as assigned, ensuring accurate and timely communication of functional considerations, decisions, risks, and recommendations.
• Coordinate with external oversight and quality assurance partners to respond to recommendations, facilitate appropriate reviews, and ensure applicable business and functional considerations are addressed.
• Maintain effective working relationships with program leadership, enterprise business owners, agencies, partners, and oversight organizations to promote alignment, transparency, and successful delivery of the One Washington program.

Compliance, performance, and continuous improvement

• Lead or oversee functional compliance activities related to applicable state policies and requirements, including coordinating business-owner and participant input, developing consolidated responses and recommendations, and ensuring required actions are incorporated into program planning and implementation.
• Establish and monitor functional transformation performance measures, milestones, risks, and outcomes, using data and program information to assess progress, identify emerging issues, and recommend adjustments to program leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement of functional transformation practices, decision-making processes, and collaboration models based on lessons learned, participant feedback, implementation experience, and evolving program needs.

What we need you to bring:

Required Qualifications:

Experience with:

• Directing complex, multi-phase business and functional transformation initiatives involving multiple business functions, organizational business partners, competing requirements, significant operational impacts, and interdependencies across workstreams.
• Working with enterprise business owners and senior leaders to identify and reconcile business, operational, policy, and strategic requirements and translate those requirements into actionable transformation strategies and decisions.
• Leading business and functional process transformation and future-state design, including evaluating opportunities to standardize, simplify, modernize, and improve business processes while balancing enterprise needs, policy requirements, operational considerations, and implementation constraints across multiple enterprise domains, such as finance, budget, procurement, human capital management, payroll, and or other complex administrative/operational functions.
• Overseeing or directing functional solution design and implementation activities in collaboration with systems integrators, software vendors, technical teams, business subject matter experts, and other implementation partners.
• Leading teams of professional staff and subject matter experts, including setting direction and priorities, assigning and reviewing work, developing employees, managing performance, allocating resources, and building team capability.
• Leading complex stakeholder engagement and decision-making processes involving executive leaders, enterprise business owners, agencies, implementation partners, oversight organizations, and other groups with differing requirements or perspectives.

Knowledge of:

• Organizational and business process transformation principles and practices, including current-state and future-state analysis, process standardization, process improvement, requirements development, design governance, and transition planning.
• Program governance, implementation planning, risk management, transition management, and benefits realization practices used in complex, multi-phase transformation programs.
• Change impacts and organizational readiness considerations associated with business process and technology transformation, including how functional decisions may affect agencies, employees, operations, and adoption.

Skills in:

• Advising and influencing executive leaders, enterprise business owners, program leaders, agencies, and implementation partners on complex transformation issues and recommendations.
• Assessing and resolving complex functional issues and barriers, including identifying root causes, evaluating alternatives, and developing actionable recommendations.
• Communicating complex business and technology concepts clearly to varied audiences, including executive leadership, business owners, technical professionals, agency representatives, oversight bodies, and other business partners.
• Using data, analysis, stakeholder input, and professional judgment to evaluate progress, identify emerging issues, and adjust transformation strategies and priorities.

Ability to:

• The ability to learn and grow: Curious about themselves and others, who take responsibility for knowing their own strengths and weaknesses, and who use their learning to make government programs and processes more efficient and effective to serve all in Washington.
• The ability to meet the needs of others: Flexible, adaptable, customer-service focused, and willing and able to empathetically respond to the unique needs of the people we work with and serve.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience with:

• Leading or directing Workday implementation or transformation initiatives, particularly within a large public sector or multi-agency environment.
• Leading enterprise transformation within Washington State government or another complex public-sector organization, including navigating centralized governance, enterprise business ownership, agency operations, and public-sector accountability requirements.
• Establishing or improving enterprise design governance, business decision frameworks, or functional governance structures for large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Managing relationships and delivery expectations with systems integrators, software vendors, consulting organizations, or other large implementation partners.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business administration, finance, accounting or related field is a plus.

We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be one from a less traditional background. Don't let doubts stop you from applying for this position. If you have transferable experience, please tell us about it or contact us with questions about the required qualifications and how your experience relates to them.

Supplemental Information

What we offer

At OFM, we foster a culture of integrity, innovation, inclusion, and belonging. We value both learned and lived experiences, believing that diversity makes us stronger. To support your health and well-being, we offer a variety of benefit programs for our employees.

Please visit our Recruitment Page for a full list of benefits available to employees. Here's a quick glance at some of the unique benefits that OFM offers:

• An environment of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• 12 paid holidays, 14 paid vacation days (minimum), and 12 days of sick leave per year
• State retirement programs

Application Process:

Once you've decided to apply for a state government job, you'll complete an online application to showcase your qualifications. Keep in mind that once you submit the application, a real person will read it. We do not use AI or any other technology to screen your application and reject it. Please ensure you provide clear, detailed information about your work history so your qualifications can be accurately assessed. We will contact the top candidates directly to schedule interviews. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please call 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6384.

When completing your application, please attach all of the following required documents:

• Cover letter: describing your qualifications for this specific position
• Resume: that details your applicable experience and education.
• References: at least three professional references and their current contact information.

Questions:

OFMs Staff ASL interpreter is available to all deaf and hard-of-hearing applicants. For questions about this recruitment or to request a reasonable accommodation in the application or interview process, please email us at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov.

The Office of Financial Management is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects diversity in culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, persons over 40 years of age, and disabled and Vietnam-era veterans are encouraged to apply.

This position is exempt from civil service rules.

For more information, please see WAC 357-19-195.

More than Just a Paycheck!

Employee benefits are not just about the kind of services you get, they are also about how much you may have to pay out of pocket. Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation.

We understand that your life revolves around more than just your career. Like everyone, your first priority is ensuring that you and your family will maintain health and financial security. Thats why choice is a key component of our benefits package. We have a selection of health and retirement plans, paid leave, staff training and other compensation benefits that you can mix and match to meet your current and future needs.

Read about our benefits:

The following information describes typical benefits available for full-time employees who are expected to work more than six months. Actual benefits may vary by appointment type or be prorated for other than full-time work (e.g. part-time); view the job posting for benefits details for job types other than full-time.

Note: If the position offers benefits which differ from the following, the job posting should include the specific benefits.

Insurance Benefits

Employees and their families are covered by medical (including vision), dental and basic life insurance. There are multiple medical plans with affordable monthly premiums that offer coverage throughout the state.

Staff are eligible to enroll each year in a medical flexible spending account which enables them to use tax-deferred dollars toward their health care expenses. Employees are also covered by basic life and long-term disability insurance, with the option to purchase additional coverage amounts.

To view premium rates, coverage choice in your area and how to enroll, please visit the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) website. The Washington Wellness program from the Health Care Authority works with PEBB to support our workplace wellness programs.

Dependent care assistance allows the employee to save pre-tax dollars for a child or elder care expenses.

Other insurance coverage for auto, boat, home, and renter insurance is available through payroll deduction.

The Washington State Employee Assistance Program promotes the health and well-being of employees.

Retirement and Deferred Compensation

State Employees are members of the Washington Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). New employees have the option of two employer contributed retirement programs. For additional information, check out the Department of Retirement Systems web site.

Employees also have the ability to participate in the Deferred Compensation Program (DCP). This is a supplemental retirement savings program (similar to an IRA) that allows you control over the amount of pre-tax salary dollars you defer as well as the flexibility to choose between multiple investment options.

Social Security

All state employees are covered by the federal Social Security and Medicare systems. The state and the employee pay an equal amount into the system.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

If you are employed by a government or not-for-profit organization, and meet the qualifying criteria, you may be eligible to receive student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Holidays

Full-time and part-time employees are entitled to paid holidays and one paid personal holiday per calendar year.

Note: Employees who are members of certain Unions may be entitled to additional personal leave day(s), please refer to position specific Collective Bargaining Agreements for more information.

Full-time employees who work full monthly schedules qualify for holiday compensation if they are employed before the holiday and are in pay status for at least 80 nonovertime hours during the month of the holiday; or for the entire work shift preceding the holiday.

Part-time employees who are in pay status during the month of the holiday qualify for the holiday on a pro-rata basis. Compensation for holidays (including personal holiday) will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status in the month to that required for full-time employment, excluding all holiday hours. Pay status includes hours worked and time on paid leave.

Sick Leave

Full-time employees earn eight hours of sick leave per month. Overtime eligible employees who are in pay status for less than 80 hours per month, earn a monthly proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment. Overtime exempt employees who are in pay status for less than 80 hours per month do not earn a monthly accrual of sick leave.

Sick leave accruals for part-time employees will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment. Pay status includes hours worked, time on paid leave and paid holiday.

Vacation (Annual Leave)

Full-time employees accrue vacation leave at the rates specified in WAC 357-31-165(1) or the applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Full-time employees who are in pay status for less than 80 nonovertime hours in a month do not earn a monthly accrual of vacation leave.

Part-time employees accrue vacation leave hours in accordance with WAC 357-31-165(1) or the applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on a pro rata basis. Vacation leave accrual will be proportionate to the number of hours in pay status, in the month to that required for full-time employment.

Pay status includes hours worked, time on paid leave and paid holiday.

As provided in WAC 357-58-175, an employer may authorize a lump-sum accrual of vacation leave or accelerate the vacation leave accrual rate to support the recruitment and/or retention of a candidate or employee for a Washington Management Service position. Vacation leave accrual rates may only be accelerated using the rates established WAC 357-31-165.

Note: Most agencies follow the civil service rules covering leave and holidays for exempt employees even though there is no requirement for them to do so. However, agencies are required to adhere to the applicable RCWs pertaining holidays and leave.

Military Leave

Washington State supports members of the armed forces with 21 days paid military leave per year.

Bereavement Leave

Most employees whose family member or household member dies, or for loss of pregnancy, are entitled to five (5) days of paid bereavement leave. In addition, the employer may approve other available leave types for the purpose of bereavement leave.

Additional Leave

Leave Sharing

Parental Leave

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Leave Without Pay

Please visit the State HR Website for more detailed information regarding benefits.

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Describe your experience leading a team responsible for the product management, design, or implementation of an enterprise technology solution. Include how you established product priorities, applied a design mindset to address complex business needs, balanced competing business partner priorities, and led your team to successful outcomes.

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