The senior civil servant responsible for fixing the troubled Phoenix pay system has landed a new job.

Marie Lemay has been named the next CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint, the Crown corporation that mints and distributes Canadian coined currency, the federal Finance minister’s office announced Monday.

She will succeed interim president and CEO Jennifer Camelon, who has held the post since the summer. Sandra Hanington resigned in July, only three years into her five-year term, saying she wanted a better work-life balance.

In a statement, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Lemay’s background in public policy and “substantial experience” issuing strategic advice on complex and sensitive issues makes her an “ideal fit” for the role.

“I am certain that the Mint will benefit from the breadth of her expertise, and I wish her great success in her new position,” he said.

Lemay was appointed to a five-year term in the post, alternatively know as the Master of the Mint. The order-in-council (OIC) authorizing her appointment listed the annual salary range to be $271,000 to $318,800. Her first day will be Feb. 18.

Finance Canada said the selection was done under the Liberal government’s new process to OIC appointments more transparent and accessible. Opposition parties, though, have criticized the Liberals for being slow to make appointments under this new system, and have criticized its purported non-partisan and merit-based process, citing the ill-fated naming of a former provincial Liberal minister as the Official Languages commissioner.

The Prime Minister’s Office announced earlier this month that Lemay would leave her post as deputy minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) on Jan. 28. The PMO said at the time she would become a senior adviser at the Privy Council Office, the secretariat of the federal cabinet, and then an unspecified new appointment.

A former CEO of the National Capital Commission, Lemay joined PSPC in April 2016, as the new pay system for civil servants was first rolled out across government. Since coming online, Phoenix has botched paycheques for thousands of civil servants, souring the relationship between the Trudeau government and the public service unions.

As deputy minister, Lemay made between $224,300 and $263,800 annually, according to the OIC authorizing her appointment. She’s entitled to an annual salary of $235,800 to $277,300 as an adviser to the Privy Council Office, as dictated by the OIC for that position.

The OIC for Hanington’s appointment as Mint CEO in 2015 listed the annual salary for the job at $306,300 to $359,300. It was approved by the former Conservative government.

With files from Kirsten Smith