The opportunity here is perfect. You become the department head, determine what your department's budget needs to be, get that approved, and immediately outsource all the responsibilities to your brand new firm, CCA - Crutonius Consulting Agency. Once engaged, the consulting firm will deliver satisfactory results at rates slightly exceeding the initially proposed budget, but it's all part of a very well drawn out statement of work and accordingly, easy enough to account for. And because of the great work you did delegating this project to a firm that had expertise in the area, thus saving your company from having to take on the overhead of hiring additional staff and all the expense that goes along with that, you can ask for a nice little bonus in addition to your regular wage, while also cashing the check for the real work they needed to accomplish.
This plan is flawless.