Dayforce consultant

Title:- Dayforce consultant

Location:-Remote

Type:-Contract

(Job Overview & Responsibilities)

The Team:
The payroll team is part of the Finance Team. Our Finance team plays a critical role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, optimal financial management, and efficient operations across the organization. The team consists of Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Revenue Operations, Investor Relations, and Business Operations. The Finance team partners across all organizations to appropriately allocate resources, inform key business decisions, and facilitate the execution of our operational plans.

Summary

Role: Global Payroll Transformation Manager / Payroll Implementation Manager (Dayforce)

Main Objective: Lead the migration of payroll operations for the U.S., Canada, and Australia onto Dayforce, manage payroll transformation projects, coordinate with HR/Finance/IT teams, oversee testing and implementation activities, and ensure payroll compliance and accuracy across multiple countries.

This Position:
This is a contractor role (12–15 months) leading the payroll team''s participation in a global payroll transformation project. The client is consolidating its payroll vendor landscape and implementing Dayforce as a single unified global payroll system. This role will be responsible for the smooth transition of our U.S., Canada, Australia entities onto the new system.

This role will be involved in all phases of the project, from planning through implementation to go-live. It will closely collaborate with our vendors, implementation consultants and internal payroll teams to ensure successful delivery of the project.

Candidates should have experience leading or managing payroll, preferably in a multinational environment as well as a proven track record of managing and delivering payroll system implementations.

An understanding of local regulations and compliance requirements in some or all of the countries previously listed is important and in-depth knowledge of payroll & HRM systems is needed. Attention to detail and the ability to manage and deliver results under strict deadlines as well as working effectively cross-functionally in a rapidly changing environment is critical.

This position reports to the Director, Global Payroll.

Responsibilities

• Help lead the participation in the global payroll transformation project, transitioning payrolls from multiple vendors to a unified global provider.
• Assist with UAT / Parallel testing for US and Canada.
• Lead the Australia system implementation, including planning, requirements gathering, testing, data validation, cutover and go-live.
• Partner with Technical and IT teams to support the build and implementation of approximately 15 Global integrations from third-party systems into the global payroll platform.
• Critically review new global processes to ensure local requirements are flagged and appropriately considered.
• Collaborate with HR, Finance, Benefits, Technical and IT teams, and external vendors to ensure data accuracy.
• Assist with the migration and validation of data from legacy payroll systems into the new global payroll platform or data storage application.
• Develop and document payroll processes, policies, and controls to ensure compliance with local regulations and company standards.
• Enable adoption of new technology, systems and processes through change management, training and stakeholder engagement.
• Prepare and present regular project updates and payroll reports to senior leadership.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of payroll data and ensure robust data security practices.
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Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time. Some travel to San Francisco may be required.

What You Bring

Basic

• Degree in business-related discipline.
• 12+ years of payroll experience including at least 6+ years in a managerial capacity at a fast-paced, high-volume, high-growth, multinational company.
• Experience in leading U.S., Canada, Australia payroll.
• Proven experience leading payroll transformation or system implementation projects, ensuring seamless integration and user adoption.
• Extensive stock payroll (RSU''s, options, ESPP) related experience.
• Excellent project management, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Focus on continuous improvement and standardization of payroll operations and systems.
• Must be self-motivated, flexible and able to work under pressure.

Preferred

• Professional payroll certification (e.g., CPP or similar).
• Project management certification.
• Experience working with large corporate payroll systems such as UKG, Dayforce, ADP, Workday.
• Experience managing payroll for globally mobile employees and In-Country Providers.
• Experience with change management in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Experience working as part of a geographically dispersed team.