Dayforce Senior Payroll Implementation Techno-Functional Consultant
Location: Remote USA
Experience: 8+ years Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Dayforce Payroll Implementation Techno-Functional Consultant with strong hands-on experience implementing Dayforce Payroll.
The candidate must have strong functional payroll knowledge combined with Dayforce configuration, integration, data conversion, testing, and troubleshooting expertise. This is a hands-on implementation role, not a project management or payroll operations-only position.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support end-to-end Dayforce Payroll implementations.
- Conduct discovery and requirements workshops with Payroll, HR, Benefits, Finance, and IT teams.
- Translate business requirements into Dayforce functional and technical designs.
- Configure and validate payroll rules, earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, benefits deductions, retroactive payroll, off-cycle payroll, and payroll calendars.
- Configure and support Dayforce Payroll and related HCM functionality.
- Design and troubleshoot integrations between Dayforce and HR, Benefits, Time & Attendance, Finance/GL, banking, tax, and third-party applications.
- Work with Dayforce integrations, APIs, web services, SFTP, XML/JSON, and flat-file interfaces.
- Perform employee and payroll data conversion, mapping, validation, and reconciliation.
- Execute SIT, UAT, regression, end-to-end, and parallel payroll testing.
- Reconcile legacy payroll results against Dayforce payroll calculations and resolve discrepancies.
- Troubleshoot complex Dayforce configuration, payroll calculation, integration, and data issues.
- Support cutover planning, production readiness, go-live, hypercare, and post-production stabilization.
- Develop functional specifications, integration specifications, process documentation, test scripts, and implementation documentation.
Mandatory Qualifications
- Strong hands-on Dayforce Payroll implementation experience is mandatory.
- 8+ years of HRIS/Payroll experience preferred.
- 2+ full lifecycle Dayforce Payroll implementations strongly preferred.
- Strong US Payroll and multi-state payroll knowledge.
- Strong knowledge of gross-to-net calculations, earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, retro calculations, and off-cycle payroll.
- Hands-on Dayforce configuration experience.
- Strong Dayforce integration and interface troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with payroll data migration, conversion, and reconciliation.
- Hands-on parallel payroll testing experience.
- Payroll-to-GL integration knowledge.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues across functional configuration, integrations, and source data.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work directly with Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, and technical teams.
Ideal Candidate
We need a senior hands-on Dayforce techno-functional consultant, not someone whose experience is limited to payroll processing, production support, or project management.
The candidate should be able to demonstrate ownership across the complete Dayforce implementation lifecycle:
Requirements Dayforce Design Configuration Integrations Data Conversion Testing Parallel Payroll Reconciliation Cutover Go-Live Hypercare
Screening Requirement
Do not submit candidates without hands-on Dayforce Payroll implementation experience.
Thanks
Sri Vardhan
