Payroll Project Manager - Dayforce Implementation

Overview

As a Payroll Project Manager, you will take a hands-on role in delivering a large-scale payroll transformation, driving the implementation, configuration, testing, and deployment of Dayforce across a complex North American organization. Working closely with business stakeholders, you will solve problems, streamline processes, and ensure a successful system rollout.

This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on payroll operations while working alongside experienced professionals on a high-profile enterprise implementation.

Apply now and transform your career with us.

What you will be doing

• Contribute in a major way to the implementation and optimization of Dayforce payroll solutions, ensuring alignment with business requirements, payroll regulations, and organizational objectives.
• Play a lead role in payroll system configuration, testing, validation, and deployment activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and operational readiness.
• Develop and execute data migration, parallel testing, and payroll reconciliation strategies to ensure a seamless transition to new systems and processes.
• Evaluate current processes, procedures, systems and tools and develop project plans to address inefficiencies within the payroll function. This includes financial analysis and risk mitigation plans.
• Report project progress, milestones, risks, and outcomes to key stakeholders, including presentations to executive leadership.
  Utilize change management techniques to accelerate the adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.
• Report team results to key stakeholders, including presentations to executives.
• Document and train affected parties on new processes, procedures, systems and tools.
• Assume a leadership role to ensure projects meet all agreed to deliverables.
• Participate and/or lead in special projects, ad hoc analysis requests and perform additional duties as required.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Human Resources, Information Systems, or a related field required.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in payroll operations, payroll systems, or payroll project management roles.
• Deep Dayforce implementation experience, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Proven experience leading payroll system implementations, upgrades, or transformation initiatives within large, complex organizations.
• UKG experience preferred but not required.
• Experience with ADP, or other enterprise HCM/payroll platforms considered an asset.
• Demonstrated experience with data migration, payroll reconciliation, parallel testing, and system integration activities.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, or related field required.
• 8+ years’ experience with in-house payroll processes required.
• US Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or Canada Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) preferred.

Why work for us

Some of the benefits you may be eligible for as an employee are:

• Comprehensive compensation package and paid time off program
• Industry leading 401(k)/RRSP
• Medical/Extended Health Care, Dental, Vision and/or Provincial Medical
• Wellness benefits & Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

We are an EEO/ADA/Veterans employer.

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