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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