Dayforce | Senior Payroll Implementation Techno-Functional Consultant

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.

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