Dayforce Payroll Project Specialist – Sydney

Ambition Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 129,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambition Recruitment seeks an experienced Dayforce Payroll Specialist to join a major payroll transformation project in Sydney CBD. This contract role focuses on the Dayforce implementation beyond BAU and will start with about 750 corporate employees, expanding through additional phases.

You will work with an internal project team and external partners, bringing payroll systems expertise, data mapping, testing, and validation to ensure accurate payroll outcomes during go-live and stabilisation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Dayforce Payroll experience required.
• Experience in a Dayforce implementation or major project.
• Strong Australian payroll knowledge.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Testing, data validation and reconciliations experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key Dayforce payroll resource throughout the project.
• Validate payroll requirements with project team and partner.
• Provide Dayforce payroll technical knowledge.
• Support data mapping, migration and validation.
• Assist with system configuration reviews and payroll impacts.
• Support testing: system, parallel and UAT.
• Validate payroll calculations and outcomes in Dayforce.
• Identify issues and drive resolution with teams.
• Support transition through implementation, go-live and stabilisation.
• Collaborate with payroll and project stakeholders at each stage.

Skills

Dayforce Payroll

Payroll systems

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Testing & data validation

Australian payroll knowledge

Tools

Data mapping

System testing

Job description

Ambition Recruitment seeks an experienced Dayforce Payroll Specialist to join a major payroll transformation project in Sydney CBD. This contract role focuses on the Dayforce implementation beyond BAU and will start with about 750 corporate employees, expanding through additional phases.

You will work with an internal project team and external partners, bringing payroll systems expertise, data mapping, testing, and validation to ensure accurate payroll outcomes during go-live and stabilisation.