People Systems Analyst: Dayforce & Automation Lead

Tassal Operations

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 110,000 - 150,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Birthday day off

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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Job summary

Tassal Operations is seeking a Business Systems Analyst for our People Platforms to partner with People & Culture, Payroll and site teams. You will modernise processes, select technology, and deliver secure, scalable solutions across Dayforce and the broader People & Workforce tech stack.

You will balance platform stability with continuous improvement, automation, integration and data quality, while translating requirements into clear specifications and managing changes with controlled release.

Qualifications

At least 3 years’ experience configuring a cloud HCM platform.
Dayforce experience preferred; Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or UKG experience will also be considered.
Working knowledge of payroll, time and attendance, and rostering in a shift‑based, hourly workforce.
Integration and data capability, including APIs, SQL or reporting, and identity management.
Experience with low‑code automation such as Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps or similar tools and in release management.
Process mapping, root‑cause analysis and Lean or comparable continuous‑improvement methods.
Ability to explain technical options and trade‑offs clearly to non‑technical stakeholders.
Dayforce certification or any related HCM certification
Experience with Snowflake and Power BI.
Hands‑on experience using AI tools or agents to automate workflows.
Experience in manufacturing, primary industries or another multi‑site operating environment.

Responsibilities

Partner with P&C, Payroll and site teams to identify process root causes, design practical improvements and build business cases demonstrating administrative time savings, reduced risk and improved data quality.
Co‑own the People & Workforce backlog with the HCM Systems Manager, prioritising the retirement of manual, duplicated or legacy processes and ensuring a clear, consistent employee and manager experience.
Assess requests against existing tools—including Dayforce, Microsoft Power Platform, Monday.com, Snowflake, Power BI, Boomi and AI agents—and recommend the simplest sustainable solution, explaining cost, licensing, support, scalability, risk and Digital & Data architecture trade‑offs.
Translate business requirements into clear functional and technical specifications, configuration over unnecessary custom development and avoiding new spreadsheets, email‑based workflows or other shadow systems.
Configure and maintain Dayforce workflows, forms, business rules, security roles and reporting; manage technical escalations with Dayforce and implementation partners while building internal capability and reducing external reliance.
Manage environments, testing and release schedules for vendor and internal changes, controlling production configuration access and maintaining change controls, audit trails and technical documentation so changes are assessed, approved, tested, communicated and reviewed after implementation.
Own and support people‑data integrations—including Entra ID–Dayforce synchronisation, finance and ERP feeds, Boomi flows and Snowflake feeds—and build reporting and analytics foundations with the Data & Analytics team within agreed payroll and people‑data governance.
Maintain a clean, consistent employee master across Dayforce, Entra ID and downstream applications, partnering with P&C as the business data owner to address legacy gaps in Chris21 employee history and residual Taleo data.
Automate approvals, notifications and hand‑offs currently reliant on email, spreadsheets or manual follow‑up, and develop AI‑assisted case triage and self‑service solutions for common P&C enquiries.
Lead the technical build of advanced scheduling and workforce forecasting for shift‑based operations and safely implement agentic AI opportunities across people workflows with appropriate governance, privacy and human oversight.