Senior Business Systems Lead, Payroll & Time (Dayforce)

Lyft

Canada Full-time

Responsibilities

- Own Requirements and Direct the Implementation Partner Serve as the internal functional owner for the Dayforce payroll and time migration, driving requirements and directing the systems integrator partner.
- Translate payroll policy, collective bargaining terms, and statutory requirements — as defined by Payroll Operations and Legal — into actionable technical specifications.
- Validate vendor configurations against country-specific rules, with joint sign-off alongside Payroll Operations, before go-live.
- Act as the primary functional escalation point, facilitating trade-off decisions between Payroll Ops, Legal, and vendor teams — owning the technical trade-off while deferring to Payroll Ops/Legal on compliance interpretation.
- Partner with Program Management to identify and mitigate risks across migration waves.
- Drive Migration Waves End-to-End Scope requirements with cross-functional stakeholders ahead of each phased migration wave across the 12–15 country initial program.
- Lead parallel testing and payroll validation cycles to verify system logic against live pay rules prior to cutover.
- Manage cutover and hypercare support, serving as the technical escalation point until system stabilization.
- Own integration architecture between Dayforce and upstream/downstream systems — including Workday, Oracle ERP, and middleware platforms (Boomi preferred) — ensuring resilient, well-governed data flows.
- Align migration schedules with Workday and Oracle ERP initiatives to prevent deployment conflicts.




- Own Steady-State Configuration and Continuous Improvement Assume direct functional ownership of Dayforce payroll and time configuration post-implementation, as the platform's long-term product/service owner.
- Establish and run governance frameworks and formal vendor management practices — contract oversight, SLA management, escalation processes — that outlast the initial implementation.
- Maintain system documentation and runbooks to keep governance transparent and auditable.
- Evaluate new vendor releases, system updates, and regulatory changes — partnering with Payroll Ops and Legal on interpretation — to proactively plan platform updates.
- Ensure system configuration is built and maintained to the wage-and-hour, statutory pay, and data privacy requirements defined by Payroll Operations and Legal.
- Streamline operations by automating manual payroll and time-tracking workarounds.
- Support future expansion into scheduling configuration and provide system evidence for internal and external payroll audits.

Required Qualifications

- 6+ years of functional payroll and time tracking systems experience, with strong hands-on configuration expertise in Ceridian Dayforce.
- Experience establishing governance frameworks and formal vendor management practices (contract oversight,



SLA management, escalation processes) as a product or service owner — not solely as a project-based implementer.
- Hands-on experience with middleware/integration architecture connecting payroll and time systems to upstream HCM and downstream ERP/finance systems; Boomi experience strongly preferred.
- Proven track record as an internal functional owner managing system integrator delivery and holding vendors formally accountable.
- Deep domain expertise in core payroll: earnings, deductions, tax setup, accruals, overtime, and multi-country/multi-state compliance.
- Solid payroll literacy with a demonstrated ability to translate between payroll/operations terminology and technical/systems language — for both practitioner and executive audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business policy, legal, and collective bargaining agreements into system requirements.
- Strong root-cause troubleshooting skills across complex payroll and time tracking scenarios.
- Experience leading system strategy across multi-country, multi-phase transformation programs.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, capable of bridging technical detail with business and executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience leading global payroll transformations or M&A; integrations with third-party implementation partners — international/cross-border experience strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with in-country payroll providers (e.g., TMF, IRIS, Paylocity) used during transitional phases.
- Hands‑on experience with Dayforce time tracki

📌 Senior Business Systems Lead, Payroll (Toronto)
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📍 Toronto