Dayforce - Canadian Payroll Implementation Specialist

Responsibilities

• Document current Canadian payroll processes, pay groups, calendars, earnings, deductions, benefits, balances and interfaces.
• Validate federal and applicable provincial payroll requirements with internal owners and the implementation partner, including Quebec requirements where relevant.
• Review proposed Dayforce payroll configuration and identify gaps affecting taxes, statutory deductions, pension, union rules, remittances and employee pay.
• Support source data mapping and cleansing; reconcile converted employee payroll data, opening balances and year-to-date values. Work with Lavasource on conversion defects.
• Develop Canadian payroll test cases for regular and off-cycle pay, overtime, retroactive changes, leave, terminations and year-end reporting.
• Execute and reconcile payroll parallel runs. Investigate gross-to-net and balance differences, document causes and verify corrections.
• Validate payroll outputs, bank files, remittance information, GL results and relevant third-party interfaces with accountable teams.
• Prepare payroll cutover checks, reconciliation evidence and operating instructions; support initial production runs and knowledge transfer.

Required experience and skills

• At least five years of hands-on Canadian payroll experience and participation in a payroll implementation.
• Hands-on Dayforce OR Workday Payroll experience required, including testing, reconciliation and go-live support.
• Strong knowledge of Canadian payroll administration, statutory deductions, remittances, ROEs and year-end reporting.
• Experience reconciling payroll conversion data and explaining payroll variances; manufacturing or union payroll experience preferred.
• Payroll Compliance Professional or Payroll Leadership Professional designation preferred.