# Senior Business Systems Lead, Payroll & Time (Dayforce) **Company**: Lyft **Location**: Toronto, ON **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Human Resources **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lyft/jobs/8780095002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_253c5b16-0c0 ## Description As the Business Systems Lead for Payroll & Time, you will lead Lyft's global migration onto Dayforce following recent acquisitions. You will be backed by a mature, experienced Payroll Operations team who bring deep subject-matter expertise, while you own the technical and functional side: driving requirements, directing our systems integrator, and building the governance and vendor management model you'll run long-term as the platform's product/service owner. ## 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. ## Benefits: - Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits - Mental health benefits - Family building benefits - Child care and pet benefits - Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account - RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future - In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service - Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible. - Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits ## Skills ### Required - Ceridian Dayforce - middleware/integration architecture - Boomi - Workday - Oracle ERP - governance frameworks - vendor management practices - payroll compliance - HR integration and automation platforms ### Nice to have - global payroll transformations - M&A integrations - in-country payroll providers - Dayforce time tracking and scheduling modules - Workday HCM - enterprise HRIS/ERP integration patterns - payroll compliance across specific countries - high-growth technology environments - active M&A integrations --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lyft/jobs/8780095002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)