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For this role, we are open to remote work and can hire anywhere in Great Britain. Please note that Dayforce is unable to provide current or future visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must therefore have full and ongoing right to work in the UK without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.About the opportunity\nAs a Payroll Onboarding Consultant within Dayforce Managed Services, you’ll help customers successfully transition to our Managed Services offering, guiding them through testing, parallel payroll runs and operational readiness ahead of go-live.\nThis isn’t a payroll configuration role. Instead, you’ll use your payroll expertise to support customers through User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and parallel testing, troubleshoot discrepancies and help ensure they’re ready to transition into Managed Services.\nIt’s also a highly client-facing role. You’ll spend significant time leading customer meetings and working sessions, presenting information and recommendations, and helping customers understand Dayforce Managed Services standards and best practices. You’ll need to communicate confidently with stakeholders at different levels, challenge constructively when needed and keep customers moving towards a successful go-live.\nWhat you'll get to do\nGuide customers through onboarding – support customers through UAT, parallel payroll testing, readiness activities and their transition into Managed Services.\nLead customer conversations – facilitate testing workshops, working sessions and readiness reviews, communicating confidently with stakeholders across Payroll, HR, Benefits, Technology and project teams.\nOwn key testing activities – develop and execute customer-specific UAT test scenarios, review results and coordinate failed tests and discrepancies through to resolution.\nTroubleshoot payroll issues – use your payroll knowledge and analytical skills to research and investigate discrepancies arising during testing and parallel runs.\nProvide clear recommendations and updates – communicate testing outcomes, project status, risks, dependencies and required actions to customers and internal teams.\nChampion Managed Services best practices – explain standard processes, timelines, roles and responsibilities and constructively challenge requests where they fall outside agreed standards.\nSupport operational readiness – apply your understanding of payroll calculations, employee changes, audits, payroll validation and commit activities to help ensure customers are ready for go-live.\nManage multiple customer onboardings – take ownership of your deliverables across multiple clients, with the number of customers varying depending on their size and complexity.\nPartner with Managed Operations – complete a structured knowledge transfer so customer-specific processes, responsibilities, exceptions and outstanding actions are understood ahead of transition.\nIdentify and escalate risks – work across customer and Dayforce teams to resolve blockers, configuration issues and process gaps and maintain progress towards go-live.\nSkills and experience we value\n3+ years of payroll experience, with strong knowledge of payroll processes and legislation.\nPrevious experience working within a Managed Services environment.\nStrong client-facing experience, with the confidence to lead customer meetings, presentations and working sessions.\nStrong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at different levels.\nExperience troubleshooting and investigating payroll or testing discrepancies and working through issues to resolution.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills.\nThe ability to manage multiple customers and priorities while maintaining clear ownership of actions and deliverables.\nConfidence challenging constructively and guiding customers towards standard, sustainable processes.\nWhat would make you stand out\nPrevious functional experience with Dayforce.\nExperience supporting payroll customers through UAT and/or parallel payroll testing.\nExperience presenting to senior customer stakeholders and navigating challenging customer conversations.\nStrong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.\n\nPlease note that Dayforce is unable to provide current or future visa sponsorship for this position. 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