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This role is accountable for ensuring that HR systems and payroll processes are secure, reliable, scalable, compliant, accurate, and aligned with business and workforce priorities.\nThe Senior Manager, HRIS & Payroll will partner closely with HR, Payroll, Finance, Internal Audit, Information Technology, and business/function leaders. The successful candidate will oversee HRIS configuration and integrations, payroll controls and reconciliations, data governance, reporting and analytics, vendor relationships, release management, user support, and continuous improvement. They will translate business needs into practical technology and payroll solutions while protecting sensitive employee information and improving the employee and manager experience.\nKDC/ONE currently uses Dayforce as its main HRIS & Payroll provider.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nHRIS Strategy and Leadership\nDevelop and maintain the HR technology roadmap in alignment with the organization's people strategy, operating model, and growth plans.\nEstablish HRIS priorities, service standards and governance processes within annual budget.\nAdvise senior HR and business leaders on system capabilities, process design, automation opportunities, risks, and investment needs.\nLead, coach, and develop the HRIS team, including workload planning, performance management, succession planning, and capability building.\nBuild strong partnerships across various stakeholders.\nSystems Ownership, Payroll, and Optimization\nServe as the functional owner of core HR platforms, including human capital management, payroll, time and attendance, benefits, recruitment, onboarding, performance, learning, compensation, and workforce-planning systems, and oversee payroll operations in Canada, the United States and the UK.\nOversee and perform system configuration, payroll controls, business processes, security roles, workflows, integrations, testing, documentation, and production support.\nAssess current processes and lead simplification, standardization, automation, and self-service initiatives.\nManage system upgrades, releases, patches, regression testing, change controls, payroll parallel testing, and adoption activities.\nMaintain an accurate inventory of HR applications, payroll processes, integrations, data flows, owners, and dependencies.\nManage integration/implementation of core HR modules in Europe with the potential of adding Payroll in Dayforce where possible.\nData Governance, Privacy, and Security\nEstablish and enforce standards for HR and payroll data quality, ownership, access, retention, classification, and appropriate use.\nEnsure HR technology practices support applicable privacy, employment, records-management, and information-security requirements, .\nPartner, when needed, with Privacy, Legal, and Information Security teams on privacy impact assessments, access reviews, audits, incident response, and risk remediation.\nMonitor role-based access, segregation of duties, payroll approvals, and audit controls, and ensure sensitive employee and payroll information is appropriately protected.\nMaintain audit-ready documentation, controls, approvals, and system records.\nReporting and People Analytics\nContribute to the development of reliable workforce reporting, dashboards, and analytics for HR and business leaders.\nMaintain/Define common data definitions and reporting standards to create a trusted source of workforce information.\nProjects, Integrations, and Change Management\nLead HR technology implementations and enhancement projects from discovery through stabilization, including scope, requirements, timelines, resources, risks, testing, communications, training, and benefits realization.\nCoordinate integrations, where needed, between HR platforms and payroll, finance, identity-management, benefits, learning, recruitment, and other enterprise systems.\nFacilitate requirements workshops and convert business needs into clear functional specifications and delivery plans.\nManage competing priorities and communicate project status, dependencies, decisions, and risks to sponsors and stakeholders.\nVendor, Budget, and Service Management\nManage HR technology vendors, consultants, contracts, renewals, service-level expectations, escalations, and performance reviews.\nManage the Dayforce operating and project budgets/billing, and resource plans.\nIdentify recurring problems, manage service quality and resolution times.\nEvaluate new technology and vendor proposals using defined business, security, privacy, integration, accessibility, and total-cost criteria.\n\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.\nApproximately 7 or more years of progressive experience in HRIS, payroll, HR technology, HR operations, or a closely related field.\nAt least 2 years of experience leading employees, project teams, vendors, or a significant HR technology function.\nDemonstrated experience administering and optimizing a major HR platform such as Dayforce (a plus), Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG, Oracle HCM, or a comparable system.\nStrong understanding of HR and payroll processes, including Canadian and American payroll requirements, and their relationships with benefits, talent acquisition, compensation, performance, learning, and workforce planning.\nExperience with payroll and HR system implementations, integrations, data conversion, user acceptance testing, parallel testing, 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