Organization: Corporate Functions

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.

We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com .

People in the Corporate Function contribute to the running of Accenture as a high-performance business through specialization within a specific functional area and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area.

Job Description:

The Dayforce Workforce Management (WFM) Lead will focus on the system requirements for activity related to new WFM projects and ongoing review of existing configuration.

Project responsibilities include:

• Facilitation of requirements gathering, design and configuration of the Dayforce solution to meet documented requirements

• Setting and managing timeline expectations

• Providing guidance to Payroll team, identifying risks, and communicating issues to the NA Payroll Operations Senior Manager

As the Subject Matter Expert of Dayforce WFM, responsibilities include:

• Ensure best practices are followed and requirements/documentation is fully captured for all work

• Coordinate with all stakeholders and ensure Dayforce is set up as required

• Provide support for post implementation needs with Payroll Operations team

Overall responsibilities include:

• In-depth experience of Dayforce includes Core HR (Forms & Workflows, Data, HR Processes & Analytics), Workforce Management (Scheduling, Time & Attendance, Pay Policies & Rules)

• In-depth experience of end-to-end Payroll process, calculation, and services

• Experience with leading test phases, including test planning, creating test scenarios, executing testing, documenting defects, reporting testing metrics

• Advanced project management and organizational abilities.

• Ability to engage with multiple projects at the same time and manage priorities

• Ability to lead and facilitate workshops and sessions

• Ability to translate business needs into functional and technical requirements

• Ability to work closely with third-party vendors

• Contribute to payroll insight and solutions

• Analysis and solving of increasingly complex problems.

• Strong analytical and research skills

• Ability to effectively communicate requirements and updates to Payroll Leads

• Document all new learnings or changes in processes in the standard format and seek relevant approvals on a periodic basis.

• Participate in process improvement initiatives or special projects as assigned

• Follow established policies, procedures, and methods.

• Other duties as assigned

  Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years Dayforce Technical experience

• Minimum of 3 years payroll processing experience

• Minimum of 3 years state & local payroll tax experience

Preferred Qualifications/Skills:

• Payroll Compliance

• Business Operation Management

• Payroll Planning and Distribution

• Payroll Process Design

• Dayforce experience

• Workday HRIS Experience

• Product certification in at least one Dayforce HCM module (Core HR, Time) is nice to have

• Process Improvement, Program Management, Test Execution and Management, ​

• Understanding of relational databases and SQL

• Understanding of common human capital management (HCM) business practices

• Understanding of different industries and how Dayforce implementation best practices apply to business practices

• Experience in business process mapping

• Experience in change management

• Proficiency with MS Office Suite - Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Professional Skills:

• Proven ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

• E xcellent communication skills to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms

• Strong leadership skills to lead teams and drive workforce management initiatives

• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members

• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including HR, IT, and finance

• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

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Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $73,000 to $150,100

Colorado $73,000 to $129,700

District of Columbia $77,700 to $138,100

New York $67,600 to $150,100

Maryland $67,600 to $120,100

Washington $77,700 to $138,100

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