Dayforce Business Analyst

This is: the job
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Dayforce Business Analyst to play a key role in a major enterprise HR and payroll transformation. Working as part of a high-profile implementation program, you will lead business analysis activities, support project delivery, and ensure Dayforce is successfully embedded across the organisation.

This is a 12-month contract based in Melbourne, which will see you partnering with senior stakeholders, implementation partners, and project teams to design future-state processes, drive business readiness, and support a seamless transition to Dayforce.

You will be instrumental in ensuring business requirements are translated into practical solutions that support payroll, workforce management, compliance, and broader people operations outcomes.

This is: what you'll do

• Lead business requirements gathering activities across HR, payroll, workforce management, and related business functions
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to define future-state processes and operational requirements
• Validate solution designs and ensure alignment with business objectives and compliance obligations
• Drive issue resolution, risk management, and deployment readiness activities throughout the project lifecycle
• Design and oversee testing strategies, frameworks, and detailed test plans
• Coordinate and support user acceptance testing to ensure requirements are fully validated
• Lead training planning and delivery activities to support end-user adoption
• Drive change management initiatives, stakeholder communications, and business readiness programs
• Collaborate closely with implementation partners, project teams, and business leaders to achieve delivery outcomes
• Act as the key liaison between business and project stakeholders throughout the Dayforce implementation

This is: what you'll need

• Demonstrated experience delivering Dayforce implementation or optimisation projects
• Strong business analysis experience within HRIS, payroll, workforce management, or HCM environments
• Proven ability to facilitate workshops and gather complex business requirements
• Experience developing testing strategies, test plans, and coordinating test execution
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across multiple business levels
• Exposure to change management, training, and business readiness activities
• Experience working within large-scale transformation or enterprise technology programs
• Excellent problem-solving, documentation, and project coordination capabilities

This is: the perks

• Join a significant enterprise-wide people and payroll transformation
• Play a highly visible role with direct impact on business outcomes
• Work alongside experienced implementation specialists and senior stakeholders

This is: for good
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This is: what's next
Apply now or reach out to:
Bridget La Ragy
Principal Consultant
Natural Selection Group
M: 0448 299 600
E: bridget.laragy@naturalselectiongroup.com.au

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