Dayforce Ceridian Application Manager bei Onehealthineers

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Join a team of highly experienced IT professionals who enable Siemens Healthineers to develop world-class healthcare solutions.  Located at our Malvern PA. headquarters, our team engages local and global business and IT partners to enable Healthineers success.

Responsible for leading the administration, optimization, and strategic development of Siemens Healthineers’ Dayforce payroll platform.  This role ensures the accuracy, efficiency, and compliance of payroll operations through effective system management, configuration, and integration with HR and finance systems.

This position provides end-to-end IT application ownership and is responsible for requirement analysis, design, project and test management, and implementation coordination for assigned efforts.

The ideal candidate must have experience in Payroll processing and reconciliation (payroll, accounting and banking) and experience with Dayforce (Ceridian), and SAP ERP is a plus. Working knowledge of MS-Windows Server, MS-SQL Server and exposure to cloud services is expected.

Overall Responsibilities

• Serve as the IT application manager and subject matter expert for Dayforce Payroll.

• Configure, maintain, and optimize payroll system settings and integrations (e.g., Workday HRMS, P41, SAP, Snowflake).

• Responsible for Budget, Change Management, Project Management, and Compliance Management.

• Manage Dayforce upgrades, testing, and feature implementations.

• Collaborate with HR, Finance, and IT teams to automate and enhance payroll processes.

• Ensure payroll accuracy and compliance with federal, state, and local laws.

• Troubleshoot payroll issues and support end users with system training and guidance.

• Lead payroll technology projects, including new module implementations and integrations.

• Develop and maintain payroll reports, dashboards, and audit documentation.

• Partner with Dayforce and vendors to resolve issues and drive continuous improvement while maintaining business facing SLA’s.

• Oversee user acceptance testing (UAT), change control processes, and deployment schedules.

• Coordinate with Dayforce and third-party vendors on system enhancements, escalations, and roadmap planning.

• Provide work direction/manage for other IT resources on and offshore.

• Knowledge of system design, development, implementation, and user support principles and practices.

Your Expertise: 

• Vendor Management: Experience and savvy working with ‘Service Providers” in the areas of application management, application hosting and cloud services.

• Work closely with business partners to understand their needs and to design/implement appropriate IT solutions. 

• Comfortable working across wide range of stakeholders, from business executives and end users to IT leaders and several on and offshore service providers.

• Must be an energetic team-oriented player with solid leadership characteristics

• Strong customer focus with an ability to respond rapidly to complex issues.  Problem solving skills focused on innovation and creativity while keeping a keen eye on productivity and cost savings.

• Project Management skills: Willingness and skills to run small to medium projects.  Must have the ability to break efforts down into component parts, make reasonable estimates on delivery, and effectively drive a schedule.

• Ability to work independently, multi-task, shift focus and adapt to changing priorities.  Detail oriented and organized.

• Ability to write and maintain required application security/operation manuals, and various ‘system’ and change management related documents including requirement and functional specifications, test plans and implementation plans.

• Comfortable and fluent in working within a formal IT system change management process and SDLC.

• Knowledge of IT General Controls (ITGC) for financially relevant systems. Experience with financial audits of IT controls. 

• Payroll System – preferred Ceridian Dayforce.

• SAP ECC6 FICO – preferred.

• MS SQL Server, Access.

• MS Windows Server.

• HP Quality Center Test Management.

• MS Office, Project.

• Service Now Incident, Change, Problem Management.

Required Skills, Education and Experience for this position:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Finance, Business Administration, or similar is required.

• Master’s degree preferred but not required.

• 7 or more years of hands-on work experience in enhancing and supporting IT systems. 

• Excellent understanding of the hire to pay to account reconciliation process, and the ability to learn complex Siemens Healthcare business processes.

• Solid understanding of data warehouse practices, including ETL concepts.

• Experience supporting Accounting, HR, and especially Payroll/Tax/Accounting business areas.

• Knowledge of the Healthcare industry is a plus.

• Proficiency in a Payroll System (Ceridian/Dayforce specially a plus) and on-going support is required. Experience executing with release process and annual processing requirements a must.

• Relational database analysis, and modeling knowledge a plus.  

• Ability to understand and maintain the existing code bases as well as design new solutions.

• Exposure to cloud infrastructure/platform services.

• Ability to analyze data discrepancies, anomalies, and other reporting related issues; provide impact analysis and needed corrections after consulting business partners.

• Knowledge of system design, development, implementation, and user support principles and practices.

• Experience with database management.

• Flexibility to travel up to 10% internationally.

Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

To find out more about Siemens Healthineers businesses, please visit our company page here.

The base pay range for this position is:

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time.

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