Dayforce Project Manager - North America Emerging Markets

Silver Cloud is growing its North American Dayforce practice, and we’re looking to connect with experienced Project Managers and Senior Project Managers who are passionate about delivering successful HR technology transformation. This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in client-facing Dayforce implementation, optimisation and transformation projects. You’ll bring structure, clarity and momentum to complex engagements, helping clients make confident decisions and successfully move from project initiation through testing, go-live and post-launch stabilisation. We’re open to candidates operating at either Project Manager or Senior Project Manager level. Your level will be aligned to your experience, the complexity and scale of the projects you have led, your commercial and governance responsibilities, and the extent of your client and team leadership.

• Location: United States (Remote)
• Type: Full Time / Contract (depending on project requirements)
• Reporting to: Dayforce Practice Leadership Team
• Works closely with: Solution Architects, Transformation Leads, Functional and Technical Consultants, Commercial colleagues, client project teams, senior client stakeholders, Dayforce and third-party partners

Role Overview
As a Dayforce Project Manager or Senior Project Manager at Silver Cloud, you’ll be responsible for the successful day-to-day leadership and delivery of client projects across the North American market.
You’ll work closely with clients and distributed delivery teams to establish clear plans, governance and accountabilities; manage milestones, dependencies, risks and decisions; and keep delivery aligned to the agreed scope, timeline, budget and intended business outcomes.
This role goes beyond project administration. You’ll act as a consultative delivery partner who can build trusted client relationships, challenge constructively, support confident decision-making and maintain momentum throughout the project lifecycle.
Depending on your experience and level, you may manage multiple concurrent implementations, lead larger or more complex multi-workstream projects, support project recovery, mentor other project professionals or contribute to the continued development of Silver Cloud’s North American delivery model.

Responsibilities

Your Main Responsibilities

Project Initiation & Planning

• Lead project mobilisation and establish a clear delivery plan, governance structure, roles, responsibilities and ways of working.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans covering milestones, dependencies, resources, critical paths and deliverables.
• Confirm project scope, objectives, assumptions, success measures and client responsibilities.
• Coordinate project kick-off and ensure internal, client and third-party teams understand the delivery approach.
• Use project and commercial information to create realistic plans and maintain delivery momentum.

 
Project Governance & Reporting

• Establish and manage an effective governance cadence across project meetings, status reviews, steering committees and decision forums.
• Maintain accurate project plans, RAID logs, action logs, decision logs, status reports and governance records.
• Provide clear and timely reporting on project health, progress, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and next steps.
• Ensure key milestones, stage gates and deliverables are reviewed, approved and documented.
• Create clear escalation routes and ensure issues are raised early enough for effective action.

 
Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Proactively identify, assess and manage project risks, issues, actions, assumptions, dependencies and decisions.
• Develop practical mitigation and recovery plans and ensure agreed actions are completed.
• Identify project slippage, resource constraints or delivery concerns early and communicate their likely impact clearly.
• Escalate critical risks and blockers appropriately while remaining accountable for driving resolution.
• Maintain composure and sound judgment in complex, fast-moving or high-pressure delivery environments.

 
Scope & Change Control

• Protect the agreed project scope while maintaining constructive client relationships.
• Identify potential scope changes and assess their impact on timeline, resource, cost, quality and delivery outcomes.
• Manage change requests through the appropriate review, approval and commercial process.
• Ensure delivery teams understand the agreed scope and that changes are not introduced informally.
• Work with Commercial and Practice leadership to manage change-control decisions and protect project viability.

 
Budget & Commercial Management

• Monitor project financial performance, budgets, resource utilization, billing milestones and commercial commitments.
• Identify financial risks, inefficiencies and commercial opportunities early.
• Understand how scope, resource and delivery decisions affect project cost, margin and client outcomes.
• Ensure delivery remains aligned to the applicable Statement of Work and agreed contractual commitments.
• Support accurate forecasting, billing and commercial reporting.

 
Client & Stakeholder Leadership

• Act as a trusted, credible point of contact for client project teams and senior stakeholders.
• Build strong working relationships across HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Technology, Finance and other relevant functions.
• Set and manage expectations around scope, timeline, responsibilities, decision-making and delivery risk.
• Facilitate clear, outcome-focused project meetings and steering committees.
• Communicate complex delivery information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support clients in making timely decisions and maintaining the internal ownership needed for successful delivery.

 
Resource & Team Coordination

• Coordinate functional, technical, data, integration, testing, change and third-party contributors across locations and time zones.
• Ensure resources understand their priorities, responsibilities, milestones and dependencies.
• Monitor capacity and identify where resource constraints may affect delivery.
• Create an environment of collaboration, accountability and constructive challenge.
• At Senior Project Manager level, mentor other project professionals and provide leadership across complex or high-impact engagements.

 
Testing, Cutover & Go-Live Coordination

• Coordinate project activity across discovery, configuration, data, integration, testing, readiness, cutover, go-live and hypercare.
• Ensure testing plans, entry and exit criteria, defect management and client sign-offs are appropriately managed.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing and parallel payroll testing where applicable to the project scope.
• Maintain clear go-live readiness criteria and ensure unresolved risks are visible to decision-makers.
• Support an effective transition into live operation, hypercare and the agreed support model.

 
Delivery Assurance & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain a strong focus on quality, client outcomes and sustainable delivery, not simply task completion.
• Lead or contribute to project health checks, lessons-learned reviews and post-go-live analysis.
• Capture delivery insights and use them to improve project templates, tools, governance and working practices.
• Contribute to the refinement of Silver Cloud’s Dayforce delivery methodology across North America.
• Share knowledge across the wider practice and help embed consistent project-management standards.

 
Practice Contribution

• Contribute to the development of Silver Cloud’s North American Dayforce capability.
• Support the creation and improvement of reusable project assets, templates, playbooks and governance standards.
• Work collaboratively with Practice, Commercial and Delivery colleagues to support a joined-up client journey.
• Stay current with Dayforce product developments, implementation approaches and HR technology trends.
• Identify opportunities where Silver Cloud can provide additional value to clients, while maintaining appropriate commercial governance.

Requirements

Essential

• Strong experience managing HRIS, HCM, Payroll, Workforce Management, SaaS or comparable enterprise technology implementations.
• Experience leading client-facing projects through the full implementation lifecycle.
• Demonstrable ownership of successful delivery to agreed scope, timeline, budget and quality expectations.
• Experience creating and managing project plans, milestones, dependencies, resources and critical paths.
• Strong project-governance capability, including RAID management, status reporting, escalation and change control.
• Experience working within Statements of Work and managing delivery against contractual and commercial commitments.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with confidence engaging senior client leaders and cross-functional project teams.
• Experience coordinating distributed, remote and matrix delivery teams.
• Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to identify risks early, make sound decisions and maintain momentum in complex delivery environments.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how project decisions affect cost, resource utilisation and client outcomes.
• Ability to travel to client locations when project requirements call for it.

 
Desirable

• Direct experience leading Dayforce implementation, optimisation, transformation projects. 
• Experience across Dayforce or comparable HCM areas such as Core HR, Payroll, Benefits, Workforce Management, Talent, Reporting, Data or Integrations.
• Experience working with North American clients or delivering projects involving US HR, Payroll or Workforce Management requirements.
• Familiarity with the Dayforce Activate methodology or other structured SaaS implementation methodologies.
• Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing, parallel payroll testing, cutover, go-live and hypercare.
• Experience managing multiple projects or complex multi-workstream implementations.
• Project-management qualification such as PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent practical experience. 
• Experience working within a consultancy, systems integrator, software vendor or professional-services environment.
• Experience mentoring Project Managers or contributing to PMO and delivery-methodology development.

Benefits

Why join Silver Cloud?

At Silver Cloud, we believe in Consulting Differently.
You’ll join an experienced Dayforce practice while having the opportunity to play a part in the continued growth of our North American capability.
You can expect:

• Remote-first working within approved US locations.
• Flexibility and a high degree of autonomy.
• The opportunity to help shape a growing North American Dayforce practice.
• Varied client exposure across implementation, optimisation and transformation projects.
• Access to an experienced international Dayforce consulting community.
• Learning, development and Dayforce certification opportunities.
• Direct access to senior leaders within a boutique consultancy environment.
• A supportive and collaborative culture.
• Competitive compensation aligned to your experience, seniority and Dayforce expertise.

Our US employment and benefits offering is currently being finalised as part of the continued development of our North American practice. Full details of the applicable employment arrangement and benefits will be discussed transparently during the recruitment process.