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# Benefits Implementation Consultant

- **Company:** Dayforce, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $76,600.0 - $119,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** SQL Databases, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Ceridian Dayforce
- **Published:** June 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ca1f1675f92df119

## About the Role

Do you have experience in XML?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

 * Master's degree or post graduate coursework
 * 3-5 years' of end-to-end Benefits implementation consulting experience with an HCM software provider
 * Expertise in complex integration solutions
 * Technical documentation skills
 * Creation of UAT and Parallel test plans
 * Experience in business process mapping and organization readiness
 * HCM life cycle expertise, including operations and business practices and technology enablement
 * Superior customer support experience

What would make you really stand out

 * Prior consultative experience with both Benefits and HCM software
 * Knowledge of SQL scripts and XML transformers
 * Prior consultative or functional experience with Dayforce HCM

## Description

The Service Consultant participates in all stages of the implementation lifecycle (discovery, configuration, testing, deployment, post go-live support), under the direction of the Project Manager, and may lead one or more activities. Project responsibilities include gathering customer requirements, configuring the Dayforce solution to meet documented customer requirements, setting and managing customer expectations, providing guidance to Associate Consultants, identifying risks and communicating issues to the Project Manager.

What you'll get to do

 * Document and validate customer's business requirements
 * Configure Dayforce application to meet customer's documented requirements
 * Conduct consulting sessions and document with meeting minutes
 * Attend project meetings and provide status on progress of activities and deliverables
 * Provide customers with consulting and general assistance in areas of expertise
 * Develop SQL database scripts and XML transformers for integrations and interfaces
 * Be a "go-to" resource for specific functional areas for internal and external users
 * Work with customers to implement Dayforce Organizational Readiness best practices


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