Sr. Manager, Enterprise Applications

Cars Commerce • Chicago, IL

2d • $154,200 - $192,750

About The Position

Cars Commerce is hiring a Sr. Manager, Enterprise Applications to own its finance and ERP platform and partner with Finance on the tools it uses. The role will help determine the future direction of PeopleSoft Financials and evaluate a possible move to Oracle Fusion, including module scope, phases, vendors, cost, risk, and impact on Finance. The position also owns the audit posture, technical architecture, integrations, and controls across the financial applications portfolio, including HCM and Workday, while partnering with Finance and HR leadership on business processes and priorities.

Near-term priorities include replacing the tax platform, adding Canada multicurrency, and delivering regulatory changes such as annual 1099 updates. The role leads a small core team and a managed service provider (MSP), oversees vendor and license spending, and is expected to remain hands-on about 25% of the time. It will establish sprint-based planning and clear prioritization criteria, manage a blended onshore/offshore delivery model, and ensure business-facing and compliance-sensitive work remains onshore.

The position owns SOX and IT general controls for financial systems, works directly with internal and external auditors, and leads remediation of findings. It oversees security architecture, role-based access, identity governance, and continuity planning in partnership with security and infrastructure. It also owns integration architecture across ERP, HCM, tax, banking, and adjacent systems, and the technical architecture, integrations, and SOX controls for Workday and HCM. The role will help define appropriate uses of AI and automation in ERP and finance workflows while retaining human review where audit requires it.

Requirements

• At least 8 years managing enterprise business applications, with direct technical ownership of an ERP or finance platform such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards, or similar.
• At least 3 years managing people and vendors, including an MSP or offshore team, while remaining accountable for results.
• Working knowledge of SOX and IT general controls, and experience handling an audit.
• Fluency in finance processes such as accounts payable, general ledger, tax, expense, and close, and the tools that support them.
• Experience building an application roadmap, ideally including a major platform transition, and owning both intake and delivery for enterprise systems.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to prioritize requests and seriously consider their ideas about platform direction.
• Experience partnering with business platform owners on functional configuration while owning technical, integration, and control responsibilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• PeopleSoft Financials or Oracle Fusion experience, and working knowledge of Workday and related integrations.
• Experience with a tax engine replacement or multicurrency implementation.
• Sprint or agile delivery experience for enterprise systems.
• Practical use of AI or automation inside or around an ERP.
• Comfort working in a matrixed organization with complex reporting relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own the finance and ERP platform end to end, from requirements through go-live and production support, including quarter-end and year-end operations.
• Define the future state of PeopleSoft and lead evaluation of a potential move to Oracle Fusion, including module scope, phases, vendors, cost, risk, and effects on Finance.
• Lead replacement of the tax platform, implementation of Canada multicurrency, and regulatory updates such as annual 1099 changes.
• Partner with Finance leadership on its tools, including expense management, reporting and analytics, tax, banking, and close tooling; own their technical architecture, integrations, and controls.
• Own SOX and IT general controls for financial systems, including change approvals, production migrations, quarterly access reviews, segregation of duties, and audit evidence.
• Work with internal and external auditors and lead remediation of audit findings.
• Oversee security architecture, role-based access, and identity governance for core platforms; partner with security and infrastructure on disaster recovery and continuity.
• Lead a small core team and an MSP of roughly 6 to 8 resources covering DBA and PeopleSoft expertise; maintain accountability for results while enabling product and application owners to own their domains.
• Manage MSP performance using SLAs, escalation, release quality, and knowledge transfer.
• Run a blended onshore/offshore delivery model, keeping business-facing and compliance-sensitive work onshore.
• Move the team from spreadsheet-based prioritization to sprint-based planning with shared criteria for requests from Accounting, Tax, and Finance leadership.
• Stay hands-on about 25% of the time to review designs, troubleshoot incidents, and technically challenge the MSP.
• Manage license and vendor spending across the portfolio.
• Own integration architecture across ERP, HCM, tax, banking, and adjacent systems; ensure integrations are documented, monitored, and resilient.
• Own the technical architecture, integrations, and SOX controls for Workday and HCM, partnering with HR on functional configuration and roadmap.
• Own triage and escalation involving integrations, access, or technical configuration across Finance and HR platforms.
• Help define where AI and automation fit across ERP and finance workflows, retaining human review where audit requires it.
• Use AI tools in the team's day-to-day work and identify manual work that Finance and HR can hand off.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision healthcare plans.
• New-hire stipend for home-office setup.
• Generous paid time off.
• Paid holidays, floating holiday, volunteer day, and recharge day.
• Some roles are eligible for bonus and/or equity programs, depending on level and role.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior