Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Finance applications leadership roles are increasingly central in SaaS because subscription businesses depend on tightly connected systems across billing, revenue recognition, procurement, and core ERP. This position sits at that intersection, guiding how finance workflows translate into dependable systems and data. The scope across Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, and Record-to-Report reflects the operational backbone required for SaaS companies with complex monetization and reporting needs.
From a career standpoint, the role builds durable SaaS experience in enterprise application strategy: shaping multi-quarter roadmaps, steering implementations, and balancing stakeholder priorities across revenue and accounting functions. Exposure to platforms commonly used in SaaS finance stacks (NetSuite, Zuora, Coupa) and to governance topics like SOX controls creates transferable expertise for similar roles in other subscription-based businesses. Leading a team of IT product managers and administrators also strengthens the management track within internal product and systems organizations.
This role tends to fit professionals who enjoy translating between finance stakeholders and technical delivery, and who prefer operating through structured facilitation, documentation, and change management. It aligns well with managers ready to own a portfolio rather than a single system, and with SaaS-minded operators who value cross-functional influence as much as hands-on systems depth.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
PagerDuty is seeking a Sr. Manager, Enterprise Applications (Finance) to join our team! You'll manage and support PagerDuty's broad portfolio of financial systems and applications, overseeing the following process areas from an IT systems perspective: Order to Cash/Order to Revenue, Procure to Pay, and Record to Report. You'll partner with stakeholder teams across Revenue, GL Accounting, Tax & Treasury, Procurement, FP&A, and Operations to deliver technical solutions that drive business success. As a people-focused leader with strong cross-functional project leadership skills and exceptional facilitation abilities, you'll oversee system strategy and implementation while championing process improvements to enable our continued growth. In this critical cross-functional leadership role, you'll lead and develop a team of highly capable IT product managers and IT system administrators, using your leadership experience to grow and shape their careers.
PagerDuty is a flexible, hybrid workplace. We embrace and encourage in-person working as an integral part of our culture. This role is expected to come into our Atlanta, San Francisco, or Toronto office 2–3 times per week, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!
This role is expected to come into the San Francisco office 2 days per week as part of PagerDuty’s hybrid work model, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!
Key Responsibilities
- Set the Finance applications product vision and multi-quarter roadmap, aligning technology initiatives with Finance and business objectives. Oversee the end-to-end delivery of Finance system initiatives from requirements gathering through launch and post-launch support.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of IT product managers and system administrators, focusing on career growth and professional development across diverse financial technology platforms while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and operational excellence.
- Lead large-scale, cross-functional projects that span multiple business units, managing competing priorities and ensuring successful delivery of complex initiatives while leveraging your experience managing finance stakeholders to maintain strong relationships and drive real change.
- Utilize strong facilitation skills to lead productive meetings, workshops, and requirements gathering sessions with diverse stakeholder groups, communicating effectively with finance stakeholders by speaking their language and translating complex technical concepts into business terms while understanding financial processes, controls, and reporting requirements.
- Draw on your experience to plan comprehensive roadmaps that align technology initiatives with business objectives and strategic priorities across multiple quarters and fiscal years, implementing and managing Agile and SCRUM processes to drive team performance and efficiency.
- Collaborate with your team to develop and maintain the strategy for our comprehensive suite of financial applications including ERP, Billing, Procurement, and other critical business systems, overseeing the end-to-end delivery of financial system initiatives from requirements gathering through to launch and post-launch support.
- Stay current with NetSuite, Coupa, Zuora, and emerging technologies to recommend and implement best-in-class solutions while collaborating with Finance, Accounting, Revenue, Procurement, FP&A, and Operations leaders to define, prioritize, and deliver business requirements.
- Lead business, accounting, and workflow process improvements across finance, procurement, tax, audit, and security while defining and documenting detailed functional requirements for workflow automations and system integrations.
- Ensure robust change management and compliance with security, regulatory, and audit requirements, including SOX IT general controls, while maintaining comprehensive documentation for business objectives, use cases, system specifications, integrations, and customizations.
- Identify and recommend key technologies to support and improve business processes across the finance and people organization while supporting data integrations and automation efforts.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of people management experience in IT, Finance Systems, or a related field with 2+ years of hands-on experience with financial ERP systems.
- Strong background in IT, with knowledge of accounting, internal controls, and their application within financial systems, plus experience managing teams responsible for diverse financial application portfolios and system integrations.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to speak "finance" and translate between technical and business stakeholders, combined with strong facilitation skills and experience leading cross-functional meetings and requirements gathering sessions.
- Experience working in a SaaS or publicly traded company environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Zuora Billing, Zuora Revenue, NetSuite, and Coupa software, plus a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders and competing business priorities.
- Experience developing multi-year technology roadmaps and strategic planning for enterprise applications, with familiarity with AI tools and their application in financial systems automation and process improvement.
- Experience with relational databases, ETL/integration and automation tools (e.g. Workato), and demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and oversee complex projects.
- Experience with financial systems implementation and optimization to support international expansion, including multi-currency operations, global compliance, and scalable processes across multiple regions.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
The base salary range for this position is 164,000 - 276,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.
Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.
