Systems Manager

CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.

We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.

Join Chicago Trading Company as a Systems Manager (3rd Party Systems) to oversee vital third-party platforms for HR, Recruiting, Finance, and Operations. This is a chance to define our organization's success through ensuring operational efficiency and system excellence. We are looking for a skilled Systems Manager capable of effectively implementing and overseeing our enterprise platforms. The perfect candidate will have a history of prioritizing collaborator needs, guiding agile teams, and providing coordinated, automated solutions.

Responsibilities

• Assume responsibility for the management of all third-party systems critical to HR, Recruiting, Finance, and Operations.
• Serve as the primary expert for resolving user issues and maintaining peak platform performance.
• Coordinate vendors, consultants, and integration partners through implementations, upgrades, troubleshooting, and improvements.
• Collaborate with internal development and data teams to gather requirements, maintain integrations, and deliver cross-functional projects on time and within budget.
• Craft and sustain a roadmap that prioritizes value delivery; automate workflows using event- or batch-based techniques; and establish data pipelines to enable self-service BI and AI-enhanced analytics.
• Enforce stringent role-based security measures and regulatory compliance, ensuring data consistency, reliability, and accessibility across the firm.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise software for HR, Finance, or Recruiting, with hands-on expertise in platforms such as UKG, Concur, Coupa, or Greenhouse.
• Shown capability to balance collaborator priorities, communicate progress clearly.
• Skilled at translating business requirements into coordinated, automated solutions; comfortable operating with APIs, SQL, and Python.
• Proven experience in integrating multiple third-party systems, automating data flows, and implementing robust role-based access controls.
• Disciplined project manager with a keen attention to detail, analytical rigor, and confidence operating amid ambiguity.
• User of BI/reporting tools and modern data pipelines/warehouses (Snowflake a plus).

Nice to have

• Strong data-architecture skills, including modeling and normalization.
• Experience applying AI/ML to business analytics.
• Background in trading, fintech, or other high-performance regulated industries.
• Integration tooling experience.
• Data privacy, Identity & security expertise
• ERP/GL exposure

Compensation

The salary range for this role is listed below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.

Salary Range

$225,000—$250,000 USD

Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.

Our Benefits

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.

(Disclaimer: interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at [email protected]. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Information submitted by job applicants may be subject to review and analysis by automated systems, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), as part of the recruitment process. Such systems are utilized to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our hiring procedures. Applicants are advised that any information provided may be evaluated by AI tools to ensure an equitable and thorough assessment.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is listed below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.