Manager, IT & Business Systems

Description

Manager, IT & Business Systems – Evans Group

Location:

Flexible depending on the right candidate. Remote or Hybrid/On‑site if located near an Evans Group location in RI or CA.

The Evans Group unites four industry leaders—Evans, Paktron, UTC, and Eulex—to deliver one of the industry’s most specialized and comprehensive capacitor portfolios. Together, the group provides power‑dense, high‑reliability capacitor solutions engineered for mission‑critical applications across defense, aerospace, energy, and advanced RF systems. All Evans Group capacitor manufacturers are based in the United States.

The Manager, IT & Business Systems is responsible for overseeing business systems and coordinating IT operations and compliance activities across the entire Evans Block, which is comprised of multiple business units and sites. The role ensures that core systems and IT services operate reliably and support business needs across the organization.

This position plays a key role in supporting SOX and CMMC level 2 readiness as it relates to business systems and IT operations, working closely with internal teams and external service providers to help ensure appropriate controls, documentation, and processes are in place. The role also supports business system enhancements and cross site initiatives that improve operational efficiency, consistency, and control effectiveness.

This role will report to the Evans Group Controller.

• Provide unified coordination and oversight for business systems, IT operations, and security and compliance activities across Evans Block sites, including support for SOX and CMMC readiness, ensuring reliable operations, effective controls, and regulatory audit readiness.
• Support and improve Acumatica ERP by applying a strong working understanding of Evans Block business systems and end‑to‑end processes to manage user access, workflows, reporting, approvals, troubleshooting, documentation, and ongoing process optimization.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, HR, Payroll, and site leadership to ensure business systems support accurate transactions, efficient workflows, reliable reporting, strong internal controls, and scalable business processes.
• Serve as the primary coordinator for user access governance across business systems and IT platforms, including access provisioning, periodic access reviews, owner validation, and coordination with IT and Compliance teams.
• Coordinate day‑to‑day IT operations with local managed service providers and internal IT resources to ensure reliable support for hardware, networking, endpoints, user access, cybersecurity tools, backups, and related infrastructure services.
• Partner with corporate Compliance and IT teams to support SOX, CMMC, and cybersecurity requirements, including system and access controls, audit readiness, evidence collection, documentation, and remediation tracking.
• Help ensure ongoing effectiveness of system and access controls by evaluating system changes, process updates, and role changes that could impact SOX and CMMC requirements.
• Manage and support initiatives related to ERP and business systems enhancements, compliance and cybersecurity readiness, HRIS support, reporting, integrations, vendor coordination, process improvement, and cross site standardization, working across business units and service providers as needed.
• Support HRIS platforms such as Paylocity in coordination with HR, Payroll, Finance, Arxis resources, and vendors, with a focus on access controls, reporting, integrations, issue escalation, and data security.
• Support onboarding, offboarding, and role change processes by ensuring appropriate system access is provisioned, modified, or removed across ERP, HRIS, Microsoft platforms, and other business systems.
• Identify gaps between business processes and system functionality and recommend improvements, configuration changes, reporting enhancements, training, or process standardization.
• Partnered with Sales and customer‑facing teams to complete customer cybersecurity questionnaires, surveys, and compliance requests accurately, consistently,…