Finance Application Manager

Deriva Energy•Charlotte, NC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Deriva Energy is creating a new role within Finance: the Finance Application Owner. This is an opportunity to define what business-side application ownership looks like at Deriva. Application owners at Deriva bring deep technical expertise with supporting business context. This role is the intentional inverse: a Finance professional with a thorough command of our processes, data, and reporting needs who can serve as the authoritative business voice for our financial systems. This role will bridge the gap between what the business needs and what IT builds and maintains. The Finance Application Owner will begin by owning NetSuite from the business side, partnering directly with the IT application ownership team to drive NetSuite — and other financial applications — toward their target state. This role reports to the Accounting & Finance Reporting leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
Five (5) years or more of increasingly diverse or complex experience in Finance, Accounting, or FP&A or related field in addition to degree
Five (5) years or more of experience in Finance, Accounting, or FP&A with meaningful exposure to ERP or financial systems
Hands-on experience with NetSuite strongly preferred
Track record of working alongside IT teams on system implementations, enhancements, or process improvement initiatives
Experience managing priorities, writing requirements, or driving system-related decisions from the business side
Deep understanding of core Finance processes, including: Order-to-cash and procure-to-pay, Financial close optimization and consolidation, Reporting and variance analysis
Ability to translate business process knowledge into clear system requirements — without needing to write the code
Strong communicator who can work comfortably and effectively between Finance leadership and technical IT teams
Organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing competing priorities without dropping threads
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping refine existing structure and define new structure
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Finance owner of NetSuite and other financial applications
Define business requirements, prioritize system enhancements, and maintain the Finance application roadmap
Hold accountability for ensuring financial systems reflect how the business actually operates — and where it needs to go
Expand ownership scope to additional financial applications over time as the role matures
Serve as the primary Finance liaison to IT application owners and the broader technology team
Translate Finance process needs into clear, actionable system requirements
Partner with the IT team to sequence and prioritize work toward target state
Participate in system design discussions, ensuring Finance priorities are understood and properly represented
Develop a deep understanding of current-state Finance workflows and identify gaps between business needs and system capabilities
Evaluate how system changes impact Finance processes; flag risks before they reach production
Lead or support user acceptance testing to validate that changes meet business requirements
Maintain documentation of Finance processes, system configurations, and institutional knowledge
Support rollout of system enhancements across the Finance team
Help Finance staff understand and adopt new capabilities
Serve as a resource for questions at the intersection of Finance process and system behavior
Help shape what this function becomes — this is a pilot, and the role will evolve
Identify opportunities to expand impact across the broader financial application landscape
Bring a mindset of continuous improvement to both systems and processes
Compliance – SOX best practices and respond to audit request coordinating data responses.