North American Financial Systems Manager

AQUATECH INTERNATIONAL LLC•Houston, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Aquatech is seeking a full-time Financial Systems Manager to lead finance transformation initiatives and financial systems work. The role serves as the finance functional lead for the current SAP ECC environment, with responsibility for FI/CO design, configuration, enhancements, issue resolution, and period-end support across general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, asset accounting, cost and profit center accounting, internal orders, and Project System. The manager will also represent Finance in future-state ERP assessment and implementation activities, including current-state process and data review, requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, solution design, data conversion, testing, cutover, and hypercare. The position leads systems implementations, enhancements, integrations, and optimization across ERP and related financial platforms, as well as transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, standardization, controls, reporting, and scalability. It partners with Finance and Accounting leadership and cross-functional teams to simplify, standardize, and automate processes; oversee change management, documentation, training, adoption, and post-implementation support; and establish project governance, track risks and dependencies, and support prioritization of the financial systems roadmap. The role is hybrid, based in Houston, Texas, reports to the Director, Financial Systems, is classified as exempt, and may require up to 25% domestic and international travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
At least 7 years of experience in accounting, finance, financial systems, consulting, or finance transformation.
At least 5 years of hands-on SAP Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) experience.
At least 3 years of experience leading SAP or ERP finance projects, with demonstrated ownership of FI/CO workstreams or end-to-end initiatives.
Strong understanding of finance and accounting processes, including general ledger, close, reporting, reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable, procurement, billing, budgeting, forecasting, and project accounting.
Experience with at least one full-lifecycle SAP or ERP implementation, from design through go-live and hypercare.
Understanding of SAP integration points with consolidation, planning, banking, and reporting tools, as well as SAP security roles, SOX, and IT general controls.
Strong Excel, reporting, analytical, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, influence cross-functional teams, and work independently with minimal supervision.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CMA, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, SAP FI/CO, or S/4HANA Finance certification.
SAP S/4HANA implementation or ECC-to-S/4HANA migration experience.
Exposure to other ERP platforms such as Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, or Microsoft Dynamics.
Experience with OneStream, Snowflake, Power BI, BlackLine, Coupa, Concur, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

Serve as the finance functional lead for the current SAP ECC environment, owning FI/CO design, configuration, enhancements, issue resolution, and period-end support.
Support SAP ECC processes across general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, cost center and profit center accounting, internal orders, and Project System.
Represent Finance in future-state ERP assessment and implementation, including process and data review, requirements, fit-gap analysis, solution design, data conversion, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
Manage finance systems implementations, enhancements, integrations, and optimization initiatives across ERP and adjacent financial platforms.
Lead finance transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, standardization, controls, reporting, and scalability across finance and accounting.
Partner with Finance and Accounting leadership to identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate manual, fragmented, or inconsistent processes.
Lead transformation across month-end close, account reconciliations, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and project accounting.
Evaluate gaps between current business practices and ERP or system capabilities and recommend scalable solutions aligned with business needs.
Lead SAP optimization initiatives involving profit center activation, cost center redesign, segment reporting, project accounting, revenue and cost recognition, intercompany, and journal workflow and controls.
Own change management, including stakeholder alignment, communication planning, user readiness, training strategy, adoption tracking, and post-implementation support.
Oversee process documentation, standard operating procedures, control documentation, system workflows, and training materials for new or enhanced finance processes.
Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, IT, Operations, and external implementation partners to deliver initiatives on time, within scope, and with sustainable adoption.
Establish project governance, clarify ownership, track risks and dependencies, and escalate issues appropriately.
Support prioritization of the financial systems roadmap and align enhancements with strategic finance and business objectives.