Financial Systems Manager

At Aquatech, we tackle the challenges of water scarcity and complexity by leveraging technology, expertise, and financing to deliver comprehensive solutions that reduce carbon and recycled water footprint. As a leading global provider of water and process technology solutions, we help the world’s most recognized companies achieve their sustainability and operational goals through innovative water and process technology solutions.

Aquatech has an immediate opening for a full-time Financial Systems Manager to join our team in Houston, TX. This is a Hybrid position and will report to the Director, Financial Systems. This role will lead finance transformation initiatives, finance system implementations, ERP improvements, process standardization, testing, training, and post-go-live support. This position may require up to 25% of domestic and international travel and will be considered an exempt employee.

Job Description:

• Manage finance systems implementations, enhancements, integrations, and optimization initiatives across ERP and adjacent financial platforms.
• Lead finance transformation initiatives focused on improving efficiency, standardization, controls, reporting, and scalability across finance and accounting processes.
• Partner with Finance and Accounting leadership to identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate manual, fragmented, or inconsistent processes.
• Lead transformation efforts across month-end close, account reconciliations, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and project accounting processes.
• Evaluate process gaps between current business practices and ERP/system capabilities, and recommend scalable solutions aligned with operational and business needs.
• Own change management activities, including stakeholder alignment, communication planning, user readiness, training strategy, adoption tracking, and post-implementation support.
• Oversee development and maintenance of process documentation, standard operating procedures, control documentation, system workflows, and training materials for new or enhanced finance processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Finance, Accounting, IT, Operations, and external implementation partners to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and with sustainable adoption.
• Establish project governance, clarify ownership, track risks and dependencies, and escalate issues appropriately to support successful execution.
• Support prioritization of the financial systems roadmap and help align ongoing enhancements with strategic finance and business objectives.

Benefits:

Aquatech offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, company-paid holidays, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

Essential Functions:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above and below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Physical Job Demands:

Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, limited walking, and standing.

Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, finance, financial systems, business systems, process improvement, consulting, or finance transformation.
• 3+ years of experience leading finance systems, ERP, or transformation projects, with demonstrated ownership of workstreams or end-to-end initiatives.
• CPA, CMA, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or relevant systems certification is preferred but not required.
• Strong understanding of accounting and finance processes such as general ledger, close, reporting, reconciliations, AP, AR, procurement, billing, budgeting, forecasting, and project accounting.
• Hands-on or super user experience with ERP or financial systems such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, or similar platforms.
• Experience with OneStream, Snowflake, Power BI, BlackLine, Coupa, Concur, or similar tools is preferred.
• Experience leading or supporting system implementations, enhancements, upgrades, process improvement, reporting, or automation initiatives.
• Ability to gather and translate business requirements, document processes, identify control and process gaps, and partner with technical teams to deliver practical solutions.
• Strong Excel, reporting, analytical, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.