North American 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, SAP FI/CO 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:

• Serve as the finance functional lead for the current SAP ECC environment, owning FI/CO design, configuration, enhancements, issue resolution, and period-end support across GL, AP, AR, asset accounting, cost center and profit center accounting, internal orders, and Project System (PS).
• Represent Finance in the future-state ERP assessment and implementation, including current-state 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 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.
• Lead SAP optimization initiatives in the current environment, including profit center activation, cost center redesign, segment reporting, project accounting, revenue and cost recognition, intercompany, and journal workflow and controls.
• 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.

Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in accounting, finance, financial systems, consulting, or finance transformation, including at least 5 years of hands-on SAP Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading SAP or ERP finance projects, with demonstrated ownership of FI/CO workstreams or end-to-end initiatives.
• CPA, CMA, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or SAP FI/CO or S/4HANA Finance 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.
• Experience on at least one full-lifecycle SAP or ERP implementation, from design through go-live and hypercare. SAP S/4HANA implementation or ECC-to-S/4HANA migration experience is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of SAP integration points with consolidation, planning, banking, and reporting tools, along with SAP security roles, SOX, and IT general controls.
• Exposure to other ERP platforms such as Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, or Microsoft Dynamics is a plus to support future-state evaluation.
• Experience with OneStream, Snowflake, Power BI, BlackLine, Coupa, Concur, or similar tools is preferred.
• Strong Excel, reporting, analytical, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, influence cross-functional teams, and operate independently with minimal supervision.

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.
• 7+ years of experience in accounting, finance, financial systems, consulting, or finance transformation, including at least 5 years of hands-on SAP Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading SAP or ERP finance projects, with demonstrated ownership of FI/CO workstreams or end-to-end initiatives.
• CPA, CMA, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or SAP FI/CO or S/4HANA Finance 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.
• Experience on at least one full-lifecycle SAP or ERP implementation, from design through go-live and hypercare. SAP S/4HANA implementation or ECC-to-S/4HANA migration experience is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of SAP integration points with consolidation, planning, banking, and reporting tools, along with SAP security roles, SOX, and IT general controls.
• Exposure to other ERP platforms such as Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, or Microsoft Dynamics is a plus to support future-state evaluation.
• Experience with OneStream, Snowflake, Power BI, BlackLine, Coupa, Concur, or similar tools is preferred.
• Strong Excel, reporting, analytical, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, influence cross-functional teams, and operate independently with minimal supervision.