Finance Application Manager

Job Description:

Position Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

Business-Side Application Ownership

• 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

IT Partnership & Requirements Translation

• 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

Process & System Alignment

• 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

Adoption & Change Management

• 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

Role Definition & Continuous Improvement

• 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.

Working Conditions

• This position is located in Charlotte, NC
• This is an in-office position with four (4) days in office required
• Employees should live within a reasonable daily commute to the designated office location
• Position Type: Full-Time Fixed-Term (12-18 Months)
  This full-time position is expected to last approximately 12-18 months. The assignment is tied to a specific business need and is intended to be temporary in duration. Extension or conversion to a regular ongoing position may be considered based on business needs but is not guaranteed.

Required/Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience

• 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

Skills & Capabilities

• 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

Additional Information:

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.

Deriva welcomes veterans of the United States Armed Forces to apply for this position. Deriva includes veterans of all branches and a diverse set of occupational specialties. We value the independent thinking, problem solving, leadership, and teamwork that our veterans have developed through their service. We welcome applications from any service and any military occupational specialty.

Deriva Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, protected veteran or military status, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.