Financial Systems Manager - EPC

About the Role / About the Job
The Financial Systems Manager is responsible for overseeing the governance, administration, optimization, and continuous improvement of the organization’s financial systems, ERP platforms, and finance-related technology applications throughout the EPC sector. This role plays a critical part in ensuring that finance systems facilitate accurate accounting, project cost control, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, statutory reporting, and support decision-making across multi-project and multi-entity operations.

As the primary liaison among Finance, IT, Project Controls, Procurement, Human Resources, Commercial, and Operations, the Financial Systems Manager translates finance and EPC business requirements into controlled system solutions. They support effective system integration and uphold the reliability, security, and integrity of finance data, configurations, workflows, and reporting structures. Furthermore, the position involves leading process improvements, user support, training, internal control compliance, and finance-system change initiatives, while also supporting project budgeting, forecasting, procurement integration, long-term contract accounting, revenue recognition, multi-currency operations, and consolidated reporting.

Job Responsibilities

• Financial Systems Administration: Manage day-to-day administration, configuration, access, availability, and performance of financial systems, ERP finance modules, and related reporting applications.
• ERP Management and Optimization: Lead finance requirements for ERP maintenance, enhancement, and optimization, ensuring that configurations, workflows, and integrations support approved finance policies and EPC operating requirements.
• Project Accounting and Cost Control Support: Ensure systems support project structures, budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, cost allocation, work breakdown structures, cost codes, forecasting, and project cost reporting.
• Financial Reporting and Analytics: Develop and maintain reliable financial, management, and project reporting solutions, dashboards, and analytical outputs that support timely and accurate decision-making.
• Data Governance and Master Data Management: Establish governance for finance master data, chart of accounts, cost centres, profit centres, projects, vendors, customers, currencies, and reporting hierarchies, including ownership, approval, and quality controls.
• Internal Controls, Compliance and Audit Support: Maintain system controls, access governance, segregation of duties, approval workflows, audit trails, and documentation, and support internal, external, and regulatory audit requirements.
• Business Process Improvement: Review finance and cross-functional processes, identify control or efficiency gaps, and implement standardized, automated, and scalable solutions.
• Stakeholder Management: Partner with Finance, IT, Project Controls, Procurement, HR, Commercial, and Operations to prioritize requirements, resolve issues, and coordinate system changes.
• Training and User Support: Establish user-support arrangements, develop guidance and training materials, and improve user capability and adoption across finance and related business functions.
• EPC Multi-Project and Multi-Entity Support: Configure and support financial structures and reporting for multiple projects, legal entities, joint operations, and project locations while maintaining consistent Group controls.
• Procurement and Commercial Integration: Support system integration across procurement, commitments, purchase orders, subcontracting, variations, invoicing, and commercial reporting to improve cost visibility and control.
• Contract Accounting and Revenue Recognition: Ensure finance systems support long-term contract accounting, revenue recognition, billing, unbilled revenue, retention, claims, variations, and other EPC-specific accounting requirements.
• Multi-Currency and Consolidated Reporting: Support exchange-rate processing, foreign-currency transactions, translation, intercompany activity, eliminations, and consolidated financial and management reporting.
• Systems Change and Continuous Improvement: Manage finance-system changes from requirements through testing, approval, deployment, and post-implementation review, applying lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices.

Job Knowledge & Skills

• Strong knowledge of financial and management accounting, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, consolidation, management accounting, and financial close processes.
• Understanding of project accounting and cost control, encompassing project budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals, cost allocation, forecasting, cost-to-complete, and project performance reporting in EPC environments.
• Ability to manage finance-system configurations and integrations across procurement, commercial, project controls, HR, and operational processes.
• Proficiency in designing financial reports, dashboards, data models, and analytical outputs using ERP reporting tools, Power BI, or equivalent solutions.
• Capability to establish data ownership, access controls, master-data standards, testing disciplines, and continuous-improvement practices.

Job Experience

• Financial Systems Experience: 8-10+ years of relevant experience in financial systems, ERP finance, finance transformation, financial reporting, project accounting, or closely related disciplines.
• Managerial Experience: 3-5+ years in a managerial or team-lead capacity, demonstrating responsibility for finance-system governance, implementation, optimization, user support, and stakeholder coordination.
• EPC and Project-Based Environment: Preferred experience within EPC, construction, infrastructure, or Oil & Gas organizations, including exposure to project accounting and cost-control requirements.
• ERP and Reporting Platforms: Strong practical experience supporting major ERP and reporting solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Power BI, or equivalent enterprise platforms.
• Controls and Process Improvement: Proven experience in strengthening master data, system access, workflows, internal controls, audit support, and finance-process efficiency.

Competencies

• Agility
• AI Fluency
• Build High-Performing Teams
• Build Process and Systems
• Change Management
• CPA Certified Public Accountant
• Drive Cost Optimization
• Financial Analysis tools and techniques
• Financial Control
• Leadership
• Provide Direction
• Quality
• Resilience
• SAP ERP Corporate Finance Management
• Speed of Execution

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Public Administration, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Master's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Public Administration, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.