Finance Manager

Finance Manager

MaverickX is engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction. We are intensely focused on bringing economic value to our customers, shareholders, and employees while solving pressing resource challenges facing the United States and the world.

The Role

In this hands-on role, you will ensure that revenue recognition, bill payments, and financial operations are executed accurately, on time, and in full alignment with company policies.

You will support accounts payable workflows, maintain an up-to-date budget and forecast, reconcile the forecast to actual spend as part of each month end close, conduct variance analyses, and collaborate with department heads to drive financial transparency, discipline, and accountability throughout the organization. As our CFO emphasizes, a high-performing finance and accounting organization delivers on time, communicates clearly, and never becomes a bottleneck.

This is a highly visible position at the center of MaverickX's operations. You will engage deeply with all three core components of the company: Technical, Sales & Business Development and Operations.

This role is a key part of building a best-in-class finance and accounting organization to support disciplined growth, strong controls, and operational rigor. The environment is fast-paced and highly collaborative.

Success in this role requires: meticulous attention to detail, financial fluency, sound judgement and ability to partner effectively with executive leadership.

Financial Operations & Reporting

• Forecasting Discipline: Maintain a dynamic, company-wide budget and rolling forecast, ensuring all financial plans accurately reflect operational priorities, committed spend, and real-time business performance.
• Performance Visibility: Reconcile forecast to actuals during each month-end close cycle and deliver clear variance insights that inform leadership decisions.
• Contract Cost Management: Track committed costs on large contracts, and large POs, and incorporate them into forward-looking forecasts to ensure precise cash planning and accountability.
• Revenue & Cash Cycle Management: Oversee full accounts receivable operationsfrom invoice generation to collections, customer records, and AR agingto support timely cash inflows and accurate revenue recognition.
• Operational Finance Execution: Ensure bill payments, revenue recognition, and financial processes are completed accurately, on time, and in alignment with internal policies.
• Accounts Payable Leadership: Manage end-to-end AP workflows, including invoice processing, vendor management, cross-functional coordination, and month-end close support, ensuring zero delays to project timelines and accurate spend tracking.
• Accounting Partnership: Collaborate with the accounting team on month-end close, accruals, reconciliations, and internal controls to maintain a disciplined financial environment.

Cross-Functional Business Partnership

• Organizational Alignment: Work closely with leaders across R&D/Technical, Commercial, and Operations to ensure financial plans and business actions remain tightly aligned.
• Financial Stewardship: Promote transparency, discipline, and accountability across all departments through proactive financial engagement and clear communication.
• Decision Support: Serve as the finance liaison to functional teams, enabling data-driven spending decisions and preventing budget surprises.
• Risk & Opportunity Analysis: Advise leadership on financial risks, opportunities, and operational implications of key decisions.
• Senior Executive Partnership: regularly work with the CFO, COO, and other senior leaders on financial, operational, and strategic topics.

Process Development & Continuous Improvement

• Scalable Infrastructure: Build, refine, and implement financial processes, tools, and workflows that support MaverickX's disciplined growth and operational scale.
• Reporting Excellence: Enhance the clarity, speed, and quality of financial reporting to provide actionable insights for both executive leaders and operational teams.
• Controls & Compliance: Strengthen financial controls, operational rigor, and internal accountability across the organization.
• Automation & Efficiency: Identify and implement opportunities to automate manual tasks, streamline data flows, and improve forecast accuracy.

Strategic Planning & Decision Support

• Long-Range Planning: Support strategic planning cycles, long-term forecasting, and scenario analysis to guide corporate priorities and resource allocation.
• Decision Enablement: Deliver financial analyses and insights that inform investment decisions, program prioritization, and capital deployment.
• Executive & Board Materials: Prepare high-quality materials and presentations for executive leadership and board-level discussions.
• Insight Translation: Distill complex financial data into clear, actionable recommendations that influence strategic direction.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in finance operations, FP&A, accounting, or similar roles
• Budgeting processes, AP/AR processes, cash management, and basic accounting fluency
• Experience with cloud-based accounting systems (QBO a plus) and AP/expense platforms (Bill.com, Ramp, Divvy, or similar)
• Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
• Strong communication skills, and comfort interacting with multiple departments and executive management
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic fast-moving, high-growth startup environment
• A collaborative mindset, a growth mindset, and willingness to roll up sleeves to solve problems
• Strong proficiency in and ability to leverage AI tools to maximize work productivity and quality

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience in energy, mining, and/or chemical industries
• Worked in a manufacturing or hard tech company
• Experience in a publicly listed company or major accounting firm
• Worked for a growth stage startup

Our Values

• Customer First: Our first and foremost priority is to give customers technology that makes their business more valuable. There is no deviation from this north star
• Play to Win: This is a professional team, not a family. Hardcore work ethic is a baseline; Measurable impact is how we define success
• Extreme Ownership: We are self-starters who learn voraciously, master their domain, and take full accountability for the outcomes of their work
• Relentless Execution: A good idea is meaningless until it is solving a customer problem. Moving with speed, focus, and determination is how we win in our industry
• Radical Candor: Focused, direct, and impactful communication is our language. No time for beating around the bush
• Shared Success: Meaningful equity participation for employees means that when Maverick wins, everyone wins
• Uncompromised Integrity: We do first class business in a first class way, while staying loyal to our customers, shareholders, employees, and country

Benefits

• At Maverick X, our compensation packages reflect our recognition of the value our employees bring to our success and our commitment to recruiting top talent. We cater our benefits to ensure our team succeeds both in and out of the office
• Premium health insurance: With medical, dental, and optical options, we offer some of the best coverage on the market
• Continuing education: We take employee development seriously and strive to unlock our team's full potential through continuous learning initiatives