Finance Manager

The Company

Maverick

X 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 Finance Manager is responsible for fluently understanding, managing, and communicating all aspects of company spending. You will be a key member of the finance and accounting team and report directly to the Chief Financial Officer while interacting extensively with the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, and other senior leaders across the organization.

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 Maverick

X’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 operations—from invoice generation to collections, customer records, and AR aging—to 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…