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About the Role
This role leads Firmus’ remuneration strategy, reward governance, and workforce insights capability, providing expert advice on remuneration, benefits, workforce analytics, reporting, and data-led people decision-making. The role partners closely with key stakeholders to ensure remuneration practices and workforce reporting are commercially sound, equitable, compliant, and decision-ready.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of remuneration frameworks, including fixed pay, variable reward, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, benefits, and recognition programs.
- Develop and maintain job architecture, grading, salary bands, and benchmarking practices.
- Support executive remuneration, board reporting, remuneration committee materials, and governance processes.
- Partner with Finance and Legal on equity, options, incentive plans, and remuneration-related compliance requirements.
- Provide advice to leaders on remuneration decisions, offers, promotions, adjustments, retention matters, and incentive outcomes.
- Monitor market trends and emerging reward practices, particularly across relevant industries.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to ensure hiring offers align with approved remuneration frameworks and market benchmarks.
- Work closely with Finance on workforce cost management, budget alignment, and incentive modelling.
- Provide clear, practical guidance to leaders and employees on people processes, reward decisions, and policy matters.
- Analyze remuneration trends, market movements, and workforce costs to support remuneration decisions.
- Provide remuneration modelling for hiring, promotions, incentive plans, and organizational changes.
- Maintain remuneration and benefits policies.
- Ensure remuneration practices comply with employment legislation and governance requirements.
- Build and maintain workforce data, analytics, and reporting capability to support executive, board, and business decision-making.
- Develop clear, reliable workforce dashboards and reporting packs covering key metrics.
- Partner with Finance, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders to ensure workforce reporting aligns with business plans.
- Own workforce data integrity, definitions, and reporting standards.
- Translate workforce data into practical insights, trends, and recommendations.
- Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and improve reporting processes, data flows, and people analytics capability.
- Support governance and audit readiness by maintaining clear documentation of workforce data sources, assumptions, controls, and reporting methodology.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years' experience in Human Resources, with significant experience in remuneration, reward, compensation and benefits, or total rewards.
- Demonstrated experience in designing remuneration frameworks, benchmarking, job architecture, salary bands, incentive plans, and benefits.
- Experience supporting executive remuneration, equity, or long-term incentive programs.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable frameworks in a high-growth or complex environment.
- Strong analytical capability, including workforce cost modelling, remuneration analysis, and reporting.
- High attention to detail and strong governance discipline.
- Ability to work confidently with executives, Finance, Legal, and senior business leaders.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise decision papers and executive-ready materials.
- Strong workforce data and analytics experience, including people reporting, dashboard development, data integrity, workforce planning metrics, and executive-ready insights.
- Commercially minded, structured, pragmatic, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced scaling environment.
- Strong judgment, discretion, and the ability to balance employee experience, governance, market competitiveness, and cost discipline.
- Hands-on when needed, but able to design frameworks that scale.
- Confident working with ambiguity, able to create order from complexity, and trusted to handle sensitive remuneration and people information with care.
Skills
- Remuneration strategy
- Reward governance
- Workforce insights
- Remuneration
- Benefits
- Workforce analytics
- Reporting
- Data-led people decision-making
- Fixed pay
- Variable reward
- Short-term incentives
- Long-term incentives
- Recognition programs
- Job architecture
- Grading
- Salary bands
- Benchmarking
- Executive remuneration
- Board reporting
- Remuneration committee materials
- Equity
- Options
- Incentive plans
- Compliance
- Market trends analysis
- Reward practices analysis
- Workforce cost management
- Budget alignment
- Incentive modelling
- People processes guidance
- Reward decisions guidance
- Policy matters guidance
- Remuneration modelling
- Remuneration policies
- Employment legislation compliance
- Governance requirements
- Audit requirements
- Workforce data management
- Workforce analytics capability
- Workforce reporting
- Dashboard development
- Headcount reporting
- Workforce cost reporting
- Hiring reporting
- Attrition reporting
- Tenure reporting
- Diversity reporting
- Engagement reporting
- Organisational metrics reporting
- Budget alignment
- Forecast alignment
- Hiring plans alignment
- Organisational priorities alignment
- Data integrity
- Reporting standards
- People data accuracy
- People data consistency
- People data governance
- Workforce planning
- Organisational design
- Business scaling
- Reporting process automation
- Data flow simplification
- People analytics capability improvement
- Documentation maintenance
- Reporting methodology documentation
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8–12+ years' experience
Benefits
- Benefits programs
About the Company
- Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific.
- Founded in Australia in 2019, our mission is to create the most efficient AI infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability.
- We design, build, and operate a new class of digital infrastructure – the AI Factory.
- Through our model-to-grid technology approach, we have pushed the boundaries of multi-generational liquid cooling systems, energy management, AI software orchestration, and construction.
- Our AI Factories allow us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.
- Firmus AI Cloud is our large-scale GPU cloud platform, purpose-built to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale.
- It empowers developers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government users to train and deploy AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings.
- We are committed to delivering a cloud experience that is market-leading, proprietary, and built to scale.
- As an NVIDIA Cloud and Engineering partner in Asia Pacific, you will gain skills, experience, and exposure across the AI industry.
- We are founder-led, not a big corporate. Decisions happen fast, our leaders are accessible, and there's minimum bureaucracy.
- Ownership comes early. Whatever your role, you will have a direct line to outcomes, helping shape how the business grows.
- Work alongside founders and experts in AI infrastructure, energy systems and next-generation compute.
- Our AI Factories are designed to operate as assets to the energy grid to actively strengthen the communities and regions they operate in rather than drawing from them.
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.
- Join us in our mission to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering.
Equal Opportunity
- At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.