About the Role
The Finance Operations and Systems Lead will optimize the company’s finance technology ecosystem and processes, ensuring the organization fully leverages modern finance platforms to support a rapidly scaling business. The role focuses on finance process automation, strengthening integrations between systems, and ensuring the finance team operates on efficient, scalable platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own the ongoing optimization and administration of the company’s core ERP platform, Oracle NetSuite, ensuring the business continues to maximize value from the system as it scales.
- Improve workflows, automation, reporting capability, and system configuration.
- Partner with finance users to identify inefficiencies and implement improvements across finance processes.
- Manage the broader finance systems landscape connected to our ERP platform, which may include: FP&A platforms, procurement and expense tools, billing platforms (AP and AR), cost project management tools, treasury systems, data and reporting tools.
- Ensure systems operate as an integrated ecosystem rather than isolated tools.
- Be responsible for maintaining a finance technology improvements.
- Lead initiatives to improve the control environment through both process and system change.
- Lead the identification, design and implementation of automation opportunities across the end-to-end finance function, driving greater efficiency, accuracy and scalability of finance operations.
- Drive automation initiatives across key finance processes including: Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record-to-Report (R2R), Capital Expenditure and Asset Management, and Reporting and Consolidation.
- Reduce reliance on manual processes, offline workarounds and spreadsheet-based controls by embedding automation, workflow approvals and system-driven controls across finance operations.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled finance tools, to identify opportunities to streamline processes, enhance reporting capabilities and improve decision-making.
Requirements
- 7–12+ years experience in finance systems, finance operations, or finance transformation roles.
- Proven experience transforming finance processes and systems.
- Experience working with multiple finance platforms connected to an ERP.
- Experience with system implementations, ideally in a high growth environment.
- Great communication skills, and an ability to influence.
- Strong prioritization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Systems thinker with strong process design skills.
- Ability to translate finance requirements into system solutions.
- Strong collaboration with engineering and data teams.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-scaling technology company.
- Part of Finance systems teams in high-growth technology companies.
- ERP implementation or optimisation roles.
- Finance transformation consulting (Big 4 or consulting firms).
- Finance technology roles supporting scaling businesses.
- Familiarity with finance processes is important.
Skills
- Oracle NetSuite
- FP&A platforms
- Procurement and expense tools
- Billing platforms (AP and AR)
- Cost project management tools
- Treasury systems
- Data and reporting tools
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
- Record-to-Report (R2R)
- Capital Expenditure and Asset Management
- Reporting and Consolidation
- AI-enabled finance tools
Location
- Sydney, Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7-12+ years
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.
- At Firmus, we are unique in our approach. 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.
- For our customers, this approach allows us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.
- Our large-scale GPU cloud platform, Firmus AI Cloud, is purpose-built to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale to customers.
- It empowers developers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government users to train and deploy AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings.
- With an ever-growing suite of services and applications, we are committed to delivering a cloud experience that is market-leading, proprietary, and built to scale.
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.
- Join us in our mission to revolutionize the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering.
- Apply now to be part of shaping the future of sustainable AI infrastructure.
