Finance Systems & Automation Lead

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.

Firmus AI Cloud

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.

Role Summary

The Finance Operations and Systems Lead willbe responsible foroptimising the company's finance technology ecosystem, and processes, ensuring the organisation fullyleveragesmodern finance platforms to support a rapidly scaling business. The role focuses on finance process automation, strengthening integrations between systems, and ensuring the finance teamoperateson efficient, scalable platforms.

While this is fundamentally a finance systems and technology role, the ideal candidate will bring a broad background across finance operations, process improvement and systems transformation. They will possess a strong understanding of financial controls, governance and risk management, combined with the ability to translate operational requirements into practical technology solutions. This is not a traditional systems role; success requires a deep appreciation of finance processes, a clear understanding of desired business outcomes, and the ability to identify and implement more effective ways of working across the finance function.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing optimisation and administration of the company's core ERP platform, Oracle NetSuite, ensuring the business continues to maximise 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.

Finance Operations Automation

• Lead initiatives to improve the controlenvironment 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) - vendor onboarding, purchase requisitions, approvals, invoice processing, payment workflows and spend management.
• Record to Report (R2R) - reconciliations, journal processing, period end close activities, intercompany accounting, consolidations and financial reporting.
• Capital Expenditure and Asset Management - procurement approvals, asset capitalisation, fixed asset accounting, depreciation management and project to asset transitions.
• Reporting and Consolidation - management reporting, board reporting, statutory reporting, data aggregation and group consolidation processes.
• 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.

Skills & Experience

• 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 simultaneousl
• 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

The Ideal Candidate:

• Part of Finance systems teams in high growth technology companie s
• Finance transformation consulting (Big 4 or consulting firms)
• Finance technology roles supporting scaling businesses

Accounting qualifications are not require d , but familiarity with finance processes is important .

Location & Reporting

• Location: Sydney, Australia
• Reporting to General Manager, Finance

Employment Basis

Full time

Diversity

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.

About Firmus Technologies

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the solution to AI's energy challenge, founded in Australia in 2019 by a visionary team of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about sustainable computing infrastructure.

Firmus builds and operates AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific, utilising its proprietary AI Factory platform to deliver transformative cost effective GPU clusters and AI cloud services for developers, enterprise, education and government users.

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.