ERP Finance Specialist

Bureau of Meteorology; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The ERP Finance Specialist supports the Bureau of Meteorology's finance-related ERP capabilities, delivering specialist functional expertise and continuous improvement across finance systems. You will work closely with Finance, Procurement, technology teams, and vendors to analyse requirements and design fit-for-purpose solutions, ensuring reliability and data integrity.

You will configure, test, and support system enhancements, upgrades, transitions, and reporting, while contributing to

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist functional support for finance-related ERP modules and associated business systems, ensuring services are reliable, effective, and aligned with business requirements.
• Work closely with Finance stakeholders to understand business needs, analyse requirements, and develop fit-for-purpose system solutions.
• Configure, maintain, test, and support finance system functionality, including enhancements, upgrades, integrations, workflows, and reporting capabilities.
• Support the delivery of system improvements, projects, and transformation initiatives affecting finance systems and business processes.
• Conduct business analysis activities, including requirements gathering, process mapping, solution design, testing, and implementation support.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues, defects, incidents, and service requests within agreed service levels.
• Support financial reporting, reconciliation, data quality, and system integrity activities to ensure accurate and reliable information is available for decision-making.
• Develop and maintain functional documentation, process maps, configuration records, training materials, and knowledge articles.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, automate manual activities, and optimise the use of ERP and finance system capabilities.
• Support testing activities including system testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and release validation activities.
• Collaborate with technical teams, vendors, and support partners to deliver system enhancements, resolve issues, and implement new capabilities.
• Contribute to governance, compliance, audit, and risk management activities associated with finance systems and processes.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, vendor roadmaps, and best practices relating to ERP finance solutions and financial management systems.
• Build and maintain productive working relationships with Finance stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and external partners.
• Provide user support, guidance, and training to promote effective utilisation of finance systems and related business processes.
• Comply with all Bureau work health and safety policies and procedures and take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of employees, contractors, and visitors who may be affected by your conduct.
• Apply the Bureau’s Social Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion through respectful and culturally aware workplace practices.

Job description

The ERP Finance Specialist provides specialist functional expertise and continuous improvement support for the Bureau’s finance-related ERP capabilities, working closely with Finance, Procurement, technology teams, vendors and business stakeholders.

The role supports business-as-usual operations, system enhancements and project initiatives by analysing business requirements, designing fit-for-purpose solutions, and supporting testing, implementation and adoption.

The position contributes to the reliability, effectiveness and integrity of finance systems while identifying opportunities to improve processes, automation, reporting and user experience.

• Provide specialist functional support for finance-related ERP modules and associated business systems, ensuring services are reliable, effective, and aligned with business requirements.
• Work closely with Finance stakeholders to understand business needs, analyse requirements, and develop fit-for-purpose system solutions.
• Configure, maintain, test, and support finance system functionality, including enhancements, upgrades, integrations, workflows, and reporting capabilities.
• Support the delivery of system improvements, projects, and transformation initiatives affecting finance systems and business processes.
• Conduct business analysis activities, including requirements gathering, process mapping, solution design, testing, and implementation support.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues, defects, incidents, and service requests within agreed service levels.
• Support financial reporting, reconciliation, data quality, and system integrity activities to ensure accurate and reliable information is available for decision-making.
• Develop and maintain functional documentation, process maps, configuration records, training materials, and knowledge articles.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, automate manual activities, and optimise the use of ERP and finance system capabilities.
• Support testing activities including system testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and release validation activities.
• Collaborate with technical teams, vendors, and support partners to deliver system enhancements, resolve issues, and implement new capabilities.
• Contribute to governance, compliance, audit, and risk management activities associated with finance systems and processes.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, vendor roadmaps, and best practices relating to ERP finance solutions and financial management systems.
• Build and maintain productive working relationships with Finance stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and external partners.
• Provide user support, guidance, and training to promote effective utilisation of finance systems and related business processes.
• Comply with all Bureau work health and safety policies and procedures and take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of employees, contractors, and visitors who may be affected by your conduct.
• Apply the Bureau’s Social Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion through respectful and culturally aware workplace practices.

Getting to know the Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology is one of the few organisations that touches the lives of all Australians and all Australia, every day. The Bureau works across Australia and remote islands, providing services from the Antarctic to beyond the equator, and from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.We are Australia's national weather, climate and water agency, in the Agriculture, Water and Environment portfolio of the Australian Government, operating under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1955 and the Water Act 2007. We provide data, information, knowledge, insight and wisdom to help Australians prepare and respond to the realities of their natural environment, including droughts, floods, fires, storms, tsunami and tropical cyclones.Our products and services include observations, forecasts, analysis and advice covering Australia's atmosphere, water, oceans and space environments. We undertake focused scientific research in support of our operations and services. Through regular forecasts, warnings, monitoring and advice, we provide one of Australia's most fundamental and widely used public services.We have strong relationships with our customers, partners and stakeholders in Australia, including the Australian Community and the emergency services sectors, all-levels of Government, and focus sectors including aviation, agriculture, energy and resources, national security and water.