Finance Systems Software Engineer - AI

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Halter runs on a capable finance tech stack, and we want to push it further. This newly created role centres on NetSuite and the platforms around it, including the EPM tool we’re currently selecting. You’ll layer real AI-powered automation on top: not demos or one-off scripts, but tools that ship, run in production, and change how our finance team works day to day.
We’re after someone who loves AI and automation but cares just as much about doing it properly: understanding the problem, building something that holds up, and maintaining it afterwards.
You’ll sit within Finance Systems, working closely with the Senior Manager and partnering with FP&A and accounting to figure out what’s worth automating and why. That could mean getting more out of native AI features or building custom automation with enterprise Claude and other platforms.
To build tools that work, you’ll spend time with the team learning how finance actually gets done. Occasionally, you’ll need to reprioritise and build something quickly—a tool, script or automation—to unblock a bottleneck.
If you want to own your work end to end and see its impact in a live finance environment, this is your kind of role.

Experience shipping automation or AI-powered tools into production and supporting them once live
Some background or genuine interest in accounting and finance, with a willingness to help during busy periods; you don’t need to be a qualified accountant
A good feel for where AI helps a process and where it just adds noise
A track record of owning work from scoping and testing through to delivery and maintenance
Comfort with a role that’s still taking shape—you’ll help define it
Strong communication skills and patience with people who don’t speak your technical language
Exposure to NetSuite, EPM or planning tools, or a willingness to get up to speed quickly
Experience with AI frameworks, agent tooling or workflow orchestration
Exposure to system implementations, UAT or structured project work
Progress towards, or completion of, a professional accounting qualification (CA or equivalent)
Design, build and deploy finance automations using enterprise AI tools, including Claude, and own their ongoing maintenance and support
Track native AI capabilities across NetSuite and our EPM tool, recommending what’s worth adopting
Partner with FP&A, accounting and Finance Systems to scope opportunities around real problems, informed by time spent learning their processes
Occasionally reprioritise to build a quick tool, script or automation that gets finance unblocked
Contribute to broader finance systems work, including platform upgrades, NetSuite’s evolving AI and agentic capabilities, and new market entry
Work with the Senior Manager, Finance Systems, on scope and priorities, bringing your own judgement as the team’s AI and automation specialist