ERP Finance Specialist - SME
Job No.: 697624
Location: Mulgrave
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 12 month fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $145,062 - $153,976 pa HEW Level 09 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Opportunity
Reporting to the ERP Finance Lead, the focus of the Finance Specialist – Subject Matter Expert (ERP Project) will be to apply deep, specialised domain expertise to guide the design, configuration, and build of Monash University’s new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Serving as a critical bridge between business operations and the technical implementation team, you will help shape future-state processes, ensure compliance, and translate operational needs into seamless system specifications across three primary SME domains:
- FP&A and Research Reporting: Focusing on segmentation reporting, structured drill-down reports, native/warehouse reporting tools, project accounting, and management ledger design.
- Statutory Reporting, Taxes & Transactional Processing: Driving compliance with Australian Accounting Standards, Department of Education requirements, statutory tax frameworks (GST, FBT, Pillar 2), general ledger structures, foreign exchange, asset accounting, and financial controls.
- Faculty & Portfolio Reporting: Shaping reporting dimensions, master data alignment (profit/cost centres), and ensuring local faculty and portfolio needs align seamlessly with Group reporting standards.
What You'll Be Doing
Sitting within the broader ERP programme, you'll act as the connective tissue between finance subject matter experts and the technical delivery team. Your core responsibilities will include:
- Engaging with SMEs across finance functions to capture requirements, validate configuration, and support end-to-end testing cycles
- Analysing existing finance processes and identifying how ERP capability can reduce manual effort and improve data integrity
- Producing clear functional documentation, including process maps, test scripts, and training materials tailored to finance audiences
- Supporting go-live readiness activities including issue triage, cutover planning, and hypercare
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated experience in ERP finance implementation or optimisation, ideally within a large and complex organisation
- Strong working knowledge of core finance modules - general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or financial reporting
- Proven ability to facilitate workshops and build trusted relationships with finance stakeholders
- Experience producing functional specification or process documentation to a professional standard
- Familiarity with health sector finance operations or public sector environments is highly regarded
- A structured approach to problem-solving with close attention to detail
If you are a finance SME ready to lend your expertise to a transformative, university-wide initiative, apply today.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Position Description: ERP Finance Specialist - SME
Applications Close: Friday 11 September at 11:55pm AEST
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