Senior Financial Controller – Process, Risk & Controls Specialist

FIRMUS TECHNOLOGIES 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.   WHY FIRMUS? As an NVIDIA Cloud and Engineering partner in Asia Pacific, you will gain skills, experience, and exposure across the AI industry and be part of shaping what this industry looks like for decades to come. We are founder-led, not a big corporate. Decisions happen fast, our leaders are accessible, and there's minimum bureaucracy between you and the work. Ownership comes early. Whatever your role, you will have a direct line to outcomes, helping shape how the business grows as we scale nationally across a long-term, large-scale roadmap.  Work alongside founders and experts in AI infrastructure, energy systems and next-generation compute. What we build here has impact beyond the business. Our AI Factories are designed to operate as assets to the energy grid to actively strengthen the communities and regions they operate in rather than drawing from them. Considering applying? You don't need a perfect background to join our team. If you're driven and curious, there's a path for you. We back our people to grow into new domains and take on challenges beyond their previous experience.   ROLE SUMMARY The Senior Treasury Specialist will support Firmus’ treasury operations across debt facilities, hedging, cash management, bank guarantees, intercompany funding, reporting, controls, and treasury systems implementation. This role is responsible for helping build scalable treasury processes as Firmus grows, ensuring treasury activity is accurately captured, controlled, reported, and aligned with financing, accounting, compliance, and operational requirements. * Debt facility administration, including ongoing management of monthly compliance processes for GPU backed asset financings. * FX and interest rate hedging, including confirmation processes, FX and interest rate settlements, hedge accounting support, valuations, and effectiveness testing inputs. * Cash management and investments, including short-term liquidity planning, consolidated cash reporting, investments and counterparty exposure monitoring. * Treasury systems and automation, including implementation of a treasury management system, automated bank feeds, straight-through processing, and improved treasury controls. You will work closely with Finance, Legal, Company Secretariat, Operations, and external banking partners to ensure treasury processes are disciplined, accurate, timely, and fit for a fast-growing AI infrastructure business. The role is hands-on and operationally focused, requiring strong attention to detail, control discipline, financial systems capability, and the ability to manage multiple treasury work streams across debt, hedging, cash, reporting, and intercompany activity. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys building robust treasury operations in a high-growth environment and can combine technical treasury knowledge with practical process execution.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Debt Facilities * Maintain accurate records of debt facilities, including key terms, rate sets, interest accruals, fee amortisation, ticking fees, and related accounting inputs. * Prepare and coordinate monthly compliance processes, covenant reporting, certificates, lender reporting, and ongoing covenant model updates. * Coordinate treasury payments for based on debt waterfalls, and manage fees, interest, transfers to and from liquidity accounts, and other facility-related cash movements. Cash Management & Investments * Prepare consolidated cash balance reporting across banking partners, including minimum cash balances required in specific accounts. * Responsible for weekly cash flow funding and support medium term cash forecasting, incorporating expected payments, project-level requirements, liquidity needs, and corporate cash views. * Management of short term cash investments including term deposits and MMFs. * Support ongoing bank KYC requirements in conjunction with Company Secretariat and maintain disciplined records for bank access and authority arrangements. Hedging * Manage day-to-day FX requirements in line with weekly cash flow funding * Support the GM Treasury in developing the Group’s hedging strategy. * Coordinate FX and derivative confirmations and settlements. * Support hedge accounting documentation, valuations, CVA/DVA measurement inputs, and effectiveness testing processes. Bank Guarantees * Coordinate execution, issuance, amendment, tracking, and release of bank guarantees as required by the business. * Maintain a bank guarantee register and support accounting for guarantee fees, including upfront fees released to profit and loss over time. Reporting, Controls & Compliance * Prepare monthly treasury and facility reporting, including cash balances, controlled account reconciliations, operating reporting, covenant model updates, and project-level treasury inputs. * Support reporting required for customer contracts, lender requirements, equity investor requirements, and SPV funding arrangements. * Prepare monthly counterparty credit reporting covering investments, mark-to-market positions, exposures, and treasury counterparty risk. * Assist with audit reporting on treasury control and process compliance, including bank platform access reviews and segregation of duties. Intercompany & Treasury Systems * Support accounting and reporting for cross-entity bank transfers, cross-border balances, and ring-fenced entity balances. * Lead or support treasury management system implementation, including facility capture, hedging workflows, valuation and effectiveness testing setup, and treasury reporting. * Work with Finance Systems to implement automated bank statements into NetSuite and the treasury management system, and support straight-through processing for AP and treasury payments. * Identify opportunities to improve treasury processes, controls, documentation, automation, and reporting cadence as Firmus scales.    SKILLS & EXPERIENCE Required Skills * 5+ years experience in treasury operations, corporate treasury, project finance operations, banking, or a related finance role. * Strong understanding of debt facility administration, cash management, payments, bank accounts, covenants, interest accruals, fees, and treasury reporting. * Working knowledge of FX, derivatives, confirmations, settlements, hedge accounting support, valuations, and treasury counterparty reporting. * Strong financial systems capability, with experience using ERP, banking platforms, treasury management systems, payment automation and AI tools. * High attention to detail, strong control mindset, and ability to manage deadlines across multiple workstreams. * Clear written and verbal communication skills, with ability to coordinate effectively across Finance, Legal, CoSec, banks, advisors, and internal stakeholders. Preferred Experience * Experience in a high-growth infrastructure, technology, energy, data centre, project finance, or listed-company environment. * Familiarity with lender reporting, covenant models, controlled accounts, liquidity requirements and intercompany funding.   LOCATION & REPORTING * Location: Sydney, Australia * Reports to: General Manager, Treasure   EMPLOYMENT BASIS Permanent 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. Join us in our mission to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering. Apply now to be part of shaping the future of sustainable AI infrastructure.

We are hiring an AI Engineer Lead, Application Development Reporting To: AVP, Application Development Full-Time/Part- Time: Full-time Posting Date: July 8, 2026 Closing Date: July 17, 2026 Hours of Work: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Grade: Office Location:      16.4 Toronto, ON Great location! Steps away from the main public transit station What we offer: Highly competitive compensation package which includes, base salary, bonus, benefits, and career advancement opportunities! *Eligibility for benefits is dependent on the terms of employment     The Opportunity :   The AI Engineering Lead is responsible for the architecture, engineering standards, and production readiness of AI Factory solutions that enhance mortgage workflows, productivity, decision quality, and user experience. This role provides hands on technical leadership for agentic workflows, document and policy intelligence, retrieval augmented generation, deterministic automation, model evaluation, observability, and secure integration with core mortgage systems. The Lead ensures FN’s workflow logic, business rules, calculations, and integration contracts remain independent from external model providers and platforms.                                                                                                                                                             How you will contribute::   * Lead target architecture for AI enabled workflow automation, using Databricks as the governed data, evaluation, registry, and monitoring backbone and Azure as the enterprise foundation for identity, security, connectivity, hosting, and controls. * Define reusable solution patterns for DocumentAI, PolicyAI, retrieval-augmented generation, agent/tool integration, multi-agent orchestration, deterministic rules engines, calculation services, human review queues, exception handling, audit evidence, and controlled write-back to core systems. * Guide designs using Lakeflow, Delta Lake bronze, silver, and gold layers, Unity Catalog, Vector Search, MLflow tracing and evaluation, model and prompt registries, Databricks Model Serving, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI Service, Service Bus, API Management, Key Vault, Entra ID, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics. * Set engineering standards for Python, SQL, .NET, TypeScript, FastAPI, React or Blazor integration surfaces, Git based delivery, CI/CD, automated testing, Terraform, data quality checks, model evaluation, prompt governance, observability, cost monitoring, and release controls. * Establish production readiness gates for AI use cases, including UAT, representative test suites, confidence thresholds, guardrails, privacy safeguards, access control, audit logging, rollback planning, kill switches, incident response, runbooks, and operational support. * Challenge vendor designs, reduce throwaway work, and ensure code, prompts, data contracts, tests, documentation, and runbooks can be owned, operated, and extended by First National. * Coach engineers and partner teams on applied AI architecture, LLMOps, secure AI delivery, production support, and reusable patterns that can scale beyond the first residential underwriting use cases.     The experience you need:     * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related discipline. * 8 plus years of progressive technology experience, including software engineering, solution architecture, data engineering, machine learning engineering, or platform engineering. * Experience designing and delivering production AI or generative AI capabilities, including agents, RAG, document intelligence, model serving, prompt lifecycle management, evaluation harnesses, observability, and human in the loop controls. * Strong practical experience with Microsoft Azure, Databricks or comparable data and AI platforms, Python, SQL, APIs, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, GitHub or Azure DevOps, and modern secure software delivery practices. * Working knowledge of MLflow, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, Delta Lake, Vector Search, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Service Bus, API Management, Key Vault, Entra ID, Azure Monitor, and FinOps is strongly preferred. * Ability to translate architecture choices into product, risk, cost, privacy, operational, and value tradeoffs for senior stakeholders. * Experience in financial services, mortgage lending, lending operations, servicing, broker channels, third party partnerships, or regulated technology environments is preferred.     Relationships:   External Customers : Engages implementation partners, cloud providers, data and AI platform providers, and specialist vendors to support solution quality, production readiness, and knowledge transfer. Internal Customers: Partners with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Risk, Compliance, business operations, and technology governance teams to deliver controlled AI capabilities with measurable value.   Working Environment and Physical Demands Analysis:   * Office environment * Periods of high volume with tight timelines * Long periods of stationary position/sitting * Prolonged periods of repetitive movement (i.e. using a keyboard and mouse) * Long periods of time in viewing a computer screen * Multi-tasking may include speaking to customers on a telephone call while looking up information on a computer program.     Why join First National?   * Competitive Compensation * Comprehensive benefits program (i.e., Health Spending Account, Maternity and Parental Leave Top Up) * Extensive training programs to set our employees up for success * Modern office environment conducive to collaboration * Supportive teamwork culture * Opportunities to give back to the communities and work through events focused on a variety of charities * Ongoing social events throughout the year     The team you’ll join: Founded in 1988, First National is one of Canada’s largest non-bank lenders. We provide residential mortgages exclusively through the mortgage broker channel and we are Canada’s largest commercial mortgage lender. First National has been consistently recognized as a great place to work and we are proud that our employee engagement feedback is higher than our industry partners.     We would like to thank all applications for their interest in this existing vacancy, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.   Artificial Intelligence is not used in our recruitment or hiring process for this role. First National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation and any other category protected by law.   First National supports requests for accommodation from applicants with disabilities; please contact Human Resources at accessibility@firstnational.ca [accessibility@firstnational.ca] should you need an accommodation at any point in the recruitment process.   #FNLOON