A leading Financial Services organisation is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join their team on an initial twelve-month contract.

Working within a growing cloud practice, you will be responsible for engaging with a range of business and technical stakeholders in the delivery of strategic cloud initiatives. This will include the onboarding and migration of workloads onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS.

This role will suit an experienced Project Manager or Delivery Lead who thrives in stakeholder-facing environments and enjoys delivering complex cloud transformation initiatives. While cloud experience is important, success in this role will come from your ability to build trusted relationships, communicate effectively, manage competing priorities and customer expectations while driving delivery across multiple technology teams.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications.
• Extensive project delivery experience within large enterprise or regulated environments.
• Experience delivering cloud or infrastructure transformation projects, ideally involving GCP and/or AWS
• Exceptional stakeholder and customer management skills, with the ability to influence senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong planning, governance, risk, dependency and project delivery experience across Agile environments.
• Experience using Jira and working with cross-functional technology teams, including infrastructure, networking and security.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach.
• The ability to work independently and confidently lead delivery within a fast-paced, evolving environment.

This is a hybrid role based in Sydney, with two days per week in the office.

An attractive daily rate is on offer for the right candidate. To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online now.

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Technology Program Lead (Contract – 2 Days per Week)

Location: Rydalmere, NSW (2 days onsite per week)
Contract: Initial contract with strong potential for extension

About the Role

We are seeking a senior Technology Program Lead to provide executive-level oversight across several business-critical technology transformation initiatives. This role is ideal for an experienced technology leader who can engage with senior stakeholders, oversee complex programs and provide governance across ERP, CRM and integration projects.

This is a strategic leadership position rather than a hands-on technical role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology transformation initiatives.
• Provide governance across ERP, CRM and integration programs.
• Review project plans, identify risks and improve delivery outcomes.
• Oversee technology vendors and internal technical teams.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to drive successful program delivery.
• Support technology team integration and future technology planning.

About You

You will bring:

• Extensive experience leading enterprise technology transformation programs.
• Essential: Previous consulting or advisory experience, with the ability to quickly assess complex environments and provide strategic guidance.
• Strong ERP implementation or integration experience.
• Experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Strong governance, risk management and delivery assurance experience.
• The technical capability to review delivery plans and challenge technical approaches without being hands-on.
• The confidence, credibility and professionalism to influence senior leaders and deliver difficult messages when required.

What’s on Offer

• Flexible 2-day per week engagement.
• Opportunity to lead a high-profile technology transformation program.
• Executive stakeholder exposure.
• Initial contract with strong likelihood of extension.
• Potential for the role to evolve into a permanent senior technology leadership position.

If you’re an experienced technology leader with a consulting background looking for a high-impact advisory and program leadership opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Senior Finance Manager / Financial Controller to lead the finance function for a growing consulting business.

You’ll play a key role in driving commercial performance, partnering with senior leaders and providing strategic financial insight across the business. This is a highly visible position where you’ll influence decision-making, improve business performance and help shape the future direction of the organisation.

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The Opportunity

This is far more than a traditional Financial Controller role.

You’ll act as the commercial finance leader for a growing consulting business, providing financial leadership, commercial insights and strategic support to senior stakeholders while ensuring strong financial governance and reporting.

The role combines financial control, commercial finance, business partnering, project accounting and leadership, making it ideal for someone who enjoys influencing business performance rather than focusing solely on transactions accounting.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the month-end close and financial reporting process.
• Take ownership of the business’s financial performance, including P&L and balance sheet management.
• Partner with senior business leaders to provide commercial advice and financial insights.
• Prepare board reports with meaningful analysis and recommendations.
• Deliver budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.
• Oversee project accounting, consultant utilisation reporting and project profitability.
• Manage milestone and revenue recognition.
• Manage complex incentive calculations.
• Maintain strong financial controls and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Coordinate the external audit and work with external tax advisers.
• Support group reporting and financial consolidations.
• Capitalise internally developed intellectual property where appropriate.
• Drive continuous improvement across finance processes and reporting.

About You

You are a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys partnering with senior leaders and influencing business performance.

You’ll ideally bring:

• CA or CPA qualification.
• Experience as a Financial Controller or Senior Finance Manager.
• Background within consulting, professional services, technology consulting or project-based services.
• Strong financial control and balance sheet management experience.
• Experience with project accounting, utilisation reporting and revenue recognition.
• Budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling expertise.
• Confidence presenting financial information to senior executives.
• Experience managing audits and external advisers.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• The ability to work independently while building trusted relationships across the business.

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to lead finance for a growing consulting business.
• Broad commercial role with real influence across the business.
• Exposure to executive leadership and strategic decision-making.
• Collaborative and supportive finance team.
• Hybrid working environment.

Employee Benefits

• Wellbeing days each year.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Annual health and wellbeing allowance.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Dedicated annual wellbeing day.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Regular team social events.
• Salary packaging options.
• Employee referral bonus.

Permanent Career Opportunity

• Sydney CBD | Stunning newly refurbished offices
• Hybrid: 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH
• Up to $250,000 + Super + Bonus

One of the world’s leading music organisations is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to become the technical authority for its global physical infrastructure.

Reporting directly to the VP of Infrastructure, you’ll own the long-term architecture across enterprise networking, compute, storage and A/V environments, partnering with global engineering and operations teams to define standards, roadmaps and future technology strategy.

This is a highly influential architecture role focused on design, governance and strategic planning rather than day-to-day implementation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own the architecture roadmap for the organisation’s global physical infrastructure.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient infrastructure solutions across networking, compute, storage and A/V.
• Define enterprise architecture standards, governance and technical direction.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and make strategic technology recommendations.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to ensure consistent implementation of architecture standards.
• Present architecture strategies and recommendations to senior technology leadership.
• Drive infrastructure modernisation, automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure infrastructure aligns with security, resilience and business continuity requirements.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll have experience operating as an Infrastructure or Enterprise Architect within a large, complex enterprise environment.

You’ll bring experience across:

• Enterprise network architecture (Cisco strongly preferred)
• Compute and storage architecture
• Enterprise infrastructure strategy and roadmaps
• Architecture governance and design authority
• Large-scale global environments
• Infrastructure security principles including Zero Trust, network segmentation and layered security

Exposure to enterprise A/V environments is advantageous but not essential.

We’re looking for someone whose background is centred around physical infrastructure architecture rather than cloud-first architecture.

Success in This Role

You’ll be someone who can:

• Think strategically across the entire infrastructure landscape.
• Balance technical depth with commercial outcomes.
• Influence engineering teams without direct authority.
• Confidently present and defend architectural decisions with senior stakeholders, including CIO and CTO level executives.
• Whiteboard solutions and clearly articulate the reasoning behind your design decisions.

Why Apply?

• Report directly to the VP of Infrastructure.
• Become the primary Infrastructure Architect for a global organisation operating in more than 60 countries.
• Shape the long-term technology direction across networking, compute, storage and A/V.
• Join a highly regarded technical leadership team with genuine influence over enterprise strategy.
• Competitive salary package, bonus and flexible hybrid working.

Join a Leading Wealth Management Firm as a Senior Software Developer Building AI-Driven Solutions

The Opportunity

Our client is a leading Australian financial services organisation investing heavily in technology, automation and AI to transform the way its business operates. This is an opportunity to join a small, high-performing engineering team where you’ll have real ownership, work directly with business stakeholders, and see your solutions make an immediate impact.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, developing and delivering modern applications, integrations and AI-powered automation tools that improve adviser productivity and streamline business processes.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll design, build, test and support software solutions across internal applications, APIs, integrations and workflow automation using C#/.NET, Angular and Azure. Working closely with business and technology stakeholders, you’ll rapidly prototype ideas, develop AI-enabled solutions, and take them through to scalable production implementations.

You’ll also contribute to technical design, coding standards, code reviews and mentoring, while helping shape best practices within an Agile development environment.

What We’re Looking For

• 5-8 years’ hands-on software development experience.
• Strong experience with C#/.NET, ASP.NET Core, Angular (TypeScript), SQL Server, Web APIs and microservices.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience delivering production software that solves real business problems.
• Exposure to AI and automation technologies such as Azure AI Services, LLM APIs, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Power Automate, Hybrid RAG or MCP is highly regarded.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience mentoring developers or contributing to technical design and development standards is advantageous.
• Financial services or other regulated industry experience is desirable.

Why Join?

• Build innovative AI and automation solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Work in a collaborative, high-impact engineering team with genuine ownership of your work.
• Influence technical direction while working across the full software development lifecycle.
• Work with modern technologies including .NET, Angular, Azure and Generative AI.
• Be part of an organisation embracing innovation while delivering technology that makes a real difference.
• Enjoy excellent career growth, autonomy and the opportunity to shape the future of software development within the business.

A leading Financial Services provider is seeking a Network Security Engineer with strong Arista experience to join their team on a permanent basis.

You will be joining a stable, collaborative team environment who manage the support, delivery and high availability of a number of critical core networks. In this fast-paced role you will be responsible for the support, configuration and troubleshooting of their fleet of Arista switches along with F5 load balancers (LTM, GTM, ASM etc) and Palo Alto firewalls across both BAU / Operations and project initiatives.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant vendor certifications
• Demonstrated network engineering delivery experience gained within large, complex environments with advanced knowledge of BGP and OSPF
• Proven experience supporting Arista routers and switches
• Advanced knowledge and experience designing, supporting and troubleshooting F5 (LTM, GTM, ASM, AFM, APM)
• Strong knowledge and experience supporting Palo Alto firewalls
• Superior troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to work independently as required

This is a Sydney based role and requires candidates to attend the office three days per week.

An attractive salary package is on offer. To be excited for this exciting opportunity, please apply online today.

A leading Financial Services organisation is seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect with strong HR domain knowledge to join their team on a permanent basis.

Working within a high-performing Solution Architecture practice, you will partner closely with senior stakeholders across Human Resources, Technology and broader enterprise functions to drive strategic architecture outcomes across a large and complex environment.

This is a highly visible leadership role focused on shaping and delivering end-to-end technology solutions across key People & Culture initiatives spanning Talent Acquisition, Core HR, Payroll, Learning & Development, Employee Services, Workplace Relations and Digital Enablement. You will play a critical role in driving AI adoption, modernisation and transformation initiatives across the broader HR technology landscape.

Operating as a trusted advisor to the business, you will be responsible for defining and socialising architecture strategy, execution roadmaps and future-state solution designs aligned to enterprise objectives. You will also provide governance, architectural oversight and leadership across multiple transformation initiatives while mentoring and leading a team of Solution Architects.

This role requires a hands-on leader who combines strong enterprise architecture capability with exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills. You will work closely with senior executives and business leaders to support investment decisions, drive simplification initiatives and uplift organisational capability across Data & AI.

To be successful in this role, you will bring extensive Solution Architecture experience within large, complex enterprise environments together with strong exposure to HR and People & Culture domains. Experience designing and implementing enterprise Data & AI solutions within production environments will be highly regarded.

To be considered for this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (e.g. TOGAF)
• Extensive Solution Architecture leadership experience within large enterprise organisations
• Strong experience across HR, People & Culture or workforce-related technology domains with proven experience working with HR technology platforms and enterprise people systems
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale Data & AI solutions would be highly regarded
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, influencing and communication skills
• Experience partnering with executive-level business and technology stakeholders
• Strong people leadership capability with experience mentoring or leading architecture teams
• Experience driving simplification, modernisation and transformation initiatives
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, security, risk and compliance requirements
• The ability to navigate complex enterprise environments and manage competing stakeholder priorities
• A pragmatic and commercially focused approach to problem solving and decision making

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a major enterprise organisation undertaking significant investment across People, Data & AI and digital transformation initiatives. An attractive salary package, annual performance bonus and flexible hybrid working arrangements are on offer for the successful candidate.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online.

Payroll Compliance Specialist

Job Summary

A prestigious Australian university is seeking an experienced Payroll Compliance Specialist to join its Payroll Services team. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in ensuring payroll compliance, financial accuracy and statutory reporting within a large and complex payroll environment.

This role is ideal for someone who is proactive, highly organised and confident working independently. You’ll enjoy solving problems, managing payroll compliance activities and building strong relationships across the organisation.

About the Role

You’ll be responsible for the payroll activities that sit beyond payroll processing. This includes payroll accounting, reconciliations, payroll tax, statutory reporting, overpayments and compliance.

Working within a friendly and collaborative payroll compliance team, you’ll help ensure payroll obligations are met accurately and on time while contributing to continuous improvement across the payroll function.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare payroll journals and general ledger reconciliations.
• Complete payroll account reconciliations and month-end reporting.
• Manage payroll tax obligations and statutory reporting, including STP submissions to the ATO.
• Monitor, investigate and recover payroll overpayments, including negotiating repayment arrangements where required.
• Maintain accurate overpayment records within the payroll system.
• Analyse payroll data and prepare reports to support compliance and decision making.
• Ensure payroll activities comply with legislative and organisational requirements.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and maintain strong payroll controls.

About You

You are an experienced payroll professional who understands payroll accounting and compliance in a high-volume environment. You are confident working autonomously, take ownership of your work and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

To be successful, you will have:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in payroll compliance, payroll accounting or a similar payroll role.
• Essential: Demonstrated experience managing payroll overpayments, including investigations, recovery processes and repayment arrangements.
• Essential: Strong experience with payroll reconciliations, payroll journals and a solid understanding of debits and credits.
• Experience managing payroll tax, STP reporting and other statutory payroll obligations.
• Advanced Excel skills with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Higher education sector experience is preferred, although candidates with experience in other large, complex organisations are encouraged to apply.

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to join a prestigious Australian university.
• Hybrid working arrangement with a mix of office and remote work.
• Friendly, diverse and collaborative team environment.
• The opportunity to work within a large, complex payroll function.
• A role where you can work autonomously, take ownership and make a genuine impact.

Senior Business Analyst/Solution Consultant

Location: Sydney (Hybrid)
Job type: Permanent
Start date: ASAP

We’re partnering with a highly regarded consulting organisation that delivers meaningful business and technology transformation programs across the Not-for-Profit sector.

This is an opportunity for an experienced Senior Business Analyst who enjoys working closely with people to understand complex business challenges and develop practical, long-term solutions. Working across a variety of client engagements, you’ll facilitate collaborative workshops, build trusted relationships with stakeholders, map current and future state processes, and help organisations navigate significant transformation initiatives. You’ll work alongside project teams, solution specialists and technology partners to ensure solutions genuinely meet business needs, while also mentoring other Business Analysts and contributing to the continued growth of the practice.

We’re looking for someone who is naturally curious, enjoys building relationships, and is comfortable working across both strategic thinking and hands-on delivery. This role would suit someone who thrives in a consulting environment, enjoys variety, and is looking to continue growing their career into Solution Consulting or Architecture.

To be successful, you’ll bring:

• 7+ years’ experience as a Senior or Lead Business Analyst within a consulting or professional services environment.
• Experience delivering ERP or enterprise transformation programs.
• Essential experience within the Not-for-Profit, Aged Care, Disability or Healthcare sectors.
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder engagement and business process improvement experience.
• Experience working alongside software vendors and implementation partners to support successful solution delivery.
• The ability to translate business needs into thoughtful, practical solution outcomes.
• Experience mentoring or supporting the development of other Business Analysts.
• Exposure to AI initiatives or an interest in progressing towards Solution Consulting or Architecture will be highly regarded.

In return, you’ll join a collaborative consulting team where you’ll have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of transformation programs, contribute to meaningful outcomes for clients, and continue developing your consulting and leadership capabilities within a supportive environment.

Please note: Due to the specialist nature of this opportunity, only candidates with demonstrated consulting Business Analysis experience and relevant Not-for-Profit, Aged Care, Disability or Healthcare transformation experience will be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Join a Leading Financial Services Organisation as a ServiceNow ITSM Specialist Driving Enterprise Service Management Excellence

The Opportunity

Join a high-performing ServiceNow Platform team within a leading Australian financial services organisation, where you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of enterprise IT service management. Working across a large, complex technology environment, you’ll partner with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, best-practice ServiceNow ITSM solutions that improve operational efficiency, automate processes, and enhance the employee experience.

This is a hands-on role with the opportunity to influence platform strategy, drive continual service improvement, and contribute to the organisation’s broader digital transformation.

What You’ll Be Doing

As the ServiceNow ITSM Specialist, you’ll design, configure and enhance ServiceNow ITSM capabilities while ensuring alignment with ITIL best practices, CMDB, ITOM and CSDM. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, recommend fit-for-purpose solutions, configure workflows and automation, support platform upgrades, and deliver new capabilities using out-of-the-box functionality wherever possible. You’ll also provide technical guidance, contribute to solution design, integrate with other ServiceNow modules and third-party systems, and identify opportunities to leverage AI across the platform.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years’ experience working with ServiceNow ITSM
• Strong understanding of ITSM and ITIL best practices
• Experience configuring ServiceNow using Flow Designer, App Engine Studio and/or Workflow Data Fabric
• Knowledge of CMDB, ITOM and CSDM principles
• Experience integrating ServiceNow with REST/SOAP APIs
• JavaScript experience for Business Rules and Client Scripts
• Strong stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering skills
• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) preferred
• ITIL Foundation (v3 or v4) certification highly regarded
• Additional ServiceNow certifications (ITSM, ITOM or ITAM) are advantageous

Why Join?

• Work on an enterprise-scale ServiceNow platform supporting thousands of users
• Influence the future direction of IT service management and platform capability
• Join a collaborative, highly skilled ServiceNow team
• Work across digital transformation, automation and AI initiatives
• Strong focus on professional development and ServiceNow certification growth
• Hybrid working and flexible work arrangements
• Permanent opportunity with a leading Australian organisation
• Competitive salary of up to $140,000 + super

Talent International is currently recruiting for an APS5 Web Services Publishing to work for one of our Federal Government clients based in NSW (Multiple Office Locations). The position is a 6-month contract role with the possibility of extension. The role pays $55.24 per hour + Super.

7.6 hours per day and 38 hours per week

About the Role

The APS5 Web Services Publishing is a team membership position and is accountable for organising their workflow and making independent decisions relating to an area of responsibility. The position will be required to provide policy advice within an area of specialisation with advice based on policies and legislation.

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Understanding of key website functionality and website technical terminology, digital accessibility, and current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards and requirements.
• Using Drupal CMS to, delivering on Agency goals and working collaboratively with colleagues.
• Contributing towards the efficient publishing of evidence-based web content.
• Reviewing and analysing data that inform decisions about content placement, channels, and usefulness for the end user.
• Leading the publishing of content across several NDIA web assets (sites) based on best practice web accessibility and user experience principles.
• Managing correspondence and administration through Jira service desk and team inboxes.
• Contributing towards the smooth running of the broader Web Services team.

Essential criteria

• Understanding of key website functionality and website technical terminology, digital accessibility, and current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards and requirements.
• Using Drupal CMS to achieve strategic priorities and deliver on organisational goals.
• A positive contemporary attitude to disability – someone who will champion the needs of our audience, using evidence-based data to inform decisions.
• Sound stakeholder management skills to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders.
• Contributing to the efficient publishing of evidence-based web content.
• Reviewing and analysing data that inform decisions about content placement, channels, and usefulness for the end user.
• Leading the publishing of content across several NDIA web assets (sites) based on best practice web accessibility and user experience principles.
• Managing correspondence and administration through Jira service desk and team inboxes.

Desirable criteria

• Experience using collaboration tools such as SharePoint, Teams, or similar platforms.
• Tertiary qualifications in marketing, public relations, communications or related disciplines are preferred.
• Experience managing website content publishing and technical enhancements.
• Previous government, healthcare, insurance or not-for-profit experience is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work projects with competing priorities and deadlines.

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 0480 806 154 / uvez.ahmed@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

Talent International is currently recruiting for a Sales Support Officer to join our client’s team based across Rookwood and/or Sutherland. This is a 6-month contract with the possibility of extension, offering $45 per hour + Super.

This role will provide administrative support to both the Sales and Customer Care teams, with a strong focus on transactional and customer-facing tasks. The successful candidate will be on-site 5 days per week (full-time, non-negotiable).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide general administration support to the sales function.
• Process financial transactions, including purchase orders, receipting, and invoicing.
• Assist with data entry and CRM updates (training provided on Opus, Payday, Plotbox).
• Manage inbound calls, voicemails, and support customer enquiries.
• Schedule and confirm appointments, with the potential to qualify customers.
• Maintain accurate records, paperwork, and reporting.
• Support the daily operations of the sales and customer care teams.

Skills & Experience

• Strong administration background with excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office, including Excel).
• Experience in banking functions, invoice receipting, and purchase order processes.
• Previous customer service experience with a professional phone manner.
• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Positive, proactive, and calm nature.
• C Class Driver’s Licence is required.
• Experience with TechOne is highly regarded (but not essential).

What’s on Offer

• Competitive hourly rate – $45 + Super
• 6-month contract with potential extension
• Location will be Rookwood and/or Sutherland, or a split week between the 2 sites, focus is on the right person, opposed to location
• Join a supportive and collaborative team environment

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 0480 806 154 / uvez.ahmed@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.