Senior Java Engineer – AI & Automation Platforms (Contract)

Overview

We’re partnering with a leading financial services organisation currently investing heavily across backend engineering, AI integration, and automation capability.

As part of a broader uplift across enterprise platforms and intelligent workflow systems, they’re looking to engage several Senior Java Engineers on initial 12-month contracts.

These roles sit within high-performing engineering teams focused on building scalable, production-grade systems leveraging modern cloud architecture, AI-enabled tooling, and automation frameworks.

Day to day activities 

• Design and develop scalable backend applications and distributed systems using Java
• Build and integrate APIs, microservices, and cloud-native platform components
• Contribute to AI-enabled workflow and automation initiatives across enterprise environments
• Work closely with engineering, platform, and architecture teams on modernisation programs
• Support integration of LLM/GenAI capabilities into production systems and internal tooling
• Drive engineering best practices across performance, scalability, reliability, and security

Your career so far

• Strong commercial experience across Java engineering and backend system design
• Experience building scalable APIs and microservices architectures
• Exposure to cloud-native environments, ideally GCP
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and enterprise application architecture
• Experience working within complex engineering environments and agile delivery teams

Big bonus points 

• Experience working with LLMs/GenAI solutions in production environments
• Exposure to AI-driven automation or workflow orchestration platforms
• Experience with containerisation, Kubernetes, CI/CD, or DevOps tooling
• Background within financial services, enterprise SaaS, or high-scale platforms

Contract Details

• Initial 12-month contract engagements
• Up to 1150 inclusive of Super 
• Multiple positions available
• Sydney-based & Hybrid
• 3 days on site 

This is an opportunity to join a large-scale engineering program where AI capability is being embedded into real production systems, platforms, and operational workflows.

Digital and Partnerships Lead

• Own and scale partnerships and direct acquisition channels
• B2B and B2C focus
• $165k plus super

Drive growth, partnerships and digital performance in a high-impact automotive finance role.

We’re looking for a commercially minded Partnerships Lead to own and scale a growing automotive lending portfolio across OEM partnerships and direct digital acquisition channels.

This is a high-impact role focused on driving growth, conversion, customer experience and profitability across both B2B partnership and direct-to-consumer channels. You’ll be in the driving seat (no pun intended) to bring together digital growth, product optimisation, partnerships and commercial strategy.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex growth problems and love using data to optimise customer journeys, this is an outstanding opportunity to make a real impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

OEM and Partnership Growth

• Manage and grow key automotive OEM partnerships
• Execute incentive and campaign activity across partner networks
• Optimise pricing, margin performance and commercial outcomes
• Identify opportunities for deeper integration, dealer engagement and customer growth
• Support onboarding and operational rollout of new automotive partnerships

Digital Acquisition and Funnel Optimisation

• Own performance across direct automotive acquisition channels
• Partner with Growth teams across paid, affiliate and organic channels
• Lead end-to-end funnel optimisation initiatives to improve conversion and customer experience
• Design and execute A/B testing across pricing, messaging, UX and application flows
• Improve mobile experience, form design and completion rates

Data, Insights and Performance

• Monitor daily, weekly and monthly performance metrics
• Analyse funnel and customer data to identify trends and optimisation opportunities
• Develop targeted pricing and acquisition strategies
• Use insights to balance growth, profitability and risk-adjusted returns

Cross-Functional Impact and Connectivity

• Work closely with Product, Technology, Risk, Operations, Marketing and Customer teams
• Define business requirements for new features and platform improvements
• Support strategic initiatives across automotive and lending partnerships

What It Will Take To Succeed

• Experience in Product Management, Growth, Digital Performance, Partnerships or Commercial roles
• Experience in fintech, lending, automotive finance will be highly advantageous
• Strong commercial acumen with exposure to pricing, margins and performance optimisation
• Experience improving digital funnels, acquisition performance and customer journeys
• Strong analytical capability with confidence interpreting data and performance metrics
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience working with OEMs, dealers or automotive ecosystems will be a huge plus
• Basic SQL and experimentation/A-B testing experience advantageous

Why This Role?

• High ownership and visibility across a growing business
• Blend of commercial strategy, partnerships and digital optimisation
• Opportunity to shape customer experience and growth outcomes end-to-end
• Fast-paced, collaborative environment with strong career growth potential
• Loads of connectivity with and dealings with the senior leadership team and co-founder

If you’re excited by digital growth, partnerships and building scalable customer acquisition channels, apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

Drive delivery discipline across a multi-year technology transformation.

With a hybrid-first setup, you’ll balance three days in the Melbourne CBD office with the flexibility to work from home. You’ll provide structured, high-quality project coordination across technology, data and transformation initiatives — helping ensure delivery activity is well planned, well governed and executed with consistency.

This is a hands-on Project Coordinator role supporting a broad transformation program. You’ll maintain project plans, RAID logs, action trackers, dependency registers and delivery reports, while helping the Program Manager and senior stakeholders stay across progress, risks, costs, actions and upcoming milestones.

You’ll work across delivery activity by collecting updates, chasing actions, tracking effort and costs, preparing governance artefacts, supporting UAT coordination, maintaining documentation standards and ensuring information is accurate, current and ready for review.

This isn’t a passive administration role. You’ll work directly with project teams, vendors, SMEs and senior stakeholders to create visibility, reduce execution risk and bring structure to a fast-moving delivery environment. The role is practical, visible and suited to someone who enjoys keeping teams organised, accountable and moving.

What you’ll do

• Maintain core project artefacts including project plans, RAID logs, action trackers and dependency registers
• Coordinate weekly status updates, chase outstanding actions and consolidate reporting
• Track progress against monthly delivery plans, milestones and dependencies
• Support time and effort tracking across project resources, including planned vs actuals
• Maintain project cost trackers, including forecast vs actual spend, vendor costs and burn rates
• Prepare and update governance artefacts including SteerCo packs, ELT updates and monthly reports
• Support release, cutover, implementation and UAT coordination activities
• Maintain deliverable trackers and highlight slippage, bottlenecks or unclear ownership
• Review delivery documentation for completeness, clarity, consistency and version control
• Maintain approved templates, documentation standards and naming conventions
• Ensure project artefacts are stored appropriately and accessible for governance and audit purposes
• Work across delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Planner, SharePoint, Power BI and Power Automate
• Escalate delivery risks, issues and dependencies early with clear supporting context

What you’ll need

• 3+ years’ experience in Project Coordination, PMO support or delivery coordination roles
• Strong organisational discipline and confidence chasing actions across busy teams
• Experience maintaining project plans, RAID logs, action registers and status reports
• Exposure to project financials, effort tracking, cost tracking or forecast vs actual reporting
• Strong documentation, reporting and attention-to-detail skills
• Experience supporting technology, transformation or project delivery environments
• Comfort working with business, technology, vendor and senior stakeholder groups
• Exposure to UAT coordination, defect tracking, release support or implementation activity
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Planner, Power BI or similar delivery tools
• A pragmatic, structured and proactive style — able to bring order without overcomplicating things
• Melbourne-based, with flexibility to attend the CBD office as part of a 3:2 hybrid model
• Immediate availability or short notice preferred

Why join

This is your chance to play a key role in a multi-year transformation program where delivery discipline really matters. You’ll help create the structure, visibility and rhythm that allows senior leaders and project teams to make better decisions, manage risk early and deliver practical outcomes that stick.

You’ll be close to the action, supporting technology, data and transformation initiatives in an environment where your coordination, follow-through and attention to detail will have a visible impact.

Apply through the link or send your CV to joselle@theonset.com.au

Senior Finance Leader (Future CFO Pathway)

Fintech  | Sydney | Up to $250k plus super

A rare opportunity for a commercially minded finance leader who wants to step into a high-impact role with genuine CFO trajectory.

We are partnering with a high-growth fintech whose cloud-based platform is used by financial institutions globally. The business is scaling rapidly and winning against their competitors.

As the business continues to expand its footprint, this is a newly created role for a finance leader who wants to play a pivotal part in shaping their financial strategy and infrastructure.

Working closely with the Exec leadership team, this role sits at the centre of the organisation and will be responsible for financial management, reporting and strategic financial planning for the group.

For the right person, this represents a clear pathway toward a future CFO role as the company continues its expansion.

The Opportunity

This is a broad and influential role where you will combine technical financial leadership with commercial insight, partnering closely with executive leadership and the board.

You will lead the financial management of the business while helping build the financial infrastructure required for a rapidly scaling fintech.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the financial planning and reporting function for the consolidated group

• Preparing monthly management and board reporting

• Managing budgets, forecasting and performance analysis

• Ensuring strong financial controls, governance and reporting processes

• Overseeing cash management and banking relationships

• Preparing statutory accounts and coordinating external auditors and advisers

• Managing tax compliance, including R&D claims

• Supporting fundraising activities and financial due diligence

• Delivering commercial analysis and financial modelling to support growth decisions

• Developing scalable financial systems, reporting frameworks, and operational processes

• Mentoring and leading a small, growing team

• Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leadership

What Success Looks Like

• Senior leadership and the board view you as a trusted financial partner with sound judgement

• The business operates with robust financial controls and zero surprises

• Financial reporting provides accurate and clear insight to drive commercial decision making

• The finance function evolves to support growth and increasing complexity

About You

You are a high-performing finance leader who enjoys operating in dynamic, growth environments and wants the opportunity to step toward a CFO role.

You are likely to bring:

• Significant experience in financial management or financial controller roles

• Exposure to high-growth technology, fintech SaaS, or financial services environments

• Strong experience with board reporting, forecasting and financial planning

• Proven ability to balance hands-on financial management with commercial thinking

• Experience working with external auditors, tax advisers and regulatory environments

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to engage at executive and board level

Experience supporting capital raising, investor reporting or international operations will be highly regarded.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Newly created with a clear pathway toward a future CFO role

• Exposure to global operations 

• Opportunity to shape the finance function of a scaling business

• Direct engagement with senior leadership and board

• Work at the forefront of innovation 

If you’re an ambitious finance leader who wants real strategic influence and a pathway to CFO, call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset for a confidential discussion or apply online.

Head of Customer Acquisition

Sydney or Melbourne | Financial Services | Hybrid

We are partnering with a well-known financial services brand in their search for a Head of Customer Acquisition.

This leadership role will take ownership of the customer acquisition strategy across digital and above-the-line channels, driving measurable growth while optimising the end-to-end customer journey.

You will lead a high-performing marketing function and work closely with product, analytics and commercial teams to ensure acquisition initiatives are aligned to broader business objectives.

The Role

As Head of Customer Acquisition, you will lead the strategy, execution and optimisation of all acquisition marketing initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

Strategy & Growth

• Develop and execute end-to-end acquisition strategies across digital and ATL channels

• Drive measurable new customer growth through data-led marketing initiatives

• Partner closely with product leaders to align campaign objectives, KPIs and outcomes

• Lead integrated acquisition campaigns across paid media, digital platforms and partnerships

Performance Marketing & Optimisation

• Oversee performance marketing initiatives and continuously optimise campaigns to maximise ROI

• Analyse customer behaviour, attribution models and conversion metrics to identify growth opportunities

• Optimise the online acquisition journey to improve engagement and conversion rates

• Champion experimentation and a strong test-and-learn culture

Analytics & Reporting

• Establish clear acquisition KPIs, reporting frameworks and dashboards

• Deliver regular insights and performance updates to senior leadership

• Use analytics to inform strategic decisions and campaign optimisation

Agency & Budget Management

• Manage external media agencies and vendor partnerships

• Oversee marketing budgets and ensure strong return on investment

• Negotiate contracts and ensure agency performance aligns with campaign goals

Leadership

• Lead and mentor a high-performing acquisition marketing team

• Build internal capability across performance marketing, analytics and data-driven decision making

About You

You are a commercially driven acquisition marketing leader with a strong track record of delivering measurable growth. You will bring:

• Significant experience in customer acquisition or performance marketing leadership

• Experience within financial services, fintech, telco, e-commerce, marketplaces or other high-volume consumer businesses

• Strong expertise across digital media, ATL campaigns and integrated marketing

• Deep understanding of analytics, attribution and conversion optimisation

• Experience managing agency partnerships and large marketing budgets

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders

• A strategic mindset combined with strong operational execution

Why This Role?

• Lead the acquisition strategy for a rapidly growing organisation

• Work within a data-driven and performance-focused marketing culture

• Significant opportunity to shape growth strategy and drive measurable impact

• Hybrid working environment and collaborative leadership team

If you're passionate about building scalable acquisition engines and driving measurable growth, please apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

Head of Operations

High-Growth Fintech | Scale-Up Environment | Sydney

An opportunity has emerged for an experienced operational leader to join one of Australia’s fastest-growing fintech businesses at a pivotal stage of growth.

Following the successful tenure of a highly regarded leader who is relocating internationally, the business is seeking a Head of Operations to build on a strong foundation and scale the function into its next phase.

This is not a turnaround role.
This is a scale mandate.

The business has already established strong customer advocacy, impressive growth momentum and a highly engaged team. The next phase is focused on creating operational leverage through smarter systems, automation, improved throughput, and continued enhancement of customer experience without relying on linear headcount growth.

Reporting into the executive leadership team, you will lead a team of approximately 40 employees across Credit, Customer Experience, Operations and Processing with four direct reports.

The Opportunity

You will play a critical role in shaping the operational maturity of the business by:

• Leading and mentoring leaders across Credit, CX, Processing and Operations
• Building scalable operational processes and workforce planning capability
• Driving automation initiatives to reduce manual intervention and improve turnaround times
• Improving operational efficiency and cost-to-serve while maintaining exceptional customer outcomes
• Partnering closely with Product and Engineering to prioritise operationally impactful initiatives
• Translating operational insights into product and process improvements
• Balancing customer empathy with strong credit and risk management disciplines
• Supporting continued growth across both B2C and B2B customer segments

Success Will Be Measured Across:

• Growth
• Supporting continued revenue and transaction expansion
• Driving efficiency
• Driving improvements across automation, utilisation, churn and operational performance
• Happiness
• Maintaining high team engagement, customer satisfaction and partner advocacy

About You

You are a commercially minded operational leader who thrives in fast-moving, founder-led environments.

You bring

• Deep expertise leading operational teams within fintech, SaaS, payments or similarly high-growth environments
• Experience leading medium-sized operational functions and developing high-performing leaders
• Strong commercial acumen with exposure to P&L ownership or operational cost management
• Demonstrated success improving operational scalability through systems, automation and process optimisation
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Technology teams
• A pragmatic, adaptable and hands-on leadership style
• A genuine passion for building strong cultures and high-performing teams

Why This Role?

• Join a genuinely mission-led, high-growth business
• Significant scope to influence operational strategy and scale
• Strong executive exposure and cross-functional impact
• High-performing, values-driven culture
• Opportunity to build meaningful operational leverage during a critical growth phase

If you're keen to explore this further, please apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

Head of Partnerships Marketing 

• Shape and deliver marketing strategies across key partner channels
• Melbourne or Sydney location
• $210k plus super and bonus

About the Role
Picture yourself as a commercially driven Head of Partnerships Marketing leading the strategy, growth and performance of a high-impact partnerships marketing function within the financial services sector.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and delivering end-to-end marketing strategies across key partner channels. You will oversee full-funnel campaigns, from awareness through retention, while managing relationships with top-tier partners and driving measurable commercial outcomes.

You’ll work cross-functionally with Product, Business Development, Partnerships, Campaign Delivery, Paid Marketing, Legal and Compliance teams to ensure all initiatives align with both partner priorities and broader business objectives.

Your Remit

Strategy and Leadership

• Define and lead the partnerships marketing strategy to drive growth, engagement and revenue
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing marketing team
• Establish clear KPIs, performance frameworks and success metrics
• Align marketing initiatives with business priorities and partner expectations
• Manage and optimise the partnerships marketing budget
• Ensure all marketing activity meets regulatory and compliance standards

Partnership Management

• Own senior marketing relationships with key strategic partners
• Act as the primary marketing contact for campaign planning and execution
• Present performance insights and growth opportunities at MBRs and QBRs
• Co-create campaigns with partners to deliver mutual value and enhanced customer outcomes

About You

• Deep experience in marketing, partnerships or commercial leadership roles 
• Proven success delivering partnership marketing strategies across multiple channels
• Passion for managing and developing teams
• Demonstrated ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders and partners
• Commercially astute with strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
• Confident presenter with experience engaging executive audiences
• Highly organised with the ability to manage complex, concurrent initiatives

What’s On Offer

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Opportunity to shape strategy and drive innovation in a growth-focused environment
• Collaborative, high-performing culture that values curiosity and fresh thinking
• Exposure to an experienced, forward thinking leadership team

If you're a strategic leader who thrives on building high impact partnerships and delivering measurable growth, apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

Head of Quantitative

B2B Financial Services Technology | Global Scale | Sydney (Hybrid)

• Greenfield opportunity to define a global quantitative capability

• Direct influence on product strategy and international expansion

• Work with sophisticated institutional clients at scale

A high-growth B2B financial services technology company is appointing a Head of Quantitative in a newly created role to build and lead its next-generation modelling capability.

Operating at the intersection of wealth management, actuarial science and enterprise software, this business partners with tier-one financial institutions across Australia, the UK and Europe to modernise how financial advice is delivered at scale.

This is a rare opportunity to architect stochastic modelling frameworks from first principles, while building and leading a world-class quantitative function with global reach.

The opportunity

The business is at a pivotal inflection point and is poised for continued market traction.

Having successfully deployed deterministic advice models at institutional scale, the next phase of growth requires the introduction of sophisticated stochastic modelling to unlock new markets, new products and materially improved customer outcomes.

As Head of Quantitative, you will:

• Define the quantitative strategy

• Lead the technical uplift to stochastic modelling

• Build and scale a high-performing team

• Act as the ultimate authority on model risk, integrity and regulatory alignment

This is a genuine player–coach role, with significant hands-on technical ownership.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Architect and deliver stochastic modelling frameworks (Monte Carlo, scenario generation, multi-goal optimisation)

• Lead the transition from deterministic Excel-based models to scalable calculation engines

• Translate complex regulatory and advice policy requirements into robust quantitative logic

• Build, mentor and scale a quantitative team across Australia and global markets

• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to productionise models at scale

• Engage directly with tier-one institutional clients, actuarial teams and regulators

• Own quantitative governance, validation and model risk standards globally

What it will take to make an impact

• Deep expertise in stochastic / actuarial / quantitative modelling

• Strong hands-on background in tools such as Excel, Python or actuarial modelling platforms

• Experience operating in regulated financial services environments (wealth, retirement, insurance or advice technology)

• Proven ability to lead technical teams while remaining hands-on

• Confidence engaging with C-level stakeholders, institutional clients and regulators

• Comfort operating in ambiguity within a high-growth, product-led business

• Advanced qualifications in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related quantitative field are highly regarded.

If you’re motivated by complex problems, real-world impact and global scale, this is a rare leadership opportunity.  Call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043 for a confidential discussion or apply online.

Senior Engineer – Practice Lead | Global Financial Services | Sydney

If you're a Principal or Lead Engineer in platform or DevOps, and you're tired of being the person holding everything together while everyone else goes home. This is worth reading.

A globally recognised financial services organisation is looking for someone to own its Telemetry and Analytics practice. That means platform and product ownership of enterprise-scale SIEM and threat intelligence platforms, a live and varied project pipeline, and a small, high-trust team that actually has its act together.

The person who held this role for the past two years told us it's the first job they've had in years where they weren't online every weekend dealing with something platform-related. The support infrastructure here is real. You're not carrying it alone.

What you'll be working on

There's a solid pipeline of technical work ahead. A credential management overhaul spanning source code, pipelines, and release infrastructure; a vendor platform migration; new platform delivery; and active POCs in flight. It's genuinely varied, and it's hands-on. You'll be designing, integrating, and developing platforms rather than babysitting them.

Day to day you'll be working across IaC, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and scripting. Building and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins security operations at enterprise scale. You'll work closely with a small, experienced team across Australia and the US, and interface with detection engineers, analysts, and senior stakeholders globally.

What this does for your career

The brand carries weight. Two years here, owning platforms at this scale, delivering complex projects, and operating within a world-class financial services environment is a credible and visible step toward a Director or Principal Architect role. The person before you used it exactly that way.

What you'll bring

A strong DevOps, platform, or release engineering background. Solid hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Linux. Proficiency in Python or Shell. You've worked in an enterprise environment, financial services, insurance, banking, or similar scale and complexity. And you're fluent in governance and compliance without being slowed down by it.

You don't need a security specialism. If you've operated SIEM, log pipelines, or observability platforms from a platform engineering angle, that experience is relevant. You will grow your domain knowledge with this role.

Hit apply or send me a message and I'll get you the full brief.

Julien@theonset.com.au - 0406 158 832