Finance Systems Software Engineer - AI
Build and maintain AI-powered automation for Halter's finance team, centred on NetSuite and a new EPM tool, using enterprise Claude and native AI features. Day to day you scope, ship, and support production finance tools alongside FP&A and accounting, office-first in Auckland.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Auckland
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience shipping automation or AI-powered tools into production and supporting them once live
- Some background or genuine interest in accounting and finance, with willingness to help during busy periods
- 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 and helping define it
- Strong communication skills and patience with non-technical people
Nice to have
- Exposure to NetSuite, EPM or planning tools, or 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)
Full description
About Halter
At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard.
We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, BOND, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
To find out more, visit our LinkedIn & Instagram.
About the role:
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.
Who we're looking for:
- 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