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About the team

Our Technology team is the backbone of the business, building and maintaining the information technology infrastructure that support Coles Group. As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using large data sets and new technologies to expand your skills and experience.

At Coles, technology is fundamental to how we operate one of Australia's largest and most complex retail businesses.

Our Corporate Technology team is responsible for the technology ecosystems that enable our enterprise functions to operate effectively today while continuing to evolve for the future.

Corporate Technology | Own the technology agenda for Finance at Coles

At Coles, technology is fundamental to how we operate one of Australia's largest and most complex retail businesses.

Our Corporate Technology team is responsible for the technology ecosystems that enable our enterprise functions to operate effectively today while continuing to evolve for the future.

We're looking for a senior technology leader to take end-to-end accountability for the technology that enables Finance at Coles.

This is a significant enterprise leadership role spanning technology strategy, investment, transformation, operational performance, risk, resilience and lifecycle management across the Finance technology landscape.

You'll partner closely with senior Finance leaders, including the CFO and Finance Leadership Team, to understand their priorities, shape the technology agenda and ensure our Finance technology capabilities are positioned to support the business now and into the future.

About the role

Think of Finance as a business in its own right.

Your role is to understand how that business operates, what it needs from technology, where its greatest opportunities and risks lie, and how technology can enable its strategy.

You'll own the Finance technology portfolio end-to-end, taking an enterprise view across our core SAP Finance ecosystem and the applications, integrations and services supporting financial operations, treasury, tax, banking, payments, controls and regulatory obligations.

This is broader than leading a transformation program or managing a product roadmap.

You'll connect strategy, investment, delivery and operations into a coherent technology agenda — balancing transformation and business improvement with regulatory commitments, operational resilience, technology lifecycle and technical debt.

You'll also provide Finance leaders with a clear view of how technology is performing, where we're investing, what we're delivering and the decisions and risks that require attention.

What you'll be accountable for

Technology strategy and roadmap

Set the vision and multi-year technology roadmap for Finance, translating Finance and Coles priorities into an integrated portfolio of technology outcomes and investment priorities.

Technology portfolio and investment

Shape and prioritise investment across transformation, regulatory requirements, risk reduction, lifecycle management and business improvement, making clear choices based on business value, risk and strategic outcomes.

Running the Finance technology estate

Take accountability for the health and operational effectiveness of the technology Finance relies upon, ensuring platforms and services are reliable, resilient, secure, controlled and cost-effective.

Transformation and delivery outcomes

Provide end-to-end oversight of initiatives across the Finance technology portfolio, navigating dependencies and ensuring investment translates into meaningful business outcomes

Risk, resilience and lifecycle

Proactively manage technology risk, resilience, platform currency, technical debt, security, controls, vendor dependencies and lifecycle priorities across the portfolio.

Executive business partnership

Act as the key technology partner for senior Finance stakeholders, including the CFO and Finance Leadership Team, bringing together business and technology perspectives to create clarity and enable decisions.

Enterprise technology leadership

Orchestrate outcomes across Product, Architecture, Engineering, Quality, Delivery, Service Management, Cyber, Risk and strategic partners, leading through influence across organisational boundaries.

People and capability leadership

Lead, coach and develop Product Managers and contribute to the continued maturity of product and technology management practices across Coles.

About you

You're an experienced technology leader who understands what it takes to own technology for a complex enterprise business function.

You can move comfortably between conversations about business strategy and investment with senior executives, enterprise architecture and platforms with technology leaders, transformation with delivery teams, and operational performance with service and strategic partners.

You don't need to be the deepest technical specialist in every platform. Your strength is seeing the whole system — understanding how business processes, technology, people, investment, operations and risk fit together — and creating the clarity and alignment needed to make good decisions.

You'll bring significant experience in several of the following areas:

• Leading a significant technology portfolio, enterprise applications landscape or business technology domain within a large, complex organisation.

• Finance technology and the enterprise business processes it enables.

• Major ERP ecosystems, ideally including SAP Finance and SAP S/4HANA.

• Owning technology across both run and change, balancing operational performance with transformation and strategic investment.

• Developing technology strategies, multi-year roadmaps and investment priorities.

• Leading complex enterprise technology transformation across multiple teams, platforms and partners.

• Technology risk, resilience, security, controls and lifecycle management.

• Commercial and vendor management within a complex technology environment.

• Building trusted relationships with senior executives and influencing decisions across business and technology.

• Leading through ambiguity and organisational boundaries to deliver enterprise outcomes.

Your background might be in Finance Technology, Enterprise Applications, ERP leadership, Technology Business Partnership, Technology Portfolio Management or Product leadership.

We're less concerned about your current job title than the scope of accountability you've held and your ability to take ownership of a complex technology landscape and lead it as though it were your business.

Why Coles?

Few technology leadership roles offer the opportunity to influence a business of the scale and complexity of Coles.

Finance sits at the heart of that business, and the technology landscape supporting it is critical to how we operate, manage risk, invest and evolve.

This role gives you genuine end-to-end accountability: the opportunity to shape where we invest, improve how our technology estate performs, influence major transformation and work directly with senior Finance and Technology leaders on the decisions that matter.

If you're motivated by owning the bigger picture — bringing together business strategy, technology, operations, investment and transformation to make a critical enterprise function successful — we'd love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.