Working across Council, you’ll partner with senior leaders to provide practical financial advice, meaningful analysis and insight across budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and planning. You’ll help connect financial performance with operational priorities – supporting everything from day-to-day budget management and project funding through to scenario planning, investment decisions and Annual and Long-Term Plans.

This is an opportunity to bring together your technical financial expertise and your ability to build trusted relationships. You won’t simply report on the numbers – you’ll help people understand what sits behind them, identify risks and opportunities, challenge thinking where needed and support stronger financial capability and decision-making across the organisation.

Your role will also extend into Council’s wider planning and investment activities, contributing financial expertise to our Annual Plan and Long-Term Plan, project funding, scenario planning and capital asset management.

Some of the key areas you’ll be involved in include:

• Providing proactive financial advice, analysis and support to Heads of Departments and their budget unit managers

• Leading budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and regular financial reviews across your business areas

• Translating financial information into clear insights and recommendations that support decision-making

• Supporting scenario planning, investment analysis and assessment of financial risks and opportunities

• Contributing financial inputs into Council’s Annual Plan and Long Term Plan processes

• Monitoring project funding, budget phasing and the financial performance of Council activities

• Supporting capital asset processes including valuations, capitalisation, classification and depreciation

You’ll be comfortable working with people who have varying levels of financial knowledge, taking complex information and making it clear, relevant and useful. You’ll be naturally curious, confident asking questions and able to provide constructive advice and challenge when it’s needed, while building strong and trusted working relationships.

You’ll bring:

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Accounting or a related discipline

• Around 7–8 years’ proven experience in senior accounting or financial business partnering roles

• Membership of a professional accounting association

• Advanced knowledge of financial and management accounting principles

• Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and management reporting capability

• Advanced Excel skills, including financial modelling, data analysis, pivot tables and formulas

• Experience working with financial systems and reporting tools

• Strong communication skills and the ability to turn complex financial information into practical, actionable insights

• A collaborative and customer-focused approach, with the ability to build effective relationships across an organisation

• Strong organisation, adaptability and the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines

Experience working within local government would be an advantage, but isn’t essential.

If you enjoy combining strong financial capability with genuine business partnering, and want the opportunity to influence decisions across a diverse organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

The annual salary package for this role is between $107,375 - $120,008 (including KiwiSaver) with the final offer depending on your skills and experience.

We will be interviewing applications as we receive them and may close the role when we have found the right person. Please do not delay in making your application.