Finance Business Partner – IT
Foodstuffs, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Mangere • New Zealand
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About the role
- Providing proactive commercial support and work closely with the CDO, CFO, and wider team to help develop and deliver insightful commercially astute advice and reporting.
- Work closely with the Enterprise Portfolio Management team to prioritise the IT Investment initiative for the Annual Planning Process, ensuring aligns with resource allocation.
- Leading the annual financial planning, budgeting & forecasting process for the IT team.
- Providing financial leadership and commercial evaluation support for investment decisions including the development of business cases.
- Leading the long-term financial planning process to help create a digital & IT investment strategy plan.
- Managing reporting and analysis of key IT performance metrics and managing spend within budget and surfacing results to key stakeholders.
- Running the month end process and ensuring rigorous controls and reconciliations are in place to deliver accurate and timely performance reporting, ensuring high data integrity and spend is within budget.
- Constant monitoring to ensure financial hygiene of month end, annual reforecasting, annual budgeting and long-term planning processes.
Requirements
- Proven senior level Finance Business Partnering experience within complex environments with a solid Management Accounting foundation and experience in financial reporting, forecasting, business information systems and project governance.
- Proven capability in best-in-class business partnering – including coaching team members to develop more commerciality in their decision making, influencing decision makers and business outcomes.
- Excellent commercial, analytical, planning and communication skills with a great ability to collaborate with others, clearly articulate ideas/concepts and effectively present information.
- Excellent commercial and analytical skills with a strong attention to detail to establish and maintain credibility of information.
- Practical commercial understanding, and a talent for simplifying complex business problems to effectively communicate to non-finance stakeholders.
- A flair for establishing and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders to maintain a great working environment ensuring all shared deliverables are met.
- Advanced system skills particularly in SAP project modules, IBM planning analytics - COGNOS TM1, and JIRA.
- The ability and curiosity to ask question to get all the right details, influence and challenge senior leaders.
- CA or CPA qualifications preferred.
Benefits
- Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
- Southern cross health insurance
- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
- Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial reportingforecastingbudgetingmanagement accountingbusiness information systemsproject governancefinancial planningcommercial evaluationdata integrityperformance metrics
Soft Skills
business partneringcoachinginfluencingcollaborationcommunicationanalytical skillsattention to detailrelationship buildingproblem solvingcuriosity
Certifications
CACPA