Assistant Business Accountant

3 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand NZ Ministry for Primary Industries Full time

**Job Title: Assistant Business Accountant**

**Role type**: Permanent, full time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary band & range**: $74,964 to $99,968 depending on skills and experience.

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**Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role**

A perfect opportunity to become a trusted Assistant Business Accountant, providing excellent customer service and growing your career within our Management Accounting team here at MPI.

The role primarily provides management accounting advice to support budget managers complete their budget and forecast processes in an efficient and effective manner, consistent with our diverse range of business units across MPI. You will work closely alongside your collegues and wider Finance Business Partnering teams to respond to the changing needs of the Ministry, performing other tasks as reasonably required.

You will, in time develop an understanding of your business units operations, so that reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, is customer focused and tells an accurate story behind the numbers that is easy to understand.

**Mōu - About You**

You may have worked in a large complex organisation, and have stakeholder engagement experience, and **have full membership **or **working towards a membership of a professional accounting body.**

To ensure you are successful in the role you will need to demonstrate:

- Reliability with stakeholders, communicating clearly, build strong relationships while tactfully influencing to achieve best practice
- Demonstrate strong written communication skills
- Good understanding of accounting principles and practices
- Experience in gathering, organising, and communicating financial information

**Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team**

This role is part of the Management Accounting team, and reports to a easy to connect with finance manager. This is a collegial team made up of Business Accountants and Assistant Business Accountants based in Wellington, who work closely together to share information and best practice to support budget managers.
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**Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI**

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value food and primary products.
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**Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI**
- Ability to purchase extra annual leave
- Annual Wellness payment
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

**Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?**

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

**Applications close at midnight on **Sunday 3 November**

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