Assistant Business Accountant

3 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Role Type**: Permanent, full-time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary Band**: $72,781 to $97,056 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
In this role you will build trusted relationships, provide management accounting advice, and support to a portfolio of budget holders including forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.

You will support MPI managers to become financially literate by conducting effective forecasting & budgeting training, and build relationships with other teams to understand related issues, reduce risks, and ensure that business and financial information is integrated.

**The key accountabilities of this position include**:

- Providing financial information & management reports, tracking & reporting of appropriations
- Assisting with Government Accountability reporting including Parliament's Select Committees, Official Information Act requests (OIAs), and Parliamentary Questions (PQs)
- Providing information and advice that is relevant to business units by meeting with MPI Managers
- Staying connected with the business to develop an understanding of business unit operations so that reporting, budgeting, and forecasting is customer focused and tells the story behind the numbers.
- Building relationships with other teams to understand related issues and reduce risks, ensuring that business and financial information is integrated
- Working with the Cost Recovery team to ensure that inputs into cost recovery models are accurate
- Working with the Financial Accounting team to facilitate a seamless detailed business planning and budgeting process and ensure MPI Managers are supported to complete the budget and forecast processes in an efficient and effective manner.

Mōu - About You
You will have had some stakeholder engagement experience delivering outstanding customer service and are looking for an opportunity to develop your management accounting career.

You will be proactive, have strong attention to detail and able to build strong and effective working relationships with an assortment of stakeholders. You will have the ability to translate technical accounting knowledge into everyday language.

To be successful in this role, you will have
- A tertiary qualification and are currently working toward membership of a professional accounting body
- A good understanding of accounting principles and practices
- Experience in gathering, organising, and communicating financial information
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship building experience

Experience in Central Government financial management processes and procedures and knowledge of Finance One would be an advantage.

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
An opportunity is available to join our Management Accounting team with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). This is a permanent full-time role based in Wellington and is an opportunity to join a supportive team to provide management accounting advice and support including forecasting, budgeting and reporting to a portfolio of budget holders.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
MPI has a strength of common purpose and a passion to sustainably grow and to protect Aotearoa, for the benefit of all New Zealanders. It's no mean feat and we have a team of hard working and dedicated people in a variety of roles supporting us to make this happen. Our overall ambition is for New Zealand to be the most trusted source of high value natural products in the world. We're working towards sustainability, protection, growth and participation.
To find out more about the Ministry and what we do please click here
Our work stretches all the way from the Beehive to the border. If you want a career where you help New Zealand be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value food and primary products in a very real way then this is it. Our team is collegial, supportive and hard working. MPI has a focus on career pathways so this is the first step in your career with us and we will help you grow.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Additional MPI leave days
- Ability to purchase extra annual leave
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

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, whanau and hāpori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; 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 11.59pm on 9 June.

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