Finance Business Partner

5 months ago


Christchurch, New Zealand Westland Milk Products Full time

Born on the beautifully raw West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, Westland Milk Products is a well-known end-to-end dairy manufacturer with an excellent international reputation that embodies the West Coast spirit in all that it does. It's taken some good old-fashioned hard work to get where we are, and our committed team is a huge part of our ongoing success. We process over 700 million litres of milk a year and we are proud of the wide range of consumer and foodservice products, and dairy ingredients that we produce.

**The Role**:
Based in Christchurch (Hornby) and reporting to our Financial Controller, this is a key finance position providing the link between the official numbers and information required to run operational business units effectively. Finance Business Partnering is considered being the "face" of finance, providing support and challenge through training and financial education together with analysis and financial insights to support enhanced decision making. Additionally, this role provides financial information to support the understanding of monthly financial results and the impact on future forecasts, strategic planning creation, integrated budgeting, effective asset management, new business cases and other specific project work as required.

As such, this is a varied and interesting role with a great mix of responsibilities including financial and commercial analysis, management accounting, monthly reporting and forecasting, strategic planning, budgeting and asset management/utilisation. This role will also support better management of financial risk and governance activities including policy compliance and ensure transactional accuracy in conjunction with the wider Finance processing team.

**Applicants will ideally possess**:

- Proven experience in a management accounting / similar business partnering / finance position with competence to deliver advice to senior levels within a large organisation
- Strong technical accounting skills supported by an appropriate qualification (ideally tertiary/CA)
- Strong analytical skills along with great attention to detail and well-developed financial acumen
- A desire to add value through the provision of robust financial information, analysis and reporting
- Any prior knowledge of the dairy industry, manufacturing environments, supply chain would be advantageous along with the ability to minimise cost and optimise efficiencies
- Exceptional communication, relationship management and influencing skills together with a proactive and "can-do" approach
- A familiarity with ERP systems and the ability to maximise system functionality

**What's in it for you?**
- A competitive base salary
- Company incentive scheme
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Free parking
- Career development
- Employee assistance & wellbeing programs
- Enhanced parental leave provisions
- + Delicious discounted grass-fed butter

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a company that takes pride and passion in everything they do and help contribute robust financial information and analysis to facilitate exceptional business decision making. Please see the accompanying position description (available on our Westland Careers page westlandcareers.co.nz) for further information.

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**Job Details**:

- Reference #- 27372- Posted on- 14 Aug 2024- Closes on- 01 Sep 2024 23:55- Location(s)- Christchurch - Hornby- Expertise- Finance- Job level(s)- Experienced- Work type(s)- Permanent



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