Associate Director

1 week ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Cohesion Consulting Full time

Business Advisory Services
- Competitive salary package
- Entrepreneurially focused partnership

The collective strength of the entrepreneurial partners and advisors of this multi-service CA firm is fueling strong demand for their services - they are growing rapidly.

The firm enjoys a reputation for providing leading edge accounting, tax, and advisory services to private individuals, domestic and internationally focused SMEs, and to managers of investment funds.

Buoyed by three vastly experienced directors at the top of their game, the firm delivers premium, pragmatic advice and guidance as a foundation to their clients’ business expansion and growth.

The time is right to add a highly commercial Associate Director to the accounting and advisory services practice, to work closely with their broad range of clients and mentor a team to perform at their highest potential.

**The role**
As an Associate Director, you will work with the leadership of the accounting and tax teams providing proactive management and leadership to staff ensuring high quality, commercial, technically correct, and timely advice is consistently provided to clients.

In addition, you will act as the clients’ “in-house CFO” and will be involved in a wide range of CFO/FD activities.

More specifically you will be:

- Undertaking routine and complex CFO level tasks for clients such as:

- Providing tax advice
- Reviewing business performance providing guidance on areas that could be improved
- Providing business valuations, capital raising assistance
- Facilitating strategic business planning workshops with clients
- Providing advice on business and balance sheet structures and business direction
- Designing, developing, and analysing financial models
- Identifying value-added opportunities for clients e.g. business improvement strategies
- Managing existing client relationships and engaging in business development such as prospective client meetings, new client evaluation and developing proposals
- Leading, mentoring and ensuring the smooth running of the compliance team
- Workflow management and review
- Operating as part of the senior leadership team.

**Your Background**
- Member of Chartered Accountant Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), CPA or relevant overseas professional body.
- Proven history of high-level technical accounting/finance skills in a Business Advisory environment within a CA practice in New Zealand
- Strong commercial acumen to underpin your recommendations and gain client confidence
- Solid experience developing and managing staff
- Knowledge of cloud-based software.

**Your Personal Attributes**
- Solution oriented, with a “can-do-attitude”
- Responsive with a high level of self-motivation, energy, and drive
- Strong communications skills - both written and oral
- Excellent problem solving and research abilities
- Solid relationship building and influencing skills, both internally and externally
- Ability to take ownership of clients and projects
- An ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

This role would suit a Senior Manager in a BAS environment, looking to fast-track their career to partnership. Join this team of entrepreneurial advisors delivering powerful solutions to complicated growth challenges, taking your career to the next level.

If you are interested in a confidential discussion, please contact Cohesion; Nichola Rawlence 021 621 712 or Rachel McNaughton 0277 333 819 or and quote reference 1299550.

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