Senior Business Manager

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Finance Management, it starts with you
- Police National Head Quarters, Molesworth Street, Wellington
- Police Employee,
- 2 Permanent and 1 Fixed term opportunities available
- Salary range starts from $146,972

About the role

The NZ Police Finance Team is part of the wider Corporate Operations business group, providing support and advice to enable more than 14,000 employees, including over 2000 managers and leaders The purpose of the Finance Group is to enable us to deliver Our Business within budget. To support the delivery of these outcomes the Senior Business Manager is a leadership role responsible for providing finance and business support to NZ Police (Police) leaders and managers within a defined portfolio. This position is heavily engaged with providing support, through strategic business partnerships, to senior managers and their groups.

We have an exciting opportunity for a proactive Senior Business Manager (Finance Business Partner) to really own this role and truly make a difference.

Reporting to the newly appointed Director of Finance Business Partnering this role will be responsible for supporting a portfolio of Police’s working groups providing high quality, robust advice and insight into the financial performance of, and opportunities for, Police to deliver on its strategic priorities.
Your financial advice will go beyond the numbers, both informing and influencing to ensure sound financial decision making.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to see the big picture are essential to this role, with a focus on the ability to translate data from information to insights, to our internal customers in a meaningful way.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Relevant and timely financial and business management advice and coaching to Police senior managers and their groups.
- Support to the Director of Business Partnering in ensuring key issues and risks within the portfolio are highlighted and the Finance Business Partnering Group’s work programme is successfully delivered.
- Challenge and insight to decision making and forward planning.
- Support to planning, risk management and opportunity validation (business cases).
- Supporting the ongoing continuous improvement programme focused on delivering excellent customer service.
- As a Senior leader you will be connected to what “be first, then do” means in terms of leadership and for the team.

What you’ll bring

Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make/recommend sound decisions based on accurate and timely analysis
- Engaging and influencing senior staff and providing appropriate challenge when necessary
- Excellent communication (including presentation) skills, written and verbal.
- Strong relationship and interpersonal skills and the ability to influence across boundaries
- Ability to think strategically, and see linkages between different streams of work
- Demonstrated ability to take responsibility for the delivery of quality results within agreed timeframes
- Demonstratable commitment to continuous improvement, including adaptability and openness to change
- Demonstrates the drive and ability to improve own capability, including self-awareness, high EQ and self-improvement focus.
- Strong planning, time management and organisational skills
- Proven experience in financial management in a medium to large public sector organisation.
- Be a qualified chartered accountant (CAANZ, or similar i.e. CPA, CIMA) with a minimum of 5+ years relevant experience

This role is set at Leader/Manager level, this means your key purpose is “to lead tactics for Our Business and enable people to deliver them”.

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About us

Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing. Our vision is to be the safest country. Our purpose is to e