Finance Business Partner

6 days ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Rentokil Initial Full time

Are you a finance professional with a passion for business partnering and driving commercial outcomes? Rentokil-Initial is seeking a highly motivated Finance Business Partner to join our team in New Zealand. In this pivotal role, you will act as a key member of the Finance function, supporting the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and collaborating with Regional Managers and stakeholders across Sales, Operations, and various support functions.
**About the Role**:
As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in providing commercial expertise to ensure the delivery of Revenue, Margin, and Profit outcomes. You will also be responsible for ensuring transactional support aspects facilitated by Finance are delivered to a high standard. This is a fast-paced environment that requires strong interpersonal skills, a proactive approach, and the ability to adapt to changing situations.
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Empower Regional Teams: Develop finance, analytical skills, and commercial understanding within regional management
- Drive Financial Performance: Monitor revenue, profit, and cash against targets, creating contingency plans and action plans for growth (including customer segmentation and pricing)
- Provide Financial Insight: Analyze data to generate valuable insights, deliver accurate forecasts with sensitivity analysis, and support informed management decisions, risk mitigation, and opportunity identification
- Manage Financial Processes: Support the monthly financial close and reporting cycle with rolling forecasts, support annual budget preparation, and contribute to robust and timely budget delivery. Review and support pricing decisions that directly impact margin build-up and overall profitability
- Enhance Financial Operations: Identify and implement process improvements, contribute to financial system development, ensure governance standards, and support reporting to senior leadership on performance, including for acquisitions

**Competencies Required**:

- Goal-Oriented and Commercially Astute: Demonstrates a strong drive for high performance, sets ambitious goals, and applies commercial acumen to analyze business data for opportunities and threats.
- Effective Self-Management: Exhibits strong self-awareness, adaptability, resilience, and understands their impact on others.
- Collaborative Team Player: Possesses excellent teamwork and relationship-building skills to foster positive working environments.
- Accountable and Responsible: Displays a strong sense of ownership and commitment to delivering on responsibilities.
- Proactive and Initiative-Taking: Shows initiative and a proactive approach to tasks and challenges.

**Essential Skills and Experience**:

- Professionally Qualified Finance Expert: Holds full CA/CPA qualification supported by a tertiary degree, coupled with 7+ years of accounting and finance experience.
- Experienced Business Partner: Bring business partnering experience, demonstrating collaborative financial support.
- Strong Financial Planning and Communication Skills: Proficient in financial planning and analysis, with excellent written, verbal, and presentation abilities.
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Abilities: Exhibits a high level of intelligence and creativity in problem-solving.
- Organized with Advanced Excel Skills: Highly organized, deadline-oriented, and possesses advanced Microsoft Excel skills

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