Kaitohutohu Mātāmua Principal Advisor

Kaitohutohu Mātāmua | Principal Advisor - Finance (Permanent - Full Time)
Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
- Up and coming finance professional who wants to take their career to the next level
- Lead strategic finance, business case and budget bid development
- Develop long term funding model for Stats NZ
- Lead process improvements with a strong customer focus

Mōu | For you
Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health, and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves.

**Starting salary**: $114,614 - $153,654 negotiable + superannuation
Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure), see careers site for other benefits and networks.

Te tūnga | The role
This role is a permanent role reporting directly to the CFO.
You will be flexible and thrive on a variety of work that covers the range of finance functions from process improvement to engagement with government finance processes to developing business cases and supporting budget bids.
You will see everything as an opportunity to improve or enhance the way we work.
You will lead and influence across Stats NZ. You will also develop great relationships with Treasury and our auditors.
You will work closely with the Senior Manager Finance Advisory and the Financial Controller and across Stats NZ to ensure that managers experience extraordinary finance support.
Nōu te rourou | What you bring
We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., cultural, community work, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.
We want to hear about any of the following in your cover letter and CV any information relating to:

- Your knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori.
- How you've demonstrated, encouraged, or supported diversity and inclusion in or outside of work.
- Examples of key relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
- Where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g., led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
- Where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, learned, and applied or shared your learnings.
- Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, everyone is a customer mentality, collaborated with others and invited feedback, spent time with diverse people and communities to broaden your views.
- Understanding of the machinery of government and related processes and procedures

Ko mātou | About Us
Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.