Finance Business Partner

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Are you an aspiring or experienced Finance Business Partner with a growth mindset?
- We’re looking for a self-driven Finance Business Partner to join our Finance + Performance Group (F+P) where you will engage with diverse leaders to drive outcomes
- We’re offering a competitive salary ($132k - $160k base) + flexible working + development opportunities + great collaborative culture

About the Branch The Finance Business Partnering branch, which sits within F+P, works in partnership with business groups, supporting them to deliver their services effectively and efficiently, allowing the Ministry to achieve its outcomes. The Finance Business Partnering branch is the conduit between F+P and the business groups.

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**: The Finance Business Partner DDI role reports to the Manager Finance Business Partnering DDI within the Finance Business Partnering branch of F+P. In this role, you would partner with Digital, Data and Insights (DDI) portfolio GMs and the Manager Finance Business Partnering DDI to set the direction and drive the implementation of DDI’s strategy. While doing so, you will ensure alignment with the overall Ministry’s strategic plan and stated outcomes.

You will work with the Manager Finance Business Partnering DDI to lead the financial management and support the non-financial management processes. You will have a growth mindset and will use your prior experience and new learnings to collaborate with your stakeholders and provide them with insightful financial advice to influence strategic and operational decisions.

You would effectively influence senior stakeholders and provide assurance to the Senior Leadership Team by ensuring financial management processes, procedures and reporting comply with legislative requirements and best practice.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required

We are looking for a self-driven adaptable CA (or equivalent) who loves learning and who has:

- Supported a complex and diverse organisation as trusted strategic financial adviser
- Worked with senior leaders to drive outcomes and managed diverse stakeholder interests
- Led conversations and conveyed the narrative behind the numbers in easily understandable manner to non-accountants
- Ability to take initiative and has collaborated with the diverse leaders and peers to achieve the best results Prior knowledge of government funding mechanisms and planning cycles is a nice to have.

**Why work for us**: MBIE is one of New Zealand's largest, most influential and most diverse public sector agencies. This means that we are able to offer significant opportunities for developing experience across a broad variety of areas.

We aim to create a culture where our people are empowered to bring fresh ideas and perspectives and to develop new approaches.

We also take the time to foster a work environment that is enjoyable for all. This means we like to collaborate, support and encourage our people, encourage excellence and innovation and take the time to have some fun and celebrate our successes.

The F+P is on a journey to become a genuinely outstanding function that is recognised as such by its stakeholders. In this role you will help guide our direction as we continue on that journey.

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.
We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.
People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabli