Finance Wholesale Specialist

5 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Contact Energy Full time

Company Description
**Te Tākinatanga - Our Story**

At Contact, our Finance & Risk team is at the heart of the business key to ensuring the development and execution of our strategy. We do this by supporting and challenging the financial performance of the business, achieving operational excellence and through the provision of financial information and insights to make good decisions for the future.

**Job Description**:
**Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role**

We are seeking a Finance leader to provide sound financial leadership and ensure strong and effective financial management for our Wholesale business. You will be a trusted advisor to the Wholesale business and deliver high quality financial advice, insight and financial information.

This is a 14 month Fixed Term opportunity and we are open to your working location.

Essentially this role is the key link between our Trading and Development business units and Finance. It is about understanding the performance of our Wholesale business and its gross margin.

Some of the additional key responsibilities of this role are;.
- Monthly management accounts
- Analysis and Board reporting of Contact’s monthly actual and forecast/budget performance.
- Coordinate, analyse and present regular forecasts and annual Budget. Including oversee the Five-Year Business Plan from initiation to completion of the process.
- Design and implement financial analysis frameworks to allow improved insight and efficiency in financial analysis.
- Implement financial frameworks including control and processes to guarantee the integrity and accuracy of financial data and support segregation of duties.

This role reports to the General Manager Wholesale Finance & Finance Projects, and is part of a wider team that supports the Wholesale business.

**Qualifications**:
**Tā mātou e kimi nei? - What are we looking for**

You will have plenty of stories to share with us about the role you have played in identifying opportunities to enhance the value of a business and guide them to better financial outcomes.

We’ll be counting on you to lead the budgeting and planning process for Wholesale’s gross margin and take stakeholders on an inspiring journey with you. Your approach must realistic and achievable.

You pride yourself on your ability to communicate and connect with others to build and maintain strong relationships and achieve success. Your impressive analytical and communication skills allow you to interpret, understand and report on financial performance in a way that everyone can understand.

You are passionate about continuous improvement. You’ll identify, recommend and implement opportunities to enhance the value of the Wholesale business and become leading edge.

We are open to the skills and experience you bring, but we do have a couple of must haves;
- Chartered Accountant professional qualification (or equivalent) (5 plus years) and has significant accounting/business experience.
- Advanced knowledge of accounting systems (preferably ERP systems), procedures, reporting, and other business systems.
- Depth of experience in financial planning, analysis and reporting at a senior level (preferably in the energy or related utilities sector and/or in a publicly listed company).

Additional Information

If you consider yourself agile and thrive in a fast paced, people focused culture then this the job for you.

He mea nui ngā paki kōrero ki a mātou i Contact, nā reira, mēnā kei a koe tētehi e hāngai pea ana ki tā mātou e kimi nei i tēnei tūranga kei raro iho nei-kei te hiahia mātou kia whakapā mai ai koe

Contact Energy is committed to being an inclusive employer. We want people to be themselves, after all, they can't be anyone else



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