Job Title : Assistant Business Accountant
Role type : Permanent, full time
Location : Wellington
Salary band & range : $74,964 to $99,968 depending on skills and experience.
Korero mo te Turanga - About the Role
A perfect opportunity to become a trusted Assistant Business Accountant, providing excellent customer service and growing your career within our Management Accounting team here at MPI.
The role primarily provides management accounting advice to support budget managers complete their budget and forecast processes in an efficient and effective manner, consistent with our diverse range of business units across MPI.
You will work closely alongside your colleagues and wider Finance Business Partnering teams to respond to the changing needs of the Ministry, performing other tasks as reasonably required.
You will, in time, develop an understanding of your business unit's operations, so that reporting, budgeting, and forecasting is customer-focused and tells an accurate story behind the numbers that is easy to understand.
Mou - About You
You may have worked in a large complex organisation, have stakeholder engagement experience, and have full membership or be working towards a membership of a professional accounting body.
To ensure you are successful in the role you will need to demonstrate:
Reliability with stakeholders, communicating clearly, building strong relationships while tactfully influencing to achieve best practice.
Strong written communication skills.
Good understanding of accounting principles and practices.
Experience in gathering, organising, and communicating financial information.
You do not need to meet all of the role requirements to apply.
Mo to matou Ropu - About the Team
This role is part of the Management Accounting team and reports to an easy-to-connect-with finance manager.
This is a collegial team made up of Business Accountants and Assistant Business Accountants based in Wellington, who work closely together to share information and best practices to support budget managers.
Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua - About MPI
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value food and primary products.
Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
Ability to purchase extra annual leave.
Annual Wellness payment.
Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation.
Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.
We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities.
As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatu Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.
In your cover letter, we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
To view the position description and/or apply online, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it.
Applications close at midnight on Sunday 3 November. If you have any questions about the role, please email ******.
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