The Opportunity Working closely with the management team, this role is responsible for leading the commercial and strategic financial initiatives that support the ongoing growth and development of this long established and growing medium-sized, privately held business. Focused across to divisions, the organisation has a 40+ year history of servicing customers across New Zealand and is now looking at the opportunity to expand into Australia, presenting you with the chance to play an influential role in supporting the business in developing its infrastructure through which it can deliver on these growth plans, ensuring a balance between sensible risk management and seizing commercial growth opportunities. Given the size and nature of the business, this role will be varied and flexible. You'll reap the benefit of a strong network of external relationships whilst also being able to bring in new ideas on how to make steady improvements to the businesses back office functions, ensuring a best practice approach. The Company This is a long-established, medium-sized privately held company that has a 40+ year history in New Zealand, with ambitions to grow its operations overseas. With a small group of operating and holding entities, the organisation has continuously been successful, through careful management and the development of timeless partnerships with customer and suppliers alike. The Role Production of monthly management reporting and analysis for discussion with the management team Consolidation of divisional accounts for review and sign off by the external accountant Provision of strategic advice to the leadership team on growth and expansion opportunities, ensuring a sensible balance between risk management and revenue growth Oversight of the day-to-day financial operations of the business, ensuring good processes, debtor management and managing external relationships with the bank and other suppliers Your Profile Experienced accountant, preferably with experience working with medium-sized commercial organisations at a Finance Manager level Strong commercial experience including budget/forecast, analysis, operational reporting and the ability to translate numbers into meaningful information to support decisions An ability to lead the daily finance function including tractions, reporting, payroll and debtor management Have a good understanding of financial systems and the ability to support the development of best practice processes Hold full, unrestricted working rights for New Zealand and be based in, or actively relocating to Christchurch For more information about this role, please contact Christopher Cluse or Julie Paalvast on 021 220 9987 #SCR-Christopher-Cluse About the recruiter Your application will include the following questions: Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in New Zealand? How many years' experience do you have with forecasting for businesses? What's your expected annual base salary? Report this job advert Don't provide your bank or credit card details when applying for jobs. To help fast track investigation, please include here any other relevant details that prompted you to report this job ad as fraudulent / misleading / discriminatory. Researching careers? Find all the information and tips you need on career advice. #J-18808-Ljbffr