Finance Commercial Business Partner

Full Time Application Closes 31 Jul 2024 Canterbury - Christchurch City Financial Manager Contributing to the future of New Zealand's built environment, award-winning Southbase Group comprises four specialist entities with a shared vision to transform New Zealand's construction industry for good. Emphasising internal and external partnering, their teams share a winning mindset, leveraging expertise, continual innovation, ambitious goals and a project ethos to deliver "beyond expectation". In May 2024 Southbase Construction was named by Deloitte as one of New Zealand's Best Managed companies for 2023, celebrating excellence in governance, strategy, financials and innovation. Due to current and forecast growth and diversification plans, the intention is for interim resource to enhance the existing team, reporting to the Group CFO and partnering with the business (Christchurch and Auckland teams), to support financial and commercial analysis. There'll also be a focus on progressing an existing software implementation project – this will provide exposure and insight business-wide. Ideally, depending on experience, the role will contribute to executive and board level reporting and partnering, enabling a more strategic and project focus for the CFO. Skills & Experience From a CA background providing a solid platform for your technical financial expertise, you'll bring industry experience ideally from the construction sector, or aligned, project-accounting environments such as manufacturing, infrastructure or related. Project and change experience will be valuable in implementing software which will positively impact cashflow modelling across the business. With a thirst to learn and curious to understand specific business levers, you're commercially astute and confident to engage across levels, highlighting opportunities and inspiring your audience through meaningful information and metric-driven recommendations. For a Finance Leader or aspiring CFO, this fixed term opportunity will provide broad exposure across an exceptional business creating a positive legacy in its sector. There is potential for the interim role to evolve into a permanent opportunity, to align with growth commitment. At a minimum, partnering, learning and contribution across the business will strengthen professional offering and successfully position for future finance leadership opportunities.