If you are an Assistant Accountant looking for your first Financial Accountant role, then please apply to join our finance team in our Auckland HQ in East Tamaki. This is a full-time permanent opportunity in an exciting global FMCG that produces delicious coffee and teas. This role provides meaningful information to support our business management, ensuring transactions are accurate. You will report to our Financial Control Manager NZ.
Are you up for this challenge?
In this role, you will:
Support periodic and year-end reporting consisting of monthly reporting, monthly journals/accruals, GL balance sheet reconciliations, internal controls and treasury management.
Manage all bank transactions, reconciliations, cash flow and money transfers.
Assist with annual statutory accounts and internal and external audits.
Assist in the preparation and completion of our Annual Operating Plan.
Drive continuous improvement within the reporting processes and systems and investigate opportunities to automate tasks.
Qualifications For this role as a Financial Accountant, we're looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:
Degree qualification in Accounting or Commerce and working towards a CA qualification.
2-3 years of full-time accounting work experience in New Zealand.
High level of IT literacy, e.g. SAP, SharePoint & Microsoft Excel.
You have a proactive attitude and will investigate and reach out to stakeholders to find answers.
You are detail and process oriented and double-check your work to ensure it's accurate.
You are driven and open to occasional overtime work to meet reporting demands.
Valid and unrestricted NZ work visa.
Additional Information Competitive salary and Discretionary Bonus.
Medical Insurance for you and your family.
Income Protection and Life Insurance.
Generous maternity leave policy.
Flexible working arrangements, after successful completion of training.
Enjoy half a day off on your birthday.
Learning and development programs to support personal growth.
Quarterly free staff parcels including a range of our coffee and tea brands, and access to discounted staff purchases.
If you have any questions you'd like to ask before applying, feel free to send an e-mail to NZ Talent (******). Short cover letters (in the Message section) outlining your motivation to join JDE Peet's in this role are required.
Note: no applications are handled via e-mail.
We are not an accredited employer therefore cannot assist with work visas and currently only accepting applications of candidates who have already obtained legal rights to work in NZ without restrictions.
JDE Peet's is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, serving approximately 4,200 cups of coffee or tea per second, and is headquartered in the Netherlands. For more than 265 years, we've been inspired by the belief that it's amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. We unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries with a portfolio of over 50 brands including Kiwi favourites such as Moccona, L'OR, Hummingbird, Bell Tea, Jed's, Ti Ora and more. In 2023, JDE Peet's generated total sales of close to 15 billion NZD and employed a global workforce of more than 20,000 employees.
We offer our people a range of learning and development programs to support their personal growth and we believe that a diverse and inclusive culture enables us to serve every coffee and tea lover in the best possible way.
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