Finance Business Partner providing financial guidance and analysis for the IT team at Foodstuffs, New Zealand. Collaborating with executives to evaluate investment opportunities and strategic planning for technology initiatives.
Responsibilities
Providing proactive commercial support and work closely with the CDO, CFO, and wider team to help develop and deliver insightful commercially astute advice and reporting.
Work closely with the Enterprise Portfolio Management team to prioritise the IT Investment initiative for the Annual Planning Process, ensuring aligns with resource allocation.
Leading the annual financial planning, budgeting & forecasting process for the IT team.
Providing financial leadership and commercial evaluation support for investment decisions including the development of business cases.
Leading the long-term financial planning process to help create a digital & IT investment strategy plan.
Managing reporting and analysis of key IT performance metrics and managing spend within budget and surfacing results to key stakeholders.
Running the month end process and ensuring rigorous controls and reconciliations are in place to deliver accurate and timely performance reporting, ensuring high data integrity and spend is within budget.
Constant monitoring to ensure financial hygiene of month end, annual reforecasting, annual budgeting and long-term planning processes.
Requirements
Proven senior level Finance Business Partnering experience within complex environments with a solid Management Accounting foundation and experience in financial reporting, forecasting, business information systems and project governance.
Proven capability in best-in-class business partnering – including coaching team members to develop more commerciality in their decision making, influencing decision makers and business outcomes.
Excellent commercial, analytical, planning and communication skills with a great ability to collaborate with others, clearly articulate ideas/concepts and effectively present information.
Excellent commercial and analytical skills with a strong attention to detail to establish and maintain credibility of information.
Practical commercial understanding, and a talent for simplifying complex business problems to effectively communicate to non-finance stakeholders.
A flair for establishing and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders to maintain a great working environment ensuring all shared deliverables are met.
Advanced system skills particularly in SAP project modules, IBM planning analytics - COGNOS TM1, and JIRA.
The ability and curiosity to ask question to get all the right details, influence and challenge senior leaders.
CA or CPA qualifications preferred.
Benefits
Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
Southern cross health insurance
Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
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