Senior Management Accountant | Kaikaute Whakahaere Matua

at  Statistics New Zealand

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
This is an opportunity for you to play a key part in improving information/data services and process that support our staff to ensure New Zealanders have quality data and statistics.

This is a permanent role based in Wellington reporting to the Senior Manager Finance Business Advisory.
In your role as Senior Management Accountant, you will provide support to your business groups working closely with the Finance Business Partner and in partnership with the wider Prioritisation, Resources and Delivery Group.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Management Accountant to join our dynamic finance team as the organisation embarks on an exciting transformation of how it operates. As our organisation evolves, we need a forward-thinking professional who can adapt quickly, provide insightful financial analysis, and support key decision-making through this transformation. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of our organisation, driving financial efficiency, and providing valuable financial insights to support strategic decision-making.

There are several key accountabilities in this role, including:

• Building relationships and a deep understanding of the portfolio to deliver trusted, valued, forward-looking and proactive financial advice
• Providing quality management advice, budgeting and forecasting support to managers
• Translating business plans into financial plans and delivering high quality, valued analysis and sound advice
• Understanding the cost of delivering products and services and performing detailed analysis on options, including long term impacts to the business
• Providing support for detailed costings and analysis for strategic planning, Budget Bids, Cabinet papers and business cases
• Undertaking analysis that identifies key risks and opportunities
• Contributing to the provision of advice on technical accounting issues including Public Finance Act