Finance Business Partner

Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata

When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy

Watercare, the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand, delivers more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day.

Now is an exciting time to join Watercare; we're planning to spend $18.5 billion over the next 20 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way.

That's an investment of $2.5 million every day.

In this role you will :

• Interpret financial reports and insights to support strategic financial and operational decision-making within the organization and identify risks and opportunities across the business.
• Enhance the organization's understanding of key financial and non-financial information to enable accurate budgeting and forecasting.
• Work with Management Accountants to analyze cost and performance drivers.
• Conduct onsite project reviews, comparing actuals, forecasts, and budgets to understand and explain variances.
• Collaborate with Management Accountants on labour reporting and project spend coding accuracy.
• Conduct deep dive project forecast reviews, assessing project risks, programme time and cost implications.
• Perform project transaction reviews to ensure expenditure is capitalizable and compliant with financial regulations.
• Review both operational and capital project performance and progress, ensuring alignment with financial standards and policies.
• Assess and review business cases to ensure investments align with WSL's strategic and risk profile.
• Collaborate with the project control team to track and drive asset capitalization.
• Provide financial leadership, training, and guidance to project managers.

In this role you will bring :

• Proven experience in construction and project accounting.
• Experience in construction contracts and associated contractual adherence.
• Ability to read and understand project programs, and their time & cost impact (e.g., Microsoft Project or Primavera P6).
• Strong business interrogation and analysis skills.
• Advanced excel skills.
• Degree qualified in Finance.
• CA or equivalent.
• Additionally, 7+ years working in management accounting plus 3 years minimum in a senior partnership role or project delivery role.
• Ability to provide robust financial review to business cases and have a whole of life view when assessing projects.

We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including :

• Training and development opportunities.
• Life and income protection insurance plans.
• Generous parental leave.
• Employee discounts at a range of large retailers.

Me pēhea te tono mai How to Apply

Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today - www.

careers.watercare.co.nz.

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