Assistant Accountant

The Role

Fisher & Paykel is an iconic New Zealand brand, a global company with a strong local heritage. Our origins inspire our culture of curiosity and passion to develop solutions designed around people - these are some of the core elements that make us unique.

We are driven by our values of being trusted, sustainably minded, innovative, generous, and curious. As a team we take a collaborative approach and have a working environment where all ideas are heard, evaluated, and tested against our leading goal - to be the world's most human-centred appliance brand.

We are entering an exciting new phase in the evolution of our luxury brand, as we expand our presence in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland into a state-of-the-art three-site campus. Our Global HQ in Penrose, Distribution Centre in East Tāmaki and our world leading Global Experience Centre in the Grey Lynn.

Connected across the Auckland isthmus, our campus sites combine to tell the story of our people, our brand and our future legacy. These bespoke, purpose-built developments located strategically across the region will see Fisher & Paykel create a centre for excellence in appliance design and innovation in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Assistant Accountant supports our New Zealand business (NZ Distributor) to achieve our targets and pursue our Leading Goals.

Working with the local and global Finance teams to perform operational and transactional requirements in an efficient, accurate and timely manner.

That’s the role, so who are you?

You will have experience in taking ownership of key aspects of month-end accounting.

Your Role

As the Assistant Accountant, you will support the financial and management accounting function of the NZ Distributor unit. You will be responsible for end-to-end tasks including month-end close, pricing and rebate management, balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany, and CAPEX management.

You will work closely with both finance and commercial stakeholders, ensuring timely, accurate, and insightful reporting to support key decision-making and compliance with group financial policies.

This role provides a great opportunity to grow your technical expertise across a range of financial processes and develop as a valued business partner in a collaborative and high-performing finance team.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Managing rebates, and commercial claim approvals in partnership with the Sales team

• Maintaining the Global Price Management (Salesforce) tool and presenting key insights in monthly sales meetings

• Performing monthly balance sheet reconciliations across key accounts

• Overseeing CAPEX and maintaining the Fixed Asset Register in alignment with project timelines

• Managing intercompany transactions and ensuring alignment with global processes

• Continuously improving financial controls, process documentation, and internal training

• Rotating across accounting tasks to build broad capability and cross-functional coverage within the team

Financial and Management Accounting and Reporting

• Support the accuracy and integrity of financial processes and reporting of financial statements. 
• As required, maintain specific controls through GL reconciliations (such as inventory, warranty, rebates, marketing, revaluations, provisions) and reports substantiating the ledger balances
• Support the finance team to prepare the monthly and annual (audited) accounts of the business unit, including supporting the preparation of business reports and presentations as required.
• Ensure compliance with Group financial policies and proactively recommend process improvements

You’ll demonstrate

Strong written and verbal communication skills, an ability to grasp and understand complex business issues and translate to non-financial personnel, a customer facing aptitude (including internal stakeholders), an ability to time manage competing demands.

You’ll be self-motivated and display initiative, a true ‘self-starter’, proactive and solutions focused. Importantly you will work collaboratively to deliver a successful outcome for the business

What we offer

Excellent development, growth, and progression opportunities within our global business. Generous product discounts for yourself, friends & family. Membership to our superannuation scheme. A beautiful office space with all the mod cons, free parking and an on-site subsidised café. A fun, supportive and down-to-earth working environment.

Coupled with great leadership and backed by a world leading heritage brand that is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand’s most Trusted Brands… year after year.

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If this all adds-up for you, then we’ll look forward to your application – Please include a cover letter and your CV.

From the grandest of ideas to the smallest of details, every day we're turning our passion into performance and improving life through good design.

Here at Fisher & Paykel we're passionate about our customers and we care about the details. It's this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal - to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world.

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Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.