The Role
The Senior Business Partner will oversee financial reporting, compliance, and month-end close processes while mentoring a team and driving improvements.
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Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE, Gilmours and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.
Our Commercial Operations Group are a financial ‘supermarket’ delivering a broad range of solutions to support the Co-op across commercial finance, store ownership, funding, financial planning & management, data analysis & reporting, accounting & transactional services including payroll, AR & AP & master data solutions.
Te Tūranga – About the role
This newly created role within our Members Accounting Team, will drive the monthly close and statutory reporting processes, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance across our store network.
You’ll lead a team of accountants and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver best-in-class financial support. This opportunity will see you working strategically with a future focused lens but will also require you to dig in the dirt and problem solve as you go.
We’re building the finance function of the future—innovative, data-driven, and people-focused. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that values fresh thinking, continuous improvement, and making a real impact across our business.
- Lead month-end and year-end close processes across the store network
- Deliver accurate and timely financial reporting and compliance.
- Mentor a team of accountants
- Provide technical accounting guidance and support business change
- Collaborate with outsource partners and internal stakeholders
- Drive continuous improvement and finance transformation initiatives
He kōrero mōu - About you
With a professional Accounting Qualification (CIMA, CA, CFA) and NZICA membership, senior level experience ideally Big 4 or large enterprise – you will bring expertise in financial and management accounting, governance, and risk.
Strong leadership with a natural flair for coaching and teaching, a collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement, and the ability to roll up the sleeves and problem solve at grass roots level.
You will have experience with SAP, MYOB, XERO and a passion for finance automation, innovation and be excited by change initiatives!
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of 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).
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected]. Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Ready to make a difference?
Apply now and help us shape the future of finance at Foodstuffs North Island.
Top Skills
Myob
SAP
Xero
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The Company
What We Do
Foodies is a cooperative, made up of 22,000 kiwis just like you, working hard to make sure New Zealanders get more out of life. Chances are you have been one of our customers, we serve more than 1.4 million kiwis each week through our PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores.
We have more than 350 stores up and down the North Island, from Houhora in the far north, to Island Bay in the coolest little capital in the world. And we have support centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington.
Check out www.foodstuffs.careers to hear our people talk about what they do, why they do it, and to hear about some of the coolest career opportunities in NZ.
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