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.
At Foodies, our Finance team is evolving. We're building a modern Performance & Planning function that delivers deeper insights and better decision making across the Co-op.
Te Tūranga – About the role
We're looking for commercially minded Senior Financial Analysts to join the team and help shape the future of financial planning, performance reporting, and analytical capability across Foodstuffs North Island.
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you'll be part of our Performance & Planning team, supporting enterprise planning, forecasting, reporting, financial modelling and performance analysis across the organisation. Working closely with Finance Business Partners and stakeholders across the business, you'll help deliver high quality financial insights and forward-looking decision support that drives performance across multiple business portfolios.
You'll also help modernise Finance with data, automation, AI and emerging technologies, improving the way we forecast, analyse and report. This is an opportunity to move beyond traditional reporting and play a key role in helping leaders understand performance, identify opportunities, and make better decisions for the future.
What you'll be doing
- Supporting budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes across the Co-op
- Developing financial models, scenario analysis and business performance insights
- Preparing management reporting and performance dashboards
- Identifying trends, risks and opportunities across financial and operational performance
- Partnering with Finance Business Partners and business stakeholders to provide meaningful analysis and recommendations
- Improving reporting efficiency and analytical capability through automation, AI and data driven solutions
- Contributing to the ongoing development of a modern, high performing Finance function
He kōrero mōu - About you
- Experience in financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, commercial finance or management accounting
- Strong analytical and financial modelling capability
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large and complex data sets
- The ability to translate financial information into clear, practical business insights
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and collaborate across multiple teams
- Curiosity about technology, automation, AI and how these can improve Finance outcomes
- A continuous improvement mindset and a desire to challenge traditional ways of working
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 help shape the future of Finance at Foodies?
Apply now and join us as we build a more connected, insightful and forward-looking Finance function.
Skills Required
- Experience in financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, commercial finance or management accounting
- Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes
- Strong analytical and financial modelling capability
- Advanced Excel skills
- Confidence working with large and complex data sets
- Ability to translate financial information into clear, practical business insights
- Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills
- Curiosity about technology, automation and AI and how they improve finance outcomes
- Continuous improvement mindset and desire to challenge traditional ways of working
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.
