Te Tākinatanga | Our Story
At Contact, we believe home is the most important place in the world. It’s all part of our vision to leave Aotearoa better than we found it. We’re a power and broadband company, but we’re so much more than that. We are transforming the ways we mahi, and how Aotearoa is powered, leading the charge on renewable energy and digitising customer journeys in ways not yet seen here. A team of 1000+ from all walks of life who love what we do, look out for each other, and learn from one another every day, we’re stoked to be guided by our tikanga: we touch lives to make life better.
Job Description
Kōrero mō te tūranga | About the role
Our Finance & Risk team do the numbers mahi that empowers us to put our energy where it matters. In this newly created role as Assistant Accountant, you’ll help us make better decisions that bring our strategy to life by working with Technical Accounting and Tax on month-end, returns, tax compliance and advisory tasks, external statutory financial accounts and regulatory requirements, and participating in Contact’s budgeting and forecasting process. You’ll also liaise with external auditors in the completion of their review and audit of the external statutory financial accounts.
Reporting to the Technical Accounting Manager (who’s very cool), you’ll join a tight knit, fun team who are big on mentoring, approachable, always there for their people, and operate in total transparency. From a learning perspective, that’s awesome. There are heaps of growth opportunities, and in the words of the guy who could be your new boss, “It feels pretty cool to work for Contact, especially with all the different parts – we’re one company that’s doing a bunch of different stuff. Electricity generation, selling broadband; Retail business is like a billing or ICT company. There are a whole lot of different platforms that are entirely different but all within one company.”
Qualifications
Ko wai koe | About you
As you work toward your CA qualification, you’re keen to be somewhere that sees your potential and appreciates it. (Hint: That’s us.) Solutions-driven, you love getting stuck into a good challenge and are comfortable handling a variety of work. You have keen attention to detail and will be applying NZ GAAP to deliver best practice.
There’s a lot of communication in this role so it’s essential you can hold a conversation, and there are times you’ll need to juggle priorities so time management and initiative are also key.
Additional Information
We support our people to work how, where and when works the best. Most of the team are based in Wellington and work in the office at least a couple days a week, so that would be the place to be if you enjoy regular in-person team time (and all that valuable learning you get being around people), however this role can be fully remote, and we’re open to applications from all over Aotearoa.
Contact is not a place you’ll stagnate. We are growing and offer superb personal and professional development opportunities along with a bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover, better-than-your-average leave, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, a trail-blazing parental leave policy, discounts on Contact Energy products, and more.
We’re keen to welcome a new Assistant Accountant to the team soon so if this sounds like a bit of you, apply now, or if there’s something you’re curious to know before making it official, contact Tash on [email protected].
Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.
Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We’re not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don’t meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We’d love to kōrero.
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