Westland Milk Products Looking for Finance Business Partner / Management Accountant at Christchurch Central, Canterbury Full Time

About the Company:

From the wildest places come the purest ingredients. Born on the beautifully raw West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Westland Milk Products is a well-known end-to-end dairy manufacturer with an excellent international reputation that embodies the West Coast spirit in all that it does. It’s taken some good old-fashioned hard work to get where we are, and our committed team is a huge part of our ongoing success. We process over 700 million litres of milk a year and we are proud of the wide range of consumer and foodservice products, and dairy ingredients that we produce.

The Role:

Based in our new offices in Christchurch (Hornby) and reporting to our Commercial Finance Manager, this is a new Finance Business Partner / Management Accountant opportunity within Westland, providing dedicated support to our Retail and Food Service Sales team. This role provides the link between the official numbers and the information people need to run their business units. In particular, this role will provide the Retail and Food Service Sales team with assistance regarding profitability analysis, forecasting, budgeting and reporting and preparing financial information to support enhanced strategic and operational decision-making.

This role will also support better management of financial risk and governance activities and ensure transactional accuracy in conjunction with the wider Finance processing team.

Our Successful Applicant Will Possess:

• Strong analytical skills and well-developed financial acumen
• An appropriate qualification (ideally tertiary). CA qualification is preferred but not essential.
• Proven experience working for a CA firm or in a similar finance position within a large organisation
• Exceptional communication, relationship management and influencing skills together with a proactive and “can-do” approach
• Strong attention to detail
• A desire to add value through the provision of robust financial information, analysis and reporting
• The ability to quickly assimilate how a large complex business works. Any prior knowledge of the dairy industry, FMCG and manufacturing environments would be advantageous

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a company that takes pride and passion in everything they do and help contribute robust financial information and analysis to facilitate exceptional business decision making. We will offer a competitive salary, health and other insurances, and a workplace you are proud to say you are a part of!!!

APPLY NOW!!! Please see the accompanying position description (available on our Westland Careers page westlandcareers.co.nz) for further information or call Nick Gee on 027 230 5481 for a confidential discussion.

Applications will close on Sunday 6th November 2022. To apply for this vacancy, you MUST possess current eligibility to work in New Zealand and due to current border restrictions, you MUST either currently reside in New Zealand, or if based offshore, be a New Zealand citizen, permanent resident, or resident with valid travel conditions.