Principal advisor finance

Full job description

Mōu | For you

Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health, and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

Starting salary: $118,052 - $138,158 negotiable + superannuation

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ, the Way We Work and our benefits. We want working for us… to work for you!!

Other benefits of joining our Stats whānau include:

• Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
• Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
• Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
• 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
• City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs
• State of the art, brand new 6-star green building in Wellington

Ko mātou | About Us

Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of 1600+ people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

Te tūnga | The role

This is a 6-month fixed term/acting role, reporting directly to the CFO.

You will be flexible and thrive on a variety of work that covers the range of finance functions from process improvement to engagement with government finance processes to developing business cases and supporting budget bids.

You will see everything as an opportunity to improve or enhance the way we work.

You will lead and influence across Stats NZ. You will also develop great relationships with Treasury and our auditors.

You will work closely with the Senior Manager Finance Advisory and the Financial Controller and across Stats NZ to ensure that managers experience extraordinary finance support.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring

We understand transferable skills can come from experience gained from outside of work. We encourage you to be you in your application. Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, tell us what attracted you to this role, and tell us what you would bring to Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ.

• Your knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori.
• How you've demonstrated, encouraged, or supported diversity and inclusion in or outside of work.
• Examples of key relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
• Where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g., led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
• Where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, learned, and applied or shared your learnings.
• Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, everyone is a customer mentality, collaborated with others and invited feedback, spent time with diverse people and communities to broaden your views.
• Understanding of the machinery of government and related processes and procedures

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

If this sounds like you, click on the Apply now button to be redirect to the application page on our careers site. The position description is located on the right-hand side of the page.

We are truly committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.

We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview shortly after the advert closes. You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process.

Please reach out to if you have any questions.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.

Reference #

11407

Posted on

17 May 2024

Closes on

24 May 2024 22:55

Location(s)

Wellington

Expertise

Finance

Job level(s)

4-6 years experience, 7+ years experience

Work type(s)

Fixed term full-time