Accountant

Passion, integrity, and a genuine desire to do our best for farmers is what drives us at Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ).  We are 100% farmer-owned and funded and work on behalf of New Zealand’s sheep and beef producers. Our vision is for thriving sheep and beef farmers, now and into the future.  Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s investments play a critical role in underpinning New Zealand’s second biggest export sector.

We are seeking an Accountant to provide high quality financial support across B+LNZ, its subsidiaries, and the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium (PGgRc). This role is central to delivering accurate financial reporting, maintaining robust accounting processes, and ensuring confidence in our financial systems.

You’ll be responsible for preparing monthly management accounts, maintaining fixed assets and capital reporting, supporting annual budgeting and forecasting cycles, producing statutory accounts, and assisting with external audits.

You’ll also play an important part in maintaining our finance systems, supporting upgrades, ensuring compliance with legislation, and contributing to broader team initiatives and organisational projects.

We’re looking for someone with:

• strong technical accounting skills


• excellent attention to detail


• the ability to manage deadlines confidently


• a relevant tertiary qualification


• ideally be working toward CA or similar


• bring at least three years’ general accounting experience

This role is based in our Wellington office.

What we offer

This career move builds your expertise in a field that contributes to one of New Zealand’s most important export industries, and the New Zealand economy. We offer a competitive remuneration and excellent employee benefits including additional leave entitlements, a fully-subsidised life insurance policy, and a work culture that values and rewards passion, integrity, professionalism and strong workplace relationships based on respect and whānau.  

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Applications close - 5pm, Monday 6 April.