Finance Manager - Part-Time

The Employer

Aktive is seeking an experienced part time, Finance Manager, who is keen to utilise their skills and experiences to help our small but mighty organisation realise our bold aspiration of making Auckland the world’s most active city. Having recently refreshed our 2024 – 2028 Strategy, we’re clear on where we need to focus our efforts as a team to ensure the greatest possible impact. Come and help us make a difference.  

The Role

Is there a better part time, executive level finance role in the market? We think not. As our Finance Manager you will be working three days a week, as part of a high performing, passionate Executive Team. You’ll be providing strategic financial and commercial advice to the Chief Executive, Executive Team and Board in order to maximise resource utilisation and support the achievement of our organisational goals.

Key responsibilities include

• Leading collaborative planning processes to deliver robust and accurate budgets and forecasts, aligned to strategic priorities. 
• Managing efficient day to day financial processing including accounts. payable, receivable and payroll.
• Processing month end procedures and associated reporting.
• Managing audit requirements and processes.
• Ensuring control environment and financial systems and policies are robust.
• Ensuring compliance with all statutory regulation, tax and accounting standards. 
• Leading our Audit and Risk Committee processes ensuring all reporting is produced to a high professional standard and in a timely manner. 

The Ideal Person
We are looking for a candidate who has:

• A CA qualification.
• Over 10 years of experience in leadership or senior-level finance roles.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Strong technical expertise in financial reporting, including budgeting, cash flow management, and forecasting.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• An ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines. 

Expertise in Xero is essential, and being Xero certified is a definite advantage.

For the full job description, you can copy and paste the below URL into your preferred web browser: https://aktive.org.nz/media/n0zhwavb/finance-manager-june-2024-final.docx

How to Apply

If this sounds like the role for you, please submit your cover letter detailing why you are our ideal candidate and your CV via SEEK by 4pm, Monday 1 July in doing so, please be aware that first stage interviews are earmarked for Thursday 4 July. Candidates successful in proceeding to this stage will be advised via email on Tuesday 2 July.

This opportunity is only open to candidates who are currently living in New Zealand and have the legal right to work here on a full-time and ongoing basis.

Please note, applicants may be required to complete relevant background checks as part of the recruitment process for this role which may include criminal and / or credit checks.