Members Accountant Team Lead
Foodstuffs North Island Limited
Date: 13 hours ago
City: Auckland, Auckland
Contract type: Full time
Ko Wai Mātou – About Us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE, Gilmours and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.
Our Commercial Operations Group are a financial ‘supermarket’ delivering a broad range of solutions to support the Co-op across commercial finance, store ownership, funding, financial planning & management, data analysis & reporting, accounting & transactional services including payroll, AR & AP & master data solutions.
Te Tūranga – About The Role
Working closely with the Members Accounting Manager and senior leadership, you will work collaboratively with our Member Stores - managing the monthly close and statutory reporting, ensuring financial information is delivered pro-actively and providing targeted and actionable analysis and compliance monitoring.
Key Focus Areas Include
With an Accounting qualification and proven business partnership experience, you will be comfortable operating both at a strategic and tactical level, taking ownership with well-developed commercial and financial acumen.
You will offer a strong track record in financial problem solving, preferably trained within big 4 practice, experience in large enterprises and will have a solid grasp of financial and management accounting, corporate governance and be skilled in the areas of risk management and working capital and cashflow.
Strong, practical commercial understanding, and a flare for simplifying complex business problems will be a strength as will be working collaboratively to influence key stakeholders.
This is a leadership role with operational management of the Members Accounting Team of 8.
You will demonstrate a strong collaboration style, be focused on solution finding, ability to interpret the ‘big picture’ and communicate that to a broad audience. We look for leaders who are connected, culture focused and have a natural ability to guide, grow, develop and support others.
Ngā Painga - What We Offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected] . Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Don’t ‘shelve’ your potential, come be a part of our team!
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE, Gilmours and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.
Our Commercial Operations Group are a financial ‘supermarket’ delivering a broad range of solutions to support the Co-op across commercial finance, store ownership, funding, financial planning & management, data analysis & reporting, accounting & transactional services including payroll, AR & AP & master data solutions.
Te Tūranga – About The Role
Working closely with the Members Accounting Manager and senior leadership, you will work collaboratively with our Member Stores - managing the monthly close and statutory reporting, ensuring financial information is delivered pro-actively and providing targeted and actionable analysis and compliance monitoring.
Key Focus Areas Include
- Working closely with our Member stores to run month end close process & orchestration of year end close for both group consolidation & individual store accounting needs.
- Ensuring data integrity, consistency & reliability to support financial reporting & decision making at a whole of business and in store level.
- Assist Member stores in achieving optimal financial performance by providing insightful, actionable analysis & recommendations
- Leadership, orchestration & quality control of centralised tasks – including journal postings, lease accounting, compliance monitoring
- Active identification and delivery of productivity opportunities - utilising expertise in process management, software tools, accounting systems (including SAP, MYOB, and XERO), to further enhance efficiency and accuracy of financial processes.
- Pro-active risk management - ensuring appropriate controls, policies & processes are embedded across the business and building effective and efficient compliance and risk mitigation practices.
- Support the Members Accounting Manager in managing the relationship with Outsource Partners
- Leadership & direct coaching/professional mentoring for team accountants focused on growth & development for future requirements
With an Accounting qualification and proven business partnership experience, you will be comfortable operating both at a strategic and tactical level, taking ownership with well-developed commercial and financial acumen.
You will offer a strong track record in financial problem solving, preferably trained within big 4 practice, experience in large enterprises and will have a solid grasp of financial and management accounting, corporate governance and be skilled in the areas of risk management and working capital and cashflow.
Strong, practical commercial understanding, and a flare for simplifying complex business problems will be a strength as will be working collaboratively to influence key stakeholders.
This is a leadership role with operational management of the Members Accounting Team of 8.
You will demonstrate a strong collaboration style, be focused on solution finding, ability to interpret the ‘big picture’ and communicate that to a broad audience. We look for leaders who are connected, culture focused and have a natural ability to guide, grow, develop and support others.
Ngā Painga - What We Offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits
- Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
- Southern cross health insurance, Foodies superannuation scheme
- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
- Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected] . Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Don’t ‘shelve’ your potential, come be a part of our team!
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