Senior Financial Accountant

Transpower is the backbone of New Zealand’s electricity system. As owner and operator of the national grid, we’re at the centre of the country’s transition to a low-emissions economy, enabling decarbonisation while keeping electricity reliable for homes, businesses and communities.

About The Team

The Financial Reporting team delivers external financial reporting and tax compliance, maintains a strong financial control environment, and provides technical accounting and tax advice across the organisation.

The team also manages Transpower’s accounting, tax and regulatory asset registers, ensuring capital investment is accurately reflected for pricing, regulatory and revenue purposes. Over the next 12–18 months, this role will also contribute to our finance systems replacement programme, helping design and embed improved processes and reporting.

About The Opportunity

As Senior Financial Accountant, you’ll lead the delivery of external financial reporting and group tax obligations. You’ll coordinate key half-year and full-year statutory deliverables, lead core corporate tax activities, and manage the external audit process to achieve a high-quality, well-controlled outcome.

As the team’s tax subject matter expert, you’ll partner with leaders across the business on GST and other tax matters, and develop clear, well-reasoned technical positions. You’ll also contribute to change initiatives across the year, including systems and reporting improvements and preparation for new requirements such as IFRS 18.

Working alongside the Financial Reporting Manager, you’ll help strengthen the financial and tax control framework and identify smarter ways of working through process improvement, systems and automation. You’ll also support specialised regulatory reporting requirements, including RBNZ reporting for our captive insurer.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead group tax compliance and advisory work, including income tax returns, tax effect accounting, calculations, and Inland Revenue engagement
• Lead half-year and full-year external financial reporting, including preparation and review of Group Financial Statements and disclosures
• Manage the statutory audit end-to-end and keep strengthening the financial and tax control environment through process, system, and reporting improvements

About You

You’re a technically strong financial accountant who is comfortable working with complexity and competing deadlines. You bring sound judgement, strong attention to detail, and the confidence to work with senior stakeholders, auditors and advisers.

You enjoy improving how work is done, strengthening processes and systems, and bringing clarity to technical accounting and tax questions. You communicate in a straightforward way and adapt your style to suit different audiences.

To be successful in this role, your CV and cover letter will demonstrate:

• Deep knowledge of New Zealand corporate tax (including income tax and provisional tax), plus working knowledge of GST, FBT, and withholding tax, with the ability to interpret legislation and provide clear, practical guidance
• Strong knowledge and practical application of New Zealand and International Financial Reporting Standards
• Experience managing statutory audits and preparing technical accounting and tax papers, with the ability to build effective relationships with auditors and advisers
• Ability to translate complex accounting matters into actionable advice for internal stakeholders, with a strong customer focus
• Strong financial systems and control knowledge (including reconciliations), with a high level of accuracy and follow-through
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills and confidence using Microsoft 365 tools

A CA qualification, or equivalent, is essential.

Experience in large, complex or regulated environments will be well regarded, as will exposure to infrastructure or energy organisations.

Join us at Transpower

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share and which we celebrate.

We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for both work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times.

Your wellbeing is prioritised with a range of employee health and wellness benefits - check them out here: Staff benefits | Transpower

Next steps

If you’re looking for challenging, meaningful work in a sector that continues to evolve, please review the position description above and submit your application along with a cover letter outlining your interest without delay.

Role closes Wednesday 1 July. However, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and candidates may be contacted before the closing date to facilitate shortlisting.

Further information can be found in our latest integrated report: Transpower Integrated Report FY25 - 15-Aug.pdf