Graduate Finance, Planning & Analysis Business Partner

Start your finance career in a role designed to develop you into a future Finance Business Partner.

Skills Group is looking for an ambitious Graduate Finance, Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Business Partner to join our Finance team at our Ellerslie office.

Designed specifically as an entry-level opportunity, this role offers a structured development pathway into commercial finance. You'll work alongside two experienced FP&A Business Partners, gaining hands-on experience across financial analysis, management reporting, forecasting and scenario modelling while developing the commercial awareness and technical capability needed to progress into a full Business Partner role over time.

If you're a recent finance, accounting or economics graduate who is analytical, curious and eager to learn, this is a great opportunity to turn your degree into a career and develop within a high-quality FP&A environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Support monthly financial performance analysis, including data extraction, reconciliation and preparation for management reporting.
• Prepare financial analysis and model inputs to support forecasting cycles alongside the FP&A Business Partners.
• Maintain and update financial reports and dashboards, ensuring information is accurate, current and clearly presented.
• Assist with ad hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling to support business decision-making.
• Build your understanding of Skills Group's revenue streams, cost structures and key operational and financial drivers.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of FP&A processes and reporting tools while actively participating in your own structured development.

What You'll Bring

• A degree in finance, accounting, economics or a related discipline.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and confidence working with financial data.
• Genuine curiosity about how businesses operate and how financial decisions are made.
• A collaborative approach, eagerness to learn and the ability to take feedback on board and apply it.
• Experience with AI, Power BI or financial planning tools would be advantageous, as would progress towards a professional accounting qualification.

Why join Skills Group?

At Skills Group, our purpose is to maximise human potential. For more than 30 years, we've partnered with learners, employers and industry to build a skilled workforce across New Zealand.

You'll join an experienced Finance team where you'll have the opportunity to learn directly from commercial finance professionals, develop your technical and business partnering capability, and build the foundations for a long-term career in FP&A.

Our culture is built on our Vital Signs of Joy, Manaakitanga, Grow and Bold, creating an environment where curiosity, development and continuous learning are encouraged.

Benefits That Back You

• Health & wellbeing: Fully subsidised Southern Cross medical insurance, TELUS Health Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and annual flu vaccinations.
• Flexible work & leave: Flexible working arrangements, birthday leave, extended bereavement leave, and long service leave.
• Financial benefits: 3.5% KiwiSaver contribution, 2% SuperLife contribution, and a $500 employee referral bonus.
• Learning & development: Weekly paid learning time (Love Yr Skills), LinkedIn Learning access, and in-house workshops.

If you're ready to turn your finance degree into a career and develop the skills to become a future Finance Business Partner, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and start building your career in FP&A with Skills Group.