Senior Finance Manager
GWA Group, New Zealand
Job Description
Water scarcity affects all communities and given that our consumers enjoy experiencing our products every day, we help to save millions of litres of water each year.
Since 1886, the experts at GWA have designed innovative, high quality products for homes and offices. We have market leading, iconic brands including Methven, Caroma, Dorf and Clark.
Our success is driven by a global team that share a passion to make life better by creating superior solutions for water, our planet’s most precious resource.
GWA is on a journey from Good to Great, and we are looking for people who are excited by change and want to make a difference. We care for each other and encourage people to take the lead to deliver superior solutions for our customers and consumers.
Our Finance team come from a variety of backgrounds and all share a common purpose of ensuring they bring to life all three of our cultural pillars: We are Customer Focused amp; Consumer Driven; We all Lead and We Care for Each Other. Their passion and dedication are evident in how they all work together to ensure everyone achieves and that they play in a role in making GWA a great place to work!
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!
We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join our team based at our Avondale site in Auckland.
Reporting through to the Group CFO, who is based in Sydney, in this role you will be responsible for ensuring the highest quality and timely management reporting and planning for the New Zealand market. As a member of the New Zealand Leadership team your role will also be to partnering with them and the Group CEO regarding sales, marketing and other business functions.
This is a great opportunity for a commercially savvy Finance Manager to not only bring to life your technical skills, but more importantly your leadership capability to lead a team of four experienced finance professionals and be a true business partner to the NZ Leadership Team.
You will have the normal requirements of a Finance Manager, like a Bachelor’s degree and CA qualifications, and if you can tick the box on the details below, then we want to hear from you!
- 10+ years’ experience in a management accounting role, ideally from within a manufacturing or retail company
- Have strong technical accounting skills and be adept in areas such as financial analysis, setting budgets and forecasting, and producing full monthly management accounts
- Around 5 years’ experience leading a team of people
- Experience in successfully leading people through change
- Advanced Excel skills with the ability to drive data analysis to provide meaningful insights, whilst at the same time solving complex problems
- Proven ability of achieving results within tight deadlines
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
- Understand the benefits of teamwork, and enjoy leading a team and being part of a high performing leadership team
Sound like you?
Come join us and work with great people, great brands and a business with a history of strong growth. All you need to do is hit the apply button and be part of a company that is making life better for our customers, consumers and communities!