Finance Business Partner

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment; Wellington; On-site; NZD 132,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver

Wellness benefits

Job summary

MBIE’s Finance Business Partner role supports Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery (TWSD) and reports to the Head of Finance within Corporate and Digital Shared Services. You will partner with TWSD portfolio GMs to set direction and drive financial strategy for your portfolios.

You will provide financial advice, influence senior stakeholders, ensure reporting complies with legislation, and support budgeting, forecasting, and analysis to deliver strategic outcomes.

Qualifications

• CAANZ qualified or equivalent
• Experience in financial management & reporting within large, complex organisations
• Strong experience in driving outcomes and managing diverse stakeholder interests
• Excellent communication and ability to influence decisions and present insights to non-accountants
• Strong analytical, strategic and planning skills and commercial acumen
• Team player capable of collaborating at senior leadership level
• Ability to engage and establish effective working relationships
• Legal right to live and work in New Zealand

Responsibilities

• Provide budgeting and forecasting support and financial reporting for portfolios
• Offer financial advice and influence senior stakeholders on financial strategy
• Drive the financial direction in partnership with TWSD portfolio GMs and Head of Finance
• Ensure compliance with legislative requirements and best practice in financial management
• Support delivery of strategic financial outcomes through robust analysis and reporting

Skills

Financial management & reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Effective communication

Analytical & strategic thinking

Team collaboration at senior levels

Relationship building

Education

CAANZ qualified or equivalent

Legal right to live and work in New Zealand

Job description

• Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner looking for the next step/challenge in your career?
• Permanent full-time opportunity based in Wellington CBD
• Salary $132,417 - $160,472 + KiwiSaver + wellness benefits

About the Role - Tēnei tūranga:

The Finance Business Partner supports Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery (TWSD) and reports to the Head of Finance within Corporate and Digital Shared Services. In this role, you will partner with the TWSD portfolio GMs and the Head of Finance TWSD to set the direction and drive the implementation of financial strategy for your portfolios.

While doing so, you will ensure alignment with the overall Ministry's strategic plan and stated outcomes.

You will work with the business to provide financial advice, effectively influence senior stakeholders in addition to providing assurance to the GM's that financial management processes, procedures and reporting comply with legislative requirements and best practice.

You will be key in ensuring the business delivers on their strategic financial outcomes, by providing budgeting and forecasting support, and reporting and analysis to support this.

Skills and Experience Required - Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana

We are looking for a self-driven and pragmatic CA (or equivalent) who has:

• Experience in financial management & reporting within large, complex and diverse organisations
• Strong experience in driving outcomes and managing diverse stakeholder interests
• Great communication skills and experience in leading conversations, influencing decisions and presenting performance insights in an articulate and easily comprehensible manner to non-accountants
• Strong analytical, strategic and planning skills as well as being commercially savvy
• Experience being a strong team player who is comfortable with collaborating and contributing at senior leadership team level
• Ability to engage and establish effective working relationships
• Be CAANZ qualified or equivalent
• Have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand

About MBIE - Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE:

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.

• Mahi Tahi - Better Together
• Māia - Bold and brave
• Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
• Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means 'lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

Applications close on Wednesday 7 October 2026 (midnight)