Finance Manager (Financial Insights Specialist)

Contact Energy; Wellington; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Contact Energy seeks a Finance Manager (Financial Insights Specialist) in Wellington to lead forecasting, performance reporting, and long-range planning. The role partners with Finance and Trading to deliver commercially focused insights across operational, market, and financial dimensions, shaping investment decisions and strategic direction.

The role requires strong technical finance capability, business partnering experience, and excellent communication skills to influence leaders and drive

Qualifications

• Significant experience in commercial finance, financial insights or business partnering.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for leadership.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercially relevant insights to support decision making.
• Translate financial, operational and market information into clear analysis and recommendations.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning activities.
• Support enterprise reporting and finance insight frameworks.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders and influence discussions.

Skills

Commercial finance

Financial insights

Business partnering

Stakeholder influence

Forecasting

Data interpretation

Job description

Finance Manager (Financial Insights Specialist)

• Full-time
• Department: Finance

At Contact, we believe home is the most important place in the world. That belief shapes everything we do, from leading the energy transition to how we power Aotearoa and care for our people and communities.

We’re a power, broadband, and mobile company, but we’re also investing boldly in renewable energy and smarter, more connected ways of working (mahi). Our ambition is simple: to leave Aotearoa better than we found it. Guided by our values & behaviours, we’re a team who care deeply about the work we do, how we support one another, and the impact we have. Simply put, we touch lives to make life better.

As Contact continues to grow and invest in New Zealand's energy future, the Finance team plays a critical role in helping the business make confident, commercially informed decisions. This fixed-term opportunity sits within our Financial Insights group (rōpū) and supports the Trading function, one of the most commercially significant and dynamic parts of our business. You’ll work at the intersection of commercial finance, electricity markets, operational performance, and long-term business planning, helping leaders understand what is happening today and what it could mean for tomorrow.

Working alongside finance and trading leaders, you’ll connect what is happening across our operations, the electricity market, and our financial performance. You’ll turn complex information into meaningful insights, helping leaders understand risks, opportunities, and the decisions that will shape future outcomes.

TeWhiwhingamahi | The Opportunity

This is a role for someone who enjoys making sense of complexity and influencing decisions through insight.

Partnering with Contact's Trading function, you’ll work closely with finance and business leaders to bring together operational, market, and financial information into a clear, commercially relevant story. You’ll connect performance, risk, market conditions, and future planning, ensuring decision-makers have the insight they need to act with confidence.

Over the course of this fixed term, you’ll contribute to significant forecasting, performance reporting, and long-range planning activities, helping shape how the business understands performance and makes investment decisions into the future.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with Finance and Trading leaders to provide commercially relevant insights that support decision making.
• Translate financial, operational, and market information into meaningful analysis, performance commentary, and recommendations.
• Deliver on forecasting, budgeting, and planning activities, ensuring leaders have clarity on emerging risks and opportunities.
• Support enterprise reporting and financial insight frameworks that enable consistent, decision-ready information.
• Build strong relationships across Finance and the wider business, influencing conversations through trusted advice and sound judgement.
• Play a key role in significant planning and reporting initiatives, including long-term forecasting and strategic planning activities.
• Ensure insight deliverables are accurate, transparent, and of a high technical standard.

Kowaikoe| About You

You're someone who naturally looks beyond the numbers to understand the commercial story underneath. You're curious, commercially minded, and comfortable working where there are lots of moving parts. You enjoy helping people navigate uncertainty by providing clear insight, thoughtful challenge, and practical advice. You're naturally interested in understanding emerging risks, opportunities, and the factors that influence future performance.

You'll likely bring:

• Significant experience in commercial finance, financial insights, business partnering, or a similar discipline.
• The ability to combine technical finance expertise with commercial judgement to support business decisions, assess risk, and identify opportunities.
• Strong technical finance capability, with the ability to confidently challenge assumptions, understand financial drivers, and provide robust analysis.
• Experience working within complex, commercially focused organisations where revenue, cost, performance, and strategic decision making are closely linked.
• The ability to interpret data, identify trends, and communicate insights clearly to a range of audiences.
• Confidence building relationships with senior stakeholders, with the ability to influence conversations, shape thinking, and build alignment.
• Sound judgement in identifying emerging risks, opportunities, and patterns that support better decision making.
• Experience operating in environments with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and evolving business needs.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to adapt your style and bring people on the journey.
• Experience within energy, electricity markets, financial services, trading environments, capital markets, or other commercially complex industries would be valuable.

Additional Information

This is a fixed-term position through to mid-August 2027.

We support flexible working where it works for the individual, the team and the business. For this role, Wellington is the preferred location, as regular in-person collaboration with the Trading function and key stakeholders will be important to your success.

Contact is not a place you’ll stagnate. Even in a fixed-term role, you’ll enjoy a generous suite of benefits designed to support your wellbeing and make life a little easier. You’ll have the flexibility to work in ways that suit you and your team, plus access to our 'Good to be Home' annual payment to help with your home setup and wellbeing. If you’re a Contact customer, you’ll also receive twice-yearly payments toward your energy and broadband bills. You’ll even get a boosted 4% KiwiSaver employer contribution while you’re here with us! And ... if your fixed-term runs for 18 months or longer, Southern Cross health insurance cover. And of course, you’ll also have access to a range of additional corporate discounts that make it good to work at Contact.

Applications close on 2nd November 2026.

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko), we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical, mental, financial and emotional wellbeing – including flexible working arrangements, employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko, we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age, stage, background, and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box.We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent team. In the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.