Senior Finance Partner - Portfolio Strategy & Value

Watercare Services Limited; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Life and income protection insurance

Generous parental leave

Employee discounts at retailers

Job summary

Watercare Services Limited in Auckland seeks a commercially minded finance leader to own the Finance partnering relationship for your portfolio, drive budgeting, forecasting and benefits realisation, and provide independent advice to the Executive team.

You will lead initiatives to deliver opex savings, productivity and value-for-money opportunities, while communicating insights and risks to senior leaders to inform timely decisions.

Qualifications

• Significant senior finance or portfolio business partnering experience in a complex organisation.
• Proven record of delivering cost efficiency, productivity or performance improvement with measurable outcomes.
• Strong commercial judgement and ability to spot opportunities, test assumptions and shape practical solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives through influence, clear accountability and disciplined benefits tracking.
• Confidence partnering with Executive and senior leadership teams, including providing independent advice and constructive challenge.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, business-case and risk-management capability.
• Ability to simplify complex financial information and tell a compelling story that drives action.

Responsibilities

• Own the Finance partnering relationship for your portfolio and advise the relevant Executive and leadership team.
• Set and drive the portfolio financial performance agenda, making priorities, risks, cost drivers and performance issues visible and actionable.
• Identify, assess and drive material opex savings, productivity, demand-management, revenue and value-for-money opportunities.
• Lead initiatives from initial insight and commercial assessment through to implementation, tracking and confirmed benefits realisation.
• Lead portfolio budgeting, forecasting and operating planning, ensuring plans are credible, integrated and actively used to manage performance.
• Coordinate input from FP&A, Financial Control, Commercial, Regulatory Finance and Transformation so the portfolio receives joined-up Finance advice.

Skills

Senior finance experience

Commercial finance

Portfolio business partnering

Cost efficiency

Productivity improvements

Commercial judgment

Stakeholder engagement

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial modelling

Risk management

Executive partnering

Influencing skills

Education

Accounting/Finance/Commerce qualification

Job description

Watercare Services Limited in Auckland seeks a commercially minded finance leader to own the Finance partnering relationship for your portfolio, drive budgeting, forecasting and benefits realisation, and provide independent advice to the Executive team.

You will lead initiatives to deliver opex savings, productivity and value-for-money opportunities, while communicating insights and risks to senior leaders to inform timely decisions.