Senior Management Accountant

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is seeking a Senior Management Accountant in Wellington. The role focuses on partnering with clinical and operational leaders to deliver forecasting, reporting and decision support that drives better patient outcomes across NZ’s health system.

You will lead financial modelling, provide strategic insights and coach teams to improve planning, with a focus on efficiency, equity and value across districts.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in accounting or finance and CAANZ membership or progress toward one.
• Extensive management accounting and financial analysis experience.
• Strong modelling, analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate planning and reporting and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Coordinated and consolidated reporting, planning, forecasting and analysis across portfolios.
• Clear ownership of finance processes, deadlines and timeframes as SME.
• Monthly reporting, commentary, variance analysis and financial advice to leaders.
• Quality financial information through peer review, coaching and templates.
• Financial modelling and scenario analysis for budgeting and business cases.

Skills

Financial analysis

Management accounting

Stakeholder management

Financial modelling

Education

Tertiary qualification in accounting/finance

CAANZ membership or equivalent

Job description

• Permanent, full-time posiiton based in Wellington.
• Building stronger business partnerships.
• Developing new finance capabilities.
• Exploring how AI can create better financial insights.
• Supporting significant transformation across the health sector.
• Contributing to better outcomes for patients, whānau and communities.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders.

The Central Region serves more than 1m New Zealanders in rural and urban communities in five districts: Wellington and Hutt Valley, Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, and Whanganui.

With a $5b annual operating budget and 20,000 dedicated staff working across these districts, we are working to ensure resources are used efficiently to deliver better care, reduce waiting times, and support equity across communities. Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

About the role

At Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, finance is about more than reporting numbers. It's about helping clinical and operational leaders make decisions that improve services and health outcomes for New Zealanders.

We're building a finance function that combines strong business partnering, technical excellence and emerging technologies to deliver greater insight and value. As artificial intelligence, automation and advanced analytics continue to evolve, we see exciting opportunities to enhance forecasting, modelling, reporting and decision support, allowing our people to focus on what matters most: partnering, influencing and creating impact.

You will provide technical leadership through expertise, influence and professional credibility, helping teams deliver:

• Coordinated and consolidated reporting, planning, forecasting and analysis across portfolios.
• Clear ownership of finance processes, deadlines and timeframes, acting as the recognised subject matter expert for the team.
• Monthly reporting, commentary, variance analysis and financial advice to support managers and clinical leaders.
• Quality financial information through peer review, coaching, knowledge sharing and consistent use of tools and templates.
• Financial modelling, scenario analysis and support for budgeting, forecasting, business cases and change initiatives as needed.

About you

We're looking for a Senior Management Accountant who wants to be part of that journey. Someone who enjoys solving complex problems, developing others, building trusted relationships and helping shape the future direction of finance within one of New Zealand's largest and most important organisations.

You will bring:

• A tertiary qualification in accounting, finance or a related discipline, with CAANZ membership, equivalent professional qualification, or progress toward one.
• Extensive experience in management accounting, financial analysis or finance business partnering, ideally in a complex multi-stakeholder environment.
• Strong financial modelling, analysis and problem-solving capability, with proven ability to coordinate planning and reporting processes, meet deadlines and support others to deliver quality outputs.

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

Job details

Job Reference:

Job Reference: HNZ/1954603

Location:

North Island - Wellington - Wellington Central

Job type:

Job type: Permanent Full time

Expertise:

Non-clinical - Finance / Accounting - Finance / Accounting