Strategic Management Accountant — End-to-End, Multi-Entity

Walter Findlay Limited; Gisborne; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

The Findlay Group in Gisborne, NZ is seeking a Management Accountant to report to the CFO with visibility across three group companies. This is an end-to-end role: close, compliance, analysis, forecasting, pricing and improvement. You will not be handed a single slice of a ledger.

You will own month-end close, build consolidations and monthly business snapshots, turning variance analysis into decisions. An ERP upgrade, robust controls, and airtight GST/FBT/tax reporting are part of the scope;

Qualifications

• Accounting or finance degree required.
• CA or CPA completed or underway.
• Solid command of NZ accounting standards and tax requirements.
• Management accounting experience with Excel and BI skills.
• The knack for making financial information land with non-finance people.
• Bonus points for multi-entity, manufacturing or payroll exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end and year-end close – and leave it faster than you found it.
• Build the consolidations, annual financial statements and monthly business snapshots that leadership reads.
• Turn variance analysis, budgets and forecasts into decisions, not documents.
• Model the numbers behind product pricing, where a decimal point moves real margin.
• Help drive the ERP upgrade and design controls built to scale with the group.
• Keep compliance airtight – GST, FBT, tax, regulatory reporting and audit.

Skills

Management accounting

Excel

BI skills

Financial analysis

Communication to non-finance

Education

Accounting or finance degree

CA or CPA completed or well underway

Tools

ERP software

Job description

The Findlay Group in Gisborne, NZ is seeking a Management Accountant to report to the CFO with visibility across three group companies. This is an end-to-end role: close, compliance, analysis, forecasting, pricing and improvement. You will not be handed a single slice of a ledger.

You will own month-end close, build consolidations and monthly business snapshots, turning variance analysis into decisions. An ERP upgrade, robust controls, and airtight GST/FBT/tax reporting are part of the scope;