Management Accountant

The Role

Fisher & Paykel is an iconic New Zealand brand, a global company with a strong local heritage. Our origins inspire our culture of curiosity and passion to develop solutions designed around people - these are some of the core elements that make us unique.

We are driven by our values of being trusted, sustainably minded, innovative, generous, and curious. As a team we take a collaborative approach and have a working environment where all ideas are heard, evaluated, and tested against our leading goal - to be the world's most human-centred appliance brand.

The Management Accountant supports the New Zealand Customer Experience business to achieve our targets and pursue our leading goals.

As the Management Accountant, you will be responsible for the NZ Distributor financial and management accounting function, including monthly reporting, budgets and forecast, pricing, financial analysis, and modelling, and providing insights and business partnering to support management.

Providing valuable support to the Fisher & Paykel Appliances team within our NZ business unit (NZ Distributor).

Delivering the financial information and analytical insights that the local and global business requires to operate effectively, efficiently, accurately and in a timely fashion.

Supporting the NZ distributor teams to meet the objectives. Part of a team of nine finance staff offering business unit accounting, budgeting, inventory management, pricing, customer services and commercial support.

That’s the role, so who are you?

You will have a minimum 3 years post qualification experience.

Required experience:

Experience in and knowledge of: Distribution accountancy in medium/large organisations, pricing and adjustments, logistics, and inventory management.

You may have

Previous experience in distributor or retail businesses, appropriate tertiary qualifications and CA qualified (or working towards CA) or equivalent , technical skills, a strong financial understanding and analytical skills, an ability to identify opportunities to improve business performance, an ability to interpret diverse data sets - identifying trends and insights, intermediate to advanced abilities in MS Office and analytics applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), systems skills and knowledge of large ERP systems (JDE, Salesforce)

You’ll demonstrate

Strong written and verbal communication skills, an ability to grasp and understand complex business issues and translate to non-financial personnel, a customer facing aptitude (including internal stakeholders), an ability to time manage competing demands.

You’ll be self -motivated and display initiative, a true ‘self-starter’, proactive and solutions focused. Importantly you will work collaboratively to deliver a successful outcome for the business.

What we offer

Excellent development, growth, and progression opportunities within our global business. Generous product discounts for yourself, friends & family.

A beautiful office space with all the mod cons, free parking and an on-site subsidised café. A fun, supportive and down-to-earth working environment.

Coupled with great leadership and backed by a world leading heritage brand that is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand’s most Trusted Brands… year after year.

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You do the numbers, and we’ll look forward to your application! (Please provide a combined CV & Cover letter in once document.)

From the grandest of ideas to the smallest of details, every day we're turning our passion into performance and improving life through good design.

Here at Fisher & Paykel we're passionate about our customers and we care about the details. It's this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal - to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world

Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.