Business Advisor
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Business Advisor is responsible for providing efficient and effective advisory and support services to managers and employees across the branch to help deliver MBIE’s outcomes.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- A proven track record of experience in providing high quality business advisory services.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Problem solving skills.
- Demonstrated agility in supporting multiple teams and responding to changes in priorities.
- Wide ranging knowledge of business systems and processes.
- Ability to understand and apply legislation.
- An understanding of machinery of government.
- Sound relationship management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proactive and uses initiative.
- IT savvy with an ability to learn new software programmes.
- Strong experience in Microsoft Office applications.
- Willingness to work in a flexible and dynamic environment.
- Must have the ability to work in New Zealand.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Business advisory services
- Provides effective and efficient business advisory services for branch managers and employees.
- Prepares Branch reporting to a high standard.
- Coordinates input into MBIE accountability processes, including Select Committee hearings and annual reports.
- Provides financial support, including maintaining sensitive expenditure process and practice, completing month-end journals, accruals, and reconciliation, and supports financial assurance activities.
- Provides contract management support, including ensuring all contracts are entered into the contract management system, drafting contracts and corresponding approval memos, liaising with MBIE procurement, and advising managers on relevant MBIE and AOG procurement policies and processes.
- Maintains the health and safety system within the branch and monitors that all requirements are being met and registers maintained.
- Maintains and seeks to continuously improve branch processes, ensuring they are aligned to MBIE policies.
- Works with branch employees to provide Official Information Act (OIA) responses to requestors, ensuring the business unit meets the statutory timeliness and quality standards.
- Provides project coordination to key branch projects.
- Ensure the Business Continuity plans, and related documents are updated on a regular basis.
Self-management
- Takes responsibility for own behaviour and is open to development.
- Models positive behaviours.
- Models the desired values and culture of the organisation.
- Willingly shares knowledge and expertise within the branch and with others in the organisation.
- Acts with honesty and integrity.
- Welcomes feedback and is receptive to input from others.
Wellbeing, health & safety
- Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
- Ensures own and others safety at all times.
- Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
- Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
- Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.
Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry
The Business Advisor position reports into the Business Services Manager within the Business and Consumer branch. The branch sits within the Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery group.
To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand
Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.
As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).
Ngā matatau – Our competencies
Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.
Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.
Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.
Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.
Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.
Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.
Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service
Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.
In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.
What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission
