Senior Financial Accountant – Reporting
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Senior Financial Accountant (Reporting) is responsible for ensuring the completeness and integrity of all MBIE external reporting information to stakeholders. The Senior Financial Accountant (Reporting) will bring technical expertise to the External Reporting team, ensuring MBIE meets its statutory responsibilities and receives consistent and high quality advice and support.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Proven experience in financial accounting in a medium to large organisation.
- Experience in Crown Financial Information System.
- Experience responding to Official Information Act requests and Parliamentary Questions.
- Experience in financial reporting and the completion of entity financial statements.
- Demonstrated problem analysis skills and sound judgement.
- Demonstrated communication, facilitation, influencing and interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical information in plain language.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and effectively manage risks to maximise outcomes.
- A demonstrable commitment to improving financial management.
- Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with managers and staff.
Pre requisites
- Tertiary qualification in accounting.
- CA qualified with 3 to 5 years post CA experience.
- Must consent to and satisfactorily complete a credit check.
- Must have the right to live and work in New Zealand.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Delivery and results
- Delivery of specialist Financial Accounting services that actively support and contribute to the achievement of the Ministry’s outcomes and that deliver to the needs of internal and external stakeholders:
- Undertaking departmental and non-departmental financial reporting, including ensuring accounting policies and practices are in line with instructions and generally accepted accounting principles.
- Providing support to managers and Finance and Performance staff to ensure complex financial reporting is undertaken in line with accounting policy and procedures.
- Completion of month end and year end external reporting. Ensuring information is understood and completed on a timely basis.
- Coordinating Finance and Performance responses to annual review, select committee, Official Information Act requests and Parliamentary Questions to ensure accurate and consistent information is reported. Providing additional support for complex and significant requests.
- Manage and build relationships with relevant teams across MBIE, such as Ministerial Services.
- Assisting with the coordination of internal and external audits.
- Ensure all processes are documented and regularly reviewed/updated.
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement in the area of financial reporting.
- Support, mentor and train other members of the External Reporting team and the wider Finance and Performance group to improve financial reporting practice across MBIE.
- Work collaboratively across Finance and Performance and other MBIE teams to deliver quality outcomes.
- Finance issues and risks have been successfully understood, managed and mitigated.
- As business needs require it may be necessary for the role to perform duties of other Financial Accountants in the Finance and Performance Team.
Customer focus
- Provides excellent customer service to internal and external stakeholders in all situations, including existing service level agreements, to a required standard.
- Provision of operational support and guidance on all Finance and Performance systems, including ad-hoc internal stakeholder support and instruction to ensure operation in alignment with MBIE policies and procedures.
- Delivers the requirements and expectations of customers.
- Treats internal customers with the same courtesies they would extend to external customers.
- Works hard to meet customer deadlines.
- Always looks to improve service.
- Maintains professionalism.
- Looks for opportunities to provide value.
Risk management
- Issues and risks have been successfully understood, managed, reported and mitigated.
- The risk register is maintained and updated within the required timeframes.
Relationship management
- Works closely with the wider Enterprise Planning, Performance and Reporting team to ensure seamless collaboration across the group.
- Relationships with external stakeholders (Treasury, Audit NZ etc.) are positive and effective.
- Relationships with external agencies and stakeholders enhance the integrity and credibility of the Ministry.
- Works collaboratively with colleagues across Finance and Performance to ensure that Financial Control services forms part of a cohesive shared services experience for business managers.
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 Senior Financial Accountant (Reporting) position reports to the Manager External Reporting in the Enterprise Planning, Performance and Reporting branch within the Finance and Performance business 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
