Manager Finance Business Partnering
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Manager Finance Business Partnering position is a senior strategic finance role and reports to the General Manager Finance Business Partnering. The Manager Finance Business Partnering will lead and promote financial and non-financial performance within their respective business area and provide information, metrics and insight, together with education and understanding, to facilitate improved decision making within the business.
The role is also the key relationship and coordination point between the business and the overall Finance unit.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Significant experience in leading teams and strong people management skills.
- Strong experience in driving outcomes and managing diverse stakeholder interests.
- Strong strategic financial management experience within a large, complex and diverse organisation.
- Strong analytical, strategic and planning skills as well as being commercially savvy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills and ability to articulate complex messages clearly, simply and concisely.
- Ability to overview and consider principles alongside being pragmatic.
- Ability to establish and maintain successful working relationships.
- Strong team player and ability to collaborate and contribute at senior leadership team level.
- High standards of professionalism and performance driven.
- Experience in leading successful change initiatives.
Pre-requisites
- Business or management graduate with considerable experience in senior management roles (Private or Public Sector).
- CAANZ Chartered Accountant qualification (or equivalent).
- Must have the right to live and work in New Zealand.
- Must consent to and satisfactorily complete a credit check as the role holds financial delegations.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
People leadership
- Manage direct reports in a productive and efficient manner.
- Expectations and benchmarks at an individual role level which encapsulate Finance and Performance as a high performance environment are clear to all staff.
- Staff have performance and development plans in place and are coached to maximise individual contribution as well as receiving formal feedback as part of the half and full year review process.
- Evaluate the processes and capabilities of the Business Partnership branch to identify and highlight risks and opportunities in order to monitor on-going performance over time.
- Ensure that effective and efficient business partner services are provided to all levels of the organisation, and those services meet the needs of the Ministry.
Delivery and results
- Provide all monthly reporting to support the respective business unit, including core financial (Statement of Financial Performance and Statement of Financial Position) and non-financial information, variance analysis, commentary, key performance ratios and metrics relevant to the Business Unit and insights and a result of a forward view of both the business and this information.
- The provision of core information will occur on an efficient basis and leveraging the standard template and reporting process for this information by MBIE. In this regard core information and reporting will be produced centrally after principles of simplification, standardisation, automation and rationalisation have been considered and adopted where appropriate.
- Facilitate the process enabling Business Units to complete key external accountability documents such as baseline updates, statement of intent and the 4 year plan.
- Provide financial advice and education as well working with the business units to identify and manage financial issues and risks.
- Ensure there is a tight management and reporting process in relation to appropriations including providing appropriate advice on the impact of decisions on appropriations where relevant.
- Work with business groups to ensure that the General Manager Finance Business Partnering, CFO, DCE, Ministers are informed of key financial risks and decisions.
- Responsible for the end to end financial results of their business groups which may include capital planning and balance sheet management.
- Provide ad hoc financial advice and support to the business to enable individual initiatives and key decisions to be supported from a financial advice perspective.
Business planning and Strategic decision making
- Participate in strategy development and planning with business customers.
- Provide financial leadership and advice on the long-term financial planning process and support the development of metrics to monitor their performance against strategic objectives.
- Work with Planning, Performance & Investment colleagues to ensure effective integrated planning processes and financial input to develop and deliver a robust business plan and financial strategy.
- Provide both strategic and technical advice to business customers in the definition and review of their performance measures, annual plan and budget.
- Assess the commercial viability of investment decisions, articulate financial risks and opportunities and support post- investment appraisal of business initiatives.
- Recognise, assess and proactively monitor and manage foreseeable risks and issues and ensure that managers are aware of these.
Optimise processes and practises
- Provide assurance to the General Manager Enterprise Planning, Performance + Reporting that financial management processes, procedures and reporting comply with legislative requirements and best practice.
Improve organisational financial performance and capability
- Identify capability gaps within Finance and Performance and work alongside managers and Finance colleagues to address these.
- Assist in building the Ministry’s wide financial management capability and confidence.
- Provide customer focused feedback, insight and recommendations to the business on financial performance, focusing on key drivers.
- Encourage the adoption of a high performance finance culture across the business through effective communication, timely delivery of insightful advice and continuous improvement.
- Works with the GM Finance Business Partnering and F+P Managers to create 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 Manager Finance Business Partnering position reports into the General Manager Finance Business Partnering within the Finance Business Partnering branch. The branch sits within the Finance and Performance group..
Matatautanga – Competencies (Leadership Success Profile)
The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) is a leadership capability framework, developed by the New Zealand public sector for the New Zealand public sector. It creates a common language for leadership and establishes what great leadership looks like. You can look at the twelve underpinning capabilities and four leadership characters here: Leadership Success Profile | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission(external link)
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).
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
