Finance Business Partner

Our client is one of New Zealand's largest wine companies, with big ambitions on the world stage. This is a fantastic new role for a Finance Business Partner to work alongside their Wineries and Vineyards teams to create fluid quality reporting and partnering, and a genuine story in the numbers.

The role

This is a hands-on business partnering role where your analysis is vital to refining and influencing business decisions. You'll work closely with operational leaders and the Finance Manager Operations, giving them the insight they need to run tighter, smarter and more profitable operations. Day to day, you will:

Partner with the Wineries and Vineyards leadership teams, providing commercial analysis that shapes operational decisions

Own monthly reporting and KPI dashboards, with commentary that explains what's driving performance and what needs to happen next

Deliver variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior years

Support month-end, including accrual reviews, journals and cost allocations

Lead the Wineries and Vineyards input into budgets, forecasts and the Integrated Business Planning cycle, and challenge the assumptions behind them

Build financial models and scenario analysis to support resource allocation and product profitability

Find ways to improve cost efficiency, reporting and processes, including through automation and better tools

About you

This role is best suited to someone who is perhaps at the earlier stages of their career development - you'll still bring with you key requirements of operational business partnering, and have a good base of experience to develop from.  It is best suited to someone who is very grounded and down to earth, enjoys some banter and has a relatable personality.  You'll have a genuine desire to connect with, and work with the vineyard stakeholders and their journey from planting to dispatch.

You'll explain numbers in a way operational people actually understand, you'll ask good questions, and you enjoy improving how things get done.

What's on offer

A genuine business partnering role with real influence on operational performance

The chance to work in an iconic New Zealand industry

A company that takes sustainability, wellbeing and people seriously

* Growth potential for someone who has the right core skills and personality fit

Hit apply or get in touch with Liz Beckett today if you would like to be contacted about this role. This is a great group of people to work with, who will offer you development opportunities as you grow into the role - if this sounds like you and you have a very similar background in FMCG markets, I would love to hear from you.