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Accounting & FinanceContractAuckland

Posted 06/11/2026

Senior Management Accountant

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About the Opportunity
Our client, a large, infrastructure organisation delivering essential services across Auckland need an experienced Senior Management Accountant on a 4-5 month contract to coordinate their enterprise planning and reporting cycle. This is a high-visibility role where your work feeds directly into Executive and Board decision-making.
What you’ll be doing
Coordinating the annual budget, periodic forecasts and long-term financial plan from end-to-end. Setting timetables and assumptions, working with Finance Business Partners and budget owners on their submissions, and consolidating everything into clear, reconciled plans.
You’ll also produce monthly enterprise management reporting, explain the drivers behind variances and outlook changes, and prepare decision-ready material for senior leaders. Along the way, you’ll challenge unsupported assumptions, keep models and version control tight, and look for ways to simplify and automate the process.
What You’ll Bring
  • CA qualified (or equivalent) with 5+ years in management accounting, FP&A or performance reporting in a complex organisation
  • Hands-on experience coordinating organisation-wide budget, forecast or long-term planning processes
  • Advanced modelling and Excel skills, with strong discipline around reconciliation and data quality
  • Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and writing clear executive reports
Utility, infrastructure, public sector or asset-intensive experience is a real advantage but not essential.
What’s on Offer
  • WFH 2 days per week
  • Contract ASAP through Christmas and summer
  • Senior level visibility
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.

For any questions give Sarah White a call on 027 505 3472 and quote Job ID: 18850 for a confidential chat.

To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.

At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying. 

Tribe is a group of specialist teams, each of who truly understand their world, and together they partner to understand yours. Whether you’re looking for your next opportunity or recruiting, we’re all about bringing people together for a shared purpose. Find your people.
 

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