Job description
Company Description
Te Tākinatanga | Our Story
Ko tā Contact e whakapono nei, ko te taiao tonu te taonga nui katoa o te ao.
Koinei mātou e whai atu nei kia mahue atu i a mātou tētahi ao hauora ake, tēnā i te ora i kuhu ai mātou.
He pakihi whakarato hiko, ipurangi mātou, engari arā kē atu anō ā mātou taha.
Kei te whakawhanake mātou i ā mātou mahi ake, i ngā ara hoki e whai hiko ai a Aotearoa, kei te kōkiri kia tukua te hiko tukurua, ā, kei te whakaputa i tētahi wheako matihiko mō ā mātou kiritaki kāore anō kia kitea i tēnei whenua.
He tīma kotahi mano mātou nō ngā hau e whā, e ngākau nui ana ki ā mātou mahi, e aroha ana tētahi ki tētahi, e ako ngātahi ana, e whakapono tahi ana ki ā mātou tikanga ārahi: mā te manaaki kia toa, ka mana te katoa.
At Contact, we believe home is the most important place in the world. It’s all part of our vision to leave Aotearoa better than we found it. We’re an electricity, gas, mobile, and broadband company, but we’re so much more than that. We are transforming the ways we mahi, and how Aotearoa is powered, leading the charge on renewable energy and digitising customer journeys in ways not yet seen here. A team of 1000+ from all walks of life who love what we do, look out for each other, and learn from one another every day, we’re stoked to be guided by our tikanga: we touch lives to make life better.
Job Description
Kōrero mō te tūranga | About the role
We’re on a journey to transform our business end-to-end – no mean feat as one of Aotearoa’s largest listed companies, with market capitalisation of around NZ$6 billion and over 65,000 shareholders & 3,500 debt investors. Right now, things are particularly busy as we’ve just been given the green light to acquire NZX-listed Manawa Energy, and it’s year-end (on 30 June). As part of our high-performing Finance & Risk group, you’ll play a key role in helping us make better decisions that bring our strategy to life and continue delivering a seamless Contact experience through this time of change.
This 6-month fixed term contract (as we work through the Manawa integration) is a dynamic mix of commercial accounting and storytelling. We’re coming up to year-end (on 30 June 2025), so provided you can make it here soon (which we’d love), you’ll be joining when it’s busy. We’ll show you the ropes of how things work at Contact, but this won’t be a ‘settle in and get the hang of it’ paced role – we need a skilled management accountant who can hit the ground running, build key relationships fast, and pull together cashflows and consolidations with ease. Day-by-day you’ll manage opex for our Corporate areas (Finance, HR, Corporate Affairs, etc), coordinate and build and maintain strong relationships with the business to facilitate strong understanding of business activity, run the budgeting and forecasting process (coordinating this with our 5-year plan), and interpret, understand and report on financial performance, succinctly telling the story of the business back up to investors and executive leadership. (Expect to be best friends with PowerPoint!)
Reporting to the Group Reporting & Planning Manager, there’s all the usual stuff you would expect from a management accounting role: month-end accounts and reporting, reconciliations and asset settlement, preparation of budgets and forecasts, and providing day-to-day financial support for budget owners, but there’s also a big ol’ analysis piece, keeping a constant eye on our forecasts vs. actuals and feeding this information to relevant decision makers, covering project/capital reporting as well as business units and cost centres.
Qualifications
Ko wai koe | About you
CA-qualified or equivalent with advanced knowledge of accounting systems (preferably SAP) and a high degree of proficiency in Excel, you’re comfortable evaluating and improving processes and controls within a complex commercial environment, and more than comfortable communicating to various levels of management, with a knack for conveying complex information simply. Experienced in financial planning, analysis and reporting, you thrive in accountancy roles that go beyond the norm and have plenty of stories to share about times you’ve delivered exceptional service to stakeholders.
This role is critical for telling the story of the business back up to leadership and investors, so you’ll need deep curiosity and a knack for storytelling alongside the numbers stuff; able to pull a variety of people and data together and understand and translate complex information, with the initiative to lead and investigate things by yourself.
Bonus points if you’ve done all of this in a large, complex private organisation. Within the Energy industry? Even better.
Additional Information
This is a 6-month fixed-term contract (as we work through integration with Manawa Energy) with an ASAP start, ideally in June. Most of Finance & Risk are based in Wellington and work 1-3 days a week in our office there (the rest at home), so that would be the place to be if you enjoy regular in-person team time, however this role can be fully remote and we’re open to applications from all over Aotearoa.
There are a bunch of perks to being a Contact kaimahi. Along with great leadership, teammates, development, and interesting mahi, you’ll enjoy flexible working, a ‘Good to be Home’ payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, discounts on Contact Energy products , and more.
This ad will close automatically on Wednesday 11 June but we’re considering applications as they come in so hop to it if you’re keen, or if there’s something you’re curious to know first, reach out to Tash on [email protected].
Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.
Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We’re not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don’t meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We’d love to kōrero.
Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent team. In the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.
