The Senior Management Accountant (SMA) role plays a critical role in the delivery of value-add financial services, information and trusted advice in order to support more effective decision making and financial management across the Department. The SMA is the primary point of contact, providing key support to the Finance Business Partner to ensure effective financial oversight of the assigned portfolio. Assigned portfolios are subject to change based on business requirements
- Provide proactive, objective, high quality financial advice, information, analysis and interpretation on business unit financial and business performance issues, opportunities and decision making
- Provide strategic financial and commercial advice to the Business Partners, budget holders and senior management
- Proactively monitor, interpret and report on performance against agreed input budgets / forecasts and against appropriations
- Proactively identify financial risks and opportunities and raising as appropriate to ensure effective decision making and financial management
- Co-ordinate the budget / forecast process within branches and business units applying financial expertise and knowledge of business drivers to support the development of robust and sustainable budgets / forecasts
- Support enterprise, branch and other performance monitoring processes by coordinating and providing analysis of branch / business group performance
- Monitor and support performance forecasts, proactively identifying and escalating risks and issues that require remedial action and follow through to close out
Email your resume to peter.campbell@beyond.co.nz