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Financial Accounting SpecialistContact Energy Ltd • WorkFromHome, Southland, New Zealand
Financial Accounting Specialist

Financial Accounting Specialist

Contact Energy Ltd • WorkFromHome, Southland, New Zealand
1 day ago
Job description

Join to apply for the Financial Accounting Specialist role at Contact Energy Ltd .

As a Financial Accounting Specialist, your expertise will help deliver outcomes that matter – supporting investment cases, enabling commercial decisions, and ensuring financial integrity. You’ll report to the Head of Risk & Assurance and work closely with Leads and cross-functional teams, contributing to technical accounting and compliance, external audit coordination, and strategic input for Board reporting. Your day-to-day will include maintaining the Financial Accounting Framework, preparing reconciliations and financial statements, advising on contractual implications, and supporting people development within the team. You’ll be empowered to specialise, evolve methodologies, and grow your capability, all while helping Contact deliver on its vision for a sustainable energy future.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain the Financial Accounting Framework; prepare reconciliations and financial statements.
  • Advise on contractual implications and support external audit coordination.
  • Collaborate with Leads and cross-functional teams to enable commercial decisions and tackle technical accounting and compliance tasks.
  • Contribute to Board reporting with strategic input.
  • Support people development within the team and evolve methodologies to grow capability.

Qualifications

  • At least five years’ post-qualification experience in financial accounting, ideally within the for-profit sector.
  • Strong technical accounting knowledge, commercial acumen, and ability to link delivery to strategic outcomes.
  • Experience in leading yourself and others, giving and receiving feedback, and managing stakeholder relationships (suppliers, regulators, and internal teams).
  • Experience in matrixed environments is a plus; commitment to continuous improvement and inclusion.
  • Must-have : financial accounting discipline and stakeholder management skills. Nice-to-have : experience with process improvement and technology automation.
  • Additional Information

  • We support our people to work how, where and when works best. Most of the Finance team are based in Wellington and work 2-3 days a week in our office there (the rest at home). This role can be fully remote, and applications from all over Aotearoa are welcome.
  • Offices are in Auckland, Tauranga, Christchurch, and Clyde as well.
  • We offer learning and development opportunities and perks including health insurance, KiwiSaver, employee benefits, parental leave policy, and more.
  • This ad will close on Friday 28 November 2025 but we’re accepting applications as they come in, so apply now if this sounds like you.
  • We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to bring their passion and skills.
  • Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered.
  • Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies unless a formal engagement has been confirmed with our Talent team.

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