Finance Business Partner

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

Some of the key benefits for the position and employment at Programmed, include:

Competitive compensation: Earn a base salary of up to $135K, depending on your experience, with attractive pay that reflects your skills and expertise.

Flexible hybrid work options: Enjoy the freedom to work from home up to 30% of the time, helping you maintain a healthy work–life balance that suits your lifestyle.

Free on-site parking: Located in Lower Hutt, Wellington; avoid the city traffic and make your commute easier with complimentary parking.

Volunteer leave on full pay: Take two paid days each year to give back to causes you care about and make a difference in your community.

Quarterly connection events: Join our Big Breakfasts each quarter to celebrate inclusion, build connections, and share in company culture.

Exclusive perks & discounts: Enjoy savings with popular brands like Hello Fresh, New Balance, Torpedo7, Mico & more.

Your well-being, our priority: Health insurance discounts, generous paid parental leave and access to our Employee Assistance Program, including tailored well-being initiatives designed to support your personal and family needs.

Investment in you: We're passionate about personal and professional growth, offering access to certificates, webinars, mentorship, and practical training to help you thrive in your career.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Finance Business Partner to provide strategic financial leadership for our facility management team delivering operations and maintenance services for a key client in the energy sector. This role is critical in delivering high-quality financial analysis, reporting, and management accounting support for maintenance services across the electricity network throughout New Zealand.

You will work closely with operational teams to provide accurate financial analysis, ensure compliance with reporting requirements, and support effective decision-making for the contract.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, this permanent, full-time role is based in Lower Hutt and offers the opportunity to contribute to the efficient financial management of essential network services that enhance the everyday lives of New Zealanders.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner providing financial insights and guidance to support decision-making.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning.
• Conduct detailed financial analysis, including variance analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and scenario planning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide regular reporting to senior management.
• Support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of financial policies and procedures.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have strong management accounting experience, a customer-centric focus, and the ability to adapt to rapidly changing requirements. We are seeking someone with substantial experience in a commercial environment in a business partnering finance/accounting role, ideally including experience with financial reporting, budgeting/forecasting, accounting, and corporate governance measures.

• Additionally, you will demonstrate and possess the following:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Commerce or similar.
• Hold CPA or CA membership, or nearing completion.
• Highly developed communication and robust stakeholder engagement ability.
• Proactive approach to relationship management and business partnering.
• Solution oriented and collaborative style.
• Experience and knowledge of Navision / D365 F&O highly desirable.
• Strong alignment with our core values, including personal safety leadership, care and empathy, exceptional customer service, and a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equality.

About Us

Programmed is a leading provider of operations and maintenance services across all industry sectors including education, health, infrastructure, manufacturing, transport and mining in Australia and New Zealand.

Our Facility Management business unit partners with our valued clients to deliver a comprehensive range of facilities management from small repair work to managing large-scale facilities and infrastructure networks.

We encourage career development, support flexibility and care about your personal wellbeing and safety. Join the Programmed team today.

Work With Us

Submit your application today and join us on our mission to build outstanding people, strong customers, and great communities.

Our Commitment

Programmed and PERSOL supports a workplace culture of zero harm and encourages this in all that we do.

Programmed and PERSOL strives for diversity, inclusion and equality of our people. We seek a workforce that is representative of the communities we work in. We encourage people of all cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation or abilities to apply.

To learn more about working with Programmed and PERSOL, we encourage you to visit our website.

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Profession:Finance/Accounting

Company: Programmed
Date posted: 8th Sep, 2025