About the Role:
Are you passionate about making finance meaningful, actionable, and relevant to operational success? We are seeking a commercially minded Finance Business Partner (permanent full time) to be the critical link between financial data and strategic business decisions.
In this key role, you will be the "face" of finance, partnering closely with business units to provide insight, analysis, and education that support informed decision-making. You will be responsible for turning the official numbers into actionable intelligence, connecting monthly financial results to forecasting, strategic planning, integrated budgeting, asset management, and commercial project work.
Responsibilities include:
- Building strong working relationships across operational teams to influence outcomes and drive performance.
- Providing financial insights, analysis, and education to support strategic and day-to-day decisions.
- Supporting monthly result interpretation and contributing to accurate forecasting and planning.
- Playing a key role in improving financial control, efficiency, and process robustness.
- Assisting with risk management, governance compliance, and transactional accuracy in collaboration with the finance processing team.
- Evaluating new business cases and contributing to special projects.
Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience in a management accounting / similar business partnering / finance position with competence to deliver advice to senior levels within a large organisation.
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance or a related field is essential.
- Strong technical accounting skills supported by an appropriate qualification (ideally CA).
- Strong analytical skills along with great attention to detail and well-developed financial acumen.
- A desire to add value through the provision of robust financial information, analysis and reporting.
- Any prior knowledge of the dairy industry, manufacturing environments, supply chain would be an advantage.
- Exceptional communication, relationship management and influencing skills together with a proactive and "can-do" approach.
- A familiarity with ERP systems and the ability to maximise system functionality.
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary
- Company incentive scheme
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Free parking
- Career development
- Employee assistance & wellbeing programs
- Enhanced parental leave provisions
- + Delicious discounted grass-fed butter!!!
About the Company:
From the wildest places come the purest ingredients. Born on the beautifully raw West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, Westland Milk Products has an excellent international reputation that embodies the West Coast spirit in all that it does. We process over 700 million litres of milk a year and produce a wide range of dairy ingredients and consumer and foodservice products and we are truly passionate about the world-class products that we produce.
Owned by the Global Top 5 dairy company Yili Group, Westland Milk Products and its related companies in New Zealand, Oceania Dairy (Glenavy), Pure Nutrition Ltd (Rolleston), Canary Foods (Hamilton) and EasiYo Ltd (Auckland) form a group that we refer to as the Yili Oceania Business Division (YOBD). The combined business produces over 170,000mt of finished goods which are then exported to over 40 countries, driving annual revenue in excess of $1.3B - and growing.
How to Apply:
Please submit your application through our careers page at westlandcareers.co.nz. For further details, please refer to the accompanying position description available on the site.
Applications close on Sunday, 31 August 2025. Please note that this advertisement may close earlier than the listed closing date if a suitable candidate is identified. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and interviews may be conducted earlier than the closing date.
Applicants must have valid work rights in New Zealand to be considered.
