Job Description
Kia ora!
An opportunity has arisen to join our Group Finance team as a Senior Treasury Accountant (Finance Specialist (Treasury). The role is responsible for undertaking treasury accounting functions with a focus on hedge accounting and back-office processes including month-end reporting, forecasting and project initiatives. As part of the team, you will provide input into statutory reporting processes.
Responsibilities:
- Accounting for treasury transactions including ensuring monthly reporting and forecasts are prepared in a timely manner. Provide treasury specific financial analysis to support decision making.
- Accounting for Group foreign exchange hedging and providing support for fuel and interest rate hedging.
- Analyse and present hedge accounting impact on the monthly results ensuring compliance with accounting for financial instruments under NZ IFRS
- Monitoring adherence to Treasury policies and contribute to the preparation of monthly compliance reports
- Support treasury related statutory reporting and external audit information requests
- Respond to ad-hoc treasury related queries and requests
- Ensure that new and existing systems, processes, procedures and work practices are continuously improved
- Maintaining and strengthening a sound treasury control environment
- Support project work including those associated with treasury systems (Quantum and Reval)
- Build effective relationships with stakeholders within Finance and wider organisation as well as with senior management.
Develop your career by stepping up to new challenges and learning opportunities within a complex corporate environment. You will display organisational agility along with the ability to understand the broader business implications.
To be considered you will hold a relevant tertiary and professional qualification with a minimum of 5 years proven work experience postgraduate coupled with at least 3 years in a treasury accounting function at a financial institution or large Corporate. Ideal candidate will have strong understanding of treasury instruments: FX, money markets and derivatives coupled with understanding of financial instruments accounting (e.g., IFRS 9).
You will succeed in this role if you have a strong analytical focus, have attention to details, are deadline focused and a lateral thinker. You will also have excellent communication skills,and are comfortable dealing with multiple systems. You excel in collaborative, close-knit team environments and are committed to fostering strong, professional working relationships.
If this opportunity is of interest to you, apply today!
Please note, applications close 11/07/2025.
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.
If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
