Finance Business Partner

We are keen to talk to passionate finance business partners who love what they do, offering impactful guidance to the business.

The Warehouse Group looks after some of Aotearoa’s iconic brands - The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, and Noel Leeming. Our purpose at The Warehouse Group (TWG) is ‘Helping Kiwis live better every day” and this guides how we show up every day.  We have recently embraced a brand-led model, ensuring we remain laser-focused on our customers and markets specific to them.  Retail is more competitive than ever, and we need to bring our A game.

With the current incumbent relocating overseas, we have a key gap in our Business Advisory team.  Our Finance Business Partners are the proactive link between finance and the wider business, ensuring commercial thinking feeds into our strategic business decisions. 

Reporting into a Head of Business Advisory, you will support and influence senior business leaders in the Technology functions with your sound commercial advice - which may involve a variety of strategic, operational, people, commercial or financial elements. Advice will derive from high quality analysis and modelling of problems and business cases, discovering options for solutions, and understanding broader strategic alignment and trade off issues.  There is scope to identify process improvements to make reporting, budgeting and forecasting more efficient and drive business value.  Capital expenditure investment, budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting and ultimately driving value will form key components of your role.   

Technology has significant focus with a large operating budget and lots of projects on the go, so this is a true business partner position, with a seat at the Technology Leadership team.

You will bring objectivity and strategic acumen to business issues, whilst also being comfortable to dive into the detail when needed.  You understand the value of building relationships, whilst also being an influencer, challenging the business to ensure the best quality decisions are made. We need someone who is happy to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the doing while being able to see the big picture and connect technology systems with operational requirements.   

Our wish list includes:

• Proven Finance Business Partner or Commercial Advisor experience in a large or complex organisation (a Technology background is highly desirable) 
• Commercially astute and strategic - you have a knack for cutting through complexity to achieve clarity of thought and advice, along with comfort in dealing with ambiguity 
• Pragmatic work style 
• Strong analytical abilities, coupled with financial modelling skills 
• Excellent Communication and Relationship management - building, maintaining, and developing relationships by influencing, educating, challenging, and collaborating with internal stakeholders  
• Demonstrate a systems-thinking based approach, understanding the interconnectedness of complex business situations, and able to achieve clarity through that to a solution 
• Able to communicate technical and financial information in a clear manner to non-technical stakeholders. 

When you join us, we offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle, and your career which include:

• Discounts across our brands
• Birthday leave
• Free parking at our Northshore support office
• We value collaboration & flexibility – embracing hybrid working – up to 2 days WFH
• Onsite gym and café at our Northcote support office
• A range of wellbeing support and development opportunities

Hit apply and we look forward to talking!