We're seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a high-performing team supporting a large, long-term contract within the utilities and telecommunications sector. This is a key role where you'll combine commercial insight, stakeholder engagement, and financial leadership to help drive performance across a complex operational environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Partnering with operational and project leaders to provide commercial insights and challenge decision-making.
- Leading budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial performance analysis.
- Managing WIP, working capital, cash flow, and contract profitability.
- Identifying risks and opportunities and providing data-driven recommendations.
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives, reporting enhancements, and process optimisation.
- Strong Finance Business Partnering, Project Accounting, or Commercial Finance experience.
- Solid understanding of project-based environments, including WIP, forecasting, costing, and contract performance.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and confidently challenge when required.
- Strong communication skills and a commercial mindset.
- Experience within infrastructure, utilities, construction, engineering, telecommunications, manufacturing, or other complex operational environments is highly regarded.
- Clear career progression pathway with scope to take on leadership responsibilities in the future.
- Genuine opportunity to influence business performance and operational decision-making.
- Strong focus on business partnering, not just reporting numbers.
- Flexible working arrangements, including WFH flexibility
- Opportunity to drive process improvements, automation, and smarter ways of working.
- Exposure to a major contract with significant operational and commercial complexity.
- Supportive leadership team that values initiative, innovation, and continuous improvement.
If you have the skills and experience mentioned above, we would love to hear from you!
Apply today or contact Sam at sam.c@stellarrecruitment.co.nz
