Tax Advisor

Kōrero mō te tūranga About the role

As a Tax Advisor youll join a dynamic Finance team that thrives on collaboration and innovation. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance - Enterprise Performance & Planning youll play a key role in guiding tax compliance supporting commercial decisions and contributing to high-impact initiatives through your tax technical analysis. Your day-to-day will see you working alongside initiative leads and value stream teams providing expert advice on tax risk policy and compliance. Youll help shape contracts support strategic investments and mentor others - always with an eye on delivering value and unlocking efficiencies. The role is flexible in location and offers the chance to work across different teams broadening your skills and making a real impact.

Qualifications :

Ko wai koe About you

You bring at least three years post-qualification experience in tax with a growing commercial acumen and a knack for seeing the bigger picture. Your strong tax technical expertise is matched by your ability to collaborate communicate and build trust across diverse teams. Youre comfortable giving and receiving feedback and you thrive in environments where change and complexity are the norm. If you have experience mentoring others thats a bonus - but what matters most is your commitment to excellence inclusion and continuous improvement. If youre ready to lead by example champion growth and help shape the future of energy youll fit right in.

Additional Information :

We support our people to work how where and when works the best. Most of the Finance team are based in Wellington and work 2-3 days a week in our office there (the rest at home) so that would be the place to be if you enjoy regular in-person team time however this role can be fully remote and were open to applications from all over Aotearoa. You might be interested to know we have offices in Auckland Tauranga Taupō and Clyde too.

Contact is not a place youll stagnate. We are growing and offer superb learning and development opportunities along with a bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover 4% KiwiSaver access to Contact Shares a Good to be Home annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing a trail-blazing parental leave policy discounts on Contact Energy products and more.

Ready to bring your expertise to a team thats shaping the future Join Contact Energy and help power a better tomorrow. This ad will close automatically on Wednesday 12 November but were considering applications as they come in so apply now if youre keen!

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued respected and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical mental financial and emotional wellbeing including flexible working arrangements employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age stage background and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. Were not about box ticking so if you think you have what it takes but dont meet everything stated above please still get in touch. Wed love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time