Financial Insights Specialist
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Job Location:
Wellington - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
6 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Kōrero mō te tūranga About the role
As a Financial Insights Specialist your work will empower strategic partners and business leads to deliver outcomes that matter supporting investment cases and enabling confident commercial decisions. Youll help develop frameworks for enterprise-wide financial insights ensuring clarity and relevance across all teams and initiatives. Your days will be spent collaborating with leaders in Strategic Finance Financial Accounting and Financial Planning embedding insights early in decision-making and upholding technical standards for analysis and reporting.
Reporting to a Head of Strategic Finance youll specialise in financial insights maintain and evolve methodologies and contribute to the growth of your team through constructive feedback and knowledge sharing. Expect to participate in operating rhythms that drive change support strategic input into Board and Committee reporting and translate financial data into actionable insights for investment and planning. Flexibility is key - youll move between teams and initiatives using your broader skill set to deliver on Finance-wide objectives.
Qualifications :
Ko wai koe About you
You bring at least five years post-qualification experience in financial insights ideally within the for-profit sector. Solid commercial acumen and technical expertise are must-haves along with a track record of linking delivery to strategic outcomes. Experience in matrixed environments and strong stakeholder management including supplier relationships and regulatory engagement will help you thrive.
What sets you apart is your ability to lead yourself and others give and receive constructive feedback and adapt to change. Youre comfortable with ambiguity eager to champion growth and inclusion and committed to building trust across boundaries. If youre passionate about unlocking efficiency leveraging technology and contributing to a culture of feedback and shared success youll feel right at home.
If you dont tick every box but share our values and drive we encourage you to apply your unique perspective could be just what we need.
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 Christchurch 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.
This ad will close automatically on Friday 28 November 2025 but were considering applications as they come in so apply now if this sounds like a bit of you!
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
Key Skills
- Financial Services
- Financial Models
- Account Management
- General Ledger Accounts
- ERP
- Payroll
- External Auditors
- Customer Relationships
- Credit Card
- Financial Statements
- Business Units
- Annual Budget
- Income
- New Clients
- Financial Management
About Company
At Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy), we believe home is the most important place in the world. It's all part of our vision to leave Aotearoa better than we found it. We're a power, mobile, and broadband company, but we're so much more than that. We are transforming the ways we mahi, and ... View more
