Senior Finance Business Partner

We are a company of artisans and innovators. For over 30 years, we’ve applied our creativity and craftsmanship to the world’s arts, entertainment and experience industries. We design the intimate and the epic, and love sharing our work with the world. Our Finance team partner closely with the business – providing the analysis and insights to help them perform.

We are farewelling a valued Senior Finance Business Partner – as they prepare for their next adventure in Australia, we’re reflecting on the incredible contribution they’ve made to the business over the years.

Their departure has opened the door for a driven and commercially-minded finance professional to step into an exciting role, responsible for:

• Delivering clear monthly financial reporting and analysis (revenue, margin, trends) to inform decision-making and future strategy.
• Tracking and reporting financial and non-financial KPIs to measure performance, highlight success, and identify risks early.
• Partnering with Business Units to strengthen financial accuracy, shared insight, and overall business performance.
• Leading annual budgeting and rolling forecasting across revenue, gross margin, expenses, and EBITDA, including pipeline and committed revenue tracking to optimise resourcing and opportunities.
• Driving continuous improvement of finance processes and systems to deliver efficient, cost-effective support to the business.

For more information, please see our job description here.

We’re looking for…

Someone with strong experience in a commercial financial analysis role, ideally in a manufacturing or services environment.

You’ll be able to show a history of:

• Delivering financial reporting and analysis
• Providing commercially focused recommendations
• Producing budgets and continuous forecasting
• Developing great working partnerships with your stakeholders

You’ll be CA qualified (or equivalent) and have a good grasp of accounting/reporting software.

Our roles are hands-on, too – so you’ll need to be as comfortable processing journals, checking the AP runs etc as you are partnering with the business on financial strategy.

Why us?

There aren’t too many senior finance business-partnering roles Wellington’s private sector, let alone ones that gives you a chance to be part of a globally-recognised New Zealand success story.

You’ll get to work in a complex, project-based environment with constantly changing productions and products – influencing and shaping decisions with commercial challenges that other corporate environments don’t have. For someone who loves solving complex problems, partnering with creative teams, and seeing the real-world impact of their work, this role is for you.

You’ll also be joining a collaborative, customer-focused and caring finance team, with a focus on helping people grow and develop.

Additional Information

If you’d like to know more, please reach out to recruitment@wetaworkshop.co.nz.

We’re based in Miramar, Wellington, and most of the action happens onsite - so while we’re flexible where we can be, you will need to be in the office at least 4 days a week.

If this opportunity sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you soon. We’ll be progressing conversations and interviews with shortlisted candidates throughout the advertising period.

 

If we can do anything to accommodate you during the recruitment or interview process, please let us know.

All applicants will undergo a Ministry of Justice check as part of our recruitment process.