We are keen to talk to passionate finance business partners who love what they do, offering impactful guidance to the business.  We have multiple roles going, permanent and 1-year fixed term, at various levels and across diverse portfolios.  You will be joining a well established and highly regarded Business Advisory team, and working in retail we can guarantee a dynamic environment!

The Warehouse Group (TWG) has become a Kiwi household name, and we proudly recognise the role that we play in communities throughout New Zealand.  We are the largest general merchandise retailer in NZ with over $3 billion in sales, and employing over 12,000 people across The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming, Torpedo7 and TheMarket.com. To ensure we can adapt quickly to ever-changing customer needs, we’ve adopted an agile structure with a focus on collaboration, productivity and speed-to-market. 

Reporting into a Business Advisory Lead, you will ensure commercial thinking feeds into our strategic business decisions.  You will support and influence senior business leaders in your portfolio/function 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.

We are searching for talent in the following portfolios: Online, logistics, IT and trading.

Budgeting, forecasting and ultimately driving value will form key components of your role.  The Logistics and IT roles call for a strong accounting background with cost control and capital expenditure or project experience.  While strong modelling and analytical experience will be helpful in our Online and Trading positions.

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, hence challenging the business to ensure the best quality decisions are made.

Our agile structure and ways of working see's true collaborators flourish, coupled with those with curiosity and an interest to learn and adapt.  So as much as we value previous skills/experience we put an equal weighting on mindset. 

• Finance Business Partner or Commercial Advisor experience
• Commercially astute and strategic
• Pragmatic work style
• Strong analytical abilities, coupled with financial modelling skills
• Excellent communication and relationship management - this is your forte - building, maintaining, and developing relationships by influencing, educating, challenging, and collaborating with internal stakeholders
• Leadership skills - ability to influence, guide and grow finance specialists

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

• Discounts across most of our brands
• Paid birthday day off (for permanent team members)
• Free parking at our Northshore Support office
• Onsight café and gym at our Support office
• Flexible working arrangements with up to 2 days working from home per week
• 26 weeks paid parental leave (for permanent team members)
• A range of wellbeing support

Curious to learn more?  Apply now and we look forward to talking.