Accounting Manager-New Zealand

Job description

Key responsibilities/What you do

As Accounting Manager you will be responsible for the provision of financial support to the Head of Accounting, AU & NZ and CFO AU&NZ and the wider NZ team. This includes responsibility for all areas of financial and management accounting, corporate taxation, cash management, projects and supervision of onshore/offshore Finance team.

Your main responsibilities:

 

·  Ensure that all periodic financial reporting (monthly, quarterly and yearly) are timely disclosed in accordance with group internal deadlines and regulatory requirements, under accounting, tax and legal requirements.
·  Ensure the consistency and appropriateness in accounting methods and the respect of accounting requirements across the Finance Factory, leading compliance with the business’s internal corporate and finance rules book.
·  Supporting contracting and procurement activities, ensuring finance requirements are addressed in contracts and appropriate risk analysis has been completed prior to contract execution.
·  Monitor balance sheet reconciliations and ensure all reconciliations are prepared in a timely manner, identify potential write-offs as soon as they are recognised or understood.
·  Assist in the management of liquid funds ensuring adequate levels are maintained through cash flow monitoring and forecasting in accordance with accounting and regulatory requirements.
·  Preparation of annual financial statements
·  Completion of both external and internal audits adhering to Group/IFRS policies where applicable
·  Collaborate with local and offshore Finance Factory team
·  Assist with projects where applicable providing key financial insight and advice
·  Monitor and staff to enable timely, efficient and innovative solutions to the AzP NZ business
·  Provide the necessary staffing support (both internally and externally) to enable the production, development and support of operating systems

 

Key requirements/What you bring

·  CA or CPA qualification
·  Relevant tertiary qualification
·  Demonstrated experience post CA/CPA qualification
·  Demonstrated experience in a Chartered or SME environment
·  Experience within the insurance industry and reinsurance (highly preferred)
·  Demonstrated experience in financial and management accounting disciplines
·  Demonstrated ability to prepare statutory reporting and taxation
·  Highly competent accounting skills as a core requirement including up to date IFRS knowledge
·  Understanding of corporate taxation
·  Experienced in standard ERP and financial systems, MO

 

Key benefits/What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring  that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

60741 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
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