Job Description

Put your excellent management accounting experience and communication skills into an impactful, leading, future-focused, rewarding, and varied role. We have a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional to join our team as a Management Accountant and be involved in monthly reporting, budgeting, research projects, and financial advisory in the Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences (FHES).

AUT is a leading tertiary provider transforming lives, with a vibrant and hugely diverse body of students, staff, and partners. As one of the world's top 50 young universities and New Zealand's newest and second-highest-ranked university, AUT is the university of opportunity where all students with talent and potential have the chance to succeed. We are a socially driven university with equity and excellence central to our purpose and actions, and we offer a stimulating teaching and research environment with strong connections nationally and internationally.  AUT has over 29,000 students and around 4,000 staff across our three main Auckland teaching campuses.

AUT's Finance professionals support AUT's strategic objectives by delivering financial sustainability and excellence with a focus on continuous improvement on fit-for-purpose systems and processes that provide financial stewardship while being a place where people love to work and learn.

This is a great role to step into if you want to be part of a committed, supportive, fun, and high-performing team while gaining valuable experience. In this role, you will be dealing with various internal stakeholders across the university and be a trusted business partner in providing high-standard budgeting, business partnering, and advisory services that contribute towardthe  Financial Sustainability and Excellence goal and AUT strategic directions.

He korero mou | About you

To be successful, you'll have:

at least 3 years of accounting experience gained in a large and complex organisation.

• CA or equivalent
• strong project cost accounting experience.
• the ability to hit the ground running.
• thrive under pressure and ability to prioritise a diverse workload to meet competing deadlines.
• possess excellent communication skills with strong customer focus.
• have a solution-focused with a "can do" attitude.
• excellent team member who is flexible and possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• advanced knowledge of MS Excel.