Deputy Chief Financial Officer Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment location Wellington.

Job description Discover a career with purpose at MBIE. Lead MBIEs financial sustainability efforts. Provide effective management of high profile and complex strategic work programmes. Permanent full time | Wellington based.

About the role as Deputy Chief Financial Officer, you will oversee the financial planning and performance monitoring for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). By collaborating cross-functionally, you will develop an enterprise-wide perspective on MBIE's financial landscape and performance. Additionally, you will provide strategic financial counsel to MBIE's senior leadership team as needed.

We seek an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of successfully leading large finance teams in the public sector. You will be known for driving innovative strategies, frameworks, and work programs that develop people, shape systems and processes, and adapt to the evolving needs of customers and government.

In this critical role, you will be a key contributor to the Senior Leadership team at MBIE. You must have a deep understanding of the principles and conventions governing New Zealand's state sector and whole-of-government operations. Your expertise will support MBIE's stewardship, medium-to-long-term sustainability, organizational health, capabilities, capacity, and positioning within the wider sector. We will offer you opportunities for professional growth to enhance your skills.

MBIE supports a wide range of flexible working arrangements for work life balance such as working from home and office. We also offer various employment benefits including Hauora-Weelbeing allowance, free flu vaccinations and reduced health insurance premiums.

Skills and Experience required you will need proven experience at a senior executive level in sizeable entities. Wide ranging practical knowledge of the process needed to lead develop a finance and performance function at senior leadership level.

You must be CA qualified with 5-10 years post CA experience in senior finance management and reporting to executive or ministerial level or equivalent. Be a strategic thinker and make connections between various aspects of the organisation and implications for their business unit. Must have legal right to live and work in NZ. Consent to and satisfactorily complete a credit check as the role holds financial delegations.

About MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders. We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours. Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand.

We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.