Senior Finance Business Partner
| Company | SBS Bank |
| Location | Invercargill, Southland |
| Listed | Fri 19 Apr, 11:48 am |
| Type | Full time, Permanent |
| Reference | req77 |
**Applications Close: 05/05/2024**
With a rich history spanning over 150 years in Aotearoa New Zealand, SBS Bank is making a positive impact on Kiwis' lives by helping them find a place to call home. It's a powerful purpose that drives us every single day! We truly believe that when people achieve their financial goals, their whanau and communities flourish as a result.
**To help us with this, we are searching for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our team**
**How you'll contribute to our strategy:**
This role provides leadership and direction in the financial planning and management of the bank's strategies and is responsible for driving sound strategic financial decision making.
As an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, you will partner with senior leadership and key stakeholders to provide strategic financial advice and recommendations that drive growth and enhance bank performance.
**Some of the key responsibilities of this position, are:**
***Your passion for always making things better will help you to succeed in this role.***
**What you'll bring:**
We would like to hear from fully qualified Chartered Accountants who may hold a post graduate financial qualification, have extensive experience in financial management with the ability to work with the complex, influence, collaborate and engage with stakeholders.
**About Us:**
We're on an exhilarating growth journey, and we need exceptional individuals who are ready to embrace our ambitious goals. We're seeking passionate trailblazers from all walks of life who are eager to shape the future of banking.
As a 100% NZ Member-owned bank, we have the freedom to focus on creating real value for our Members (customers). With no shareholders to please, we can offer market-leading lending and funding rates while giving back to our communities through local sponsorships and support. Every success we achieve directly benefits our Members and the regions we serve.
We foster an inclusive and innovative environment that thrives on challenging the status quo. We actively encourage our people to question conventions, push boundaries, and test our thinking. This mindset paves the way to successfully achieving our growth. When it comes to our culture, we're proud to say that we're more than just colleagues - we're a close-knit, caring, and inclusive whanau. We embrace diversity in all its forms and actively promote an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We invest in your development, well-being, and growth because we believe that when you thrive, we all succeed.
So, if you're ready to be part of a small bank with a big heart, where your unique perspectives and contributions are celebrated, then come on board and join us! Together, we'll help Kiwis find a place to call home.
**Apply today to join the Bank with Heart and become part of our SBS whanau**
With a rich history spanning over 150 years in Aotearoa New Zealand, SBS Bank is making a positive impact on Kiwis' lives by helping them find a place to call home. It's a powerful purpose that drives us every single day! We truly believe that when people achieve their financial goals, their whanau and communities flourish as a result.
**To help us with this, we are searching for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our team**
**How you'll contribute to our strategy:**
This role provides leadership and direction in the financial planning and management of the bank's strategies and is responsible for driving sound strategic financial decision making.
As an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, you will partner with senior leadership and key stakeholders to provide strategic financial advice and recommendations that drive growth and enhance bank performance.
**Some of the key responsibilities of this position, are:**
- the annual budget cycle, regular forecasting and scenario planning, ensuring all assumptions, drivers and levers are understood by business teams and other stakeholders.
- identifying areas for profitability growth and improved return on equity through in-depth analysis, tracking and reporting.
- working closely with the pricing and product teams to understand and support decisions that influence growth and net interest margin.
- collecting, assimilating and synthesizing relevant business, operating environment or competitor information to develop fact-based recommendations and support business decision making.
- producing and analysing profitability reports relating to our products, businesses and investments to ensure deployed capital is achieving expected returns.
- championing process improvements and system enhancements to streamline financial operations and maximise efficiency.
- identifying, overseeing, and delivering critical projects across the business that deliver improvement in long term viability and financial performance.
***Your passion for always making things better will help you to succeed in this role.***
**What you'll bring:**
- 10+ years (minimum) finance experience in senior management decision-making, planning and strategic thinking.
- experience in financial planning and analysis within a large, complex organisation.
- advanced financial modelling skills and solid systems accounting knowledge/experience.
- solid understanding of economic fundamentals.
- outstanding leadership, communication, stakeholder management skills and ability to drive results in a collaborative manner.
- ideally, you will have experience in banking or a financial institution, building financial capability within a business, analysing technical complex issues, making decisions with financial impact and have had some leadership experience including supervision and development of team members.
We would like to hear from fully qualified Chartered Accountants who may hold a post graduate financial qualification, have extensive experience in financial management with the ability to work with the complex, influence, collaborate and engage with stakeholders.
**About Us:**
We're on an exhilarating growth journey, and we need exceptional individuals who are ready to embrace our ambitious goals. We're seeking passionate trailblazers from all walks of life who are eager to shape the future of banking.
As a 100% NZ Member-owned bank, we have the freedom to focus on creating real value for our Members (customers). With no shareholders to please, we can offer market-leading lending and funding rates while giving back to our communities through local sponsorships and support. Every success we achieve directly benefits our Members and the regions we serve.
We foster an inclusive and innovative environment that thrives on challenging the status quo. We actively encourage our people to question conventions, push boundaries, and test our thinking. This mindset paves the way to successfully achieving our growth. When it comes to our culture, we're proud to say that we're more than just colleagues - we're a close-knit, caring, and inclusive whanau. We embrace diversity in all its forms and actively promote an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We invest in your development, well-being, and growth because we believe that when you thrive, we all succeed.
So, if you're ready to be part of a small bank with a big heart, where your unique perspectives and contributions are celebrated, then come on board and join us! Together, we'll help Kiwis find a place to call home.
**Apply today to join the Bank with Heart and become part of our SBS whanau**
