Prin Adv Financial Analysis & Report

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Principal Advisor – Financial Analysis and Reporting

• Based at Police National Headquarters, Wellington
• Grade 22
• Police Employee
• Permanent, full time
• Nationally Advertised Vacancy
• JR 4858110

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Mō te tūnga | About the role

Following last year’s realignment of the Police Commissioner’s executive structure, New Zealand Police have welcomed a new CFO to lead an enhanced Finance function. The Finance function provides several critical services required to enable the success of our organisation. This ranges from ensuring our staff and suppliers are paid, ensuring compliance with public sector legislation, standards, and expectations, maintaining a “Licence to operate” and providing strategic and practical financial advice to decision makers to ensure we operate within our budgets and deliver value for money.

To support the delivery of these outcomes, the Financial Planning, Analysis and Reporting (FPAR) team is responsible for leading, establishing and embedding an integrated financial planning and reporting approach across the business to operationalise strategy, make investment choices that are aligned to our strategy, and manage changes in a sustainable way.

The FPAR team are trusted advisors to the business, providing strategic, commercial and financial advice across Police, from the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to Senior leaders and their teams. FPAR delivers financial planning, financial analysis, financial modelling, financial performance reporting and tracks delivery against our Strategy.

The Principal Advisor - Financial Analysis and Reporting is a newly-established role and the technical lead on financial analysis and reporting within the FPAR team. This position is responsible for building financial analysis and reporting capability across the organisation. It will support the Manager - FPAR in leading the development and delivery of high-quality and robust financial information, reporting and insightful advice to Police Executive to ensure we operate within our budgets and deliver value for money.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of a suite of accurate, timely and fit-for-purpose integrated financial information and reports that informs, provides insights, and advises the ELT of Police’s financial performance and risks and issues.
• Lead the process to inform and advise the organisation by consolidating, monitoring fiscal pressures, risks and proposing possible mitigations.
• Lead the development and maintenance of appropriate short-term, medium-term, and long-term financial data and analytical models to support robust data and information analysis, financial intelligence research and undertake advance statistical and trends analysis.
• Lead the development of the reports for Finance Group to support Police Executives.
• Lead the implementation of reporting tools and train the users in use of such tools.
• Initiate and lead enterprise level financial data analysis, providing appropriate and reliable financial and business advice, recommendations, and expert technical interpretation of complex strategic matters.
• Regularly identify and lead the development of detailed ‘deep dive’ analysis into key cost types of Police to enable visibility and understanding of cost drivers, pressures and opportunities.

He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring

Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

To be successful in this role you will require the following: 

• Demonstrable significant experience in leading financial analysis and reporting of a large and/or complex organization.
• High-level analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to develop sound solutions in complex and ambiguous situations.

• Ability to deliver high-quality presentations and effective communications to a range of stakeholders, including representing an organization in a range of settings.
• Experience of financial planning, forecasting, modelling, critical evaluation and reporting to gain insights into an organization’s performance in order to inform future strategy.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen gained working in medium-large, complex environments including application and understanding of accounting, finance, budgeting, forecasting, reporting activities and planning systems at an enterprise/corporate level.
• Confident self-starter, with a high level of initiative and ability to be self-managing and achievement oriented.
• Sound understanding of the statutory framework and the political, social and economic settings in which the organisation operates, including the machinery of government and policy making process.
• Demonstrable ability to influence and/or lead people and processes to achieve outcomes.

Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements

• This role is based at Police National Headquarters, Wellington.
• Qualified Chartered Accountant CA ANZ or CPA, or equivalent qualifications with 8-year post membership, as well as operating at senior or principal advisor for at least five years;
• Hold a tertiary qualification in accounting, finance, economics or other quantitative discipline.

Please note that this role requires specialised, expert-level public sector financial management experience and knowledge, including demonstrated experience in Financial Analysis and Corporate Reporting.

This role is set at Strategic Leader level, this means your key purpose is “to lead the strategy, Our Business, and enable our people to deliver it”.

To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser:

https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/07-2024/principal_advisor_-_financial_analysis_and_reporting.pdf

 Mo tātou | About us

New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government’s largest front-line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over New Zealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas.

Your development is highly valued at NZ Police. Our employees enjoy significant investment in their development not only at an individual level, but also at the team and community practice level. We work hard to match you with work that will both play to your strengths and challenge you in new ways.

The work you’ll be engaged in is real, tangible work that directly benefits our frontline and communities. Taken all together, this means we can offer you career path opportunities to progress in your chosen profession and become a more well-rounded, experienced leader, with opportunities across the range of work we support.

To view more detailed information about our recruitment process along with further details about requirements please click below link:

Applicant Information Pack (External)

Tono ināianei | Apply now

If this position sounds like you, click apply now and submit a tailored CV. You will be required to submit an application form. Before confirmation of hire, pre-employment checks will be undertaken which include reference, drug and alcohol testing and police vetting prior to any written offer being made.

For further information on the application process, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers

All applications must be submitted online and will not be accepted directly via email. All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand.

Utu ā-tau | Salary 

This position is covered by a collective agreement and salary will commence between $151,381 and $156,426 dependent on skills and experience relevant to the role.

If you are an internal applicant, you must apply internally through the police system. You must provide an alternative contact email address and state your future commitments should you be successful for the next stage of the recruitment process. 

Please note: Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm on Sunday 28th July 2024. Applications may be reviewed prior to the close date as well as contact made with candidates.

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact john.downs-carroll@police.govt.nz.