12-month fixed-term opportunity | Britomart, Auckland | Finance
Mō te tūranga | About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team on a 12-month fixed-term basis.
This is a great opportunity to work closely with senior leaders across the business, providing strategic financial advice, commercial insight and decision support to help drive strong business outcomes.
You’ll become a trusted finance partner to your stakeholders, helping them understand business performance, identify opportunities and risks, and make well-informed commercial decisions. This is a role where you can genuinely influence outcomes, combining strong financial expertise with commercial thinking and relationship management.
You’ll work across a broad range of areas including planning and forecasting, performance analysis, financial modelling and strategic decision support.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
To be successful in this role, you’ll bring strong commercial finance experience and be comfortable working with and influencing senior stakeholders.
You’ll also bring:
- A CAANZ, CFA or equivalent professional qualification
- Strong experience within finance business partnering, FP&A or a similar commercial finance environment
- Strong budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling capability
- Commercial acumen and the ability to think strategically
- Experience partnering with, influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders
- The ability to turn complex financial information into clear, meaningful business insights
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience using financial and reporting systems, with advanced Excel capability
- Exposure to Power BI, Tableau or similar data visualisation tools would be advantageous
He aha tāu e mahi ai? | What will you do?
In this role, you’ll:
- Partner with senior business leaders and Finance stakeholders to provide strategic financial advice and insights
- Lead planning, budgeting and forecasting activities across your portfolio
- Deliver meaningful analysis of business performance, trends, risks and opportunities
- Support commercial decision-making through financial modelling, scenario analysis and business case development
- Identify opportunities to improve performance and optimise costs
- Provide clear reporting, insights and recommendations to senior and executive stakeholders
- Collaborate across Finance, Product, Treasury, Strategy and Technology
- Support strong financial governance, controls and compliance
- Drive continuous improvement across financial processes, reporting and systems
- Share your expertise and help build capability across the wider team
Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac
Immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, and receive some of the best banking, and lifestyle benefits in the market along with:
- 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
- Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
- Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
- Career growth – we promote internal capability; we have programmes that recognise star performers
- Generous parental leave – and top up government paid parental leave
- School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
- 2 Volunteer days per year
Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation
At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.
What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!
Tono mai ināianei! | Apply Now!
Apply today with your CV and Cover Letter.
The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us – we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodivergent, have chronic health conditions or disabilities – your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.
Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater
Applications close:
26 October 2026
