Senior Financial Analyst at Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington City

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Job title: Senior Financial Analyst

Role type: Full time, permanent

Location: Wellington

Salary band & range: GSR D $100,934 to $129,804 depending on skills and experience

 

About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga

You'll work at the heart of public sector financial strategy, helping translate data, information and analysis into insights that drive smart decisions. The work is wide-ranging and meaningful, from baseline and appropriation management, helping manage cost pressures, delivering savings, to reporting on MPI's environmental and financial commitments. This is a great fit for someone who enjoys variety, pace, and using data to tell a compelling story.

 

You'll join a collaborative, values-based team that learns together, shares workload, and supports each other. With a flat structure, strong, visible leadership and clear pathways for progression, this role offers genuine room to grow. You'll also have opportunities to interact with MPI senior management.

 

MPI is a large, complex, commercial agency that plays a significant role in enabling New Zealand's primary sector to thrive. Gaining a deep understanding of MPI's business, you'll play a part in shaping long-term financial strategy, you'll help identify savings opportunities, understand significant cost pressures, and participate in “deep dive” analytical reviews of MPI's operations. You'll also be involved in reprioritising funding, workforce costing, environmental reporting, and reporting to Treasury's Green Bond programme team as well as developing MPI's annual External Budget and Performance Plan.

 

You will:

• Use your public sector financial management experience to help manage expenditure, funding, cost pressures, and deliver savings
• Work with the Strategic Finance team and across the business to assemble and submit MPI's External Budget and Performance Plan to Ministers and the Treasury
• Use data, analysis, and insights to tell compelling stories to help shape decisions
• Deliver analysis and reporting across grants and funds, and the Green Bond programme
• Lead MPI's reporting to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
• Build clear stories from complex financial and non-financial data
• Help the Strategic Finance team manage baseline funding and appropriations
• Facilitate expense transfers, retention of underspends, and output frameworks
• Provide quality service and stakeholder advice to help business units operate in a financially sustainable way
• Influence outcomes with a helpful, “how can I help” approach to your work
• Contribute to the analysis of MPI's financial performance by ensuring that expenditure matches funding
• Support the People & Capability team with workforce costing and analytics

 

With a flat structure, strong visible leadership and clear pathways for progression, this role offers genuine room to grow and provides opportunities to interact with MPI senior management.

 

About You - Mōu

You'll be working, or have worked, in a medium to large sized government department or similar environment where public sector financial management and strategic financial management are central. You enjoy tackling complex financial questions and shaping long term financial planning that supports strong organisational performance.

 

You bring a data driven mindset and confidence building insight from information, analysis, and evidence. You thrive in a fast-paced work environment, and you enjoy being engaged with the wider business and supporting financial strategy conversations with senior leaders. You value learning, you are curious and seek opportunities to close your own knowledge gaps.

 

You're comfortable working with financial data, contributing to MPI's financial strategy, External Budget, and Performance Plan, and supporting financial strategy conversations with senior leaders. You value learning, you are curious and seek opportunities to close your own knowledge gaps.

 

You will bring knowledge to:

• Understand core public sector finance settings including external budgets and long-term financial strategies
• Build insight from data, analysis and information including regular reporting and the use of Power BI
• Work well at pace with a positive, helpful style with agility
• Influence outcomes with strong relationship skills
• Collaborate and share work across the team
• Use data, information, analysis, insights to tell a story to drive change

You do not need to meet all of the role requirements to apply. We offer a breadth of development and learning opportunities and will welcome an application if you think you could make a great fit.

About the Team - Mō tō mātou Rōpū

You'll join a high‑performing, close‑knit team that navigates challenges with resilience, humour, and a positive mindset, in an environment that enables people to thrive. We work collaboratively with a flat structure, producing high-quality products with strong controls that protect accuracy and uphold our strong reputation across MPI. We value open communication, regular catchups and shared problem solving, with space to grow as we refine processes, innovate, and create smarter ways of working using technology.

 

About MPI - Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most trusted provider of high-value food and fibre products.

 

Benefits of working at MPI - Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua

• Additional MPI leave days
• Ability to purchase extra annual leave
• Annual Wellness payment

 

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/about-mpi/careers/working-mpi/benefits/

 

Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

 

We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.

 

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

 

To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

 

Applications close at 11.59pm on Tuesday 10 February.

 

If you have any questions about the role, please email Sophie.Hallett@mpi.govt.nz 

 

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