Group Accounting Lead

Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora.  We’re Foodies.  You know New World, PAK’nSAVE, Gilmours and Four Square right? That’s us! With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.
Our Finance team plays a critical role behind the scenes, providing financial insight, stability, and support that enables our Co-op and stores to thrive. You’ll be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking team focused on continuous improvement and doing great work together.
Te Tūranga – About the role
As our Group Accounting Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of financial reporting, statutory compliance, and financial control activities across Foodies. Reporting to the Group Accounting Manager, you'll provide day-to-day leadership within the Group Accounting team while partnering across Finance and the wider business to provide accounting guidance and strengthen our ways of working.
You’ll also be working across:
Owning the end-to-end month end process including consolidated group reporting
Owning the day-to-day delivery of Group Accounting activities
Maintaining general ledger and balance sheet integrity
Leading the half year and annual statutory reporting and external audit activities
Applying NZ IFRS and providing accounting guidance
Driving process improvement, standardisation and automation
Leveraging SAP and finance systems to improve efficiency and reporting
Coaching and supporting the Group Accounting team
You'll ensure business initiatives are translated into sustainable financial processes, maintain robust controls and reconciliations, oversee the integrity of the general ledger, and partner closely with Finance stakeholders to identify and resolve process issues.
He kōrero mōu - About you
You'll bring strong technical accounting expertise, sound commercial judgement and a collaborative leadership style. Comfortable working in a complex environment, you'll be able to balance attention to detail with a broader business perspective while building trusted relationships across the organisation.
Ideally, you’ll have: