Financial & Commercial Analyst

About The Role:

This is a 6-month fixed term contract role for a naturally curious Financial Analyst who enjoys turning data into insight and helping the business make better decisions.

Your primary focus will be IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) developing, enhancing, and supporting reports, cubes, and planning tools that genuinely improve how the business plans and performs. Working closely with the Manager Group FP&A and the Group Commercial team, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting.

Alongside this, you'll get involved in emissions and carbon reporting, and ad hoc commercial projects. It's a varied role where accuracy, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines really matter but so does collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Role Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and enhancing cubes, reports, and tools in IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)
• Using PAfe (Excel add-in) to streamline planning, forecasting, and reporting processes
• Supporting users through budgeting and forecasting cycles and improving system adoption
• Training and supporting IBM PA users and helping drive successful change
• Documenting IBM PA processes and ensuring a shared understanding across the business
• Preparing and improving annual and monthly carbon emissions reporting, including Power BI dashboards
• Providing ad hoc financial analysis and insights to support commercial decision-making

Decision Support:

• Proactively challenge assumptions, and influence decision making which ultimately focus on holistic outcomes for Northpower
• Supporting business case development for initiatives as well as tracking spend & benefits against targets

Team and Culture:

• Work closely with finance peers across the business and the group finance teams to achieve best practice and ensure consistent reporting and processes
• Establishing and developing relations with senior management, external partners, finance and commercial stakeholders

About You:

You're someone who enjoys building things that make life easier better models, cleaner data, smarter reports. You're comfortable working with complexity, but you also know how to explain numbers clearly to non-finance people.

• Strong experience developing in IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), including cubes and reports
• Advanced Excel skills (Power Query and VBA experience highly regarded)
• Experience with visualisation/financial modelling tools and systems (JDE experience a bonus)
• A solid understanding of accounting principles (nice to have, not essential)
• A forward-thinking mindset, attention to detail, and a genuine drive to improve how things are done
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across the business

About Us:

Northpower is an electricity and fibre network provider for Whangarei and Kaipara, with more than 60,000 connected customers. We are one of the largest multi-utility contractors in New Zealand, servicing the needs of clients in transmission, distribution, generation, fibre, renewables, and commercial sectors. We have a reputation for excellence and innovation, providing commercially viable solutions for electrical and telecommunication design, construction, and maintenance requirements.

We have over 1,400 staff working together across 16 locations to keep the power on and the lights going for our customers.

Apply Now:

You'll be joining a team that values quality, collaboration, and smart thinking. This is a role where your ideas will be listened to, your technical skills will be used, and your work will directly influence commercial and strategic outcomes including how we measure and reduce our environmental impact. Apply via #REQ1887

New Zealand work rights are required for the role.

Pre-employment checks will include a criminal history check, drug and alcohol testing, and a medical assessment