Office Centralisation Specialist
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 function are a financial ‘supermarket’ offering our Co-op a pick n mix of solutions across commercial finance, store ownership, funding, financial planning & management, data analysis & reporting, accounting & transactional services including AR, AP & master data solutions.
Te Tūranga - About the role
This role is part of a team who drive efficiencies and build relationships across our store network working closely with owner/operators and their teams.
With our customers front of mind, you’ll provide service on all non-customer facing office transactions for selected stores. This is an opportunity to learn and master a variety of tasks including:
- Accounts payable
- Parked invoices triaging
- Vendor credit reconciliation
- Post bank upload reconciliation
- GL reconciliation and clearing
- Vendor management
- GR/IR
- Gift card/Christmas club reconciliation and clearing
- Highlight up-front process issues impacting on store accuracy/efficiency
- Driving a continuous improvement culture within the team to ensure ongoing improvements for process efficiency and customer service
He kōrero mōu - About you
With a customer driven mindset, you’ll utilise your strong communication skills to work collaboratively to resolve issues and prevent them happening again. Your previous experience working with SAP financial processes will ensure you deliver accurate and complete work and you will love working with systems and processes to maintain and streamline business transactions.
With a curious mindset and strong initiative, you will really enjoy proactively identify opportunities for improvement and coach and guide stakeholders in best practice. Needless to say you will need to have great time management and communication skills, eagerness to learn and enjoy working in a team environment.
People will describe you as a doer, capable of speedily delivering high volumes of quality work, yet also be flexible and able respond to incoming requests. You get stuff done!
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:
- Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday
- Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected]. Accessibility support could include interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
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