{"id":2383889,"url":"https://alion.io/job/zuru-financial-analyst","title":"Financial Analyst","company":{"id":3048236,"name":"ZURU","domain":"zuru.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/zuru-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":13,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.846,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":34,"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Auckland, New Zealand"],"countries":["NZ"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":41000,"max_usd":100000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":15},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-17T14:05:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-22T20:57:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":97,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":96},"description":"Your Role\nYou will be part of one of the fastest growing consumer goods companies in the world with over US$3bn in revenue, and a plan to grow to $14bn by 2030. You will turn financial and commercial data into business insight that drives decisions across the Group - revenue, cost, margin, and everything between. You will partner with business teams, support ZURU's forecasting and planning cycles, and work with the data and AI tools that are transforming how Finance at ZURU works.\nHow You Will Make An Impact\nAs a naturally AI curious and analytical person, you will work to distill complex financial and commercial data into clear, action-oriented analysis that informs decisions at the most senior level. Working directly alongside the Global FP&A Manager in Auckland, you will support performance reporting and planning across all of ZURU's divisions and collaborate with commercial, functional, and global finance teams to understand what is driving the numbers. You will drive efficiency by living in AI, leveraging off a team of AI specialists, to continually optimise our reporting and financial analysis. The role deliberately grows with you, so you will be learning at a pace unseen by any other NZ business.\nCore Roles and Responsibilities\nTransitioning Excel reports into automated AI reports that deliver business insights real time.\nPartner with commercial and functional teams across ZURU to understand what is driving performance, gather the context behind the numbers, and support decisions with clear financial analysis.\nAnalyse financial and commercial data - revenue, cost, margin, headcount - to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement across departments and business units.\nSupport the monthly management reporting process: performance reporting, variance analysis, and clear narratives that distil complex data into actionable insight for senior leadership.\nAssist in the preparation of the quarterly rolling forecast, annual budget, and longer-range plans: collect business inputs, challenge assumptions, and build and maintain the underlying models and consolidations.\nPrepare ad-hoc analysis and business cases for the FP&A Manager and senior leadership.\nSupport broader Group Finance activities as priorities evolve - including P&L and balance sheet reviews, month-end reporting, and other key Finance initiatives across the team.\nBuild strong working relationships and knowledge with ZURU's global finance teams, including our China-based finance team, developing a solid understanding of how the numbers are produced.\nContinuously improve Finance's processes, data, and reporting: help automate recurring work, build self-serve datasets and reporting, and standardise templates and definitions across divisions - leveraging AI tools as a core part of how the team operates.\nChampion ZURU's continuous-improvement mindset: constantly seek ways to optimise how Finance works and challenge the status quo.\nSkills & Experience Required\nA degree in finance, accounting, economics, commerce, information systems, or data analytics (CA pathway supported), but most importantly the right mindset to win and develop in an entrepreneurial high performance culture.\nStrong Excel and financial modelling aptitude - and genuine curiosity and a keen-to-learn mindset for new tools: ZURU's Finance team works extensively with AI, and willingness to learn matters more than any specific software.\nCommercial acumen and analytical instinct: you notice when a number cannot be right, and can say why in one sentence.\nStrong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear messages for a variety of stakeholders - your work will be read at senior leadership level.\nA go-getter with energy, creativity and determination to continuously improve and push boundaries; a solutions-focused mindset with high levels of resilience, positivity and humility.\nRole is required to be based full time out of ZURU's headquarters in New Zealand to optimise training and learning opportunities.\nAbout ZURU\nZURU is on a mission to disrupt across industries, challenge the status quo and catalyst change through radical innovation and automation advances. This is in play in different pillars of the company: ZURU Toys are re-imagining what it means to play; ZURU Tech is shaping a better future by leading the next building revolution; ZURU Edge is pioneering new generation FMCG brands to better serve modern consumers.\nFounded in 2003 by EY Entrepreneur of the Year and World Entrepreneur Hall of Fame brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray, ZURU has quickly grown to a team of over 5000 direct and indirect members across more than 30 international locations.\nOne of the largest toy companies in the world, globally recognised and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more!\nFor more information, visit www.zuru.com.\nLIFE@ZURU: instagram.com/lifeatzuru\nAt ZURU, we have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day.\nAt ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won't find anywhere else.\nWe recognise that ZURU's success stems from our people and you can only be at your best when you are looking after yourself. ZURU encourages all our team members to invest in their wellbeing by providing an array of benefits and tools.\nWhat We Offer\nCulture for Growth\nSurrounded by an A Player Team\nCompetitive Remuneration\nZURU - Tomorrow Reimagined\nzuru.com\nZURU may use AI tools to help screen, assess or select applicants.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5980,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Toys, Games & Puzzles","FMCG & Consumer Brand Groups"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T19:53:15Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.21,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":96,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zuru-financial-analyst","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zuru-financial-analyst.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T22:36:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7913,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3048236},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3048236"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fzuru-financial-analyst"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fzuru-financial-analyst"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fzuru-financial-analyst"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/zuru-financial-analyst\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fzuru-financial-analyst"}]}