Finance Officer

Epro is one of New Zealand's leading conservation and predator control businesses, focused on saving our forests, farms and native species.  With a reputation built on technical excellence, innovation and decades of operational knowhow, our nationwide work spans aerial and ground-based pest control, specialist advisory, research and industry development.  We're proudly Kiwi, proudly practical and always looking for ways to do things better.

We're looking for an experienced, detail-driven Finance Officer to join our finance team in Taupō.  If you take pride in timely invoicing, clean reconciliations, a payroll that runs right every fortnight, ledgers you can stand behind and have financial job costing experience this is a role where your work will directly support the programmes protecting Aotearoa's native species.

About the role

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you'll own the day-to-day processing across Epro's full set of ledgers and payroll. You'll prepare the reconciliations and workpapers that feed management reporting, and be an integral part of project delivery by working closely with the operations team to make sure the job costing data behind aerial and ground-based programmes is complete and correct.

What you'll be doing

• Running Epro's fortnightly payroll in IMS Payroll, including leave, Holidays Act calculations and IRD payday filing
• Processing creditors through Billfeeds, reconciling supplier statements and preparing payment schedules
• Invoicing clients against contract schedules, receipting and following up debtors
• Processing the cashbook and preparing monthly bank reconciliations
• Preparing fortnightly job costing batches for time, vehicle running and allowances
• Entering stock and fixed asset transactions, and supporting stocktakes
• Processing journals, preparing GST workpapers and assisting with month end and year end
• Completing KPI reports and preparing data for management reports and the Annual Plan

What you'll bring

• A tertiary qualification in accounting, or equivalent practical experience

• Experience with job costing

• Proven payroll experience, including a solid working knowledge of the Holidays Act

• Full-cycle accounts payable and receivable experience, with confident GL coding and GST

• Strong attention to detail and the discipline to work to fixed fortnightly and monthly deadlines

• Clear communication skills and the confidence to chase information from busy operational staff

• Discretion and integrity when handling confidential payroll and financial information

• Right to work in New Zealand

If this sounds like you, apply now through SEEK with your CV and a cover letter telling us about your experience.