Senior Financial Accountant

Company Description

At Hamilton City Council, our people are united by a shared purpose: to improve the wellbeing of Hamiltonians. As one of New Zealand's largest city councils, we're proud to serve a growing and vibrant community while delivering services and projects that improve the wellbeing of Hamiltonians every day.

You'll join a team that values collaboration, innovation, and community impact. Together, we're on track to being one of New Zealand's leading community-focused councils, where everyone matters and every contribution helps shape the future of our city.

If you're looking for meaningful work, a supportive team, and the opportunity to make a real difference in your community, you'll find it here.

Job Description

He angituutanga: The opportunity

This is a great opportunity to join our Finance and Enabling Services group and play an important part in delivering accurate, reliable financial information across Council. Working across financial accounting, capital and assets, reporting and financial support services, you’ll help make sure our numbers stack up and our accounting practices are consistent and well managed. It’s a varied role where you’ll provide practical accounting advice, work alongside teams across the organisation, support our month and year-end processes, and look for better, smarter ways of working.

Some of the key things you’ll be doing:

• Take primary responsibility for the day-to-day management treasury activities, including swaps, borrowings, cash flow and liquidity management, monitoring compliance with Treasury Management Policy limits.
• Financial accounting, reporting, audit, technical accounting, compliance and financial control oversight of our Council-Controlled Organisations.
• Preparing and reviewing journals, reconciliations and supporting financial information.
• Supporting month-end and year-end processes, including statutory financial statements and disclosures.
• Providing practical technical accounting advice and helping with more complex or non-routine accounting matters.
• Supporting capital and asset accounting, including WIP, capitalisation, depreciati...

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