Senior Systems Accountant

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** Senior Systems Accountant
*** Lead and optimise RBNZ’s finance systems
* Act as the trusted 2IC, stepping in as the escalation point and ensuring seamless operations across financial systems and processes.
* Collaborate across Finance and Technology, ensuring systems are compliant, efficient, and future‑focused to support high‑quality financial outcomes.
** Te tūranga – The role and your impact
** At the Reserve Bank – Te Pūtea Matua our people are driven to make a difference. Working alongside them, you can make a big impact. The Senior Systems Accountant contributes  this role, you’ll leading the management, configuration and optimisation of RBNZ’s financial systems, in collaboration with, and under the leadership of, the Manager Financial Systems and Operations to ensure alignment with overall strategic goals and operational efficiency, as well as compliance with industry standards.

The Senior Systems Accountant role also acts as a 2IC, and escalation point for the Manager Financial Systems and Operations when required.

Your key responsibilities will be:
* Act as the subject matter expert responsible for developing, maintaining, testing, implementing, and supporting the RBNZ’s financial accounting and HRMIS/Payroll systems along with any future systems implemented.
* Lead and support technical fixes and solutions for our systems, using expertise to solve complex problems
* Lead projects and collaborate with other groups to align RBNZ’s accounting systems and organisation objectives.
* Oversee implementation of new systems, upgrades and processes to ensure these align with overall financial reporting and compliance requirements.
* Mentor and support junior colleagues.
* Development and maintenance of appropriate accounting structures, internal controls, reporting regimes to ensure that information provided by the financial system meets users’ needs and accommodates changes in legislation and financial reporting standards.
* Develop, improve, and implement financial reporting and analysis tools to enhance financial information.
* Through design, testing and reconciliation, ensure the integrity of financial systems are maintained to high standards and continually enhanced with risks mitigated, while ensuring systems are continually available to users.
* Actively educate the team and business areas and monitor expense management processes and tools to ensure that the business is appropriately spending and documenting expenditure incurred, while proactively identifying improvement opportunities through innovative thinking.**Ō pūkenga – About you
** We’re looking for someone with strong technical skills, attention to detail, and a proactive systems and process improvement mindset.

If you have:
* Extensive experience with Technology One Ci Anywhere in particular Enterprise Budgeting, Reporting & Analytics, ETL’s, XLOne and Centralised Access Management.
* Fully qualified Chartered Accountant with at least 5-7 years of post-qualification experience, or equivalent working experience to be able to effectively understand and assist the financial systems function.
* Financial systems accounting background with experience in leading or assisting system implementations and a strong understanding of financial systems, databases, and accounting standards.
* Dashboard, Power BI, SQL and Crystal Report Writer experience.then we want to hear from you!

For more information on the role and the competencies you can view the
** Ko wai matou – Who we are
** We’re kaitiaki (guardians) of New Zealand’s financial ecosystem – enabling economic wellbeing and prosperity for all New Zealanders. We do this by providing money and cash, helping to keep prices stable, maintaining safe banking and underpinning the financial system that allows New Zealand to spend, save, insure and do business.

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