Senior Financial Accountant/Finance Manager
Join The Pure Food Co, a high-growth Kiwi business improving seniors lives in NZ, AU & FR. Next key role - Senior Financial Accountant/Finance Manager
- Young, high growth, Kiwi founded business. Learn from others with flat structure
- Office based role in Otahuhu - parking on site!
- Lead financial planning, reporting & process improvement. Support the CFO!
Join The Pure Food Co, a high-growth, Kiwi-founded business that is making an impact on the lives of seniors in New Zealand, Australia and France.
Their values of We Innovate, We Care and We Deliver have formed a core part of their growth and success, as they work towards their mission of nourishing the world's seniors. Thriving on the disruptive nature of their approach, bringing technology and a different way of doing things to revitalise an age-old issue in health and aged care. This is your chance to support this amazing team in a newly created position.
About the company
The Pure Food Co is a purpose-led company whose mission is to create food that will help people thrive when they are at their most vulnerable - creating a variety of fortified foods that are full of fresh flavours and enriched with natural nutrition - these include meal, beverage, and snacking occasions. Developed by food & healthcare experts, they supply every New Zealand public hospital, all of NZ’s largest aged care networks and the largest caterers in New Zealand. With expansion into Australia and Europe well underway, this is a company that you will be proud to be a part of.
Aside from their fantastic mission and story, their culture is strong. You will feel supported, respected, and part of a tight-knit team. You will be surrounded by food, science, nutrition, sales, and marketing experts who inspire you every day. Everyone feels connected and respected, and your caring and supportive nature will be valued here.
About the Role
As a Senior Financial Accountant/Finance Manager, you will play a critical role in driving business growth, improving financial performance, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
You will take ownership of financial planning, month-end reporting, tax compliance, capex business cases. Build robust processes, identify areas for process improvement, and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Innovation, Business Intelligence, and Sales across markets. Work closely with and mentor a junior accountant, while also supporting the CFO across a broad range of initiatives. This is an ambitious, growth-focused business where change is a constant.
This role is based onsite with car parking, in purpose-built, modern offices in Otahuhu.
Key Responsibilities
About you
With a strong foundation in accounting and a curious, commercial mindset, you'll thrive in a dynamic, high-growth business. This is more than just an accounting role.
You’ll be an independent and proactive individual who is eager to take on new challenges with a passion for automation and process improvement, motivated to pursue ongoing professional development.
You will have the opportunity to collaborate with the CFO on strategic projects, such as scaling up production capacity within the plant and the associated capex, assessing financial feasibility of new products, modeling the potential impact of entering a new market, and securing non-dilutive funding. As you grow with the business, this position will provide a clear career pathway, enabling you to expand your skills and expertise.
Ideally, you will be CA qualified and have experience within manufacturing or in a high growth an SME-sized business, where you have been involved in all aspects of accounting and finance. You will need to have a strong, natural leadership style, as it will be essential that you can influence your team and managers to drive improvements.
Why this role
This role will enable you to bring a new level of support to the business that they haven’t had, and your role will help the wider team to deliver together. The stage and size that The Pure Food Co is at represents an exciting opportunity. It’s small enough to have a flat structure where you contribute ideas, yet large enough to have an established market presence, reputation, and growth horizons.
If this role has your name on it, contact Clara at clara@sproutpeople.co for more information, or simply apply today, and we will quickly move you through the interview process.
Their values of We Innovate, We Care and We Deliver have formed a core part of their growth and success, as they work towards their mission of nourishing the world's seniors. Thriving on the disruptive nature of their approach, bringing technology and a different way of doing things to revitalise an age-old issue in health and aged care. This is your chance to support this amazing team in a newly created position.
About the company
The Pure Food Co is a purpose-led company whose mission is to create food that will help people thrive when they are at their most vulnerable - creating a variety of fortified foods that are full of fresh flavours and enriched with natural nutrition - these include meal, beverage, and snacking occasions. Developed by food & healthcare experts, they supply every New Zealand public hospital, all of NZ’s largest aged care networks and the largest caterers in New Zealand. With expansion into Australia and Europe well underway, this is a company that you will be proud to be a part of.
Aside from their fantastic mission and story, their culture is strong. You will feel supported, respected, and part of a tight-knit team. You will be surrounded by food, science, nutrition, sales, and marketing experts who inspire you every day. Everyone feels connected and respected, and your caring and supportive nature will be valued here.
About the Role
As a Senior Financial Accountant/Finance Manager, you will play a critical role in driving business growth, improving financial performance, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
You will take ownership of financial planning, month-end reporting, tax compliance, capex business cases. Build robust processes, identify areas for process improvement, and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Innovation, Business Intelligence, and Sales across markets. Work closely with and mentor a junior accountant, while also supporting the CFO across a broad range of initiatives. This is an ambitious, growth-focused business where change is a constant.
This role is based onsite with car parking, in purpose-built, modern offices in Otahuhu.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Leadership and Reporting: Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the finance team to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. Preparing and presenting financial reports, budgets, and forecasts to the leadership team.
- Financial Strategy and Growth: Developing and implementing financial strategies to drive business growth and improve profitability, identifying and mitigating financial risks. Support the business to present capex business cases and understand ROI.
- Financial Compliance and Governance: Ensuring compliance with financial regulations, laws, and standards. Providing financial guidance and support to the leadership team and other stakeholders.
- Process Improvement and Efficiency: Leading and participating in initiatives to improve financial processes and drive efficiency. Identifying opportunities for process improvements across financial operations to streamline workflows.
- Strategic Project Support: Support various projects across the business, ranging from new product development, pricing strategy, market and channel expansion, and grant funding. Should there be capital events you will support financial due diligence.
About you
With a strong foundation in accounting and a curious, commercial mindset, you'll thrive in a dynamic, high-growth business. This is more than just an accounting role.
You’ll be an independent and proactive individual who is eager to take on new challenges with a passion for automation and process improvement, motivated to pursue ongoing professional development.
You will have the opportunity to collaborate with the CFO on strategic projects, such as scaling up production capacity within the plant and the associated capex, assessing financial feasibility of new products, modeling the potential impact of entering a new market, and securing non-dilutive funding. As you grow with the business, this position will provide a clear career pathway, enabling you to expand your skills and expertise.
Ideally, you will be CA qualified and have experience within manufacturing or in a high growth an SME-sized business, where you have been involved in all aspects of accounting and finance. You will need to have a strong, natural leadership style, as it will be essential that you can influence your team and managers to drive improvements.
Why this role
This role will enable you to bring a new level of support to the business that they haven’t had, and your role will help the wider team to deliver together. The stage and size that The Pure Food Co is at represents an exciting opportunity. It’s small enough to have a flat structure where you contribute ideas, yet large enough to have an established market presence, reputation, and growth horizons.
If this role has your name on it, contact Clara at clara@sproutpeople.co for more information, or simply apply today, and we will quickly move you through the interview process.