Financial Transaction Manager

Northpower

The Role

Overview

Oversee AP, Treasury & finance transactions, ensure accuracy, compliance, and drive improvements.

Key Responsibilities

  • jde admin
  • coupa integration
  • ar management
  • reconciliations
  • reporting
  • ap leadership

Tasks

-Partner with the Group Financial Controller on financial strategy, project delivery, and continuous improvement. -Lead and support the AP and Treasury teams, fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture. -Manage AR administration, credit card processes, and payee changes. -Act as system administrator and SME for JDE and Coupa, ensuring smooth integrations and supporting automation initiatives. -Oversee reconciliations, payment approvals, and ensure financial accuracy and compliance. -Prepare and deliver weekly and monthly reports, identifying insights and improvement opportunities.

Requirements

  • bachelor's
  • ca
  • jde
  • coupa
  • process improvement
  • ap/ar

What You Bring

-Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business; CA qualification preferred. -Strong knowledge of accounting systems (JDE, Coupa or similar) and process improvement. -Excellent attention to detail, communication, and leadership skills. -Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines. -Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in finance or accounting, ideally in AP/AR management or financial control.

Benefits

-A friendly workplace where people are valued and appreciated. -Family-friendly events and discounted gym membership along with various retail discounts. -Competitive remuneration. -Life Insurance and group discounted medical insurance. -An in-house well-being programme, a peer support network (Kaitiaki) and EAP services.

The Company

About Northpower

-It blends ownership and contracting—running its own electricity and fibre networks while delivering engineering and construction services nationwide. -Financially robust, it sustains large-scale contracts with major utilities and returns profits to its consumer-owned trust. -Its projects range from substation upgrades and submarine cable installations to managing transmission lines and future-energy installations. -Specialising in transmission, distribution, fibre rollout, inspection solutions and grid‑scale solar, it tackles every layer of utility infrastructure. -Unusually, the company owns and operates one of the region’s oldest hydro stations and recently launched a portable data centre prototype.

Sector Specialisms

Energy

Electricity Distribution

Fibre Network

Transmission

Distribution

Substations

Industrial Electrical and Automation

Communications

Fibre Optic

Power

Renewables

Telecommunications

Infrastructure

Asset Management

Maintenance

Construction

Engineering Design

SCADA

Protection Scheme

Earthing

Battery Chargers

HV/LV Reticulation

Corrosion Protection

Acoustic Testing

Security Clearance

-criminal history check -drug and alcohol testing -medical assessment