Senior Finance Business Partner

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an accomplished Senior Finance Business Partner based in Auckland to join our Finance team at AA Insurance on a fixed term contract for 9 months, starting 2027.

This is a highly influential role where you will act as a trusted financial advisor to senior leaders across the organisation. You will combine strong commercial thinking, financial expertise and business insight to shape decision-making, improve performance and support AA Insurance’s strategic growth.

Working closely with the Executive Leadership Team, Senior Leadership Team and business units, you will lead financial planning and forecasting, provide constructive commercial challenge, and translate complex information into clear, actionable insights. You will also identify opportunities to create value, improve the way we work and build financial capability across the organisation.

This role will suit someone who can see beyond the numbers, confidently influence senior stakeholders and take ownership of complex commercial challenges.

What You Will Be Doing

• Partnering with senior leaders as a trusted advisor, providing strategic financial advice, constructive challenge and commercial insight to support better business decisions.
• Leading financial planning and analysis, including annual operating expense planning, quarterly forecasting, multi-year modelling, scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
• Turning data into meaningful commercial insights, identifying opportunities, risks and performance improvements, and clearly communicating these to financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Supporting strategic investment and growth decisions through robust business cases, ROI and risk analysis, unit economics, driver-based modelling, margin analysis and market insights.
• Driving improvement and capability across the business, including finance process improvement, automation and system optimisation, while coaching stakeholders and contributing to the development of Finance Business Partnering capability.
• Providing cross-functional leadership on strategic initiatives, bringing together financial expertise and commercial thinking to help deliver strong business outcomes.

To shine in the role

We’re looking for someone with significant senior-level Finance Business Partnering or commercial finance experience who can quickly build credibility with senior stakeholders. You will be comfortable constructively challenging thinking, navigating complexity and converting financial analysis into practical recommendations that influence decision-making.

Most Importantly, You Will Bring

• A Chartered Accountant qualification or equivalent.
• Advanced commercial modelling, financial analysis, forecasting and scenario-planning capability, coupled with experience contributing to strategic and long-term business planning.
• Strong commercial acumen and senior stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence decisions, identify value creation opportunities and provide meaningful insight beyond the numbers.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving improvement, including process improvement, automation or finance-system optimisation.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to make complex financial information clear and relevant to different audiences.
• Experience within insurance or another complex commercial environment would be highly advantageous.

Why you’ll love working with us

At AA Insurance, trust is at the heart of who we are. Our purpose is to care, help and get things sorted for our customers, and our people play an important role in bringing that purpose to life.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where every voice matters. We invest in our people, provide opportunities to grow and encourage our teams to challenge thinking, embrace change and work together to deliver the right outcomes.

We take our annual salary reviews, bonus schemes and personal development seriously. We also make wellbeing a priority, with benefits including a $250 annual wellbeing allowance and flexible working.

If you are passionate about turning financial insight into commercial impact and want to help shape the future of AA Insurance, apply and upload your CV in PDF format today. Applications close November 20th 2026.