Financial Accountant | Kaikaute Pūtea

The people of Porirua City are what makes ours a truly special place – we take pleasure in helping and caring for each other. We want everyone to feel welcome here, whether they’re visiting, living or working here. We’re looking for people who will help position our city as a welcoming, dynamic place to live, work and visit.

All about the job

This dynamic role will allow you to apply your accounting knowledge across a wide range of areas, as you provide backup to a number of roles and teams. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on, results-driven Accountant.

You’ll provide support and back up to the Finance team across a range of accounting areas with a particular focus on work-in-progress, assets, revaluations and supporting external audit.

This is a part-time (20 hours per week) 12-month fixed term role.

You will be responsible for: 

• reconciling and reviewing work in progress
• processing fixed asset transactions including additions, disposals, depreciation and revaluations
• supporting our external audit processes
• contributing towards monthly financial reporting and the preparation of the annual report
• analysing data and to contributing to relevant financial discussions

All about you

You’ll be a hands-on, results-driven Accountant. You’ll need to show us that you:

• are a Chartered Accountant or a Certified Practicing Accountant (or working towards one of these) or
• have some experience working in a financial accountant role for a medium to large sized organisation
• enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
• are deadline and delivery conscious and have excellent problem resolution skills
• apply strong attention to detail to your work
• have excellent communication and organisational skills

What you need to do now

Come and join our Finance team and be part of our welcoming and engaging environment. Please contact Peta Anderson on 021 206 0131 for more information.

Porirua City Council is committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.  We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you have any support or access requirements during our recruitment process, please let us know when you apply, and we’ll do our best to get you sorted.

You will need to apply via our careers centre: www.poriruacity.govt.nz/careers.

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Applications close Tuesday 10 February 2026.