About Us 

 

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! 

With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island, we play a big role in New Zealanders’ lives. With the privilege of serving only one country and being locally owned, we're dedicated to doing our part for our people and serving our communities. 

 

 

About the role 

 

As an Accounts Receivable Specialist, you’ll be part of our Financial Shared Services team who manage the receivables across Foodstuffs North Island (think PAK’nSAVE, New World and Four Square) and its group of companies. 

 

The role is busy with loads of variety including: 

 

- Sundry Billing - actively following up to ensure recurring charges continue to be raised to members and third parties  

- Support with billing related tasks supporting Change of Ownerships, including management of retention accounts 

- Ensuring all financial transactions are processed accurately, including daily banking, staff expenses, monthly gym fees and fuel charges, general ledger journal processing and day to day management of Foodstuffs Gift Vouchers, including liaising with customers  

- Support fulfilling the B2B customer gift cardorders 

- Ensuring incoming customer payments are receipting and allocating in a timely manner 

- Being able to be back up for other tasks such as processing weekly statements and direct debits to members, processing of automatic payments for Christmas Club to name a few 

- Ensuring process notes and documentation for tasks assigned are kept up to date 

 

 

About you 

 

This is a busy role in a small team, with a mix of accounts, admin and customer service and you will need to have had previous experience in Accounts Receivable/Payable, understand financial workflows and be comfortable working at pace – we need you to hit the ground running! 

 

- A customer centric approach with high level of relationship management focus to deliver excellence

- You will have excellent planning and communication skills – both written and verbal, with a great ability to collaborate with others, clearly articulate ideas/concepts and present to others 

- Have a good understanding of SAP and the flow of financial documents 

You will have an eye for detail and accuracy 

- Be able to process large volumes of work daily, you’ll have a passion for process improvement with intermediate levels of Excel 

- Experience from a FMCG environment will be highly advantageous 

 

We are needing our new team member to start before Christmas and work through the holiday season so please do indicate your availability to start in your application. 

 

What we offer you 

 

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits 

- Free carparking, we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including X EV plugs 

- Southern cross health insurance, Foodiessuperannuation scheme 

- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores 

- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave 

- Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, tribes and social groups and so much more. 

 

Experience awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be awesomely you 

 

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.