Finance Associate — Fixed Term (Immediate Start)
Christchurch
 
We are currently looking for a detail-focused and proactive Finance Assistant to support accurate payroll processing, time entry management, and financial reporting across a New Zealand owned infrastructure construction company delivering end to end telecommunications, civil, and utilities projects. This is a fixed term contract starting immediately and lasting through until April.

This role is integral to ensuring payroll and project data is accurate, well maintained, and continuously improving.
 
Working closely with team leaders, employees, and the wider finance team, you'll help validate time entries, investigate discrepancies, and support efficient finance and reporting processes.
 
Key responsibilities include:

• Reviewing, validating, and editing employee time entries prior to payroll processing
• Cross-checking timesheets and confirming accurate project and plant allocations
• Liaising with team leaders to clarify hours worked and cost allocations
• Responding to employee queries related to timesheets and payroll
• Investigating anomalies in time entries, payroll, and project cost reports
• Recommending corrective actions and process improvements
• Building and maintaining spreadsheets for payroll, budgeting, and financial analysis
• Using advanced Excel functions such as formulas and pivot tables to automate reporting
• Providing ad hoc support to finance and project teams as required

About you:

• Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach
• Confident working with data, spreadsheets, and financial information
• Comfortable collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders
• Proactive, organised, and improvement-focused
• Solid to advanced Excel capability

If you're immediately available and keen to join a genuinely interesting environment with plenty to get stuck into, we'd love to hear from you! Due to the short-term nature of this role, we will be reviewing applications as they arrive. 
 
For more information or a confidential chat, contact Heather Ewing at heather@bishopassociates.co.nz.