Ko wai mātou – 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 Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
Are you passionate about creating engaging learning experiences that make a real difference? Do you thrive on simplifying complex topics and ensuring that people are empowered to meet regulatory requirements? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
Te Tūranga – About the role
Are you ready to make a real impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment? As our Regulatory Compliance Analyst at Foodstuffs North Island, you will be at the heart of ensuring our organisation meets its regulatory obligations. Your role will be pivotal in delivering top-quality reporting to the Compliance Lead, the General Counsel and the Risk Committee, while seamlessly bridging the gap between our business teams and legal experts.
You’ll be the go-to expert for all things compliance. You’ll work closely with business teams, guiding them to meet the highest standards and ensuring that our compliance activities are flawlessly measured and reported. Your work will directly influence our company's success, ensuring we meet our regulatory commitments with precision and minimal fuss.
What Will You Be Responsible For?
- Be the Compliance Champion: Establish yourself as a trusted and knowledgeable point of contact for Line 2 compliance, empowering our business teams and Store Owners with fronting the standards they need to succeed.
- Shape the Future: Represent and role model the Policy and Framework that gives our Board confidence in the accuracy and reliability of information, spotlighting any areas where compliance could be improved.
- Drive Excellence: Collaborate with Business Units to validate and enhance the processes and controls that feed into our reports. Continually refine our control register, working with business owners to support their quality improvements.
- Influence Change: Identify and address compliance weaknesses, facilitating business unit review and action plan development. Your expertise will be crucial in guiding the improvements needed to address these weaknesses.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work cross-functionally to align practices with our policies and guidelines, and advocate for further standardisation where needed.
- Pursue Perfection: Partner with governance forums, working groups, and projects to continuously push towards 100% regulatory compliance.
- Solve Problems: Dive into root cause analysis, working with IT and Data & Analytics to drive systemic improvements that enhance our compliance outcomes.
- Support Success: Help business units document and report on processes and controls, providing the data that governance bodies need to make informed decisions.
- Lead with Expertise: Become a key Subject Matter Expert in risk identification, guiding all business units in achieving top-notch compliance.
Ngā painga - What we offer
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 36 free EV plugs
· Southern cross health insurance, Foodies superannuation 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, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
He kōrero mōu - About You:
You will be a seasoned compliance or financial analyst, with a versatile skill set and ideally 5 years’ experience in a risk and/or compliance role. FMCG experience is a bonus, but what matters most is your ability to quickly learn and adapt. Alongside that you will be curious & driven - always eager to learn more, constantly exploring what’s possible and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved.
You will also:
- have a strong track record of being an exceptional team member, known for delivering accurate information and insights while collaborating effortlessly with people from all backgrounds.
- Be comfortable navigating data and IT systems and possess excellent excel and reporting skills. Experience with SAP, SharePoint and Visio would also be an advantage.
- Possess great commercial acumen, with the ability to contextualise your analysis outcomes effectively.
- Be both a high-level thinker and a hands-on doer, with a bias for action and the ability to see ideas through from concept to execution.
- Have top-notch communication skills - both written and verbal and clearly articulate ideas and concepts with ease.
Experience Awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be Awesomely You
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz so we can support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
