Financial Accountant – Business Partnering

Looking to make your first move into industry? Build Your Career at the Heart of a Global Aerospace Company

This is an opportunity to apply your technical accounting skills while gaining exposure to commercial finance, international operations, and business partnering in one of New Zealand's most exciting technology companies.

At Dawn Aerospace, we're developing satellite propulsion systems already operating in orbit and building aircraft designed to fly to the edge of space from a runway. Operating across New Zealand, Europe, and the United States, we're scaling rapidly—and we're looking for a Financial Accountant to help build the financial capability that supports our global growth.

This is far more than a traditional financial accounting role.

You'll work closely with leaders across engineering, manufacturing, operations, commercial teams, and finance, helping deliver high-quality financial reporting while contributing to budgeting, forecasting, systems development, process improvement, and commercial decision-making. You'll gain exposure to multiple international entities, currencies, and business functions while developing the broader commercial experience that supports long-term career growth.

Whether you're looking to make your first move from professional services or you're already working in industry and want broader exposure, this is an opportunity to develop your career in a fast-growing global business.

About the Role

As Financial Accountant, you'll help support the financial operations of a growing international business operating across multiple countries, legal entities, and currencies.

You'll be responsible for delivering accurate financial reporting while contributing to projects that improve systems, strengthen financial processes, and provide better information to support business decisions.

Rather than working in a narrow reporting role, you'll become part of a finance team that partners closely with the wider business, helping ensure Dawn has the financial capability needed to support continued international growth.

As the company continues to scale, you'll have opportunities to broaden your experience across financial reporting, commercial finance, business partnering, systems development, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing

Financial Reporting & Control

• Deliver accurate and timely month-end and year-end close processes
• Prepare financial reporting in accordance with IFRS
• Support group consolidation across multiple international entities
• Maintain strong financial controls, reconciliations, and reporting discipline
• Support external audits and statutory reporting requirements

Planning & Analysis

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning activities
• Analyse financial performance and identify trends, risks, and opportunities
• Provide practical financial insights to support business decision-making
• Help leaders understand financial outcomes and key performance drivers

Systems & Process Improvement

• Contribute to the ongoing development of finance systems and reporting processes
• Improve reporting efficiency, automation, and data quality
• Build financial models, reports, and analysis tools
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes and support future growth
• Help shape how finance supports a rapidly growing international business

Business Partnership

• Work closely with engineering, operations, and commercial teams
• Translate financial information into practical business insights
• Build effective relationships across the organisation
• Support leaders in understanding the financial impact of business decisions
• Contribute to a collaborative, solutions-focused culture

About You

We're looking for someone who combines strong technical accounting skills with curiosity, initiative, and a genuine desire to contribute beyond the numbers.

You'll likely bring:

• CA qualified (or nearing completion)
• 3–6 years' accounting experience gained in Big Four, mid-tier practice, business advisory, outsourced finance, or a commercial finance environment
• Strong financial accounting fundamentals and an understanding of IFRS
• Experience supporting month-end and year-end reporting
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with ERP systems
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability
• The ability to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
• A proactive approach and a desire to improve processes
• Strong attention to detail balanced with commercial judgement

Experience with group reporting, multi-entity accounting, budgeting, forecasting, or business partnering would be advantageous, but isn't essential.

Most importantly, you're motivated by learning, enjoy solving complex problems, and want to build your career in a business that's growing rapidly and continually evolving.

Join Us

If you're looking for a role that combines technical accounting with commercial exposure, continuous learning, and genuine career development, we'd love to hear from you.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Dawn Aerospace, we believe that diverse teams build better solutions. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences are valued and supported to do their best work.

About Dawn Aerospace

Dawn Aerospace is a space transportation company with a purpose.
Our mission is to enable the next generation of space users by providing more sustainable and scalable ways to access and move around in space. We believe this access, in the form of a transportation network, will fundamentally change what’s possible from space. We currently focus on three areas of space transportation:

• In-space propulsion
  We're a leading supplier of turnkey green propulsion systems for various classes of satellites. Our systems utilise safe, accessible propellants and we have over 170 of these propulsion units on more than 40 operational satellites already. A further 200 units are in production.
• In-space servicing
  Coupled with our propulsion expertise, we are ensuring that our customers' satellites are refuellable. In the coming years, Dawn will offer a refueling service to enable life extension of customer satellites. This new market is aligned with our sustainability goal to ensue a clean and safe space for everyone! 
• Spaceplane
  We are developing the fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever to take off from a runway, combining the extreme performance of rocket propulsion with the reusability of conventional airplanes to enable high-frequency, low-cost access to sub-orbital space.

Our international teams are distributed across four locations: the Netherlands, France, New Zealand, and the USA.

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