Accounts Payable Intern

We are looking for an Account Payable Intern. In this role you’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business, supporting reconciliation activities, resolving financial queries, and contributing to projects that improve processes, systems, and ways of working.

• →Support the accurate and timely processing of accounts payable transactions across Foodstuffs North Island.
• →Respond to Member and customer account queries through the FSNI service portal, ensuring a high standard of customer experience.
• →Contribute to data analysis and reporting to identify process issues and opportunities for improvement.
• →Support team initiatives including project work, process improvements, automation, and cross‑team collaboration.
• →Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders, Members, and vendors.

You’re organised, detail‑focused, and enjoy working with numbers and data in a fast‑paced environment. You bring a customer‑centric mindset, communicate clearly, and are confident collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders while also taking ownership of your work. You’re comfortable using Microsoft Excel and other MS Office tools, adaptable to changing priorities, and keen to build your experience within finance operations and accounts payable in a large, complex organisation.

• 12-weeks paid work at living wage starting in November based in Māngere, Auckland.
• Renowned learning and development sessions fortnightly.
• An extensive support network - your People Leader, the Talent Team, a Kaiārahi (mentor) and your fellow interns to help you along the way.
• The opportunity to tackle real-world business problems that help us achieve our aspiration – to help New Zealanders get more out of life.
• Modern office spaces with free parking, subsidised lunches, flexible working, weekly supplier tastings and regular celebrations.
• 5% in store and online discount in our supermarkets.

You’ll have a curiosity to learn, a knack for problem solving and be ready to get stuck in to making a positive impact on New Zealand communities. You’ll ideally be interested in one of the above areas listed and in our application form, you’ll have the opportunity to indicate your preferred roles (you don’t necessarily need to be studying something that is aligned).

We have a commitment to be here for our country, here for our people and here for our communities in everything we do, and we provide career opportunities like no other in our industry. We have an unbeatable team of over 25,000 people with a fun and inclusive culture where you feel like you belong. We work with some of New Zealands most treasured and iconic brands with over 350 PAK’n’SAVE, New World, Four Square, Gilmours and Liquorland stores across the North Island

Check us out here https://www.foodstuffs.co.nz/, on Instagram @foodiescareers and on Tik Tok @lifeatfoodies to stay up to date.

• A written application form, video interview, and face-to-face interview with our People leaders.
• If successful, we’ll check your references before finalising contracts and moving you through our fun and interactive digital onboarding experience to get you ready to start in November.

If you require the recruitment process to be adapted due to an access need, please feel free to contact us directly – recruitment@foodstuffs.co.nz