Finance Leader – Systems, Insights & Growth

Archway Recruitment; Maungakiekie-Tāmaki; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Archway Recruitment is seeking a commercially astute finance leader to lift performance and oversight across a multi-entity NZ group. This role drives financial insight, robust reporting, and disciplined close processes with strong ERP and BI capabilities.

You will partner with senior leadership to shape strategy, enhance controls, and develop a high-performing finance team. Mount Wellington, NZ-based; traditional office setup.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and cashflow management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and commercial communication skills.
• A confident people leader with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong systems and digital capability, including experience with BI tools, dashboards, automation, and ERP optimisation.
• Experience within workshops, engineering, manufacturing, transport, or related industries is advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead accurate and disciplined month-end and year-end close processes across five entities.
• Deliver decision-ready management reporting, commercial insights, and dashboards.
• Own budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modelling processes.
• Improve financial systems, automate processes, and strengthen financial controls.
• Lead, coach, and develop the finance function and wider team.
• Produce monthly management accounts with clear variance analysis and commercial recommendations.
• Maintain strong balance sheet integrity and robust internal controls.
• Oversee GST, PAYE, income tax, FBT, and audit deliverables.
• Provide commercial partnering across multiple business units.
• Implement cost-to-serve models, standard costings, and margin analysis to improve profitability.

Skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Cashflow management

Stakeholder engagement

People leadership

BI dashboards

ERP optimisation

Automation

Tools

BI dashboards

ERP systems

Job description

Archway Recruitment is seeking a commercially astute finance leader to lift performance and oversight across a multi-entity NZ group. This role drives financial insight, robust reporting, and disciplined close processes with strong ERP and BI capabilities.

You will partner with senior leadership to shape strategy, enhance controls, and develop a high-performing finance team. Mount Wellington, NZ-based; traditional office setup.