Finance Manager

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

We are seeking a commercially astute, modern finance leader with strong systems and digital capability to join a growing multi-entity business group. This highly influential role is central to lifting financial performance, insight, and discipline across the organisation.

Working closely with the senior leadership team, you will drive financial excellence, improve systems and reporting capability, and help shape strategic decision-making across the Group.

Key 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.

What You'll Bring

• 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.

What's on Offer

• A highly influential leadership role with direct access to senior leadership.
• Opportunity to shape Group-wide financial systems, reporting, and performance.
• A supportive and collaborative culture with long-term career growth opportunities.
• Mount Wellington location.

Eligibility

Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.

Your application will include the following questions:

• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in New Zealand?