Senior Commercial Analyst

Silver Fern Farms Limited; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidised health and life insurance

Discounts with major retailers

Flexible work policy

Continuous learning

Job summary

Silver Fern Farms is seeking a Senior Commercial Analyst to join our Commercial branch within the Finance Team. You will partner with the Logistics Leadership Team, providing data analysis and commercial insights to drive performance and deliver logistics strategic goals.

You will work with our key logistics vendors to gather data and build reporting that informs better decision-making. A strong background in analytics, with Excel and PowerBI, is essential to succeed in this role.

Qualifications

• Must have 7+ years' experience in a finance or commercial role.
• Experience in logistics, exports, or manufacturing is a plus.
• CA/CPA designation is beneficial but not required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Logistics Leadership Team to provide analytics and insights.
• Translate data into actionable commercial guidance for performance management.
• Collaborate with external vendors for data and reporting to support end-to-end logistics decisions.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder management

Business partnering

Education

CA/CPA desirable or equivalent

Tools

Excel

PowerBI

Job description

This role will see you join the Commercial branch of our Finance Team and be responsible to our Commercial Manager – Operations. Your day-to-day work has you operate as business partner and advisor to the Logistics Leadership Team, working closely with them as well as their Logistics teams members. You become an integral part of this Logistics Leadership Team, responsible for providing data analysis and commercial insights that contribute to performance management and delivery of logistics strategic goals and objectives.

Our Senior Commercial Analysts are connectors of groups both internally and externally, including commercial relationships with our key Logistics vendors who provide us with data, reporting, and information to give us better insights into our entire global logistics and distribution network.

This role, done well, ensures that our Logistics teams make the best commercial decisions to positively impact the financial performance of the business.

You’ll be a professional with experience working in a similar role in the commercial space. Ideally this experience is strongly tied with global logistics, exports, or the manufacturing industry, with additional benefit if you’ve worked in the agriculture sector too.

Holding a Chartered Accountant designation is not necessary but is immensely beneficial – given the size and complexity of the business unit you’ll be operating in, and the breadth and depth of commercial value that this role has the opportunity to influence.

This role would suit a commercial professional wanting to work in a highly complex environment, who is looking to have an autonomous role and be able to deliver tangible, measurable financial benefits to a large Logistics function.

Ideally you will be:

• Confident and people-focused
• Autonomous, ownership focused, and accountable
• Professionally qualified account (CA, CPA etc) with at least 7 years’ experience in a relevant finance or commercial role
• Logistics background or some sort of similar industry
• Proficient with manipulating data to gain insight and provide analysis using tools such as Excel and PowerBI
• Excellent at relationship management; apply a “customer service” approach to key relationships throughout the business

Te Ahurea | Why work at Silver Fern Farms?

Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means and how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe. ‘Goodness’ is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment.

We offer subsidised health and life insurance, discounted offerings with major retailers, the opportunity to continuously learn and develop and we support a work life balance with our flexible work policy.

Applications for this position close on 18 November 2026.

Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us. You can see more about our commitments to our people and their work by visiting our Belong Here webpage: https://careers.silverfernfarms.com/nz/en/belong-here