Team Leader Finance

Environmental Protection Authority NZ; Wellington; On-site; NZD 127,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Extra Christmas leave

Home office grant

EPA Environment Day

Māori capability program

Learning opportunities

Social club & networks

EPA awards

Job summary

Environmental Protection Authority NZ in Wellington, New Zealand, seeks a Team Leader Finance to lead a skilled financial accounting team, oversee budget processes, and provide trusted financial guidance. The role focuses on delivering accurate insights, strengthening reporting, and partnering with leadership to drive improvements through automation and smart use of AI.

You will work closely with the Principal Finance Advisor to build capability, enhance management reporting, and support

Qualifications

• CA membership or equivalent corporate finance qualification
• Excellent numeracy and technical accounting skills
• Proficiency with Oracle accounting software
• Proven experience influencing senior leadership
• Strong interpersonal skills for collaborative relationships
• Knowledge of corporate finance processes and reporting standards

Responsibilities

• Lead a financial accounting team and oversee financial processes and controls
• Provide trusted budgeting advice and strengthen management reporting
• Drive finance improvements through automation, digital tools, and AI
• Partner with business stakeholders to enhance decision-making
• Build capability within the team and deliver high-quality insights

Skills

Numeracy

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Oracle proficiency

Corporate finance knowledge

Education

CA membership CAANZ or equivalent

Tools

Oracle

Job description

As New Zealand's environmental regulator, the work we do today helps shape the future of our tomorrow.

Our purpose | To tatou kaupapa

We are the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Aotearoa New Zealand’s independent environmental regulator. Our role is important: to help protect our country’s unique way of life by looking out for the health of its environment, its economy and its people.

Our kaupapa is about making the right decisions based on evidence, mātauranga, and science. At the EPA, we encourage big ideas and bold goals.

What we achieve today helps shape the future of New Zealand for generations to come.

Jump in the waka - make history with us.

About our group | Mō te roopu

The Corporate Services Group works in close partnership with the wider business to lead, support, and enable the EPA to achieve its strategic intentions and effectively and efficiently deliver its core functions.

There are four key functions within the Corporate Services Group. These are:

Finance and Business Services

• Finance delivers accurate, timely and meaningful financial information
• Procurement manages internal procurement activity and supports contract management to deliver better public services for better public value.
• Planning and Performance leads organisational performance, business and strategic planning and provides high quality internal and external accountability reporting.
• Risk and Assurance operates processes to manage the EPA’s strategic and business risks and manages the out-sourced internal audit function.
• Data and Reportingenablesthebusiness to maximise the use ofdatato drive organisational insights and improvements
• Facilities provides high-quality office and facilities services and leads the EPA’s sustainability initiatives.

About the role | Mō te tūnga

This role is based in our Wellington office. While we're happy to consider work-from-home arrangements, this role is not designed for full-time remote working.

As our Team Leader Finance, you will lead a talented financial accounting team, oversee financial processes and controls, and provide trusted advice on our organisation’s budget. Working closely with our Principal Finance Advisor, you’ll help strengthen management reporting and business partnering across the EPA. Your focus will be on delivering accurate financial insights, building capability within your team, and driving process improvements through automation, digital tools, and the responsible use of AI.

Success in this role looks like a confident, high-performing team and financial information that decision-makers can count on.

About you | Mōhou ake

• CA membership of CAANZ or equivalent tertiary qualification
• Ability to organise work, delegate responsibilities and monitor results to secure effective organisational performance
• Excellent numeracy and technical accounting skills
• Proficiency working with accounting software packages – preferably Oracle
• Proven experience in influencing and providing specialist advice to senior leadership
• Strong interpersonal skills for building productive collaborative relationships both internally and externally
• Excellent knowledge of corporate finance processes and reporting standards

What’s in it for you | Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou

• flexible working culture
• three additional paid leave days between Christmas and New Years in addition to four weeks’ annual leave
• $400 non-taxable payment to help you set up working at home
• an annual paid EPA Environment Day to support the community with environmental initiatives
• in-house Māori cultural capability building programme
• learning opportunities, including the annual EPA Symposium
• active and lively social club, and diverse groups and support networks
• EPA awards recognising individual and team effort

Salary range

$126,733 - $190,099 per annum (midpoint $158,416).

This is the full salary range. Appointments will likely be made at or below the midpoint of this range, depending on skills and experience. An appointment at the midpoint assumes 100% competency in the role, with the full band covering a range of 80% - 120%.