Chief Financial Officer

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Bring your enterprise leadership to lead our finance function
• Permanent role - Wellington or Auckland preferred
• Salary range between $204,447 and $269,463

Mo tatou - About Us

He aha te mea nui o tēnei ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

What is the most important thing in the world, it is people, it is people, it is people 

Ka noho mātāmua te orangatonutanga o te tangata ki a mātou o Mahi Haumaru Aotearoa. Ko te aronga matua kia haere haumaru ngā tāngata katoa ki te mahi, kia hoki haumaru ki te te kāinga. Inā ka ngākaunui koe ki ēnei āhuatanga, tomo mai ki tēnei whare whakaruruhau. 

WorkSafe New Zealand/ Mahi Haumaru Aotearoa, is the primary workplace health and safety regulator – our vision is that everyone who goes to mahi comes home healthy and safe.  Our kaimahi are passionate about our vision and embrace and demonstrate our Mātāpono WorkSafe Values through the mahi they do: 

• Whakakotahi – we're united in a strong purpose 
• Kōrero mai – we engage meaningfully 
• Tiakina mai - we're entrusted with a duty of care. 

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Free life insurance
• Discounts on health insurance and eye care
• Five weeks annual leave
• 15 days sick leave and
• Learning and professional development opportunities

There are a growing number of employee-led networks to promote the goals and needs of our diverse communities, such as our Te Rōpū Atuapiko Rainbow Network, Pacific Network, Wāhine Network, Tū Rangatira Māori Network.

Ko te tīma - About your team

We're looking for an experienced financial leader to join our Finance function as the Chief Financial Officer with Wellington or Auckland locations preferred.

The Finance team is part of WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru's Corporate Group providing financial planning, reporting and advice to the organisation.  

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive Corporate, the Chief Financial Officer will provide enterprise leadership to our Business Partnership and Financial Accounting teams, led by the Manager Finance Business Partnership and the Manager Financial Accounting. You will regularly meet with the Executive team and WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru Board as well as key external stakeholders.

Ō te tūranga - About the role

As the Chief Financial Officer, you will be responsible for leading a team of skilled finance professionals and managing strategic, commercial and transactional finance and risk management.

You will also support continuous improvement to enable WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru to deliver on our mission of transforming Aotearoa's workplace health and safety performance.

Ko tōu ake mahi - What You'll Do

• Provide strategic and operational direction and oversight to the finance function to ensure coordinated and prioritised enterprise activity.
• Deliver an independent commercial view of WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru's financial capital and operational expenditure needs.
• Grow and empower a higher effective team to motivate others to succeed and connect to WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru's purpose and values.
• Demonstrate commitment to the application of Mātauranga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi to deliver improved healthy, safe and equitable outcomes for Māori.
• Build strategic financial leadership, risk management and system capabilities through WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru.

Ko ngā pukenga ōu - What You'll Bring

• Significant experience operational in an enterprise leadership role within a large organisation.
• Experience in leading within an organisation undergoing cultural or transformational change.
• Strong understanding and demonstrated leadership in the application of Mātauranga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi to support equitable outcomes for all.
• Demonstrated experience in developing enterprise strategies and turning these into measurable action operational plans.
• Strong decision making and prioritisation in line with operational objectives.

Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi. 

With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive

The full position description is available from the advert on our careers centre: WorkSafe New Zealand

Awhe utu - Salary range

As part of our remuneration framework the full salary range for the position is from $204,447 to $269,463.  Note: KiwiSaver/SSRSS employer contribution is additional to/on top of your base salary.

Me pēhea te tono - How to apply

Click the apply link which will direct you to our recruitment partner, Inside Recruitment, website. Please follow the instructions on how to apply here.  

For further information please contact either Scott King on 04 913 6949 or Dale Gray on 09 913 0172 with any queries.

WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru is an equal opportunity employer.  We value diversity and welcome and encourage applicants from all walks of life.  We value the experience your point of difference could bring to us.

Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure the recruitment process is accessible to you. We look forward to reviewing your application and getting to know more about you.

We are committed to ensuring proposed impacted kaimahi are given first preference for roles being recruited.  

Ka kati nga tono 11 Tīhema 2024 - Applications close on 11 December 2024.