Financial Managers & Controllers (Accounting)

Full time

Oamaru based role

• Leadership role in a growing business
• Support major capital investment programme
• Competitive salary with Alps to Ocean lifestyle

About The Company:

Network Waitaki is an electricity distribution and energy services business with a bright future. Providing innovative energy solutions and bringing electricity to over 13,000 customers, they also have a growing contracting business which offers construction and maintenance services to the electricity distribution sector across New Zealand. Currently going through a phase of significant growth and capital investment, they are looking for a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead their finance function and take the business to a new level. 

About the Role:

In your role as Chief Financial Officer, you will work across the senior leadership team and act as a key advisor to the CEO and Board. In addition to leading the full range of finance activity across the business, you will also be relied upon to provide sound advice backed up by critical analysis and modelling to support decisions around day-to-day operations and the company’s long-term strategy. The CFO will also have overall responsibility for all regulatory and pricing matters, and to provide commercial advice to the CEO, Board, Senior Leadership Team and Line Managers to enable the business to take on new opportunities and to ensure the efficient operation of the business. 

Skills & Experience: 

As the ideal candidate, you will have:

• Ten years plus experience as a CA in a senior finance role with a proven track record of handling company financial, banking, treasury, insurance, audit and risk activities 
• An excellent track record of finance leadership, reporting to a board on strategic and business growth, development and planning
• Experience at a senior level of managing treasury functions in a complex organisation and ensuring cashflow is tightly managed, interest rate risks are mitigated, growth opportunities are leveraged, and policies and processes are implemented 
• Led a high performing finance team at the senior leadership level.

Experience within the electricity and energy sector is not a pre-requisite.

Waitaki District and Oamaru

From stunning landscapes and geological wonders, to the home of the rare little blue penguin and the steampunk capital of New Zealand; the Waitaki region has much to offer.

Waitaki is also home to the first Aspiring Geopark in New Zealand which combines and promotes a network of sites of geological, historical and cultural significance. Straddling the 45th parallel South, on the east coast of the South Island, the geopark is bounded by mountains and sea, and the Waitaki River.

Oamaru is the largest town in the Waitaki District.

How to Apply: 

To apply in strict confidence now, click ‘Apply for this job’ or email your cover letter and CV to [email protected] quoting 8504SIsk. Applications close on 23rd April 2023. Emails will be electronically acknowledged and further correspondence may be by email.

Click here to view the Candidate Briefing document.

For more information please phone Mike Stenhouse on +64 27 442 8348 or Jane Pollitt on +64 21 873 976.