Chief Financial Officer (Head of Finance)

About the Company: 

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Les Mills New Zealand is an iconic Kiwi company, dedicated to their purpose of ‘making humans fit for life’.  They have been around for more than 50 years, changing the way people see fitness, and they are always on the lookout for passionate professionals. Right now, they need a standout Chief Financial Officer (Head of Finance) to drive the financial strategy and systems optimisation for their national club and property businesses. 

About the Role: 

Reporting to the CEOs of Les Mills New Zealand and Les Mills Property, you will be part of the Senior Leadership Team focused on delivering outstanding direction and service across 12 clubs nationwide and ultimately for over 50,000 members. Alongside the CEO of Property, you will assume full financial and commercial responsibility for the significant property portfolio that underpins the gym business.

This role comes with high expectations. In addition to supporting strategy, you will lead and manage the finance function, ensuring robust financial governance, insightful reporting, and effective decision support at both executive and Board levels. You will lead the delivery of Board reporting, actively contribute to the People & Remuneration Committee, and lead the Audit & Risk Committee.
A key part of this role will be optimising financial systems and leveraging your experience in ERP implementation to ensure efficient, scalable, and accurate operations. You will also be a highly skilled financial communicator, forward-looking and able to translate insights into actionable strategies.

About You: 

Already an experienced and inspirational financial leader you will likely have plied your trade in a fast paced, consumer led sector and ideally had experience accounting for a property portfolio. Commercially savvy, your recommendations will be supported by insightful analysis, and you will have mana to quickly gain the confidence of the Board and leadership team. While this is a strategic role you will still need to roll up the sleeves and lead by example particularly with business cases, scenario modelling and systems optimisation projects. Previous successful ERP implementation experience is highly desirable. A genuine passion for fitness and a commitment to a healthy lifestyle goes without saying.  
This role is full-time, requires boundless energy and is not for the faint hearted. In return you can be assured of a fun, flexible and hardworking culture, where they support each other to deliver world-class results. 

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To find out more, please get in touch with Brad Gatehouse +64 276 113638 for a confidential chat.

To apply for this vacancy you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.

At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.  

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