About the Opportunity
As the Commercial Finance Manager of this leading food manufacturer, you will be a key member of the leadership team, playing a hands-on role in shaping financial and commercial outcomes across the business. This role goes beyond core finance — you’ll provide insight, challenge assumptions, and partner closely with Sales and Operations to drive margin improvement, cost efficiency and sustainable growth.
You’ll own end-to-end financial management including reporting, cashflow, budgeting and forecasting. Leading one part-time team member (AP/AR), you’ll set clear expectations, build capability and create a strong, collaborative culture.
Given the size of finance, this is a hands-on role also responsible for transactional oversight, cashflow management and weekly payroll management for waged staff. This will involve working closely with the external payroll solutions provider to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
This is a highly visible role, working closely with the CEO and contributing to board-level reporting and strategic planning. It’s well suited to someone who enjoys variety, influence and being close to the commercial heartbeat of the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Month end financials and reporting
- Cashflow management
- Commercial Analysis and profitability enhancements
- Annual budgeting and forecasting
- Credit control
- Payroll management
What You’ll Bring
You’re a commercially astute finance leader who combines strong technical capability with practical business insight. You’re comfortable rolling up your sleeves, balancing detail with big-picture thinking, and influencing stakeholders through clear, evidence-based analysis.
You bring proven experience across financial management, reporting and people leadership, and you thrive in fast-paced, operational environments. You communicate confidently, stay calm under pressure, have a natural curiosity and enjoy working collaboratively to solve problems and drive improvement.
Experience in a commercial trading environment is necessary, as is exposure to manufacturing or FMCG environments.
You’ll also bring:
- Experience in a hands-on financial leadership role
- Excellent time management skills
- A passion for continuous improvement
- Flexibility to respond to change in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
What’s on Offer
- Visibility at board level
- Work manufacturing hours
- True ownership of the finance function
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Sarah White a call on 027 505 3472 and quote Job ID: 17795 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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