Finance Coordinator

Te Tūranga | About the role:

As Finance Coordinator, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting the effectiveness and success of our Finance function. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you'll provide high-quality coordination, administrative and operational support across the CFO portfolio, helping create clarity, structure, and momentum across a busy and dynamic environment.

Acting as the key connector across Finance, you'll ensure priorities, commitments, actions, and deadlines are visible, coordinated, and progressing. You'll support the Finance Leadership Team by managing leadership rhythms, governance processes, reporting cycles, planning activities, and strategic initiatives, enabling leaders to focus on delivering the highest-value outcomes for Silver Fern Farms.

Based in Dunedin or Christchurch, you'll coordinate meetings and governance activities, prepare reporting and presentation materials, maintain action and decision registers, support project delivery, and help ensure information flows effectively across the Finance function.

This role, done well, ensures the CFO and Finance Leadership Team are able to focus their time and energy on the highest value outcomes for Silver Fern Farms.

Ōu Pūkenga | About You:

You're a highly organised, proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys bringing order, structure, and clarity to competing priorities. You build trusted relationships with ease, communicate confidently at all levels, and are known for your ability to keep things moving while maintaining a high level of professionalism.

You may have come from a finance, executive support or project coordination background, or simply enjoy being the person who keeps priorities clear, actions moving, and teams operating at their best

To be successful, you'll have:

• Proven experience supporting senior leaders, executives, or leadership teams in a complex business environment
• Strong coordination, administration, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing reports, presentations, and business documentation
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Word
• Experience coordinating meetings, governance activities, reporting cycles, projects, or business initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build credibility and trust across all levels of an organisation
• High attention to detail, sound judgement, and the ability to manage sensitive information with discretion
• Relevant qualifications in business administration, finance administration, project coordination, or equivalent practical experience are advantageous

Key attributes we're looking for:

• Exceptional organisation and prioritisation skills
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management capability
• A proactive approach with a focus on follow-through and accountability
• Professional judgement, discretion, and attention to detail
• The ability to remain calm, adaptable, and solutions-focused in a dynamic environment

Te Ahurea | Why work at Silver Fern Farms?

Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means and how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe. ‘Goodness’ is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment.

We offer subsidised health and life insurance, the opportunity to continuously learn and develop and we support a work life balance with our flexible work policy.

Tono Mai | To Apply:

Applications close Sunday 16 August, however, we will assess applications as they are received. Click on the "Apply" button to submit your application today.

Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us