At Mons Royale, we believe action and adventure sports can be a force for good but most of the gear made for these sports is trashing the planet. That’s why we’re on a mission to shift riders from synthetics to natural fibres designing high-performance merino apparel that doesn’t mess up the places we love to play.
We have a newly created role for a Financial Controller to join our mission. Based in Wanaka, this role will lead the global finance function and help shape how we measure success.
This is both a senior and hands-on role, ideal for a technically strong finance leader who enjoys both detail and big-picture impact. You’ll ensure financial integrity across the business and provide insights that shape performance, profitability and growth. Leading a highly capable team you will act as a true business partner, combining financial stewardship with commercial insight and environmental leadership.
In this role, you will deliver all the fundamentals of strong accounting practice. You will immerse yourself in the business to understand how our products move through long development cycles and global supply chains through to our riders. You'll play a key role in product pricing decisions, contributing to purchasing strategy and inventory management, and ensure cashflow and investment decisions support growth and innovation. You will also help evolve how we track sustainability and impact metrics alongside traditional financial performance.
What you’ll do:
- Own the financial control environment, including the full accounting cycle, AP/AR, payroll, treasury and tax compliance.
- Lead the global finance and FP&A function, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning and performance reporting.
- Deliver accurate and timely financial reporting and clear, actionable insights to support profitable, sustainable growth.
- Partner with leaders across sales, marketing and product to support pricing, margin and investment decisions.
- Provide strong commercial insight across product costing and lifecycle profitability.
- Influence inventory strategy, balancing availability, cashflow, risk and environmental impact.
- Lead and deliver strategic projects that improve financial performance, scalability and decision-making.
- Develop performance reporting that looks beyond traditional finance, incorporating operational, product, and sustainability metrics, embedding impact thinking into financial frameworks and reporting.
Requirements
What you’ll bring:
- A genuine connection to what we stand for, pushing boundaries to drive change in an industry dominated by plastics.
- Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent qualification preferred.
- Management/leadership experience across financial control, FP&A, and commercial finance within retail, apparel, or consumer products.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and shape strategic, commercial, and values‑led decisions.
- A strong interest in sustainability, carbon measurement, and impact reporting with curiosity to expand how performance is measured and communicated.
- Confidence working across NZ and international operations.
- Hands-on leadership style suited to a fast-paced, entrepreneurial growth business.
Benefits
Opportunity for Growth
Mons Royale is a fast-growing brand in the action and adventure sports space with lots of opportunities for career development, within and outside NZ.
Mountain town lifestyle and flexibility
We are based in mountain towns because we value time spent in the mountains and want to enable and encourage our team to achieve a work/life balance. While we do work hard and put in the hours, we also believe in the value of having a life outside of the workplace. This role will be based in our brand home, Wanaka.
We value people and our team
Company culture is important to us. We're often together in the mountains or catching up for a happy-hour bike ride. With offices in Squamish, Innsbruck and our hometown of Wanaka, Mons is comprised of a globally diverse workforce. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and therefore all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment.
Embracing the entrepreneurial spirit
Being a part of a fast-growing brand means that there’s never a dull moment and that you’ll likely be involved in a lot of opportunities that may fall outside of your typical job description.
Competitive Salary and Discounts to fuel your passion
We offer competitive remuneration, discounted Mons Royale product and access to discounts across the outdoor industry.
What We Do
From Lake Wanaka New Zealand, Mons Royale creates technical merino clothing that delivers on both performance and style. It has been our philosophy from the start, we don’t think you should have to compromise either one of these which is why we design garments that perform brilliantly and look great. As a natural product with a strong, differentiated brand and aesthetic, Mons’ formula of technical performance and design-led style resonates strongly with young outdoor and action sports lovers. Mons Royale work with some of action sports top athletes as well as sponsor global events including Crankworx and the Freeride World Tour allowing us to showcase our unique brand of high performance merino wool to the rest of the world. With our head office located in the Southern Alps of New Zealand and a brand-new office in Innsbruck, Austria we’re sticking to our values of driving a local brand from mountain towns around the world and its enabling us to attract some amazing employees and build a business based what it’s really all about. We are continually on the look out for amazing people to join our team in New Zealand or growing team in Europe. So please follow us for updates on job vacancies and all that is going on in the world of Mons Royale.
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