Graduate Programme 2027- Reserve Bank of New Zealand | Te Pūtea Matua (Financial Stability Group)
Te Pūtea Matua ‘s Graduate Programme is where you’ll join a whānau | family of committed people who make key judgements affecting the ōhanga | economy to improve the lives of all those who call Aotearoa home. Everything we do enables people, communities and businesses to thrive, today and tomorrow.
From day one, you and your mahi | work will matter. You won’t get lost here because we are small enough to be whānau, yet you’ll be part of one of the world’s most trusted and respected Central Banks.
As a Graduate in our Financial Stability Group, you’ll play an active role across a variety of teams dedicated to safeguarding Aotearoa’s financial system. In doing so you will be helping to improve the everyday lives of New Zealanders. You’ll get hands-on experience identifying, assessing, and monitoring risks and opportunities, shaping and promoting policies that support stability, licensing and supervising financial entities, and contributing to supervisory and enforcement responses when issues arise.
Some work will require fast-paced responses to emerging issues while other projects will span longer timeframes and involve large-scale analysis using quantitative and/or qualitative methods. As part of this role, you’ll work closely with experts across RBNZ, other government agencies, and private sector entities to solve complex problems and respond to real-world challenges.
The Financial Stability Group plays a key role in supporting RBNZ’s broader priorities, including financial inclusion, climate change, and embedding Te Ao Māori perspectives across our work. These big-picture challenges are uniquely shaped by New Zealand’s context and require innovative, forward-thinking approaches in a rapidly changing environment.
We’re looking for four graduates who are curious and keen to develop broad central banking and regulatory experience, who are excellent communicators, analytically wired and ready to apply their knowledge and skills into real life scenarios.
We have openings across our offices in Wellington and Auckland. From your first day, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the teams within our Financial Stability Group to get the best start and the broadest experience, because you matter. At Te Pūtea Matua you become the heart of our Programme as we work to create and support a career pathway especially for you. Think of it as the ultimate springboard to a hugely satisfying and important future, enabling the economic wellbeing and prosperity for all New Zealanders as a kaitiaki | guardians of New Zealand’s financial ecosystem.
We cheer differences and new perspectives. Diversity seeds our best mahi | work and helps us to innovate and grow. We welcome and value knowledge of Te Ao Māori, Te Tiriti and Tikanga Māori and building diversity and inclusion into everything we do.
Ko koe tēnei? | Is this you?
By early 2027 you’ll have your tertiary study wrapping up and are ready to apply your economics, commerce, finance, law, mathematics, statistics, accounting or other relevant study into real mahi.
You graduated within the past two years obtaining your highest qualification by February 2027.
You attained a B+ or higher-grade average from previous 12 months study.
You’ll be available to work full-time from early 2027 in Pōneke | Wellington or Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland.
You’ll be a NZ citizen, NZ permanent resident or holder of a valid work visa allowing full time employment.
Ētahi atu kōrero | Find out more
Visiting our website: https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/careers/early-careers
Reviewing the Position Description
Getting in touch via [email protected]
Ko wai mātou | Who we are
We’re kaitiaki | guardians of New Zealand’s financial ecosystem – enabling economic wellbeing and prosperity for all New Zealanders. We do all we can to support a sustainable, productive and efficient economy built on integrity, innovation and inclusion. We’re building diversity and inclusion into everything we do. Our differences seed our innovation and help us deliver our best work – reflective of the needs of society. We welcome and value knowledge of Te Ao Māori, Te Tiriti and Tikanga.
He pai tēnei ki a koe? | Sound good to you?
Apply for your place in our Financial Stability Group Stream as part of our Graduate Programme and see where your new journey begins by applying via our Careers Page by Sunday 19 April 2026.
As part of your application, please include your CV, academic transcript and a cover letter outlining why you think you’ll be the best fit for our Financial Stability Group stream.
Kōrero tāpiri | Additional information
If you encounter accessibility barriers in the application process or if you have access needs and require support or adjustments to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please email [email protected].
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What We Do
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua is New Zealand’s central bank. Toitū Te, Toitū Te Ōranga - we enable economic wellbeing and prosperity for all New Zealanders. We have a clear goal – to create an environment that fosters the overall economic wellbeing of the country and the living standards of all New Zealanders so that we, and generations to come, continue to enjoy this great country. Our mandates are: - maintaining low and stable consumer price inflation while contributing to maximum sustainable employment; - promoting and maintaining a sound and efficient financial system; - meeting the cash needs of the public; - and providing robust payment and settlement services for New Zealand’s financial institutions.
