Lead a high-performing Finance Business Partnering team, providing strategic financial leadership that supports the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's priorities and long-term objectives.
Join a collaborative and high-performing team where your expertise will make a meaningful impact
Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development
Work in a flexible and supportive environment that values innovation, wellbeing, diversity, and work-life balance.
Te tūranga – The role
As the Senior Manager Financial Performance, you will lead the Finance Business Partners team to ensure that RBNZ achieves its financial imperatives and strategic objectives. This role provides robust financial insight, evaluates options, and delivers credible forecasts and budgets that reflect a deep understanding of business drivers while ensuring financial discipline and transparency for the whole of the RBNZ. In addition, the role will leverage innovation and technology to improve processes, deliver better outcomes, and drive continuous improvement across financial planning and analysis.
Ō pūkenga – About you
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
Fully qualified Chartered Accountant with at least seven years post-qualification experience with strong technical accounting knowledge.
Demonstrated proven ability to lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning to deliver accurate insights that inform strategic decisions.
Strong track record of collaborating across the organization, influencing outcomes, and constructively challenging assumptions to build trusted relationships.
Demonstrated success in leading, coaching, and developing engaged high-performing finance teams to achieve results.
Strong capability to engage, influence, and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership and governance bodies, to drive alignment and outcomes
Ko wai matou – Who we are
We’re kaitiaki (guardians) of New Zealand’s financial ecosystem – enabling economic wellbeing and prosperity for all New Zealanders. We do this by providing money and cash, helping to keep prices stable and people in work, maintaining safe banking and underpinning the financial system that allows New Zealand to spend, save, insure and do business.
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.
Ngā painga – What we can offer you
The Reserve Bank – Te Pūtea Matua has so much to offer. From flexible working to an inclusive and positive workplace culture, our benefits include additional leave options, a wellness package, generous parental leave provisions, learning and development opportunities, and access to numerous social, networking and sporting activities.
Find more information about our benefits here: www.rbnz.govt.nz/careers/our-benefits
Come join us if you want to make an impact
Working at the Reserve Bank – Te Pūtea Matua is about more than a job. Here you’ll have a career, a community, and an opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of others.
Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we’ll help you do the rest. You’ll be part of one of the world’s most trusted and respected central banks. We’ll invest in you. And with you, we’re investing in New Zealand.
Kōrero tāpiri – Additional information
We welcome all people and we want everyone to be able to equitably participate in our recruitment process. Get in touch with us if there are any barriers to you applying, or if you have access needs and require support or adjustments: email [email protected].
Me pēhea te tuku tono – Interested?
Check out the job description for this role here or email us at [email protected] for more info. You can also contact us if you need any accessibility support to apply for this role.
Applications for this role close on Sunday 19th July 2026. Cvs will be reviewed during the adverting period.
Please include a cover letter outlining why you think you’ll be a great fit for the role.
Whilst acknowledging the growing use of AI, we kindly ask that the information you provide outlines why you think you’ll be a great fit for this role and authentically
Skills Required
- Fully qualified Chartered Accountant with at least seven years post-qualification experience and strong technical accounting knowledge.
- Proven ability to lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning to deliver accurate insights.
- Experience producing credible forecasts and budgets that reflect deep understanding of business drivers and financial discipline.
- Demonstrated success leading, coaching, and developing engaged high-performing finance teams.
- Strong capability to engage, influence, and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership and governance bodies.
- Track record of collaborating across the organisation, constructively challenging assumptions, and building trusted relationships.
- Experience leveraging innovation and technology to improve financial planning and analysis processes and drive continuous improvement.
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.
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