Head of Strategy – Business & Corporate Banking

01 / 10 / 2024

  • Auckland
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Banking & Finance / Business & Corporate Banking

Description

Head of Strategy opportunity to partner with both the Business and Corporate banking business lines at an Auckland based Commercial bank.

This organisation is a market leader within Business and Corporate banking and is looking for a highly experienced strategy leader, with significant experience and working exposure to Financial Services. As Head of Strategy across both Business and Corporate banking, you will be responsible for leading a team and developing executable strategies, which meet the medium and long-term goals of the wider bank and two business lines.

Your key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • To lead, develop, communicate and monitor execution of the medium and long-term business and operational strategies for both business service lines; whilst coaching and developing the wider strategy team members.
  • Deliver strong analytical capability to all strategy work, ensuring the different business units meet profit, growth and customer targets through strong insights.
  • Engage in strategy reviews in conjunction with business units to identify key gaps, opportunities and risks and to challenge key strategic assumptions.
  • In partnership with the business, create and drive a clear roadmap to ensure that strategies are robust, realistic and achievable.

Skillset and experience required to be successful:

  • You will have a minimum of 10 years of strategy experience in a leadership position from a large corporate or strategy consultancy; with a number of these years spent in Financial Services. You will have extensive experience in developing and executing strategic plans and initiatives, including the development of strategies for new markets.
  • You will have excellent communication and relationship-building skills with the strong ability to work effectively with ambiguity and under pressure. Must have experience working at a senior management level and with executives, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
  • You will have a solid understanding of the New Zealand regulatory and legislative environment for Financial Services.

This role is a great opportunity for an individual who is looking to further develop their strategic experience, in a growing and fast paced Financial Services environment. You will have proven senior people leadership experience, with the strong ability to develop and enable high performing teams across various functional business lines.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Kyna Harmon – kynah@huntercampbell.co.nz. Alternatively, please submit your resume by following the instructions below.

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  • Create, drive and execute strategies across two banking service lines;
  • Regularly engage and collaborate with Executives and Senior Leadership;
  • Lead a high performing strategy team;

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Senior Commercial & Analytics Consultant – FTC

16 / 09 / 2024

  • Auckland
  • Contract or Temp
  • Banking & Finance / Business & Corporate Banking

Description

The Company
Fullers 360 has been operating in Auckland for over 40 years. Transporting nearly 6 million passengers every year, providing high-speed ferries and a fleet of modern buses getting commuters to work and tourists to the most sought-after coastal and island destinations.

With a commitment to sustainability and the environment at the core of everything they do, they are currently working on development of hydrofoiling electric ferries and Waiheke Bus Company made Waiheke Island the first Auckland suburb with an electric bus fleet.

Passionate, friendly and welcoming it’s a brilliant working environment and with more plans for growth and development – this is an exciting time to join.

The Role
This newly created position has come from Fullers360 experiencing a consistent incline in growth through not only securing their contract with Auckland Transport as the leading ferry transporter for Hauraki Gulf – but in addition to this, continuing to develop their tourist product lines from Waiheke to Rangitoto.

Role responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

  • Responsible for providing ‘big picture thinking’, analysis and financial insights into business planning, commercial growth, product and business developments.
  • Challenge thinking and offer advice, helping make more informed decisions and assisting the development of business strategy.
  • Develop and deliver tools, methods, scenarios and recommendations for Fare Price changes, new products & competition insights considering yield and demand-based management.
  • Working with business leaders to prepare the annual financial plans, providing sufficient challenge to ensure the plan/forecast Key Performance Indicators are challenging yet realistic and achievable.
  • Support the CFO, CEO and Board with core projects in relation to new strategic directions and opportunities for the Group such as tenders and commercial opportunities.

To ensure your success in this role, you will have:

  • Bachelors Degree in Finance or Economics or a related subject with between 5-10 years’ of relevant working experience, from a similar corporate or a management consultancy firm, ideally from Strategy/Transactions. You may have a CA/CFA/CIMA qualification but this is not a prerequisite.
  • Must have experience as a business partner for revenue generating and/or commercial units whilst being able to deliver strategic analysis and recommendations to company Leadership and Executive.

You will have ‘big picture thinking’ as well as experience in producing detail-orientated models to test or develop business or new product outcomes. With excellent communication and presentation skills, you will be confident liaising with stakeholders at all levels, able to work autonomously, a fast learner and collaborative.

This role is a rare opportunity for an individual who is looking to develop their corporate development experience in a progressive firm, within a constantly evolving industry. The ideal candidate will have already gained the commercial acumen and analytical mindset from a large similar NZ corporate management or consultancy / advisory firm.

How to apply:
If this sounds like you, please contact Kyna Harmon on kynah@huntercampbell.co.nz at Hunter Campbell.
  
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  • Reporting directly to the CFO
  • Lead the financial and commercial research and development of new products
  • Join a growing corporate with a market leading presence

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