Bay of Plenty

Accountant

14 / 10 / 2026

  • Bay of Plenty
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Accountant - Chartered / CPA / Accounting

Description

About the Company
Our client is a well-established New Zealand business with a strong reputation and a genuine focus on growing great people. Finance sits close to leadership here, and the function plays a visible part in how the business is run.

The Role
Working alongside the General Manager and CEO, you will lead the finance function across cashflow, reporting, tax and compliance. You will also step into strategic planning, building the forecasting and insight that help leadership make commercial decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage cashflow daily, weekly and on a rolling 13-week basis
  • Represent the business on the treasury committee and manage currency risk
  • Deliver monthly reporting including P&L, budget vs actual, balance sheet and margin analysis
  • Own GST, FBT, R&D credits, statutory filings and year-end audit information
  • Oversee creditors, credit control, bank reconciliations and payroll
  • Administer the fixed asset and depreciation schedule
  • Build budgets, forecasts and three-year plans with the General Manager
  • Develop predictive models and recommendations for the CEO
  • Lead direct reports, act as ERP super user and coordinate IT and operational HR support

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Professional accounting qualification (CA/CPA or equivalent)
  • Two or more years’ experience in a similar role producing monthly and annual financial statements
  • Working knowledge of modern ERP systems
  • Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills
  • Strong analytical and abstract reasoning skills, with clear written and verbal communication
  • Sound knowledge of GST, tax and statutory compliance
  • Comfortable leading a small team and balancing a broad, hands-on remit
  • Strong organisation skills and a customer-service mindset with internal stakeholders

What’s in it for you
This is a broad, hands-on finance role where your work is seen and used. You will work closely with the CEO and General Manager, shaping budgets and three-year plans, with a remit that spans treasury, tax, reporting and systems. For a qualified accountant, it offers real commercial influence in a business that backs its people.

To be considered for this position, please submit your CV via the link below. For a confidential discussion, email Nadia Macpherson at nadiam@huntercampbell.co.nz.

  • Broad and varied remit across treasury, tax, reporting and systems
  • Lead a team in a values-led, people-focused business
  • Genuine commercial influence in a high visibility role

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Senior Operations and Distribution Manager

14 / 10 / 2026

  • Bay of Plenty
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Transport / Logistics / Drivers / Warehouse & Distribution

Description

About the Company

Our client is a well-established New Zealand business with a strong reputation for quality and service. They are continually investing in their operation and in the people who lead it.

The Role

Reporting into the national supply chain leadership team, you will lead a large distribution operation and the people who run it. You will turn supply chain strategy into clear site priorities, owning safety, inventory integrity, service and cost, and leading the improvement work that takes the operation to the next level.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own inventory integrity, cycle counting and stock adjustment performance
  • Fix the root causes of inventory variance across processes and systems
  • Lead improvement projects using benchmarking and performance data
  • Lead, coach and develop the site leadership team and wider workforce
  • Set safety leadership standards and own critical risk controls
  • Drive DIFOT and service performance with freight and sales partners
  • Own the site operating budget, capacity planning and MHE fleet
  • Build strong partnerships across the wider business

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Proven leadership in a large-scale supply chain or distribution operation
  • Proven warehouse management experience with a strong improvement track record
  • Deep inventory control capability; confident with ERP/WMS systems
  • Analytical and data-driven, with strong commercial acumen
  • People leader who builds capability and holds standards
  • Safety-first mindset with experience owning site risk
  • Tertiary qualification in supply chain, or equivalent experience; CLTD or CPIM advantageous
  • Understanding of freight costs and transport partner management highly advantageous

What’s in it for you

This is genuine operational accountability: your own site, your own budget and a clear mandate to optimise it. Inventory, systems and continuous improvement sit at the heart of the role, with the backing to deliver real change rather than maintain the status quo. With leadership development and succession planning built into the business, there is plenty of runway. 

To be considered for this position, please submit your CV via the link below. For a confidential discussion, contact Joe Francis on 021 197 9121 or email joef@huntercampbell.co.nz.

  • Genuine ownership of a large distribution operation
  • Inventory, systems and improvement agenda with real backing
  • Based in beautiful BOP - lifestyle and career development all in one!

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Commercial Associate

12 / 10 / 2026

  • Bay of Plenty
  • Permanent / Full Time
  • Consulting & Strategy / Project Management

Description

About the Company
A successful large, well-established New Zealand business operating in a genuinely complex commercial environment. It’s an exciting time to join, with a future-focused strategy recently set, and meaningful projects to deliver. The scale of the business gives you real breadth, and the pace means you learn
quickly.

The Role
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, you will work alongside the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to translate strategy into actionable, well-run projects. You will work with key leaders to translate priorities into plans, business cases, and delivered outcomes across the organisation.

The remit is deliberately broad. In any given quarter, you might be building the business case for an enterprise initiative, leading a review of the organisation’s pricing approach, coordinating a cross-functional project team, or preparing the material that shapes an executive or Board decision. There are no direct reports in this role. Your influence comes from the quality of your thinking and your ability to bring people with you.

This role has been designed with a career pathway in mind. It exists to give a high performer an enterprise-wide view of how a complex business actually works, and to build the commercial and leadership foundation for future roles.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the development, review, and execution of organisational strategy
  • Lead and coordinate strategic projects sponsored by the CEO and executive team
  • Build business cases, strategic recommendations, and executive decision material
  • Conduct research, data analysis, and market assessment to identify opportunities and risks
  • Lead a strategic review of the organisation’s pricing approach
  • Track progress against strategic priorities, milestones, risks, and benefits realisation
  • Prepare briefing papers, presentations, and reporting for executive and Board forums
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and support change and continuous improvement activity

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Tertiary qualified in business, commerce, economics, science, or a related discipline
  • Ideally management consulting background, or project or programme management experience in a large, complex organisation
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect analysis to commercial outcomes
  • Proven ability to run cross-functional projects to time, scope, and benefit
  • Data-driven and analytical, comfortable building the numbers behind a recommendation
  • Confident engaging, influencing, and holding senior stakeholders to account
  • Change management, transformation, or pricing experience is an advantage
  • Resilient, curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity

  
About You
You connect the dots. You can sit in a room with an executive team, understand what they are actually trying to achieve, and translate it into something the business can execute. You are commercially savvy and analytically strong, but your real strength is people. You build relationships quickly, you influence without authority, and you bring teams together across functions to get things done.

You are resilient, and you want to learn. This is a role for someone ambitious about where they are heading and with a desire for continuous improvement.  

What’s in it for you
Few roles give you executive exposure this early in your career. You will work shoulder to shoulder with the CEO and executive team, see how strategy is set and delivered across every function, and build a track record that positions you for career development and growth in the business.

Benefits:

  • Southern Cross Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance, Income Protection and Trauma cover
  • Employer superannuation contribution tax is paid by the employer, so you get the full amount in your KiwiSaver fund
  • Birthday leave
  • Ability to purchase an extra week of leave each year
  • Flexible working with options to work from home, balanced with on-site time alongside the executive team
  • On-site parking, phone and laptop provided
  • A role built as a pathway into future leadership
  • Work directly with the CEO and executive leadership team
  • Enterprise-wide projects
  • Future career pathway in the business

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