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Finance team

We're a large team covering a diverse range of roles dedicated to supporting our organisation to help people make positive changes in their lives and keep our communities safe, ensuring we meet our financial responsibilities and help ensure our long-term financial sustainability.

What we do 

Our work spans across the country, supporting the department's varied functions including our custodial, community, supporting services, and capital project managers, as well as delivering corporate and strategic finance functions. 

Frontline team of people

Support for frontline, supporting services and capital project teams

We work closely with our budget holders and project managers to provide financial support and guidance.

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Strategic finance

We develop costing and modelling to support investment planning and provide advice to our senior leaders to support them in making strategic financial decisions.

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Financial reporting and compliance

We ensure financial expenditure, activities and reporting meet regulatory and accounting standards and internal policies.

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Financial systems

We drive innovation in our financial system, ensuring technology drives efficiency and the best outcomes for all stakeholders.

Types of roles

Whether you're looking to focus on technical expertise or to have the ability to contribute to our frontline and supporting services, we have a variety of opportunities for you. Our diverse range of roles cater to different interests and skill sets, ensuring that you can find a position that aligns with your career goals and aspirations.

Business partnering

If you're interested in business partnering and management accounting, we have positions that enable you to make a meaningful impact to our frontline and supporting services.

Strategic planning

We have modelling and strategic planning roles that support the external budget process, capital planning and major capital projects including prison builds.

Financial control & audit

For those who want to specialise in financial control, accounting, and audit, we offer roles that allow you to develop and apply your technical skills.

Financial systems & reporting

We have roles in financial systems, where you can work on improving our financial tools, reporting, and processes.

Why join us?

Joining our finance team means becoming part of a supportive and dynamic environment where your contributions are valued, and your professional growth is encouraged. 

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Diverse roles & opportunities

With a large nationwide team, we offer a wide range of roles in business partnering, financial accounting, strategic planning, and continuous improvement. As part of a 10,000-strong team, there are also opportunities to grow across different areas.

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Supportive culture

Our team is known for its supportive managers and colleagues, flexible working arrangements, and a continuous improvement focus.

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Professional development

We support career growth through training, mentoring, and on-the-job learning. Using the Government Finance Profession capability framework, we also help staff work toward their finance qualifications.

Graduate programme

We are partners in the public sector finance grad programme run by the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). It involves a three-year rotation across different government agencies and roles, providing participants with valuable experience and networking opportunities. Mentors are provided to support graduates throughout the programme.

Apply now

We have vacancies across the motu in a range of careers. Explore the current vacancies and start your journey with us today.