• Wiri location
  
• Highly regarded manufacturer
  
• Key hands-on role

Reporting to the Accountant, you will provide accounting and administrative support across key functions such as Accounts Payable and Receivable, banking, petty cash, payroll, HR, Stock Control, and Profit & Loss reporting.

This is a full-time role for someone who can hit the ground running.
To be successful in this role you will have:

• Financial and management reporting skills at least to the level of Profit and Loss
• Strong computer skills, including familiarity with ERP accounting software and good proficiency with MS Office, especially Excel
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Experience with Contract Billing would be a plus, but training will be given
  

In addition, you will need the following attributes:

• A high level of integrity and honesty
• Ability to problem solve
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently
  

Please click on the “apply” link to register your candidacy.

Attach your CV and ensure you also attach a Cover Letter detailing your suitability for this role.
Direct any enquiries to John Keesing 021-649920; or john@talentnow.co.nz

• Tauriko – Tauranga
  
• Building & construction industry
• Financial & Management Accounting mix
  

The position of Branch Accountant has now become available for an experienced, but not necessarily qualified, individual who enjoys working in the manufacturing sector.

Based in Tauriko, the position also has the same responsibilities for a small branch located in Rotorua.  Reporting to the Tauranga Branch Manager the key responsibilities for this sole charge role are:

• Preparation of all monthly and year end management and financial accounts and reports
• All month end processes and general ledger reconciliations (including inter-company) processes
• Creditor and debtor management; including supplier reconciliations, PPSR administration, and credit applications
• Monthly salaries; GST, FBT and PAYE calculations and payments
• Inventory management, including stock takes
• Capex, and cash management
• Branch budgets and forecasts
  

The skills and experiences that will set you apart include:

• Strong financial and management accounting skills, including some time spent in a manufacturing environment
• Good working knowledge of ERP accounting software (MYOB EXO is used); and very good Excel skills
• Calm, accurate, a proven team player, and excellent communicator
• Job costing
  

As a decentralised company within a wider group it has all the attributes of a small business as well as the structural demands of a group entity.  We are expecting to interview candidates who are naturally organised and articulate, able to cope with a demanding role, create and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders, and be the sort of person people naturally turn to for support.

Please:  Click on the “apply” link to register your interest, and attach your CV.

Ensure you also attach a Cover Letter detailing how you meet the above criteria.

Direct any enquiries to John Keesing 021-649920; or john@talentnow.co.nz

• Short-term contract role
  
• Hands-on experience required
  
• Import-export business with NZ and Australian operations
  

They have recognised that in spite of their success, there are some improvements that can be made in the business, and need a hands-on Finance Manager with a strong financial analysis background to assist them in identifying the issues, and suggest and implement improvements to the business.

Included in these are their financial processes and associated systems, as well as the data within their main system, MYOB Exo.  So you'll bring to the table your hands-on skills, ability to analyse data, day-to-day financial management, and have the ability to communicate this in a meaningful way to the owner and key stakeholders.

Whilst experience in this sort of business would be helpful, it is not necessary, as the fundamentals of business apply across most sectors.  You definitely will be degree and/or accounting qualified, and you will have been either a Finance Manager or Company Accountant where you've run a small team and understand how a small to medium business ticks. You will need Exo or Exonet experience as extricating the data is an imperative.

Whilst the contract period is yet to be defined, we would anticipate that less than three months may not do justice to the requirement.  There is potential for flexibility in working hours as this is outcome, not time based.

If this sounds like you, then please submit an application ASAP as this is a relatively urgent requirement.

Please:

Click on the “apply” link to register your interest and attach your CV and a brief cover letter (in Word please). Direct any enquiries to Kevin Chappell, 0295-974739

• Business Unit Management and People Leadership
  
• Career succession step with work-life balance!
• Influential role with meaningful impact within the region

This “Smart Little City” is at the heart of the region.  Nelson City Council is a Unitary Authority responsible for providing key infrastructure, community facilities, economic development, a range of regulatory functions and managing natural resources.

The role provides operational leadership of the Environmental Planning business unit, who is responsible for the development and review of Environmental bylaws and resource management plans. The new generation Nelson Plan is a key focus that focuses on the future in terms of environmental protection and enhancement, climate change resilience, development, and growth.

We need an energetic leader with sound judgment to support and lead a passionate professional team of planners, all at differing stages in their career, who will highly value your mentoring and coaching style. Aligned to the organisation culture will be your values-based, action-orientated approach to engage with the integrated Council operations and you will lead with exceptional technical nous, whilst keeping an eye on future trends and the changing landscape of the RMA.

In this role, you will be responsible for the overall integrity, quality assurance and delivery of the complex Planning work programme ensuring work is delivered from a Council-wide perspective.  Therefore, in addition to your strong partnering and people leadership qualities, you will bring a proven background in senior planning advice, expertise and technical leadership in key planning and policy areas.

Critical to success in this political environment will be your ability to engage with and manage expectations through building productive, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including proactively participating in community facilitation and engagement on planning and policy matters. This will require you to possess advanced political astuteness.

You will have a minimum of 10+ years' environmental planning experience that underpins your proven business unit management and people leadership experience, and your career history may span working in local government or consultancy (Planning, Policy, Resource Consents), with a relevant professional qualification in Environmental Management, Resource Management or related discipline.

For an articulate and motivated professional, we offer you this enviable career step and lifestyle opportunity in a fabulous location, and a supportive and collaborative work environment, with an attractive remuneration on offer.

To register your interest in this superb opportunity, please submit your details in absolute confidence via our registration process attaching both an up-to-date CV and cover letter (in Word please).   For a confidential conversation, you can contact Amanda Scott, Consulting Director at talentnow! on 021-784483.

Applications close Friday 20th December 2019.

PLEASE NOTE:

To apply for this role you must have New Zealand RMA experience and have the legal right to be able to work in New Zealand.

• Critical Infrastructure Enablement Planning
• Housing intensification and Urban development
• Shape this role to make it your own

This “Smart Little City” is at the heart of the region and Nelson City Council the Unitary Authority responsible for providing key infrastructure, community facilities, a range of regulatory functions and managing natural resources.

This key role, within the City Development Team, influences a wide spectrum of planning, engagement and advisory aspects on diverse infrastructure planning, funding, growth, and development.  This team enables the crucial link between the Developer community and Council, and collectively the team’s ideas and tactical plans help Council to shape the City by leveraging great community outcomes for current and future generations.

This is a complex role that requires a professional with considerable knowledge and breadth of experience in housing intensification, urban development, and integrated infrastructure funding activities. The demands of the role require outstanding relationship management and communication skills, high technical competence and personal resilience, along with effective negotiation and sophisticated influencing skills.  Being development and politically savvy you understand the importance to engage with multiple parties on complex topics.

We are looking for someone with a high level of development experience with a knowledge of the full property cycle, along with facilitation and relationship skills underpinned by a portfolio of technical knowledge including RMA, Local Government Act, and relevant planning and funding methodologies.  You will have a tertiary qualification in either Valuation, Engineering, Surveying, Planning, Architecture or a related field, as well as extensive experience in working to match growth and infrastructure planning in either the private or public sector.

The primary focus of this role is to undertake residential and business capacity assessments and implement the Intensification Action Plan.  In conjunction with your fellow team of creative professionals, you will develop solutions providing quality input, feasibility and infrastructure development advice on exciting strategically important core Council projects and thrive on collegial participation in cross Council business-unit collaboration.

For an articulate and motivated professional, we offer you this enviable career step and lifestyle opportunity in a fabulous location, and a supportive and collaborative work environment, with an attractive remuneration on offer.

To register your interest in this superb opportunity, please submit your details in absolute confidence via our registration process attaching both an up-to-date CV and cover letter (in Word please).   For a confidential conversation, you can contact Amanda Scott, Consulting Director at talentnow! on 021784483.

Applications close Friday 14th February 2020.

Please apply to this role only if you have relevant New Zealand work experience aligned to the role responsibilities and are therefore eligible to work in New Zealand.

• Opportunity to pick up "portfolio" of existing contracts to manage
  
• Specialist role where your focus is stakeholder relationship management
  
• Sizable contracts across broad range of categories
  

You will be taking over from someone whose task has been to get things back on track and you will need to maintain that high standard ongoing.

Your experience will be right across procurement and contract management, with emphasis on service delivery, stakeholder and supplier relationship management, contracts administration, and contract risk management.  And your experience will be in a complex environment with multi-level stakeholders, and preferably some exposure to Govt procurement, whether as a supplier to Govt or within a public sector entity. You'll also be someone who has an ethos of continuous improvement and environmental sustainability, which is a strong emphasis for this client.

You'll definitely need to be tertiary qualified in a relevant commercial discipline, be at least at level 2 of the APCF, and preferably higher in the key areas of contract, relationship, and cost management.  It's also likely you will have additional qualifications in the supply chain area, or directly in procurement.  Your negotiations skills will be exemplary, complimented by your superior communication skills.  It is unlikely that anyone with less than 10 years of direct contract management or high level procurement experience would have the capability to fulfill this key role.

If you're looking for a change, then this just could be the opportunity you are looking for.  The client is keen to have someone on board by February, but could manage a little longer should availability of the ideal person dictate.  The engagement is initially flexible but this is ultimately a long term role of key significance for this client.

If this sounds appealing, then please submit an application by clicking on apply and attaching a cover letter and CV - in Word format please.  You can contact Kevin Chappell for more information on 0295-974739 - and please note I will be available during the holiday period.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE WILL ONLY SUIT THOSE WITH RELEVANT NZ EXPERIENCE - OR A COMPARATIVE COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT SUCH AS THE UK OR AUSTRALIA.  OTHERS WITHOUT THIS EXPERIENCE MAY NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED.

• 9-month fixed term engagement – start early 2020
  
• Category management – indirect products and services
• Auckland based
  

As part of a small professional and passionate Category Management team, this role contributes its part to a national service, delivering against the sectors strategic procurement plan to meet the needs of their complex national customers.

Reporting to the National Procurement Manager, this role will focus on developing and executing category plans and projects through developing a strong understanding of the customer requirements for products and services across categories, thereby enabling the prioritisation of initiatives, the negotiation and management of a variety of contracts and ensure the building of collaborative and sound supplier relationships.

To be successful as a candidate in this role and recruitment process, you will have at least 5-10 years’ experience in a procurement function in a similar role in a complex environment, ideally understand the All of Government Rules of Procurement, have sound knowledge of procurement processes, policies and procedures, have strong financial analytical and modelling skills, able to lead and support multiple projects with excellent time management, strong financial literary, have RFI/RFQ/RFP experience along with strong interpersonal communication and stakeholder engagement skills, supported by relevant tertiary qualifications (MCIPS desirable) and a customer-centric focus.

This is an urgent role, so to register your interest in this superb opportunity, please submit your details in absolute confidence via our registration process attaching both an up-to-date CV and cover letter (in Word please).   Alternatively, for a confidential conversation, you can contact Amanda Scott, Consulting Director at talentnow! on 021-784483 or email amanda.scott@talentnow.co.nz. Other than statutory days, I am available through the holiday period.

Applications close Friday 24th January 2020.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE WILL ONLY SUIT THOSE WITH RELEVANT NZ EXPERIENCE - OR A COMPARATIVE COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT.  YOU MUST ALSO BE ELIGIBLE TO WORK IN NZ.  OTHERS WITHOUT THESE CRITERIA MAY NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED.

• Large scale, high profile environment
• Multiple permanent opportunities
• Auckland City fringe location

Reporting to and supporting the Senior Procurement Manager you will focus on the coordination and delivery of end to end procurement activities that help deliver value for money outcomes whilst also identifying areas of continuous improvement in procurement processes.  You will work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their service requirements and coordinate tender processes for large volumes of procurement activity.  Montinoring supplier performance and service delivery, contract coordination and analysing benchmark data to drive better outcomes are also key areas of responsibility.

Ideally you will have experience in construction, capital works or infrastructure environments and within a centralised procurement function working on complex, high value projects.  Well-developed skills in communication, relationships development, prioritising, organising and multi-tasking with a 'can do' attitude will be highly regarded within this dedicated and supportive procurement team.

Take the next step in your procurement career with an industry leading organisation by registering your interest with talentnow! and contacting either Amanda Scott on 021784483 or Teresa Curd on 0211501225 or send your resume and cover letter (MS Word format please) via Apply.

Applications close Friday 7th February 2020.

To apply for these roles you must be have relevant work experience in New Zealand and therefore be eligible to work in New Zealand.