Corporate Finance Manager

Kōrero mō te tūranga | About the role

Based in our newly refurbished Wellington head office, as Corporate Finance Manager you’ll lead a team of five highly skilled corporate finance analysts and play a key part in delivering enterprise-wide programmes including corporate strategy, investor relations, internal and external capital allocation, and commodity risk management, while providing economic and strategic analysis and insights to support portfolio management and financial investment decisions across the business.

Reporting to our Head of Corporate Finance, this newly created role is integral to our future and your opportunity as an expert professional in a specialist field that directly impacts the ability for Contact to achieve strategic targets. You’ll identify industry issues and trends emerging both domestically and internationally, looking at likely impacts and how we manage potential negatives and take advantage of opportunities. You’ll ensure the Board, CEO and Leadership Team have all the information they need to make key decisions.  You’ll be able to assess risks, analyse options, and articulate findings to a broad audience, internally and externally, and prepare and present detailed reports and updates on M&A activities and capital allocation decision.

As one of New Zealand’s largest energy retailers and the only one without a major shareholder, we’re uniquely positioned to go bigger, faster, and harder than our competitors. In the last year alone, we have made some exciting decisions and acquisitions, and the investments we’ve executed on are really positive … with appetite for more. This is an exciting time to join Contact. We’re on a mission to decarbonise Aotearoa, and the behind-the-scenes mahi to get there is unlike anything else you could find in NZ.

This won’t just be great for your career, it’s great for Aotearoa.