Strategic Finance and Funding Lead

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Mō mātou | About Us

Our Vision: Preventing Harm. Saving Lives. Securing our Future

We play a key role in the guardianship of New Zealand waterways. We’re bringing together our aroha, work and skills to achieve our outcomes of sustainable supply chains and sectors, safe people and operations, secure ports and ships, and clean seas and waterways.

Our values are about who we are as individuals and the behaviours we expect from each other at Maritime NZ.

Care | Kia Tika - We care for each other and do the right thing

Connect | Kotahitanga - We unite in a common purpose

Courage | Kia Māia - We are brave, capable and confident

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the team

The Digital, Data and Finance Group brings together financial stewardship, digital capability and data insight to support how Maritime NZ makes informed investment and prioritisation decisions.

Within this, the Strategic Finance function plays a critical role in ensuring funding, affordability and investment decisions are well aligned with organisational priorities and long-term sustainability.

Te tūnga | The role

As the Strategic Finance and Funding Lead, you’ll be focused on shaping how Maritime NZ funds its future - you’ll provide expert advice on funding strategy, affordability and investment trade-offs, ensuring decisions are sustainable, evidence-based and aligned to strategic priorities.

Taking a system-wide view, you’ll be connecting funding settings with organisational strategy, delivery capacity and long-term transformation goals.

Key areas of focus include:

• Leading the development and ongoing stewardship of funding and affordability strategy

• Translating strategy and government funding settings into clear, actionable financial choices

• Developing funding proposals, business cases and investment advice

• Designing frameworks and tools that support prioritisation and long-term financial sustainability including long term strategic financial plans and long-term intention plans.

• Providing scenario modelling and analysis to inform investment decisions and trade-offs, and able to translate these into clear and coherent papers for senior management/Board decisions.

• Supporting senior leaders and governance forums with high-quality financial insight and advice.

• Working across teams to ensure funding considerations are embedded early in planning and decision-making.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring Maritime NZ can deliver its priorities within funding constraints while planning confidently for the future.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring

You’re a strategic finance professional who can connect complex funding environments with real-world decision-making. You’re comfortable working at a senior level and influencing outcomes through strong analysis, with ability to articulate in a clear and concise manner and with excellent written skills.

You will bring:

• Experience in strategic finance, funding strategy, economics or public sector investment

• Strong understanding of funding models, affordability and long-term financial sustainability

• Experience developing business cases, long term financial plans, funding proposals or investment advice

• Strong analytical capability, including scenario modelling and trade-off analysis

• Ability to integrate financial considerations with strategy, workforce and delivery planning

• Experience working with senior leaders and governance processes

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex financial information

• A systems-thinking approach

Mōu | For you

Maritime NZ recognises and respects te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with Māori to build strong, meaningful and enduring relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

We aim to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported with a sense of belonging. We encourage our people to actively contribute to our workplace culture where we all thrive and authentically live our MNZ values.

Upon joining us you’ll receive a full range of benefits including Income Protection & Life Insurance. Check out our full range on our careers page to find out more about why we love working here.

Salary range $140,000 - $187,000 depending on skills and experience + superannuation.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

We are unable to accept applications via email. Please click the apply button to submit your application.

We're committed to ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. Please reach out to our recruitment team below if there is any support we can provide to ensure the process is accessible to you.

Applications for this role close 26/10/2026. Please also note that you must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be considered for this role.

Please note: we will be reviewing applications as they come in, and may progress applications prior to the closing date.

If you have any questions please e-mail Careers@maritimenz.govt.nz