Waitematā, Auckland, New Zealand · Hybrid
Kotahi is on a mission to help New Zealand businesses compete and thrive on the world stage. If you're a commercially astute finance leader who enjoys influencing strategy, shaping enterprise performance, and partnering …
Skills: Commercial finance, Strategic finance, Enterprise performance, Financial forecasting, Commercial modelling
Waitematā, Auckland, New Zealand · Hybrid
About Us – Kotahi At Kotahi, we enable New Zealand businesses to win globally by delivering best-in-class, digitally powered supply chain solutions. Our name means “standing together as one,” and our values reflect that …
Skills: Operations management, Customer service, Relationship building, Booking management, Supply chain solutions
Waitematā, Auckland, New Zealand · On-site
Join the Strategy and Execution team as a Strategy Analyst, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping enterprise-level decisions and driving strategic outcomes across the business. In this role, you’ll partner closely …
Skills: Strategic Planning, Financial Modelling, Scenario Planning, Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving
Waitematā, Auckland, New Zealand • Hybrid
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The Head of Commercial Finance & Enterprise Performance leads the commercial finance capability and integrates planning, forecasting, and operational plans to drive business performance. This role partners with the executive team to provide strategic commercial insights and influence key investment and transformation decisions.
Candidates must have significant experience in senior commercial or strategic finance leadership roles and possess strong commercial modelling and forecasting capabilities. A tertiary qualification in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline is required, with professional certifications like CA, CPA, CFA, or an MBA being highly desirable.
Kotahi is on a mission to help New Zealand businesses compete and thrive on the world stage. If you're a commercially astute finance leader who enjoys influencing strategy, shaping enterprise performance, and partnering with senior executives to drive better business outcomes, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.
About Us – Kotahi
At Kotahi, we enable New Zealand businesses to win globally through best-in-class, digitally powered supply chain solutions. Kotahi means standing together as one, and our values - We Before I, Seek to Understand, Discover Opportunities, and Driven to Deliver - guide how we work every day.
We're proud of our inclusive culture, strong focus on wellbeing through our Hauora programme, and commitment to continuous improvement.
About the Opportunity
We're looking for a Head of Commercial Finance & Enterprise Performance to join our senior leadership team. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role leads Kotahi's Commercial Finance capability and plays a critical role in helping the organisation make better, faster, and more commercially sound decisions.
Working closely with the Executive Team, you'll bring together customer demand, operational plans, commercial opportunities, resource requirements, and financial forecasts into a unified view of enterprise performance. You'll lead the organisation's integrated planning and forecasting processes, provide strategic commercial insight, and influence significant customer, partnership, investment, and transformation decisions.
This is a high-profile leadership role offering broad enterprise exposure and the opportunity to shape the way a complex New Zealand business plans, measures, and delivers performance.
About You
You're a commercially minded leader who combines strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate complex information into clear actions and decisions. You enjoy working across a business, building trusted relationships, and influencing outcomes at the highest levels.
You're equally comfortable challenging assumptions, evaluating investment opportunities, and helping leaders navigate complex commercial decisions. Most importantly, you're passionate about building capability in others and creating value through better business performance.
You'll also bring:
Why Join Kotahi?
You'll be supported with a competitive benefits package, including:
Stand Together With Us
If you're looking for an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide performance, partner closely with executive leaders, and help shape the future direction of a purpose-driven New Zealand organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us deliver great outcomes for our customers and New Zealand exporters.
KOTAHI – our name means ‘standing together as one’ and our vision is to build Asia Pacific’s most efficient collaborative supply chain. We champion joined-up thinking by promoting cargo pooling and long term partnerships to drive greater supply chain certainty, co-ordination and competitiveness for leading businesses across New Zealand, Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region. Our people operate across the export, import and the domestic sectors to secure cargo efficiencies for a range of sectors such as meat, wool, dairy, timber, pharmaceuticals, horticulture and seafood. We are re-shaping the way Kiwis take their goods to the world. By working together with sectors in New Zealand we’re competing against the world, not each other. Our collaborative approach makes markets more accessible for New Zealand exporters and importers and keeps them competitive on the world stage by paving the way for larger ship visits. We’re opening up possibilities for business, and giving certainty for all players in the supply chain: ports, shippers, rail operators, hauliers or freight-forwarders. From our founding in 2011, to caring for the cargoes of over 40 major organisations today, our rapidly growing network is helping companies get closer to their global customers and we’re proud to be part of the New Zealand story.
Offices: 66 Wyndham Street, Level 17, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, NZ
KOTAHI – our name means ‘standing together as one’ and our vision is to build Asia Pacific’s most efficient collaborative supply chain. We champion joined-up thinking by promoting cargo pooling and long term partnerships to drive greater supply chain certainty, co-ordination and competitiveness for leading businesses across New Zealand, Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region. Our people operate across the export, import and the domestic sectors to secure cargo efficiencies for a range of sectors such as meat, wool, dairy, timber, pharmaceuticals, horticulture and seafood. We are re-shaping the way Kiwis take their goods to the world. By working together with sectors in New Zealand we’re competing against the world, not each other. Our collaborative approach makes markets more accessible for New Zealand exporters and importers and keeps them competitive on the world stage by paving the way for larger ship visits. We’re opening up possibilities for business, and giving certainty for all players in the supply chain: ports, shippers, rail operators, hauliers or freight-forwarders. From our founding in 2011, to caring for the cargoes of over 40 major organisations today, our rapidly growing network is helping companies get closer to their global customers and we’re proud to be part of the New Zealand story.
Offices: 66 Wyndham Street, Level 17, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, NZ
