This newly created CFO role is a great hands-on commercial leadership opportunity based in Hawkes Bay. Tūpore Infrastructure Limited, formerly Russell Roads, is a well-established full-service civil infrastructure supply and construction business with a proud history operating across Hawkes Bay and the Central North Island for over 50 years. They have a broad range of sites, assets and operations here and outside of the region. Their business success is underpinned by genuine commitment to their Kaupapa of making lives and communities better and reflects in extensive infrastructure contracts with the likes of local and central government.
Tūpore is a busy operating environment. The owners have real growth aspirations for further expansion, which will see the current team of 100 plus employees continue to expand and grow in line with the ongoing call for infrastructure build across our regions.
As CFO you’ll be the commercial right hand to the CEO, providing guidance for the shareholders and leading a small finance team. Responsibilities will have a broad focus, at both a strategic and functional level. Your wingspan will spread across ensuring integrity of their financial reporting, compliance, budgeting and forcasting, cashflow management, risk, and treasury functions as well as management and further development of people and finance systems. You will be someone who likes sitting close to the numbers, and be prepared to roll up your sleeves at the transactional level when your team needs support.
You will need to be an experienced finance leader who just as keen to get your boots on and get across the business as you are to guide strategy. You will be steering, navigating, and bringing further rigour and challenge to the company’s commercial decisions, cashflow and contract management in a business model that operates in tender based markets.
We are open-minded in terms of sector and industry experience. An understanding of infrastructure and construction markets would be an asset, but either way you will be someone who enjoys driving commercial performance and assuring accountability. Commercial awareness, and the ability to add value in modelling, forecasting and in driving finance and business efficiencies will be what sets you apart as a highly regarded CFO. Ideally, you will need to be CA or CPA qualified.
It will be important that you relate well to the drivers of private enterprise but also you must have skills and experience that will enable you to operate in and around significant community and infrastructure partnerships. In return, you will be very well rewarded with competitive remuneration.
If you have the required finance leadership and commercial strategic capacity to perform here, then please apply through the seek portal. Or telephone Rachel Cornwall at Populous People for a confidential discussion, telephone 0272 565 620.