Accounting
- Financial accountants
- Management accountants
- Systems accountants
- Accounts payable & receivable
- Credit control & payroll
Accounting, Finance, Risk & Corporate, Auckland
Accounting, finance & corporate recruitment in Auckland.
We recruit accounting, finance, risk and corporate talent across Auckland, from accounts payable and management accountants through to CFOs, risk leads, HR advisors and executive support.
Our Auckland office is at Level 1, 87 Albert Street, Auckland 1010.
Auckland is home to most of the country's head offices, which makes finance and corporate hiring here both busy and competitive. We recruit for commercial businesses, professional services, financial services, not for profits and the public sector, on permanent, fixed-term and contract terms.
Our consultants specialise. The person you talk to about a financial controller search is not the same one covering risk and compliance or executive support, so the market advice you get is genuinely informed: realistic salary ranges, who is hiring, and how long the search should take.
Every candidate is interviewed and referenced by a real consultant before they reach your shortlist. Values led, high touch, and no pressure to close.
What we recruit
Roles we fill in Auckland.
Finance & commercial
- CFOs & finance directors
- Financial controllers & finance managers
- Commercial & financial analysts
- Pricing, treasury & tax specialists
- Procurement & category management
Risk, assurance & compliance
- Risk managers & risk analysts
- Compliance & AML specialists
- Internal audit & business assurance
- Governance & regulatory reporting
- Fraud & financial crime specialists
Corporate & business support
- People & culture, HR advisors and managers
- Executive assistants & office management
- Legal counsel & practice managers
- Communications, marketing & investor relations
- Sales, account and channel management
Auckland is a head office market, and it hires like one.
Most of New Zealand's head offices sit in Auckland, and that single fact shapes the whole finance and corporate hiring market here. Head offices mean group reporting, consolidation, commercial analysis, treasury, tax and investor relations work that simply does not exist in the same volume anywhere else in the country. It also means the finance roles here are more likely to be commercial and forward looking rather than purely transactional.
We recruit across commercial businesses, financial services, professional services, property and construction, FMCG and retail, not for profits and the public sector. The mix matters because it changes what a good management accountant means. A management accountant out of a listed FMCG business and one out of a not for profit are solving different problems, and pretending otherwise produces shortlists that look right on paper and fail at interview.
Demand in Auckland is also seasonal in a way that catches people out. Balance dates cluster around 31 March and 30 June, and the reporting, audit and year end workload that follows creates a predictable spike in demand for contract and fixed-term finance people. If you know you will need cover, telling us six weeks out costs nothing and makes the difference between a choice of candidates and whoever happens to be free.
Risk, compliance and the regulatory pull on Auckland hiring.
The fastest growing part of our Auckland finance work is not accounting, it is risk, compliance and assurance, and it is being driven by regulation rather than by growth.
Anti money laundering obligations continue to generate demand for AML analysts and compliance specialists across banking, non-bank lenders, insurance, real estate and professional services. Financial services conduct and licensing obligations keep compliance and assurance teams growing. Climate related disclosure requirements have created a genuinely new category of reporting role that barely existed a few years ago, and the people who can actually do that work are scarce.
The recruitment problem this creates is specific. Regulatory hiring tends to arrive with a deadline attached, which means everyone in the sector is looking for the same profile in the same window. The realistic answers are usually to widen the brief on background rather than on capability, to consider a contractor for the immediate deadline while you run a proper permanent search behind it, or to hire slightly under and develop. We will tell you which of those we think applies to your role, and we will tell you if we think the brief as written will not fill.
Where we recruit across Auckland.
Our office is on Albert Street in the CBD, close to most of the corporate and financial services employers we work with.
We recruit for the head offices, banks, insurers and professional services firms in the central city, the corporate and agency employers in Newmarket, and the businesses on the North Shore in Takapuna and Albany. We also recruit into the substantial finance teams attached to distribution, manufacturing, logistics and trade businesses in Penrose, Ellerslie, Mount Wellington, Highbrook, East Tamaki and Manukau, which are often overlooked and are frequently easier hires because the competition is thinner.
Location is a real variable in Auckland finance hiring, especially for accounts payable, receivable, payroll and transactional roles where the salary band will not absorb an hour long commute each way. We factor it into the search rather than discovering it at offer stage.
Questions
Auckland recruitment FAQs.
What finance and corporate roles do you recruit in Auckland?
Accounts payable and receivable, payroll, financial and management accountants, systems accountants, financial and commercial analysts, financial controllers, finance managers and CFOs, risk, compliance, AML and internal audit specialists, procurement, plus corporate roles across people and culture, legal, communications, marketing, sales and executive support.
Do you recruit risk and compliance specialists?
Yes. We recruit risk managers and analysts, compliance and AML specialists, internal audit and business assurance people, and governance and regulatory reporting roles, for financial services, corporates and the public sector.
Can you cover a finance role at short notice?
Yes. We keep pools of pre-screened contract and fixed-term finance candidates for parental leave, year end, system implementations and unexpected gaps, and can usually present available people within a few days.
Where is your Auckland office?
Level 1, 87 Albert Street, Auckland 1010. We also have a Wellington office at Level 6, 11 Chews Lane, Wellington 6011 and recruit nationwide.
Do you provide Auckland salary benchmarking?
Yes. Our consultants give live market rates as part of every brief, and our published salary and rate guide covers accounting, finance, corporate and technology roles across New Zealand.
Can you help with year end and audit season cover in Auckland?
Yes, and it is worth planning early. Balance dates cluster around 31 March and 30 June, so demand for contract and fixed-term finance people spikes at predictable points. We keep pre-screened candidates available for year end, audit support, parental leave cover and system implementations, and can usually present people within a few days.
Do you recruit finance teams outside central Auckland?
Yes. We recruit across the CBD, Newmarket, Takapuna and Albany, and out to Penrose, Ellerslie, Mount Wellington, Highbrook, East Tamaki and Manukau. For transactional finance roles in particular, location often decides the hire, so we build it into the search.
What should we be paying for Auckland finance roles right now?
It varies by industry and by how commercial the role is, not just by title. Our consultants give you live market rates when we take the brief, and our published Salary and Rate Guide has indicative permanent salary and contract rate ranges for finance and corporate roles filtered to Auckland.
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