Team Leader

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Team Leader - Support Services
- Based at Royal New Zealand Police College, Porirua
- Band H
- Permanent
- LAV
- Police Employee
- JR4630630

E tῡ ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e ngā ngaru o te wā.
Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face

Mō te tūnga | About the role
Following a recent realignment of the Police Commissioner’s executive structure, New Zealand Police have welcomed a new CFO to lead an enhanced Finance function. There are a number of Finance vacancies that the organisation has been holding during a period of change, but now the Police Executive have given the mandate and their support to drive the Finance team and their strategy forward. The CFO and realigned Finance Leadership team now have a re-energized collective focus and have assessed the current state of the group to determine their initial priorities, in line with the organisations and new government’s, and which roles are key to delivering these.

This role is within a select group of critical roles necessary to help ensure Police remain fiscally sustainable, have access to high quality financial information and strategic advice, and have the financial literacy to allocate and use the limited public resources provided to Police wisely.

The Finance function of any organisation provides several critical services required to enable the success of that organisation. This ranges from ensuring our staff and suppliers are paid, ensuring compliance with public sector legislation, standards and expectations, maintaining a “Licence to operate” and providing strategic and practical financial advice to decision makers to ensure we operate within our budgets and deliver value for money.

The Finance department at New Zealand Police has an exciting opportunity for a capable Team Leader
- Support Services with a strong financial transactional focus in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Purchasing, exceptional Leadership style with a passion for customer service, transactional processing and continuous improvement and a pro-active style to truly make a difference.
The Team Leader - Support Services is responsible for supervising the provision of accounts payable, accounts receivable and administrative financial support services to NZ Police. The role ensures that these services are delivered in line with service standards. It has primary responsibility for developing the service offering and meeting customer requirements.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Deliver our services in line with service standards.
- Develop/ improve the service offering and meeting customer requirements.
- Set performance and service level goals (with Manager Financial Processing) and support the team in their achievement of these goals.
- Confidently address errors or payment issues and maintain oversight through to resolution.

He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring
Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
- minimum 4 years Team Leader experience in a large Shared Services team.
- Ability to engage and build partnerships with a range of people throughout the business and external customers.
- Process orientated background and understand GST / Privacy / other related regulations.
- Ability to evaluate the broader context of a situation and its consequences considering risks and internal controls.
- Lead by example to show respect, generosity, and care for others.

This role is set at Team Leader/Manager level, this means your key purpose is “to lead the activities for Our Business and enable people to deliver them.”

Mo tātou | About us
New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government’s largest front-line respo