HR Advisor

Join the 'Bank of the Year', as voted by customers through the Roy Morgan NZ Customer Satisfaction Awards. Rabobank is the world's leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our
kaimahi (
employees) who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for our clients.

Our purpose is clear of growing a better New Zealand together. Our commitment to our employees and customers is at the heart of everything we do.

HR Adviser
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Tūranga mahi

• Join a high performing, collaborative, inclusive team
• Fantastic Development opportunities
• Great benefits

About the role
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Mō te tūranga
The HR Adviser role focuses on the full HR lifecycle, working closely with our HR team in New Zealand, leaders, and our people. You'll provide advice on all employment matters, including employee relations, policy, Workday, and employment agreements.

This role will also manage onboarding for new starters and deliver key outcomes around policy review, risk management, and HR projects. Day-to-day, you'll create an excellent people experience. This is a fast-paced role with a varied workload, so strong prioritisation skills are essential to achieve the best outcomes for you and your colleagues

Rabobank offers a hybrid working arrangement, with three days in our Hamilton office and two days working from home.

About you
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Ō pūkenga

• A positive can do attitude.
• The ability to build trust, establish and maintain strong working relationships.
• Solid Microsoft suite skills. Experience of using Workday will be an advantage.
• An inclusive, collaborative manner.
• Pragmatic, solid judgement and commercial acumen to address a wide variety of stakeholders and situations.
• Ability to deliver, quality outcomes within agreed timeframes and budget.
• A minimum of 3 years HR generalist experience.

Life at Rabobank
At Rabobank we offer a range of benefits:

• Access to and eligibility to the Bank's annual variable remuneration incentive scheme.
• A range of wellbeing benefits including free Flu vaccinations, 2 days wellbeing leave, wellbeing webinars and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Fully paid Income Protection, life and total disability insurance
• Annual leave plus eligibility for an extra week of bonus leave. The option to purchase up to two extra weeks of purchase leave a year.
• Professional development and training.
• Access to 26 weeks fully paid parental leave for new parents, continued payment of the employer kiwiSaver contribution for the 52 weeks.
• Social club and a range of fun activities through out the year.
• Paid volunteer day to undertake volunteer work for the communities we live in and support.
• The support, allyship and opportunity to join our inclusion, equity and belonging groups, including Rainbow Group, Māori Ropu, Employee Council, Culture Coach group. Rabobank has achieved Gendertick advanced, Rainbow tick and is a living wage accredited employer.

If you are interested in Growing a better New Zealand together (
kia ngātahi te tipu o Aotearoa
) please follow the link and apply online or visit

Applications close Sunday 11 January 2026

Our Values
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ō mātou uara
Rabobank has won an award for its culture work and believe embracing inclusion, equity and belonging delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here.
At Rabobank New Zealand, we are committed to our values; we are client-driven, we take responsibility, we are professional and cooperative. We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, sex/sex characteristics, gender (Inclusive of all genders), gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, or other diversity characteristics not mentioned. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Together, we can grow a better world.