The Company
Our client is a well-established, innovative technology organisation based in Christchurch, recognised for delivering market-leading digital platforms and advanced technical solutions. With a strong commitment to technology-led growth, the business invests heavily in R&D and proprietary software to support long-term expansion and global operational excellence. This company offers the security and backing of an established enterprise alongside the high-energy, collaborative environment of a modern product development squad.

The Role
We are seeking an intelligent Machine Learning Engineer to join a close-knit development team. In this hands-on role, you will help design, optimise, and scale sophisticated machine learning models and automated MLOps pipelines. Working alongside software developers and senior leadership, you will have genuine autonomy to refine model accuracy and champion continuous engineering improvements.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing, optimising, and maintaining core production models 
• Designing and implementing MLOps pipelines to streamline automated training, deployment, and performance monitoring.
• Conducting data preprocessing, feature engineering, and rigorous model evaluation to ensure predictable, high-performance outcomes.
• Collaborating with cross-functional squads to understand business goals and translate them into production-ready AI solutions.

Skills and Experience We’re Looking For

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a highly quantitative field (a relevant PhD or Master’s is highly desirable).
• 1–2 years of commercial experience developing and deploying machine learning models into production environments.
• Strong Python skills paired with deep familiarity in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Proven expertise in systems including RT-DETR or YOLO
• Solid experience implementing regression and tree-based algorithms (such as XGBoost) for automated scoring or forecasting.
• Practical understanding of MLOps best practices, including CI/CD, containerisation (Docker), and cloud services.

Whats On Offer

• The opportunity to work directly with frontier AI technologies and own their end-to-end commercial application.
• A dynamic, collaborative, and modern work environment in Christchurch.
• Genuine technical autonomy and defined pathways for career growth.

To find out more about this opportunity or to have a confidential discussion, please apply now

Help Kiwis make some of life's biggest financial decisions, while building a career with unlimited earning potential.

If you're an experienced Mortgage Adviser who enjoys building lasting relationships, simplifying complex lending decisions, and helping people move forward with confidence, this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

We're looking for a qualified adviser who is passionate about delivering exceptional client outcomes and wants to join a collaborative business that values long-term relationships over transactional sales.

What's in it for you?

• Up to $130,000 per annum base salary
• Uncapped commission structure
• Immediate start available
• Extensive client database 

About the role

Buying a first home. Upsizing for a growing family. Refinancing to create financial freedom. Every client has a different story, and you'll play a key role in helping them achieve their goals.

As a Mortgage Adviser, you'll become a trusted partner throughout the lending journey. You'll take the time to understand each client's circumstances, recommend lending solutions that genuinely suit their needs, and guide them from their first conversation through to settlement.

Working alongside experienced professionals in a broader financial advisory business, you'll have the opportunity to build lasting client relationships while delivering advice that makes a real difference.

Key responsibilities

• Provide expert residential lending advice tailored to each client's circumstances
• Manage lending applications from enquiry through to settlement
• Build strong relationships with clients and New Zealand's major lenders
• Deliver an exceptional client experience that generates repeat business and referrals

Skills & Experience

We're looking for someone who already understands what great advice looks like.

• Level 5 Financial Services qualification with Core and Residential Property Lending strands completed
• Current accreditation with New Zealand's major residential lenders
• Proven experience as a Mortgage Adviser or Mortgage Broker
• Outstanding relationship-building, communication and client management skills

About the company

Our client is a respected Auckland financial advisory business that believes great advice goes beyond simply arranging finance. By taking the time to understand what matters most to every client, they build trusted relationships that continue long after settlement.

With expertise spanning lending, wealth, accounting and property, the team works collaboratively to deliver tailored advice and an exceptional client experience. It's a professional environment where quality, integrity and long-term relationships sit at the heart of everything they do.

The Company
Evnex, designs, builds, and installs smart EV chargers that empower people to charge using clean, affordable energy. Powered by New Zealand-built hardware and grid-connected software, they are a values-based, vertically integrated clean-tech organisation operating at a genuine growth inflection point. They have a friendly, highly cross-functional team with big ambitions, scaling fast across New Zealand and Australia. Combining the pace and momentum of an ambitious technology house with a culture that looks after its people, they offer genuine autonomy to shape our digital systems landscape as they expand.

The Role
They are seeking a Digital Systems Lead to take single accountable ownership of how Evnex's digital systems fit together. Reporting to the Head of Engineering and Operations and leading a small team of Business Analysts, this is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will hold the overarching architectural view across their full stack. From their e-commerce layer through to core CRM and ERP integrations. You will own data flow, system reliability, and the long-term systems roadmap, while driving the automation backlog against clear ROI and aligning cross-functional stakeholders through change.

What You'll Be Doing
Holding the high-level architecture across the full stack, including Webflow, Shopify, HubSpot, Business Central, Aircall, Zendesk, and their connecting integrations.

• Designing, scoping, and personally delivering integration and migration work to keep data flowing accurately and reliably without disrupting wider business operations.

• Developing the systems roadmap aligned to Evnex's strategic expansion across New Zealand and Australia, including leading build-versus-buy decisions on new tools.
• Prioritising the backlog of automation and integration work, evaluating ROI to ensure effort is directed where it returns maximum value.
• Identifying manual tasks across the organisation and orchestrating delivery between the internal team and external technical partners.
• Leading the practical, responsible adoption of AI tools that measurably improve organizational workflows, supported by appropriate governance and transparency.

Skills And Experience We're Looking For
Strong track record in business systems management, digital operations, or senior business analysis, with a strong technical foundation and proven delivery of complex integrations and migrations in scaling environments.

• A strong, high-level grasp of how digital systems and data connect across an organisation, from e-commerce through to CRM-to-ERP integration; hands-on HubSpot experience is strongly preferred alongside exposure to an ERP such as Business Central.
• Equal comfort with solution architecture and hands-on execution—designing platform integration blueprints and delivering builds directly.
• A proven track record of prioritising work by ROI and delivering automation or AI solutions that measurably improve operational efficiency.
• Strong reporting and data-visualisation capability (Power BI, Tableau, or advanced Excel) paired with a focus on data quality, integrity, and governance.
• Outstanding stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills, including translating complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

This is a permanent, full-time position based in Christchurch, New Zealand. If you are looking to take single accountability for a digital systems ecosystem and drive scalable technology transformation, please apply now.

QA Engineer — Automation & AI Testing | Auckland (Office-based)

The Company

This is a professional services consultancy on a deliberate journey to become a genuinely digital business — embedding technology, data and AI into the core of how it delivers, not treating them as an afterthought. The Digital Team sits at the heart of that mission, and this role sits inside it.

The Opportunity

This is a build job, not a babysitting one. The SaaS Greenfield Platform is being built from scratch, and the team needs an Automation Engineer to own the testing strategy and automation suite from the ground up — no inherited technical debt, no legacy mess to untangle. You'll be joining a tight, cross-functional team where product, engineering, data and AI work together rather than in silos, moving at pace on something that genuinely matters to the business.

What makes this role particularly interesting is the AI testing element. The platform integrates with Claude API, and building a framework to test prompt-based behaviour and AI-generated outputs is a genuinely novel engineering challenge — not a problem with a textbook answer.

The Day-to-Day

You'll own the automated test coverage across unit, integration and end-to-end layers, working primarily with Vitest and Playwright. But this isn't a role where QA shows up at the end of the sprint to validate what's already been built — you'll be embedded in refinement and sprint ceremonies, working alongside developers to make sure testability is baked in from the moment requirements are defined.

Alongside the automation suite, you'll perform manual and exploratory testing, close existing coverage gaps across the platform's database and edge functions, and flag quality risks and technical debt early and clearly. The AI testing framework will become a meaningful part of what you build and own — covering Claude API integrations, prompt evaluation and the inherently non-deterministic nature of AI outputs.

What You'll Need

• At least 8+ years in Automation test engineering, with hands-on experience building automated test suites across unit, integration and end-to-end layers
• Strong hands-on experience with Vitest and Playwright
• Solid test planning and test case design skills
• Confident with API testing and mocking
• Comfortable with manual and exploratory testing alongside automated coverage
• Familiar with Git/GitHub workflows
• Experience integrating QA practices into agile or sprint-based teams

Nice to Have

• Prior experience testing AI or LLM-powered features — prompt evaluation, output validation, handling non-determinism
• Postgres experience, including RLS and migrations
• CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions
• Experience shaping QA processes in a small or fast-growing team
• Comfortable using AI coding assistants to accelerate test development

The Right Fit

Someone with a meticulous eye for edge cases and gaps others walk past, who communicates quality risks clearly and doesn't wait to be asked before acting on them. You'll be methodical when working through ambiguous failures, collaborative enough to work closely with developers throughout the sprint, and pragmatic enough to balance thoroughness with the realities of delivery pace.

On Offer

A rare chance to define and build a testing function from scratch, in a fast-moving team working on genuinely interesting problems — including one of the more novel QA challenges around right now in AI output testing. Modern, collaborative office environment with a team that values quality as a first-class concern, not a final hurdle.

If building something from the ground up in a team that takes quality seriously appeals to you, get in touch. 

We are only considering candidates who are on the ground here in New Zealand. If you've read this far and you're curious to learn more or if you're intrigued and would like to throw your hat in the ring then please apply. We would love to hear from you. 

Audit Partner / Director

· Additional partnership opportunities

· Christchurch

· Big firm ability with smaller firm agility

Grant Thornton New Zealand is on an exciting growth trajectory and is looking for experienced and highly proactive audit partners to contribute to this growth in its Christchurch offices.

Grant Thornton delivers all the services you would expect from a global accounting and advisory firm, but this is where the similarities stop. Here at home and across its global network, Grant Thornton is famous for being down to earth and personable. Clients enjoy a more personalised service, delivered by people who have a passion for their work and a genuine desire to make a real difference. This passion creates a unique environment within the professional services industry, one where both clients and their people feel genuinely supported, can be themselves, and can thrive and grow. The only things treated like a number at Grant Thornton New Zealand are … the numbers.

As an audit partner at Grant Thornton, you will join a rapidly growing practice and inherit a portfolio of high-calibre clients that tell a unique NZ business story, as well as an international one. You will ensure the highest quality audit services are delivered to them while playing an active role in contributing to the firm’s growth.

As a senior member of the firm, you will also be a role model and a people leader, managing a thriving audit team and embodying the firm’s culture and behaviours of: ‘be brave’, ‘trusted to deliver’, ‘we not me’, ‘go beyond’, and ‘have fun and keep it real’. Culture is what sets Grant Thornton apart, and you will quickly become an integral part of the fabric of the firm and its success story.

Naturally, you will also be expected to maintain your technical currency to ensure the highest quality audit advice is delivered to your clients at all times.

Key responsibilities:

· Maintaining and managing a portfolio of existing clients, delivering exceptional high quality audit services and ensuring high levels of client satisfaction

· Taking ownership for the creation and delivery of growth across your portfolio as well as supporting the firm in its wider business development activities

· Ensuring the ongoing development of professional knowledge within the firm by keeping up to date with best practice and sharing expertise, including advising on technical issues, actively involved in technical training, and day to day coaching of team members

· Leading and providing direction to the team, to ensure the effective delivery of strategic initiatives whilst identifying areas for development in team members and working to implement appropriate solutions

· Participating in setting annual budgets and establishing work plans for your team and divisional productivity, working in conjunction with the audit service line Leader to monitor performance against targets, and reporting on progress on a monthly basis

· Managing business risk through delivery of high quality work and compliance with all professional and ethical standards.

About You

You are CA qualified or similar overseas qualification. You’re currently a partner in another organisation, or are looking to return to audit, or perhaps you are an experienced audit director; either way you are an experienced, highly motivated audit professional with a track record for uncompromising quality and a knack for business development. You enjoy working with clients and managing teams, and seeking a firm that matches your values and aspirations - a place where people come first and satisfaction comes from a job well done.

If this sounds like you, then Grant Thornton is waiting for your application.

To Apply

To find out more about this opportunity, or to apply please contact Sarah Bailey (Christchurch) at Walker Smith sarah@walkersmith.co.nz mobile 022 126 0074

Can you understand how systems, data and processes connect, then sit down with the people actually doing the job and make sense of how it all works in the real world?

What's in it for you

Rate: $110 per hour
Duration: 6-month contract
Availability: Immediate
Location: Auckland CBD

About the role

You'll work across a varied ecosystem of field service, asset management, service management and supporting applications. Your job is to understand how those systems interact, how data moves between them and how the technology supports the end-to-end operational process.

You're not starting from scratch. A good amount of the initial discovery and workshop activity has already been completed, giving you an existing body of work to pick up and drive forward.

From there, you'll work closely with technology leaders and operational stakeholders to develop requirements, map processes and system interactions, and produce clear documentation and SOPs.

The stakeholder piece is important. You'll need to be equally comfortable discussing systems and integrations with technical teams as you are sitting with frontline field crews, understanding how they actually complete their work and translating that into requirements the wider team can act on.

Skills & Experience

• Strong Senior Business Analyst background across systems or technology projects
• Proven capability across system integrations, data flows and multiple interconnected applications
• Strong process mapping, requirements gathering and workshop facilitation skills
• Confident producing SOPs and clear business and technical documentation
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, particularly with frontline and operational users
• Exposure to field services, telecommunications, utilities, infrastructure or other asset-heavy environments would be advantageous

About the company

You'll be joining a large, established New Zealand organisation delivering critical technology and infrastructure services nationwide.

It's a complex operational environment where technology needs to work just as effectively for teams in the field as it does for those in the office.

You'll join an experienced technology team, with plenty of existing knowledge to draw on and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on how technology supports teams in the field.

Kofax Support Consultant - Enterprise Automation & IDP (Contract) Automation & Intelligent Document Processing | New Zealand-wide

The Client

Our client is a well-established automation and intelligent document processing practice, working with a growing base of enterprise customers across New Zealand. Off the back of new business wins and expanding use cases with existing customers, their Kofax team needs an experienced hand to take on support delivery while the senior consultants focus on project work.

The Opportunity

This is genuinely niche, technical work — not a role for someone early in their Kofax journey. It's a great fit for a consultant who enjoys solving real configuration and integration problems for enterprise customers, and who wants contract flexibility without sacrificing challenging work.

You'll be the point person keeping existing Kofax/Tungsten solutions running smoothly for customers who rely on them day to day, while staying close enough to project work to pitch in when the senior delivery team needs an extra pair of hands.

What You'll Be Doing

• Owning and triaging Level 1/2 support tickets for existing customers, resolving issues where possible.
• Logging into customer environments to diagnose and adjust Kofax configurations.
• Supporting the senior delivery team on project work — configuration, and occasional customer workshops.
• Acting as a key point of continuity for customers relying on their Kofax/Tungsten solutions day to day.

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on experience configuring and supporting Kofax Capture.
• Experience with Kofax (Tungsten) Automation platforms.
• Familiarity with Kofax cloud capture solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and comfort working directly with enterprise customer environments.
• Prior experience in a support/ticketing environment (triage, prioritisation, customer communication) is a plus.
• Availability for a 6-month contract engagement.

Why Apply

• Genuinely scarce, specialist skill set — this is where the interesting, high-value work in automation consulting sits right now.
• Work with an experienced, established delivery team on meaningful enterprise projects.
• Contract flexibility with a strong path to extension.

How to Apply

For a confidential discussion about this role, contact Adam Roi at Walkersmith or apply with confidence via Seek. We look forward to hearing from you.

Are you at your best when leading clients through complexity, aligning different perspectives, and giving them the confidence to move forward?

What's in it for you

Salary: Up to $140,000
Bonus: Performance-based bonus
Development: Dedicated annual L&D budget
Benefits: Employer-funded private medical insurance
Employment: Permanent
Location: Wellington

About the role

Step into live projects from day one and a role where your judgement carries weight. Working directly with senior stakeholders, you'll untangle complex information problems, challenge assumptions and build consensus around a response they can act on. The value lies in shaping the engagement, not simply capturing requirements.

Your influence continues through delivery. You will be working alongside specialist vendors carrying out the technical build, while you hold the design thread, keep decisions moving, and ensure the end result meets the client's needs.

Most projects sit within government and put you in the room with clients across Wellington. Over time you will lead key workstreams, grow trusted accounts, take on broader commercial responsibility and build toward senior leadership with a genuine voice in how the consultancy evolves.

Skills & Experience

• Strong practical knowledge of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, particularly SharePoint, OneDrive, and Purview
• Experience shaping SharePoint site designs, information structures, taxonomies and permission models
• Confidence leading discovery, facilitating workshops and advising senior stakeholders
• The judgement to challenge assumptions, navigate competing views and bring structure to ambiguity
• Clear, credible communication and the ability to turn complex information into recommendations clients can act on
• Previous consulting experience would be strongly preferred
• New Zealand public-sector experience would be advantageous

About the company

For more than a decade, this consultancy has built a strong reputation in information management, particularly across New Zealand government. Longstanding client relationships and a presence on several government panels provide a stable base of work and a strong future pipeline.

The boutique structure means good work gets noticed. Directors stay close to delivery, individual contributions are visible and a trusted network of long-term associates adds depth around the permanent team. A central Wellington office provides a shared base, with everyone coming together each week.

People join the consultancy, not simply a client assignment. There is genuine investment in learning, pride in the quality of the work and room to help shape how the business develops.

Join a fast-paced established environment where you'll coordinate priorities, streamline communication, and help ensure projects stay on track.

• Flexible part-time role, initially 25–30 hours per week
• Varied position combining project coordination and executive support
• Ideally based in Queenstown, or sounding areas

The Opportunity

Our client is looking for a highly organised Project Coordinator / Executive Assistant to provide support across a range of business initiatives and projects.

Working closely with a director in the business, you'll play a key role in coordinating activities, managing priorities, and ensuring actions continue progressing.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage calendars, meetings and scheduling requirements
• Coordinate actions, deadlines and follow-ups across multiple projects
• Act as a central point of communication between internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain organised records, documentation and correspondence
• Monitor priorities and ensure key tasks remain on track
• Support information flow and communication across various workstreams
• Maintain simple tracking and reporting systems

About You

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive and comfortable managing competing priorities
• Commercially aware with sound judgement
• Confident using Excel, digital calendars, document management systems and AI tools
• Able to work independently and take ownership of outcomes
• Previous experience in project coordination, executive support, administration or a similar role
• Additional hours may become available over time

This role will suit someone who enjoys creating order, keeping people connected, and ensuring priorities continue moving forward in a fast-paced environment.

To Apply

Please email Sarah Bailey at Walker Smith sarah@walkersmith.co.nz or call 022 126 0074.