Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
About Crown Property
The Crown Property group is responsible for managing around 2 million hectares of Crown land and waterways across New Zealand including surplus crown assets, commercial and residential properties, pastoral leases and forestry licences. We administer the Landbank held for Treaty Settlements, acquisitions and disposals of properties, biosecurity, and Crown Forest licenses. We provide leadership and direction for LINZ administered Crown land, looking for opportunities to maximise these assets for the benefit of New Zealanders.
About your role
Your role as a Senior Business Partner - Property Finance will work across our diverse property portfolio, maximising revenue and ensuring our costs are well managed, ensuring that we are getting the best value for our spend. We are looking for someone with a strong background in finance and property management. You will have experience maximizing revenue collection in accordance with the various agreements we manage. You will have considerable experience managing debt recovery and engagement with customers. You will be a detail focused person who looks for exceptions, scrutinizes costs and ensures we are receiving great value from our suppliers.
You will be used to working with multiple systems and will know what is needed to keep data and systems accurate.
About your team
This fixed term role will be providing additional specialised support during a time of increased workload and will be part of a small team who provide specialised support and advice across all of Crown Property. You will engage broadly across Crown Property and our centralised finance team.
He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of property management : An understanding of property regulations and relevant laws
• Tenant relationship management: Experience in establishing and maintaining constructive relationships with tenants including debt management and actively following-up on arrears.
• Lease administration: Ensuring tenancy arrangements are captured and invoiced accurately, this could involve but it is not limited to attending to rent reviews, renewals, and working with both external and internal stakeholders to maintain accurate lease records, documentation and optimise recharging.
• Property maintenance: Overseeing maintenance and repairs costs to ensure accuracy
• Financial management: Monitoring rent collection, expenses, and financial reports, and identifying cost-saving opportunities where possible. Coordinating accrual processes to improve accurate monthly spend. Lead rates payments process.

The expected appointing range for this role is between $110,000 - $125,000.

Ngā mea e tukuna ana e tātau – What we offer our employees

• Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai.
• Eye & ear care reimbursements
• Annual Flu Vaccinations
• Reduced Health Insurance Premiums
• Diverse groups and networks
• If eligible for paid parental leave, you will be entitled to a top up payment for the first 18 weeks of the 26 weeks.
• A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave

Te Tākinatanga - Our Story
Toitū Te Whenua plays a vital role in understanding, developing, and caring for New Zealand's whenua, moana and arawai (land, sea and waterways). Whether you're developing our products and services to support our customers, managing the Crown estate, engaging with our iwi partners, or helping us be an effective regulator, your contribution can make a difference. Our mahi helps New Zealanders have confidence that the development of our land, communities and country is being planned from an informed and expert position that balances environmental, social, cultural, and economic considerations. Now and for future generations.
Our Kia Toipoto Intentions - Public Service Gender, Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action Plan
Toitū Te Whenua is a diverse team of individuals with different experience and perspectives. This drives our culture and high performance. We know that people from underrepresented groups and women in particular don't apply for roles if they're not a 100% match, but we're not looking for perfection, we're looking for potential. As an inclusive and supportive employer, we value difference and want to encourage anyone interested to apply, regardless of whether you tick all the boxes or not. As an organisation we embrace diversity, encourage work life balance and have a flexible approach to the way we work which means you will quickly feel connected and valued.
Tono mai - How to Apply
If you're eyeing up this role and believe you've got what it takes, please apply, or get in touch with the team.
To apply, please click “Apply Online.” You'll be taken through to our Toitū Te Whenua Careers Centre where you'll be able to review further information about the responsibilities and accountabilities of this role in the Position Description. You'll be able to complete your online application form and upload a copy of your CV/Cover Letter.
Please note, while applications close Tuesday 22nd October 2024 we may be reviewing applications
For tracking and evaluation purposes, all applications must be submitted via our on-line process. You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be eligible for this position.
You may notice that the Position Description title for this role (Business Partner - Level Rua/2) doesn't match the advertised title. At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks). This means our position descriptions are broad, one position description can cover many roles, this is known as Broad Based Role (BBR). Using BBR allows us to be responsive to our customers and to strengthen the connections across our organisation. It also gives us the flexibility to provide wider opportunities to our people, to further their careers.
If you have any questions about this role or working at Toitū Te Whenua, please email opportunities@linz.govt.nz and our Recruitment Team will be in touch with you.