Finance Administrator
TL;DR: We’re looking for a Finance Administrator who can keep our books spotless, our processes humming, and our team powered up. This isn’t a “heads down, data entry” finance role, you’ll have your hands in every part of the engine room, from payroll to multi-entity reconciliations, working closely with our founders and ops team to give them the confidence to make sharp financial decisions.
Komodo is helping schools lead with wellbeing, through insight, education, and a platform built to scale. Why should you join us? You’ll work on purposeful problems that matter, alongside a team who care deeply about impact, culture, and doing good work with good people.
At a Glance
🪪 Role title: Finance Administrator🗓 Start date: As soon as you are ready to start
💻 Location: Christchurch, NZ (hybrid after 6 months)
🕐 Hours: 20 per week (Mon to Thurs, hours split to be decided with candidate)
💰 Salary: $30–40 NZD/hour, depending on experience
The Role
If you love precision, thrive on variety, and get a strange joy from reconciling to $0.00, you’ll fit right in here. This is an in-person role in our Christchurch HQ, where the pace is quick, the playlists are good, and no two weeks are the same.You’ll own the financial processes that keep Komodo running from paying the team on time, to chasing invoices across time zones, to making sure our cash flow forecast tells us what’s coming before it arrives.
You’ll be the steady hand behind the numbers, giving our team and leadership the clarity to make sharp, confident decisions, while knowing you’ve kept every dollar in its place.
💼 Day to day you’ll be:
- Managing payroll and reconciling transactions across entities
- Sending customer invoices and following up on payments
- Coding expenses and preparing tax returns
- Coordinating with external finance consultants globally
- Supporting weekly reporting and basic cash flow forecasting
Requirements
🎯 Must haves- Recent, hands-on experience managing day-to-day finances in Xero (invoicing, reconciliations, expense management)
- Highly organised, methodical, and detail-focused
- Clear and confident communicator, able to explain financial matters to both finance and non-finance team members
- Proactive in spotting financial red flags before they wave
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment where you’ll often shift between detail work and big-picture thinking
- Experience processing payroll
- Experience working across multiple currencies and entities
- Familiarity with tools like Wise, Deel, and Slack
- Annual Wellbeing Allowance so you can take care of yourself
- Employee Assistance Program to provide funded, confidential counselling services
- Professional Development Allowance and regular 1:1s to support your growth
- Access to mentors, courses, and learning resources
- Annual pay review after 12 months with Komodo
- Annual 'Komodo Week' here in NZ to bring together the wider global team
- Monthly gratitude gift to recognise our Komodo values in action
- Komodo EOY Annual Awards to acknowledge outstanding achievement
- Birthday and Work Anniversary gifts
- Monthly social club activities
- Office snacks galore + a healthy beverage choice
📩 Ready to apply?
Apply here and tell us why this role with Komodo speaks to you.
We know that job ads can sometimes hold people back from applying if they don't meet every requirement. If this role excites you and you think you could make a difference here, we’d love to hear from you.