Senior HR Consultant – Christchurch

Job Description

Ready to bring your senior HR expertise to a fast‑paced consulting environment?

We’re looking for a Senior HR Consultant who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys being reactive, and is technically strong enough to deliver confidently across a diverse client base. This is a true consulting role, fast-paced, client-facing, and commercially focused. If you like structure handed to you, this won’t be the role. If you like autonomy, challenge, and variety, read on.

Our team is growing so we are looking for HR Professionals! Ideal candidates will be based in Auckland and Christchurch, but we are also open to Tauranga and Invercargill. These roles do require regular travel. 

Join our dynamic HR Consulting Team, where no two days are the same! You’ll be part of a well-established HR and H&S consultancy within a leading professional services firm, delivering tailored HR advisory services to a wide range of clients across New Zealand.

Your role, your contribution! 

In this client-facing role, you’ll work with a portfolio of clients, providing practical, technically HR sound advice across the full employee lifecycle. One day you might be managing a complex HR issue, the next recruiting, advising a board, or helping a client with remuneration reviews.

You will: 

• Deliver high-quality HR advice related to all functional HR areas including employment relations, performance, remuneration, recruitment, change and compliance.
• Build, grow and maintain long-term client relationships.
• Act as a trusted advisor, not just a problem-solver.
• Identify opportunities to expand services and win new work.
• Balance reactive client demands with planned delivery.
• Work across multiple clients, industries and risk profiles simultaneously.

The benefits of joining us!

• Enjoy a compressed work week (9-day fortnight) and hybrid working. 
• Flexible work schedules and environments, ensuring you have ultimate work-life balance. 
• Defined career development pathways and ongoing investment in training .
• The chance to genuinely shape client outcomes through exciting and varied HR work in a high-trust and autonomous way.
• Life, travel and health insurance benefits, along with discounted financial services.

What you will bring to the role:

• Proven Generalist HR experience at a senior level including ER capability.
• Hold a tertiary qualification in a related discipline, i.e. HR or employment law (preferred).
• Have external agency, professional services or consulting experience and understand the demands of external consultancy and competing project-based work.
• Enjoy building and maintaining a client base and are commercially minded and comfortable with business development.
• Hold very high standards of professionalism and communication, with a passion for continuous improvement.   
• Have strong written and verbal communication and provide sound professional judgement and risk awareness.
• Have a pragmatic and solutions-focused mindset with the ability to work independently.
• Curiosity and willingness to keep learning
• Have flexibility to travel domestically as needed.

Let’s talk about our team:

• Join a collaborative, fast paced and commercially focused team providing excellent HR advice to clients. 
• We have strong existing business relationships, that foster individual and firm wide growth. 
• We invest in developing our team, to build our capability and engagement. 

If this role sounds like a good fit – Apply now!

Our Impact: Why Findex?   

At Findex, we help clients manage, grow, and protect their financial future with confidence. Since 1987, we’ve become a leading Australasian provider of integrated accounting, advisory, and wealth solutions, delivered through our “Wealth Accountant” and Family Office models. With 2,500 professionals across 90+ offices, we combine local expertise with global reach and remain committed to supporting clients and communities in creating long-term financial security. 

Findex New Zealand is one of the largest providers of practical accounting, audit, tax, wealth and business advice to individuals and businesses from a network of over 20 offices throughout the country.  

For the Community – The Findex Community Fund (FCF) is dedicated to giving back to the communities we serve. Since 2018, we have donated over $4.3 million to more than 800 charities across Australia and New Zealand. Collectively, our team has dedicated over 9,000 volunteer hours, making a tangible impact in their communities through personal engagement.  

For our Customers – Together, Findex and Crowe champion the success of over 75,000 Australasian businesses, helping them grow with expert advice, fresh thinking, and top-tier professional services. Here, you’re empowered to work in a way that brings out your best — supporting your growth, your team, and the clients who trust us to make a real difference.  

For You – At Findex, we focus on developing our people first. With structured training and development opportunities, we allow our people to grow their career in a way that sets them up for success. We actively support our people by giving them extra support to external studies that is relevant to their role.   

For Diversity & Inclusion – Findex is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and encourage applications from candidates with a variety of strengths, backgrounds and experiences.