Chief Risk Officer - Dunedin

About MTF
MTF is a 100% New Zealand owned specialist lending company, which has grown significantly since being formed in 1970; today with more than 54 franchises throughout New Zealand, extensive dealer network, and with business assets in excess of $1.2 Billion.

The company’s mission is to become New Zealand’s most loved lender by making lending about people again. They also see themselves as more than just a workplace. Proudly Dunedin based but with a network that places them within an arm reach of every New Zealander, MTF are local to the core: a team who are deeply connected and committed to supporting their staff, customers and their communities. With a growing network, partnerships channel, and new products, they are transforming the lending sector.

MTF are building a capable team that are fuelled by innovation. Incredibly high standards drive them to provide their customers with the best service in the finance industry. Their NPS scores and review ratings are amongst the best in the world.

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About the position

Reporting to the CEO and forming part of the Senior Leadership team, you will be responsible for providing strategic direction and overseeing risk management, compliance and legal advice across the business. You will ensure that MTF's risk and compliance frameworks are robust, comprehensive, and aligned with the business strategy.

Leading a functional team of seven, you will provide advice, guidance, and direction on risk compliance matters; and ensure MTF have a strong and commercially sound approach to legal matters. The role requires you to build and maintain credibility and professionalism among internal, external and Franchise stakeholders including in an advisory capacity to the MTF Board and its sub-committees. Some of your responsibilities include:

Strategic Leadership:

Lead the MTF business – you'll have a professional reputation as a capable and inspirational leader, creating a culture of accountability, empowerment and high performance in your own functional areas; and as a collaborative and effective senior leader with your peers.
Drive initiatives in The MTF Way – you’ll exemplify the desired behaviours and values, be a promoter of a high-performance culture, and embed best practice contemporary processes that will drive strategic priorities across the business and motivate and engage our people.

Functional leadership:

Implement, embed and enhance an enterprise-wide risk management framework, including reporting and analysis, and leading initiatives that effectively manage impacts threats and vulnerabilities and highlights opportunities for the business.
Develop and embed the MTF compliance programme, ensuring this reflects the strategy and that we have effective and fit-for purpose training, monitoring, and reporting mechanisms.
Lead a commercial astute legal team to support key business initiatives.

Communication and business reporting:

Ensure the business has rigorous and transparent risk and compliance metrics and dashboards for governance reporting.
Provide compelling business updates and thought leadership around risk and regulatory trends.
Provide comprehensive and accurate reporting for CEO, Senior Leadership Team and Board and its committees.

External Stakeholder Management:

Lead the MTF relationship with Regulators and Industry Bodies, ensuring the business builds strong professional relationships and establishes credibility.
Collaborate with external advisors to enhance risk management capabilities.
Monitor regulatory changes and ensure company readiness to comply.
Build relationships with shareholders, franchises, dealers and key partners to support the business strategy.

Operational Management and Leadership:

Monitor financial budgets and resources, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
Evaluate performance, investment, and operational effectiveness.
Promote a culture of continuous improvement in service delivery, efficiency, and Values-driven behaviour.

You’ll be

An established and skilled people leader, with proven success leading cross-functional teams in a commercial and fast paced environment.
An effective communicator, with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, and evidence of building effective professional relationships across critical stakeholder groups.
Analytical and strategic thinking – the ability to identify emerging risks and trends.
Commercial acumen to understand how legal, risk and compliance plays a key role in organisational culture and business performance.
High ethical standards and integrity, leading by example, and willing to hold others to account.
Critical thinker with business acumen, sound analytical and numeric reasoning, and an understanding of commercial profit drivers.

You’ll have the following minimum qualifications and technical experience:

Bachelor's degree in law, finance, or business administration, ideally with a professional certification in Risk or Compliance or evidence of relevant professional development and application.
Minimum five years’ experience in a senior regulatory role within the New Zealand or Australian financial services sector.
Sound knowledge of New Zealand regulatory requirements and industry best practices and implementing these into commercial programmes of work (e.g., CCCFA, Privacy, and Anti-Money Laundering rules, Privacy Act and other relevant regulations).

This is an outstanding opportunity to further develop your career in a highly successful New Zealand business.

To apply for the role, simply click and follow the steps below. For a confidential chat, please call Michael Viner at ctp on 022 428 0181

Please note, this position is being exclusively managed by ctp. All applications will be sent to ctp for our consideration.

Please note only applicants who are legally entitled to work permanently in New Zealand can be considered for this role.