Assistant Governor Payments and Cash
Promote the Prosperity and Wellbeing of New Zealanders
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is seeking exceptional candidates for the role of Assistant Governor Payments and Cash, a significant leadership role responsible for nationally critical financial infrastructure and helping shape the future of New Zealand’s money, payments and cash ecosystem.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is New Zealand’s central bank. It is responsible for setting monetary policy, prudential regulation and supervision, protecting and promoting financial stability, operating payment and settlement systems and issuing New Zealand’s currency.
The role and your impact
Reporting to the Governor and as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Assistant Governor will lead RBNZ’s payments, settlement, financial market infrastructure and cash functions.
The Assistant Governor will provide strategic leadership and stewardship of New Zealand’s critical infrastructure, ensuring payment, settlement, financial market infrastructure and cash services remain secure, resilient, efficient and trusted. The role will lead a significant payments-modernisation agenda, help shape the future of money, payments and cash in New Zealand, and support innovation while maintaining the accessibility and resilience of cash.
The Assistant Governor will also lead and develop the Payments and Cash Group, strengthening capability, culture and performance, while building trusted relationships across key stakeholders, financial institutions, industry, regulators, international central banks and the wider payments ecosystem.
About you
You will be an experienced senior leader with a strong understanding of payments, settlement, financial market infrastructure, cash or other nationally significant financial services. You may bring experience from payments, financial market infrastructure, banking operations, financial services, central banking or a related sector.
You will have experience leading complex operational, technology, infrastructure or transformation programmes, where resilience, continuity, security and risk management are fundamental, together with experience overseeing significant vendor, commercial or strategic delivery partnerships. Recognised for your leadership capability and sound judgement, you will be robust and resilient, comfortable operating under scrutiny and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
You will be an inclusive and credible people leader who can build high-performing teams, strengthen organisational capability and lead effectively through change. You will bring the seniority and broader enterprise perspective to contribute effectively as a member of RBNZ’s Executive Leadership Team.
A clear and credible communicator, you will build trusted relationships across key stakeholders, financial institutions, industry participants, regulators and international partners. You will bring an understanding of the financial and public sector environment, together with demonstrated knowledge and application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao Māori in organisational leadership and decision-making.
The role can be based in Wellington or Auckland.