Todd is one of New Zealand’s largest and longest-established privately held investment groups, with a history spanning more than 140 years and a deeply rooted, family-controlled ownership structure centred on long-term value creation. Headquartered in Wellington, at its core, Todd is an energy-led business and a leading integrated player in New Zealand’s domestic energy market, where it is responsible for approximately one-third of the country’s natural gas production, operates across the full energy value chain from exploration through to electricity generation and retail supply.

Beyond its core energy platform, Todd operates a diversified industrial holding and investment business with interests across infrastructure, healthcare, property, forestry and minerals, combining both directly operated businesses and strategic investment holdings across multiple geographies, including New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.

We are looking for an experienced professional to take ownership and lead our finance and investment function within the Corporate Development team. This team exists to provide strategic, analytical, and commercial expertise across the full investment lifecycle for portfolio assets outside of our core energy business. They also support strategic initiatives across the wider Group, providing specialist advisory and transaction expertise when required.

About the role

The Finance & Investment Lead provides rigorous financial advice spanning the origination, evaluation, structuring, and execution of investments and transactions. You will own investment analysis, valuation, and governance documentation, providing the insights necessary to shape opportunities across the portfolio.

Acting as a key commercial partner, you will work closely with Group Finance, Treasury, and leadership teams across our asset portfolio to shape capital structures, funding strategies, and M&A decisions.

Other responsibilities include:

• Beyond leading core investment analysis and financial modelling, you will play a key role in shaping how our portfolio grows and operates:
• You will lead end-to-end deal and M&A management by overseeing dataroom review processes and driving the development, structuring, and execution of strategic transactions, partnerships, collaborations, and acquisitions.
• Working collaboratively, you will design optimal financing solutions and support complex transactions through to financial close.
• You will manage the compilation and delivery of high-quality investment papers to ensure robust risk management, compliance, and strategic alignment for effective corporate governance.
• You will provide expert financial and commercial input into key contractual arrangements, carefully tracking value impacts, long-term implications on portfolio returns, and financial risks.

About you

To excel in this role, you are a big-picture thinker who balances technical financial capability with the communication skills required to influence senior leadership. Your business insight and financial acumen mean you do not just report on data; you interpret key indicators to foster accountability and guide astute, high-value decisions across the organisation.

As a natural relationship builder, you anticipate and balance the diverse needs of multiple internal and external stakeholders, consistently delivering balanced solutions. You are a persuasive communicator who relies on strong logic, compelling evidence, and structured arguments to build consensus and drive organizational commitment.

Key competencies required for this role:

• Substantial job-related experience spanning over 6 years to 10 years within corporate development, investment banking, M&A, or a senior corporate finance environment, demonstrating a fully competent level of expertise in execution, financial modelling, and valuation.
• Possess a strategic mindset that sees future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies, effectively integrating long-term opportunities with day-to-day activities
• Strong capability in interpreting and applying key financial indicators to make better business decisions, backed by practical capital markets experience
• Experience providing general supervision, guidance, and mentorship to more junior colleagues.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher qualification in relation to the role.

If you are ready to take on a role with real influence and contribute to our mission of building businesses of value, we would like to hear from you.

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