NZA New Zealand Auckland is a fast-growing international menswear brand inspired by the landscapes and outdoor spirit of New Zealand. Since its founding in 2008, the brand has developed into a recognised label with a loyal customer base across Europe. Today, the company operates through its own retail stores, franchise partners, wholesale accounts and a growing e-commerce channel, generating approximately €54 million in revenue. With presence in more than fifteen countries, NZA New Zealand Auckland is focused on further international expansion, with Germany as a key growth market, alongside continued development in the Netherlands and Belgium.

As the Senior Business Controller you will act as the right hand to the CFO and help the organization make better commercial and operational decisions based on data, analysis, and financial insight. You bring structure to a complex and growing organization with multiple stores, franchise partners, collections, and revenue streams. The core of your role lies in translating large volumes of financial and operational data into actionable insights. You analyze margins, store performance, efficiency per collection, and regional performance, identify where commercial opportunities or operational improvements exist and optimizing stock levels with the stock manager. You monitor return rates and investigate underlying drivers, helping the business improve profitability and operational performance across channels and regions.

You report directly to the CFO and operate at the intersection of finance, data, and business performance. In practice, this means you move easily between strategic discussions, operational analyses, forecasting, and hands-on financial insights. You are comfortable working in detail when needed, while always maintaining a clear overview of the bigger commercial picture.

You are also responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow planning, ensuring management has reliable steering information to support growth decisions. In addition, you play an active role in strategic projects, including the opening of new stores, franchise expansion, and the rollout of the new ERP landscape. You help further professionalize reporting structures and improve the quality and accessibility of management information through dashboards and Power BI integrations.

You feel at home in a fast-growing and entrepreneurial organization where data, commerce, and operations come together. In an environment like NZA New Zealand Auckland, with international growth ambitions, multiple stores and franchise operations, and a new ERP system under development, you get energy from bringing structure to complexity and translating data into actionable business insights.

You enjoy working with large amounts of financial and operational data and understand the drivers behind margins, store performance, collection efficiency, and return flows. You combine strong analytical skills with a hands-on mindset and switch easily between forecasting, dashboarding, process improvement, and strategic discussions with the CFO and business stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in business controlling, FP&A, or a similar analytical finance role, preferably in retail or logistics
• Solid understanding of business drivers such as margins, store performance, collection efficiency, and return flows
• Advanced Excel skills and comfortable working with BI tools (e.g. Power BI); quick to adapt to new systems and data environments
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into clear insights and actionable recommendations
• Strong stakeholder management skills; able to communicate in a grounded, clear and sensitive way across different levels of the organization
• Down-to-earth, proactive and hands-on personality with a focus on practical improvements and results
• Fluent in Dutch (a must), English required; German is a strong pre

NZA New Zealand Auckland is a Dutch men's fashion brand inspired by New Zealand's nature, colors, and outdoor lifestyle. The brand was founded over fifteen years ago by two entrepreneurs and has been growing rapidly in Europe ever since. Production takes place in Asia, while design, marketing, and collection development are managed from the head office in Amsterdam-Noord.

NZA works with three major collections per year and combines its own retail and franchise with e-commerce and a broad wholesale network. Logistics are handled by the warehouse in Zevenaar, which will be further professionalized soon. In addition, NZA has a clear brand identity within the men's segment: high-quality, comfortable menswear with an outdoor inspiration, aimed at men who are looking for a combination of casual style and functionality.

Within finance, the structure consists of a CFO, a Financial Controller, and a financial administrative team of three employees. This means that you can take full ownership over the business control function and will be involved as finance business partner in the full company.

Culture

The culture at NZA is informal, energetic, and engaged. The head office in Amsterdam plays a central role as a meeting place, where colleagues have lunch together every day and activities such as padel and drinks are regularly organized.

Strategy & Ambition

NZA is in a phase of further growth and professionalization. The organization is expanding its international presence, opening new stores, and investing in modern systems, including a new ERP platform. In addition, the focus is on strengthening processes, increasing scalability, and creating better data-driven management to support commercial growth.