Accountant

About Hayes Metals Group

Hayes Metals Group is a fourth-generation, family-owned business with nearly 100 years of history in the metals industry. Headquartered in Onehunga, Auckland, we operate across New Zealand and Australia through five entities spanning metals smelting and refining, scrap recycling, demolition, subsea decommissioning, and metallurgical laboratory services.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an Accountant to join our small, hands-on finance team. The successful candidate will support the CFO and take ownership of a broad range of accounting duties across our New Zealand and Australian entities. There is real scope to grow with the business over time.

This is not an admin role. You will need to think, problem-solve, and get across the detail in a genuinely complex multi-entry environment.

Key Responsibilities

CFO Support

• Day-to-day assistance to the CFO across finance operations and reporting

• Preparation and coordination of information for auditors, insurers and banking facilities

• Supporting month-end and year-end close processes

Accounts Payable Control

• Full AP control across NZ and Australian entities — invoice receipt, coding, approval tracking and posting

• Loading and managing domestic and international payment runs, ensuring payments are authorised, accurate and on time

• Maintaining creditor balances — regular reconciliation of supplier ledgers, clearing aged items and investigating discrepancies

• Monitoring AP aging and following up outstanding items to keep the creditor ledger clean

• Processing imported scrap supplier invoices — prepayments, costing, final payments and stock receipt

• Managing international supplier payments across NZ and Australian entities

• Ensuring all creditor accounts are reconciled to supplier statements at month-end

Foreign Currency & Banking

• Daily foreign-currency bank reconciliations (AUD, USD, EUR)

• Processing foreign customer receipts and FX journal entries

• Recording FX forward contract settlements

• Month-end foreign-currency revaluation

Intercompany & Multi-Entity Accounting

• Intercompany journals across NZ and Australian entities

• Intercompany material transfer entries and reconciliations

• Intercompany margins calculations and control

• Month-end intercompany balance settlements and variance investigation

Accounts Receivable & Export Invoicing

• Creating AR invoices for export container sales

• Processing customer receipts and maintaining debtor balances

• Raising decommissioning and commissioning invoices and submitting via customer portals

Payroll

• End-to-end New Zealand payroll processing across group entities — weekly wages from clock data, plus leave administration and balances

• Coordinating payroll deadlines with the Australian team and external accountants

• Ensuring payroll compliance with NZ statutory requirements

• IRD payday filing and PAYE payments

Rental Activities

• Manage commercial rental activities & tenants’ recharges and payments

GST & Compliance

• Monthly GST preparation NZ entities

• Quarterly FBT returns and payments (motor vehicles and fuel cards)

• GST and income tax returns and annual financial statements for smaller group entities

Stocktake

• Participating in the annual group stocktake

• Stock reconciliation and inventory variance support

Systems Implementation

• Active involvement in the implementation of the group's new accounting software

• Supporting integration between the new platform and the operational inventory system

• Contributing to process improvement as the new system beds in

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Degree in Accounting or Finance and 5+ years of relevant experience

• Solid grasp of double-entry accounting, reconciliations and journals

• Comfortable working across multiple entities simultaneously

• High attention to detail and ability to work independently

Highly Regarded

• Experience with Accredo or similar NZ accounting platforms

• Multi-currency or intercompany accounting exposure

• Prior involvement in an accounting software implementation

The right fit

We are looking for an experienced accountant who can step in and take ownership from the outset. That means sound judgement, the confidence to work without close supervision, and the composure to resolve problems rather than pass them upwards. You will have worked somewhere genuinely complex before and will know how to bring order to it. Your experience will shape how things are done, not simply keep them ticking over.

Why Join Hayes Metals ?

International Accounting Experience

• Work with foreign currency across AUD, USD and EUR daily — forward contracts, FX revaluations, and international payment runs

• Exposure to transfer pricing, intercompany loans, and cross-border entity structures across NZ and Australia

• Deal with international suppliers and customers across Asia, the Pacific, and Europe

Breadth and Variety

• No two days are the same — this role covers AP, AR, FX, payroll, GST, intercompany, stocktake, and systems, giving you a genuinely full accounting skillset

• Work across several entities in two countries — the kind of multi-entity exposure that normally takes years to find in a single role

• Be involved in a full accounting software implementation from the ground up — a career-defining project experience

Stability and Culture

• Join a family-owned business that has been operating for nearly 100 years — financial stability and long-term career security

• A tight-knit, no-nonsense team where your work is seen and valued — not a large corporate where you disappear into a department

• Grow at your own pace with genuine scope to take on more responsibility as the business expands into Australia

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and why this role appeals to you. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis — apply early.