About First Cape | Mo FirstCape
FirstCape is one of New Zealand’s largest and best resourced wealth advisory and asset management business, creating an enhanced and broadened product offering to help our clients achieve their goals at whatever stage of their investment life cycle. Here at FirstCape, we believe that our people are our greatest asset. Our success is dependent on the collective talent, expertise, and dedication of each and every one of our team members. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive, grow, and contribute to their fullest potential.
About the opportunity | Mo te whai waahi
This fixed term role through to March 2027 provides hands‑on project coordination support across a complex wealth management systems transformation programme. You will play a critical role in maintaining delivery discipline, ensuring governance artefacts are accurate, timely, and fit for purpose. Working closely with programme leadership and workstream leads, you will drive follow‑ups, surface risks, and provide clear visibility of progress and blockers. This is a fast‑paced, evolving environment suited to someone proactive, highly organised, and confident working across multiple priorities.
Key Responsibilities | Ngā Kawenga Mahi
- Support delivery across multiple workstreams by tracking deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues
- Own and maintain programme artefacts, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all reporting
- Manage JIRA boards, keeping tickets current, well‑structured, and reflective of delivery progress
- Maintain Confluence as a reliable, structured source of programme documentation
- Coordinate and draft Steering Committee packs with clear, concise, and accurate insights
- Engage with workstream leads to gather timely updates and ensure reporting completeness
- Track and manage RAID logs, ensuring actions and decisions are visible and followed through
- Coordinate programme and governance meetings, including scheduling and preparation of materials
- Capture high‑quality meeting minutes, actions, and decisions, tracking items through to closure
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or emerging risks in programme information and escalate appropriately
What you will bring to the role | He aha ka kawea e koe ki te mahi
We require that you have:
- Experience in a Project Coordinator, Junior PM, PMO Analyst, or similar delivery role
- Demonstrated exposure to programme or project governance and reporting
- Strong working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
- Ability to work independently while managing competing priorities
- Confident stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to follow up and hold others accountable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail
- Experience in financial services or wealth management (desirable)
- Exposure to Agile or hybrid delivery environments (desirable)
Why work at FirstCape? | He aha mahi i te FirstCape?
We offer a competitive compensation package commensurate with experience. Additional benefits include wellbeing support, volunteer days and a great company culture. We pride ourselves on offering our employees outstanding development and learning opportunities to support career growth, and the opportunity to work alongside the best talent in the market.
We are an inclusive employer and want our workforce to reflect a rich and diverse way of thinking and working. We know people are more than a single identity and the qualities that make each one of us unique need to be valued and embraced. So regardless of your gender, age, background or how you choose to identify, there's room for you to realise your potential here. And importantly, there's room to be yourself.
We’re also committed to providing equal opportunities to all candidates. Let us know if you have any accessibility requirements so we can work with you to make adjustments where possible to support your application. Alternatively, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role but think you would be a great candidate, please apply explaining why you want the role, how you think your skills or background are transferable, and how you plan to upskill where needed (we will support you with this, but want to know you have thought about this too).
To be eligible to apply, you must have the right to work in New Zealand. Please note candidate screening and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date of the job advert.
.jpg){kind=logo}