Graduate Strategic Portfolio Office Coordinator

Is this your next role?
The Graduate Strategic Portfolio Office Coordinator supports the coordination, governance, and reporting of Heartland’s strategic portfolio. You’ll ensure programme information is accurate, current, and visible across the organisation, enabling strong decision‑making and disciplined delivery.

You’ll support structured delivery by maintaining portfolio documentation, tracking milestones, coordinating reporting cycles, and assisting with governance forums. Working closely with the Head of Change and the Strategic Portfolio Office Manager, this role plays a critical part in ensuring transparency, consistency, and execution across Heartland’s transformation initiatives.

Does this sound like you?

You’re a great communicator, with strong organisational skills. With a keen eye for detail you work quickly.

You’re a pro with experience in:

• Providing coordination or governance support within programmes or portfolios
• Maintaining reporting packs and dashboards for senior stakeholders
• Working within structured project or portfolio management environments
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries (desirable)
• Structured reporting and documentation capability
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Strong time management skills

A bit about us and what we do

Heartland is an NZX/ASX-listed financial services group with big growth plans. Heartland owns both Heartland Bank in New Zealand and Heartland Finance in Australia. We provide award-winning savings and finance products to a diverse range of customers including business owners, farmers and retirees. Heartland's strategy is to digitalise everything we do, enabling us to provide customers with what they need in a scalable way. We can then pass those benefits onto the customer through faster service and better rates.

Some of our perks include employee banking benefits, an excellent insurance package, flexible working options, sports teams (touch, netball and football), and Friday night pizzas and drinks!

Can you see yourself here?

We're innovative and always evolving. We work together as one team and have big ambition. We're committed to creating a culture of inclusivity that celebrates our diverse backgrounds and supports the wellbeing of our people. We offer real opportunities for learning and career development. You can also drive change through our internal groups (including Manawa Whenua - our Māori group, the Rainbow Committee, Diversity & Inclusion Committee and our Green Team).

Diversity & Inclusion

At Heartland, we're proud to celebrate the many characteristics that make each of us different. We are committed to improving the inclusiveness of our workplace, enabling our people to be authentic and helping us better understand and respond to our customers. We're a Living Wage Employer, a Hearing Accredited Workplace, and have the Rainbow Tick.

Keen to learn more?

For an insight into life at Heartland, check out https://youtu.be/Sti0louBCw0video , our Instagram @heartlandbanknz or follow us on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/heartland-bank-nz .

Please note you must be eligible to work in New Zealand.