Careers

Come and join the Smartly family. We’re growing and always need more people to deliver a great experience for our customers.

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Current job openings

Associate Director - Operating System & Governance

As Associate Director – Operating System & Governance, you will be accountable for the integrity, flow, and resilience of how Smartly operates, ensuring the company can scale ambition without scaling chaos.

You will not own delivery execution, product strategy, or technology decisions. Instead, you will own the enterprise conditions that enable Smartly to operate more efficiently as a system.

If you think you’ve got what it takes, please apply here.

Senior Finance Analyst

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Analyst with a strong background in finance roles focused on analysis, planning, and business partnering.

The Senior Finance Analyst is a key commercial and analytical partner at Smartly, accountable for accelerating learning velocity and decision quality and learning velocity through high-impact financial insight.

As Smartly evolves from a single-product payroll provider into a multi-product, AI-enabled SaaS platform, this role plays a critical part in helping the organisation move faster without losing discipline. The Senior Finance Analyst connects strategy to numbers by translating growth ambitions, product bets, and go-to-market initiatives into clear hypotheses, robust financial signals, and timely recommendations.

If you think you’ve got what it takes, please apply here.

Operations Manager - Fixed Term

We’re looking for an Operations Manager for a 12 month fixed term role to own the effective delivery of core office and operational services, ensuring a well-run, organised, and supportive workplace.

Our Operations team at Smartly is at the heart of ensuring the organisation runs smoothly, consistently, and at scale. This Operations Manager position sits at the intersection of operations, people experience and, internal communications., and change. You’ll be leading day-to-day office and operational services, partnering across the business to drive efficiency, engagement, and alignment, and implementing AI-first, continuous improvement initiatives that enhance our ways of working.

If you think you’ve got what it takes, please apply here.

  • A stand-out team
    A stand-out team
    At Smartly, we have an awesome company-wide team culture! We love a staff party, a bit of banter and an epic morning tea.
  • Competitive salary
    Competitive salary
    We’re always reviewing the market demands and making sure we offer a market-competitive salary to our employees – plus some sweet benefits!
  • Flexible working
    Flexible working
    You’ll have the opportunity to work from home up to 3 days a week – how good?

Other benefits

  • Awards
    Awards
    We hand out a range of awards to staff throughout the year – including the Golden Penguin award.
  • Health benefits
    Health benefits
    A Wellness Allowance, along with other sweet benefits are available for all the team at Smartly.
  • Training
    Training
    Upskilling and training our team is key, so we’ll make sure you have the skills to do your job well.
  • Development
    Development
    Smartly staff can grow with us. Whether it’s moving to a new position or developing in your current role, we’re passionate about developing our people.

About Smartly

We’ve been making it simple for Kiwi businesses since 2004. Big businesses, small businesses, businesses with vastly different payroll needs – more than 22,000 of them last time we checked, so we must be pretty good at it. Which we should be, because making payroll simple is all we do.

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Contact us

If you want to learn more about opportunities at Smartly, please contact reception@smartly.co.nz or call us on 0800 10 10 38.

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