Revenue Operations Lead
Play a key role in powering a cleaner, brighter future. Due to continued growth, we're looking for a Revenue Operations Lead to bring structure, insight, and operational excellence to our revenue function. This is a critical role at the centre of how we deliver accurate, reliable and compliant revenue outcomes from billing and reporting through to retailer engagement and system performance.
Working closely with the Revenue Manager, you'll provide operational leadership across the team, helping ensure day-to-day activities run smoothly while improving how we work over time. You'll connect people, systems, and processes — strengthening delivery today while building more efficient, repeatable ways of working for the future. If this is your world, where systems, data and operations come together then this is the role for you.
About us
Passionate, curious and innovative are a few words that describe our people. We are powering the future, connecting communities and igniting innovation. Orion owns and operates the electricity distribution network that provides power to central Canterbury. As the third largest electricity distribution network in New Zealand, we cover remote rural areas, regional towns and the city of Christchurch.
We are an essential service and take our responsibilities seriously. We are community owned and working here means a career with meaning and purpose that makes a difference in your very own neighbourhood.
The role
- Own and optimise end-to-end revenue operations
- Drive accuracy, controls and governance across the full revenue lifecycle ensuring integrity and compliance
- Coordinate delivery of reporting and forecasting, adding context and commentary to support understanding and decision-making
- Identify and implement process improvements to lift efficiency, scalability and overall operational performance
- Build strong trusted retailer relationships resolving issues quickly and ensuring smooth, consistent operations
- Partner across the business to improve systems, automation and data flow enabling smarter ways of working
About you
- Proven experience in revenue, billing, finance or a similar operational environment with a relevant tertiary degree in Commerce, Mathematics or Economics
- Strong understanding of operational processes, reporting and data management
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills where you can spot issues early and solve them effectively
- Confident communicator who builds strong relationships across teams and with external partners
- Highly organised, with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities and stakeholders
- A continuous improvement mindset — always looking for better, smarter ways to work
We offer
You'll find at Orion, you can come as you are and just be you. You will be joining a workplace that values who you are, the work you do, and the way you think. Importantly, we offer:
- Flexible working arrangements, and flexible locations with our Head office in Burnside and satellite offices in Rolleston and Ferrymead
- Three days of “My Days” leave
- A broad range of workplace benefits, from a wellbeing allowance to our holiday house in Hanmer!
You might be surprised to find out that the company that brings the power to your home is innovative, inclusive, progressive, and quite good fun.
To apply
We encourage you to be you in your application! We are truly committed to diversity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability.
Please reach out to us with any questions at zoe.dalton@oriongroup.co.nz. We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interviews. To learn more about us, check out our careers site to find out more about working Orion.
You must have the right to live and work in New Zealand to apply for this job. Pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.
