Associate Director, Institutional Property

About the Role

If you're looking to grow your career in property finance and work with a strong portfolio of property sector clients, this opportunity offers the chance to step into a highly visible and commercially impactful role. You'll develop and manage a portfolio of mid-sized Institutional Property clients, but also support the Client Director with their portfolio of high-value clients. You'll lead high-quality credit submissions, supporting deal execution, as well as identify new business and referral opportunities, contributing to the ongoing growth and performance of the portfolio.

Key Day to Day Tasks

• Lead credit submissions for complex property-related transactions, ensuring a high-quality, consistent approach to financial analysis, risk assessment and debt structuring.
• Lead the implementation and oversight of deal execution relating to the delivery of credit facilities to Institutional Property customers.
• Identify new business and referral opportunities, using internal and external networks to support the achievement of income targets.
• Build strong sector knowledge and maintain professional relationships across BNZ, customers and market networks.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, valuers, legal advisers, internal product partners, and broader market networks across the institutional property sector.

Attributes for Success

• Extensive experience within Property Finance, Corporate Banking, Institutional Banking, finance or a related field, along with a sound understanding of accounting, legal and tax considerations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, sound judgement is essential, as well as the ability to coach, support and develop others.
• Confident working through complex credit issues, structuring and negotiating sophisticated transactions, while managing competing priorities and influencing senior stakeholders across the business.
• A tertiary qualification in banking, finance, accounting, commerce, law or a related discipline is required.

Most Exciting Thing About This Opportunity

At BNZ, we're focused on supporting our customers, communities and colleagues to thrive. This is a great opportunity to step into a senior banking role where you can use your technical expertise, relationship skills and market knowledge to make a meaningful impact.

Team Culture and Environment

You'll be joining a high-performing and experienced Institutional Property team with strong market credibility and deep sector expertise. The team works closely together to deliver thoughtful, tailored solutions for some of New Zealand's leading institutional property clients, creating an environment where you can learn from respected banking professionals, contribute to meaningful transactions, and continue to build your profile in the market.

Closing Date: 05 August 2026

Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.