The home of business finance in New Zealand.
About Finance New Zealand
Finance New Zealand provides a structured, knowledgeable and tailored finance service. Since 2015, we have helped thousands of New Zealand businesses with finance solutions, resulting in over $4 billion in transactions.
Founded in 2015, we’re New Zealand’s largest business finance adviser. Our friendly and approachable team are experts in the finance industry. With hundreds of years of collective experience, we understand the full life cycle of business and the challenges that owners and managers can face. Our expertise means we determine and facilitate the best finance solution for your unique business needs.
Whether you’re buying your first piece of equipment, growing your asset base or aligning your lending structure to your business needs, we can help.
We work on your behalf to facilitate a proven finance solution from a selection of over 40 lenders including New Zealand banks, specialist asset finance, working capital and property lenders.
Our finance solutions can minimise the total cost of finance by structuring debt over the economic/working life of each asset, accessing competitive interest rates, aligning repayments to cash flow and using a combination of revolving credit and fixed or floating term loans that provide cash flow flexibility.
Our
dedicated hassle-free service means
we work on
your behalf
as ‘your one point of contact for all your finance needs’. Our personalised professional approach truly sets us apart.
We work as your dedicated finance partner
How we’re structured
Our team of 40 has over 800 years collective experience in the finance industry. Our expertise ensures you receive the most efficient finance solution.
Finance New Zealand is a limited liability company led by managing director Simon Webster with directors Simon Bell and Shane McDermott. The head group structure of Finance New Zealand holds eight share parcels held by the managing director and seven business finance advisers.
Our business finance advisers work exclusively for the head group as contractors.
The Finance New Zealand head group manages our relationship with our funding partners, manages our regulatory compliance, and provides administration and sales support to the wider group via the managing director, sales and business associates and part-time compliance oversight. Support includes assistance with marketing, CRM management, credit applications, loan documentation, settlements and general administration.
Our head office is located in Auckland, and our finance advisers manage their own offices in their respective regions.
Finance New Zealand Limited and all contractors are FSP (Financial Service Provider) registered. Finance New Zealand Limited is a licenced Financial Advice Provider and our advisers are engaged to give advice on behalf of Finance New Zealand Ltd.
We are a member of a disputes resolution scheme as provided by the Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman.
We save you time by working on your behalf to facilitate the best finance solution from one of, or a combination of, our 40 funding partners. No matter your business size or the industry you work in, our team can help.
Meet our business finance advisers
Our team offers a personalised service across New Zealand.Getting to know you, your business and your goals in depth is what sets us apart.
Simon Bell Auckland
Scott Balgarnie Auckland
Nilesh Bhula Auckland
Nick Boult Hawkes Bay
Greg Columbus Lower South Island
Sean Dowling Northland
Kris Hall Hawkes Bay
Pete Hewson Central Plateau
Anna Horrocks Hawkes Bay
Richard Jones Auckland
Steve Hopkins Auckland Bob Knox Lower South Island Pat Leask Lower North Island
Rob Mainwaring Lower North Island
Ollie McGuigan Hawkes Bay
Mike Fickling Auckland Matt Fogarty Auckland
Shane McDermott Bay of Plenty
Simon Harding Upper South Island
Jayden Devonshire Taranaki
Kate McGuigan Waikato
We have a 96.3% client satisfaction rating, with 88% attributed to our excellent service.
Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) measures customer experiencevia AskNicely.
Our management and support team
Our support team ensures you receive a high level of service and communication when it comes to settlement time, drawdowns and general requests.
Jason Turner Central North Island
Stu Whitehead Canterbury
Max Stuart Auckland Dion Wright Waikato
Steve Reid Upper South Island
Simon Webster Managing Director
Mehul Solanki Senior Sales & Business Associate
Oscar Chin Sales & Business Associate
Bianca Downing Finance & Compliance Associate
Patrick Kang Sales & Business Associate
Fer Langdon Sales & Business Associate
Kirsty McAlpine Relationship Manager
Andrew Partington Northland
Dion Prentice Lower South Island
Alan Rigby Hawkes Bay
Michael Ross Auckland
Grant Richards Lower South Island
Sarah Southee Wellington
Dean McLennan Canterbury
How we provide a solution
Through our close relationships with funding partners and understanding their finance criteria, we are able to provide you with a flexible, competitive and efficient solution. By combining the most suitable structures, facilities, and payment terms, we can minimise your total cost of finance to help you reach your goals faster.
Our hassle-free service gives you easy and fast access to flexible and efficient business finance for new or used business assets, business growth, stock or access to working capital.
We save you time by working as your one point of contact for all your asset finance needs. We work on your behalf to facilitate the best finance solution from one or more of our over 40 funding partners, including New Zealand banks and specialist asset finance funders.
Our friendly and approachable team members are experts in the finance industry. With hundreds of years of collective experience, we understand the full life cycle of business and the challenges that owners and managers can face. Our expertise means we can determine and facilitate the best finance solution for your unique business needs that will nudge you towards your goals faster.
We make it easy for our clients to execute their finance requests. By working with only one person when buying new business equipment, a property or a new motor vehicle, our clients save valuable time. Because we can work with many different funders, our clients may have their funding spread across multiple lenders and/or decide to change funders over time; however, they can continue dealing with us and the one person that knows their business well.
Our clients’ business finance placements can be adaptable to funders’ changing appetites for risk, portfolio growth, pricing expectations, new products, and the changing service proposition across the range of funding partners with which we work.
Our funding partners
Finance New Zealand has established relationships with more than 40 funding partners based both in New Zealand and overseas. These relationships allow us to provide a solution for almost all business finance requirements.
Our established funding relationships allow us to provide a solution for almost all business finance requirements as well as consumer property and motor vehicle funding.
As financial markets change constantly, so do our funders’ products, prices and risk appetites. Our close client relationships, coupled with our in-depth knowledge of the finance market, allow us to guide and assist our clients through the funding process. This may include working with multiple funders and products to get the best solution for a client.
We are strongly committed to long-term mutually beneficial relationships with our funding partners. We are determined to provide quality referrals that meet the joint objectives of the client, the funder and Finance New Zealand.
A core strength of our team is our ability to hunt new, and to build enduring, client relationships. Our funding partners benefit from the client transactions we bring in that are complementary to those sourced through their direct sales networks. Our funding partners
only incur costs for successful transactions that meet all parties’ quality, risk and pricing criteria. These costs are not additional to the funding partner or the client, but rather replace costs otherwise incurred by the funding partner related to the origination and management of client relationships by their own employees.
We aim to provide clear, concise and accurate funding submissions that enable our funding partners to provide a positive solution for the client.
While in most cases Finance New Zealand will act as the primary contact point for an ongoing client relationship, we work proactively to keep our funding partners informed and to assist with any issues that may arise during the course of a loan or lease.
Finance New Zealand’s network of funding partnerships allows us to provide a tailored solution that is the best fit for our clients.
A snapshot of businesses we can help
Our team provides a personal and dedicated service across a wide range of industries, including:
• Agriculture
• Aviation
• Civil construction
• Education
• Forestry
• Healthcare
• Hospitality
• IT
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
• Materials handling
• Mining
• Property investment
• Property development
• Home loans
• Recruitment
• Retail
• Transportation
• Viticulture
• Wholesale
Our future plan
Our aim is to grow the company while retaining our core focus on maintaining solid funding partner and client relationships without compromising our high level of personal service that assists clients to focus on driving their businesses forward.
A total of $4 billion has been settled by Finance New Zealand since its establishment in November 2015. Looking forward, the plan is to develop and deepen our presence within New Zealand, while providing excellent ongoing support to a growing client base.
Our service offering will appeal to a wide range of self-starting professionals who are client focused first and foremost. They will enjoy assisting a wide range of businesses with tailored solutions for their industries and trading environments.
An advantage of our service offering is being able to use our various funding partners to provide our clients with a complete funding solution. This ensures our clients enjoy one point of contact that knows their business well, and can deliver across their business needs.
Acting as a head group, Finance New Zealand provides support to minimise the time each business finance adviser needs to spend on compliance, regulatory structure, business administration and other non-client related business activity.
In addition to providing sales support, product training, assistance
in deal structuring, deal submission and approvals, and CRM systems, the head group pools the costs of individual items like insurance.
By bringing scale and having built a professional business, we are able to access funding partners, products and funding rates not widely available to smaller or independent finance advisers.
Our marketing strategy incorporates communications which are delivered to the Finance New Zealand contact database via an HTML email newsletter, social media and through our website www.financenz.co.nz/news. We also have other communications available such as radio, print, direct mail and digital campaigns.
Our head group structure is funded by the retention of a percentage of commissions payable for settled transactions and a small monthly charge to cover operating expenses.
Overall, by becoming part of the Finance New Zealand team, suitably qualified and motivated individuals can build their own highly successful business within a supportive and effective support structure.
Our
friendly and approachable team are experts in the finance industry
Construction Equipment Finance
We met Sarah Southee four years ago during a time in which we did not feel supported by our existing bank and we have not looked back since. Sarah worked to restructure our financing and we have benefited from her ability to customise finance solutions to fit our specific needs. Sarah offers first class customer service and integrity with a solutions based approach we can not recommend highly enough.
Kerri-June
Clayton
Udy Contracting Limited
Agri Business Finance
Hira Bhana & Co were founded in 1958 & have had a long-standing relationship with their existing bank for over 60 years. We had never thought about changing banks, however, Nilesh Bhula came up with a pretty good solution that positioned us well for future lending. Nilesh arranged for our mortgages to be moved, but left our transactional banking where they were, which minimised the disruption to our business for the day-today banking & wages.
Dinesh Bhana
Hira Bhana & Co, Auckland
Truck and Transport Finance
The big advantage of working with Finance New Zealand and Scott is that they can provide the best finance options rather than just one solution. We especially valued the solution that Scott delivered, which fitted with our needs – Scott has an excellent understanding of asset finance and our industry. Scott was easy to deal with and we felt that nothing was a problem.
Jeff Smith Swanson Transport, Auckland
Asset Finance
We have dealt with Simon and Finance New Zealand twice for asset financing solutions. As is our business, the asset we purchased is highly specialised. We appreciated Simon’s understanding of our business from the start. With Simon, we were able to explain the type of asset and what we wanted to accomplish in terms of company structure and future goals and he quickly understood.
Tim Ganley Managing Director, Go Orthotics
To find out more about Finance New Zealand Limited and how we can help your business, contact us today on 09 222 0320 or visit www.financenz.co.nz
L11, BDO Tower, 19-21 Como Street, Takapuna, Auckland 0622
PO Box 65164, Mairangi Bay, Auckland 0754
T 09 222 0320 E info@financenz.co.nz
Finance New Zealand Limited is a licenced Financial Advice Provider. FSP number: 468730
Disputes Resolution Scheme – Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman: 2001681
The information provided is of a general nature and does not constitute financial or other professional advice. While every care has been taken to supply accurate information, Finance New Zealand Limited does not accept any responsibility or liability for any loss or damage which may result directly or indirectly from any information or omission contained in this document. Visit our website for more information, a complete portfolio and important disclosure information relating to Finance New Zealand Limited.
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Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) measures customer experience. We work hard to ensure our clients receive the highest level of service. We’re proud of our NPS® for the previous 6 months, which reflects the high level of service provided to our clients. Read some of our client reviews at https://www.financenz.co.nz/client-reviews