Financial Planning & Analysis Systems Consultant

About us

PaySauce has been cooking up awesome payroll since 2015. What started as a bold idea has grown into a platform delivering the best payroll solutions for small businesses. With our clever platform and sharp eye for security, compliance and ease of use, we make it easy for employers to manage the human side of business - from digital timesheets and rostering, through to calculating payroll, banking the payments and filing to tax authorities. 

We’ve established a strong foundation in New Zealand, becoming a trusted payroll provider for small businesses. Now we’re taking our expertise trans-Tasman, building solutions for Australian micro-businesses where no single end-to-end payroll solutions exist for managing payroll and employees. 

We love payroll and people, and we’re revolutionising the way they are looked after: we really care about helping both employers and employees by making the tough things simple and letting them focus on the things that matter. Our goal? Effortless yet flexible. Clever solutions that are intuitive to use and make payroll a beautiful experience.

‍About the role

As PaySauce grows into new industries and markets, we need a much stronger view of what’s ahead of us financially. That’s where you come in. Over a 6-month, fixed-term engagement as an independent contractor, you’ll lead the discovery, evaluation and build of a purpose-fit forecasting tool for PaySauce, working closely with the CFO from initial scoping through to build, testing and handover.

You’ll build and configure P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasting models across multiple entities and currencies, along with SaaS metrics models covering MRR, ARR, churn, LTV, cost to serve, and customer acquisition and retention. You’ll also develop customer cohort and churn models with leading-indicator tracking, a headcount and workforce planning model aligned to our hiring plans and cost centres, and support our transfer pricing modelling. 

You’ll set up data pipelines or manual input templates where needed and validate everything against historic actuals, so leadership can trust the numbers. Where possible, you’ll integrate the tool with our existing data sources, including our accounting software, payroll data and reporting tools. Because this needs to outlast your engagement with us, you’ll make sure the tool is maintainable by our internal team without deep technical expertise, and you’ll produce user documentation, model maintenance guides, and training so the team can pick it up and run with it after you’re gone.

Throughout, you’ll help us model what-if scenarios rapidly, support our monthly, quarterly and annual planning cycles with accurate and timely outputs, and present forecasting outputs in a way that lines up with our existing reporting tools. 

‍About the team

You’ll report directly to the CFO and work alongside the Finance and leadership team. This is a standalone specialist engagement rather than part of a larger team, so you’ll need to be comfortable working independently while keeping people in the loop as you go. You’ll be the go-to person for this piece of work, with direct access to the CFO and leadership to get the input and sign-off you need. 

‍About you

You’ll have demonstrated experience building financial or operational forecasting tools for SaaS or subscription businesses, with strong financial modelling skills across core financial and SaaS metrics. You’re familiar with modern forecasting platforms such as Mosaic, Runway, Causal, Cube, or TM1 (or something similar), and you know how to take a business requirement and turn it into a model structure that’s genuinely scalable and easy to maintain, not just something that works for you. 

You communicate well and manage stakeholders with confidence, and you’ve delivered end-to-end projects independently before, from scoping through to handover.

It’d be great if you also had prior experience in a New Zealand SME or payroll/HR technology context, some knowledge of data integration approaches such as APIs, CSV pipelines or native connectors, and experience with BI tools like Power BI, Looker or Tableau, or a background in finance, accounting, or FP&A. None of these are must-haves, so don’t rule yourself out if you’re missing one or two.

Want to apply?

Click the link below to apply for this role by 26th July, 2026. We're looking forward to hearing from you!

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