Careers
Keen to join the KlipTank team?
We are always on the look out for talented like minded team members to join the KlipTank team.
Please check out the positions below we currently have available or send us a cover letter along with your CV to info@kliptank.com telling us what you’d bring to the team for consideration for any future positions.
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER (Full time)
Role Objective:
The role of the Finance Controller is to oversee accounting activities, and ensure that the ledger accurately reflects money flowing in and out of the company, as well as report to the General Manager on the day to day management of company accounts.
Successful candidates will demonstrate strategic decision making, that will impact on forecasting, and budgeting at the company level, based on accounting data.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Use of Xero & Excel as primary tools for financial administration.
- Assisting in the day to day management of the company accounts including payables / receivables / regular bank reconciliations.
- Timesheet & payroll processing via Xero & Ace Payroll.
- All creditors’ invoices are entered accurately, coded correctly and authorised prior to payment.
- Ensure credit card transactions are entered, coded, correctly authorised and reconciled.
- Maintain finance filing systems ensuring they are up to date, accurate and accessible.
- Complete bank reconciliation at month end and during the month as required.
- Complete all IRD obligations including GST & PAYE returns in a timely manner.
- Ensure day to day procurement. processing tasks, stock management and order placement align with forward work.
- Inventory tracking and stocktaking.
- Plan purchasing and forecasting of raw materials for manufacturing.
- Project profit & loss reporting and financial job analysis.
- Good communication skills both written & verbal.
- General ad hoc administration duties.
Qualifications & Necessary Experience:
- High level of experience with Xero is highly desirable.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel and Word.
- Ability to multi-task and work with all levels of the business from manufacturing to sales, installation & management.
- Knowledge of Ostendo would be an advantage.
- Full drivers license (preferable).
Personal Attributes:
- Attention to detail, accuracy & pride in your work will be important to you.
- Hard working and able to think outside the box for solutions to see projects through to completion.
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently.
- Good organisational & planning skills.
- Adaptable and with ‘can do’ attitude.
- Systems orientated and the ability to implement new ideas as we go through a transition period of changing operating systems.
KEEN TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION?
Please send your CV & covering letter to ruan@kliptank.com
Meet the team
Kim HendersonDirector
Kim co-founded KlipTank in 2009 and become owner in 2021, after returning to New Zealand from the United States.
For 26 years overseas, Kim worked in the oil and gas industry across the Middle East and US.
His forte is starting greenfield units, which he did for his own flexible hydraulic hose business in the Middle East, Turkey, Singapore, the United States, Oman and China. His grown-up children still reside in the United States.
Kim returned to New Zealand to be closer to extended family and is now involved in the day to day running of KlipTank, with big plans for the expansion of the business.
From KlipTank’s home in Tauranga, he is now looking forward to guiding the company’s growth in the area of water security and providing water storage solutions for fire safety, potable water, horticulture and waste-water.
A redesign of KlipTanks products and manufacturing processes since 2021 has also allowed for flat packing of the tanks into containers for export.
He is extremely proud of what the hardworking KlipTank team has achieved and is looking forward to recruiting more great people.
Outside of work he has a passion for motorcycles, boats, and muscle cars and is a firm believer that the correct number of toys you should own, is one more than you have.
Ruan MeyerGeneral Manager
Ruan and his family moved to New Zealand from South Africa 5 years ago, bringing with him extensive experience in mechanical engineering and a proven track record in completing projects on time and within budget.
He is currently the General Manager at KlipTank, recently promoted from being Operations Manager where he still manages the day-to-day operations of KlipTank and leads the team. He is focussed on seeing projects through to completion and working in unison to achieve KlipTank’s short and long-term goals.
Ruan started his career as a Fitter & Turner tradesperson at a power station in South Africa before studying for a national diploma in mechanical engineering.
He then moved to Malvern Engineering Works in Johannesburg as an estimator and project co-ordinator, and later worked as production manager, manufacturing mine process equipment. He then became project and maintenance manager for Mertech Marine in Cape Town, a company which manages ships that retrieve redundant telecommunications cables & equipment from the seabed and mechanically disassemble & recycle the materials.
Since moving to New Zealand, he’s worked for HCD flow conveying, Baytext as Aluminium WS Engineering Supervisor, PFS as PE doing ASME pressure vessel and piping projects and Fabworx engineering PM including leading the Structural project to install 80 tonnes of steel at the new Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa in Rotorua.
Ruan is a family man with two children and enjoys weekends on the beach, in the backyard and biking or walking local trails. He has found a great network of other ‘Saffas’ in the Bay, including close friends who have become like Kiwi family.
Ian JamiesonSales Manager
Ian Jamieson joined KlipTank 10 years ago, bringing with him an extensive sales and business background in the IT and mechanical engineering industries. He has owned his own businesses in both fields and has an extensive formal education in engineering, including a degree in process engineering.
Ian’s wide ranging, technical skill set lends itself well to KlipTank’s philosophy of solving problems for its customers and being solutions-focussed.
He particularly likes working with New Zealand’s vital dairy industry and has found farmers to be excellent businesspeople who display incredible resilience.
He enjoys building strong relationships with his customers and getting to know their businesses – including their storage requirements – which are often planned years in advance.
He also has a Farm Dairy Effluent Design & Management Certificate from Massey University, allowing him to assist farmers with dairy effluent system design and storage calculations for consent purposes.
Outside the office, Ian is a self-confessed motorsport nut – coming from a long line of engineers with petrol in their veins. He enjoys motorsport engineering, riding his vintage motorbike and motocross. He also plays music, loves to travel and enjoys a good wine - particularly French.