Finance HQ Limited

Finance HQ was established in 2019. 

We help customers with:

🚗 Car Finance
🚛 Truck Finance
🚜 Equipment Finance

🔥Competitive interest rates and fast approvals

💥If you need help with finance 👇🏽

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💻Apply online at www.financehq.co.nz
📲Call Us On 0800 704 738

Managing Director

Bank of New Zealand

In this role I ran the Northern Region for BNZ Asset Finance working across 50+ bankers from Auckland to Kaitaia and helping to double the volume in my region while lifting the income return by 55%.

Asset Finance Manager ▪️Northern Region

GE Capital

Developed my Expertise and Sales Skills in Asset Finance, Equipment Finance & Floorplan Finance.

Asset Finance Specialist  ▪️Equipment Finance

NZ Army

While I was at University, I did an 18 month stint as a Territorial Soldier in the NZ Army

Soldier

Jason Were

Kea 

Global Marketing Director

- Relationship and vendor management 
- Led the RFP to partner with a new digital agency
- Digital operation - data governance and hygiene processes
- Product development and release through digital channels
- Marketing automation platform integration, build, design and execution
- Led a development team to build the revenue portion of the website
- Technical acumen - managing the technical aspects of the organisation to ensure that they are in line with the company's growth targets and business requirements 
- Overseeing data security and management
- Envisioning how different forms of technology will be used throughout the organisation and considering the impact on the budget
- Researching ways the company's technological assets can be improved
- Ensuring technologies currently in use are efficient, cost-effective and making changes wherever necessary
- Design and image manipulation
- Community insights through survey build and design
- Channel reporting

Senior Digital & Data Manager

- Reviewed and implemented low-touch tactics to improve baseline SEO
- Digital channel audit and cleanse
- Led and developed a website migration strategy and documentation
- SEO website audit and documentation with a how-to guide to implement tasks and make improvements

Digital & Data Marketing Manager

Uprise Digital

Business Director

Fonterra

In this role, I was an in-house consultant for global marketing, brand and category teams to guide them on 'how to' optimise their digital assets and platforms and grow them into digital ambassadors in their teams - this gave them the confidence to influence their local team and better communicate with their local agency on digital marketing capabilities and approaches for local in-market campaigns.
As a specialist and leader in the business, I worked beside my peers as an active conduit between global marketing teams, technology, website development and media agencies.

My success in this role was growing best practice SEO, SEM knowledge and capability in several marketing teams across multiple brands within local and global markets. I worked with the teams to formulate best-in-class search strategies and tactics to improve their website search visibility and customer experience. I helped to define and develop frameworks related to digital marketing. The framework empowered the teams in their digital capability. To consider search as part of their marketing strategy and tactics, how search channels complement and enhance other digital marketing channels, and how to approach optimising the brand's online customer journeys.

Global Search Manager

APD.

This was a challenging client-facing role where I stepped straight into relationship management and was tasked to retain three key clients from churning; I successfully kept all three clients. Plus, I grew new opportunities within the portfolio. This success saw my portfolio grow and manage the top four clients. Other key highlights within this role were mentoring and scaling the client service team from three to six members. Design and build the Performance Media (SEO and SEM) offering for the NZ market.

Account Director & Performance Media Lead 

iProspect

The role required me to help develop technical and on-page SEO strategies for existing and new clients.
I successfully created technical SEO strategies for three major clients and completed a large site migration with little disruption to organic traffic performance. Partook in research and completed a successful implementation of project management software.

SEO Technical Director (contractor)

ClickThrough Online Marketing

This role was hands-on - I executed technical and content SEO tasks, and campaign performance monitoring (no reporting preparation needed). I worked remotely with no client-facing time required.

SEO Specialist (contractor)

ReachLocal Australia & New Zealand

In my role progression, I became the conduit from BDM to the campaign team. My role ensured that client campaigns were delivered on time, within scope to budget and performed.
Accomplishments in my role were archiving and developing refined core product offerings. Software research and implementation, including documentation and training, budget and forecast reporting to the executive leadership team (ELT), and the development of operational and service framework, including the implementation.

Service Delivery Manager for SEO

As a senior member of the team, my role was to identify and qualify clients and projects. Manage the team portfolio and workload. Continue to mentor and grow the team's capability. Key achievements and growth for me were becoming the 2IC for the team and being a lead member and technical resource expert.

Senior Digital Solutions Project Manager

In this role, I built websites for small to medium businesses. The websites were built on a bespoke CMS platform with outsourced technology. 
My achievements and growth in this role were managing external vendors (creative and development), direct input in growing the team, product and service development, and managing a large client and project portfolio (25+).

Digital Solutions Project Manager

d.concept

Project outputs: wireframe creation, user interface design, research and development, web banner and tile creation, front-end development, content creation and publishing, website maintenance, eDM creation and deployment.
Achievements during this period were:
•	Personal career growth
•	Business acumen growth and development 
•	Understanding the operational function of different agencies
•	Further progression in front-end development
•	Further progression in SEO techniques

Freelancer

Air New Zealand

The role was to develop online training modules for cabin crew and pilots. My achievements in this role were: helping to establish online training as a core function and that training was considered when products were developed, technology was rolling out, and part of capability/career growth across the entire organisation.

e-Learning Developer

Gullivers Holidays now Stella Travel

Website co-ordinator.
- Website content management (e-commerce)
- Web banner creation and implementation
- Keyword and metadata implementation
- Website landing page creation (basic HTML and CSS coding)
- Bespoke CMS experience
- Stakeholder management

Website Co-ordinator

A digital native with numerous years of experience in the industry - starting my journey as an intern coding up a company intranet!  Fast forward many years later, I have continued to grow and play in the digital marketing space connecting the dots between human emotions, needs, online behaviour, and data.

I have a broad understanding of digital strategy and disciplines, with a specialist comprehension of SEO and paid search (SEM). My exposure to developing a company intranet early in my career allowed me to grow my digital technical skill set and knowledge and interest in website architecture, front-end design and development, UX/UI, conversion rate optimisation (CRO), customer journeys, data analysis, insights and reporting.

I have worked both agency and client-side, on global brands, in local and international markets. I am confident to write a data-driven marketing strategy that harnesses digital channels.

What I bring to the party:
 - Big picture thinker - natural problem-solver, broken down into attainable goals
 - Curiosity - asking great and tough questions
 - Technically adverse - the ability to communicate on many levels 
 - Consulting and coaching - empowering my team and or stakeholders to grow their digital knowledge
 - Method - Test, monitor, learn and iterate
 - Philosophy - continual self-growth, keeping up with the community and trends, always keen for a challenge - a good banter and laugh!

Buzzwords: Marketing, Digital Marketing, Strategy, Digital Marketing Channels, Acquisition, SEO, Technical SEO, SEM, User Journeys, UX, Data-driven Marketing, Digital Lens, SaaS, Social Media Marketing, Google Analytics, Paid Search, Organic Search, Channel Mix Marketing, Evidence-based decisions.

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