Māori & Pasifika at Deloitte New Zealand

Hourua Pae Rau | Deloitte Māori Services

Hourua Pae Rau | Māori business at Deloitte

Hourua Pae Rau is Deloitte’s Māori sector team. The name literally translates as ‘a double-hulled waka of a hundred horizons’. It serves as a metaphor to describe how we partner with our clients to form a double-hull waka that enables us to navigate the ocean of choice and arrive at the right destination.

Our team is dedicated to partnering with Māori, government and businesses wishing to align their work with and for the benefit of Māori.

Hourua Pae Rau represents the largest Māori professional services team in Aotearoa, with the depth of expertise, experience and relationships to make an impact that matters.

Te Whāinga | Our vision

Our purpose is to understand your horizons and support you through the voyage toward achieving tangible results for your organisation and Māori. We are equipped with qualified and capable members who are able to provide wide-ranging strategic transformation, financial, taxation, audit and assurance services while balancing these with the objectives of tīkanga Māori and whakaaro Māori.

Titiro atu ki ngā taumata ō te moana
Look beyond the horizon to the future

A tātou tikanga | Our guiding principles

Arataki | Lead the way

Deloitte is not only leading the profession, but also reinventing it for the future. We’re also committed to creating opportunity and leading the way to a more sustainable world.

Mahi pono | Serve with integrity

By acting ethically and with integrity, Deloitte has earned the trust of clients, regulators, and the public. Upholding that trust is our single most important responsibility.

Manaaki | Take care of each other

We look out for one another and prioritise respect, fairness, development, and well-being.

Hāpai tangata | Foster inclusion

We are at our best when we foster an inclusive culture and embrace diversity in all forms. We know this attracts top talent, enables innovation, and helps deliver well-rounded client solutions.

Mahitahi | Collaborate for measurable impact

We approach our work with a collaborative mindset, teaming across businesses, geographies, and skill sets to deliver tangible, measurable, attributable impact.

Ngā whakaritenga mahi | What we can do for you

Post-settlement governance entities

We help post-settlement groups grow in prosperity for the benefit of their people. This requires strategic transformation to establish the vision for the future, and business support to ensure the foundations are laid to protect and grow the settlement.

Specialist advice in finance, accounting and taxation helps connect capital with opportunities, drive efficient decision making and supports accountability and transparency.

New and mature Māori Land (Ahu Whenua) Trusts

Many ahu whenua trusts have unique asset and liquidity challenges. We provide guidance and mentorship on how to grow these assets to achieve the holistic objectives of the trust, socially and financially.

For mature trusts, we provide knowledge and expertise in managing their core business, and reducing risk through diversification.

Government agencies

We support government agencies in better fulfilling their obligations as a Treaty partner, improving outcomes for Māori by taking a Te Ao Māori approach to our mahi. We co-design and implement transformative strategies that help Government remain agile and responsive to Māori.

We serve as trusted advisors to our clients, partnering with them to bring a Te Ao Māori perspective and understanding to support clear enterprise choices about where to play and how best to affect change to improve outcomes for Māori.

Private Māori businesses

We build long and close relationships with private Māori businesses great and small to help balance their commercial and cultural aspirations. From audit and advisory, to risk, digital transformation and management consulting we truly partner with clients to solve challenges together.

Māori Trusts and Incorporations

We administer over 300 Māori trusts and incorporations. Hourua Pae Rau provides services from outsourced office requirements, to virtual General Managers and CXOs, as well as accounting services and owner share registry administration.

Pasifika Services Group - Pås Peau Connecting to deliver better outcomes for Pasifika

Our focus is on building Pasifika capability through partnership. We help build capability within the Pasifika community by collaborating with organisations and individuals committed to delivering better outcomes for Pasifika – including public sector, private sector and non-profit organisations.

About Pås Peau

Noaˈia, Tālofa lava, Kia Orana, Mālō e lelei, Ni Sa Bula Vinaka, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Mālō nī and Warm Pacific Greetings! Pås Peau is Deloitte’s Pasifika Services Group (pronounced ‘pas pe-oh’).

The name is Rotuman and literally translates as ‘to break through waves’. It serves as a metaphor to describe our aim to do things differently and to challenge the status quo in order to deliver better outcomes for the Pasifika community. We will do this by working collaboratively and in partnership with our clients, by seeking out innovative solutions, involving the right experts and ensuring Pasifika values are at the core of everything we do.

Our Pås Peau image tells the story of a new journey together:

The turtle is a sacred animal for many Pasifika cultures and represents the ocean (which binds us all together) – it is a survivor and can live for hundreds of years. It represents resilience, longevity and wisdom (strengths of the turtle). The turtle is often perceived as slow but it is graceful, sleek, speedy and skilled in the ocean. It too is endangered (like many Pasifika languages and cultures) but with the support of allies it is making a comeback.
The tanoa is the centrepiece for uniting all Pasifika cultures – reminding us that we can’t do this alone – we need collaboration and collectivism. It is a repository where Pasifika ancestral rituals are held connecting us with millennia of history and with our ancestors.
The compass represents navigating this together and in the same direction. It also reminds us of the strength and determination of our ancestors, the original wayfinders, who navigated unchartered seas using the stars and other signs from the ocean and the sky in order to discover new lands and new beginnings.
The bright colours represent our hopes for a brighter future for the Pasifika community while embracing its vibrant and amazing cultures.

Aotearoa’s demographics are changing

The Pasifika population makes up a growing proportion of Aotearoa’s population, with more people identifying as Pasifika born in Aotearoa than ever before. Almost two thirds of the Pasifika population live in Auckland, which is the largest Polynesian city in the world. Pasifika people in Aotearoa encompass 16 distinct ethnicities, languages and cultures. All are unique with their own story but there are some common values that bind them together.

Our services

Public sector and Government – co-design, implement and evaluate

We work closely with government agencies to ensure the right outcomes are delivered for Pasifika communities through various targeted programmes and initiatives. This work includes supporting the co-design and implementation of transformative initiatives that aim to deliver better results for Pasifika. We help our clients to make bold and informed choices about where to play and how best to make a meaningful impact for the Pasifika community.

We also work with government agencies to monitor and evaluate investments and funding programmes to ensure their funding decisions have delivered the best outcome for all involved, including the communities the funding is intended to benefit.

Pasifika businesses – tailored business advice focussed on growth

Pasifika businesses are a key part of Aotearoa’s economy, and we’re passionate about supporting them as they thrive and grow. Our team can connect you with experts across Deloitte, whether you’re looking for specialised risk or digital consultants, advice around procurement and tendering or to outsource tax and accounting work. Our team has an awareness of and acknowledges the unique economic development challenges facing Pasifika businesses, which in our opinion, is necessary for impactful engagement with Pasifika businesses.

We also work closely with our partner agency, the Pacific Business Trust, to provide tailored and expert business advice to Pasifika businesses – focussed on growth, building capability and moving Pasifika businesses further up their respective industry supply chains.

Pasifika organisations and providers – governance and financial advisory services

Working with Pasifika social providers and non-profit organisations is an important part of our work as a team, and something we’re very passionate about. We work with Pasifika social sector organisations to strengthen their governance, systems, processes and controls to enable them to focus on doing what they do best - delivering impactful services to the community.

We also have experience in supporting non-profit organisations to develop evaluation frameworks to define and measure the impact of an organisation’s activities – a critical phase for organisations seeking to improve the effectiveness and impact of their initiatives and services and to provide confidence to funders about their investment spend.

Our services in the South Pacific

Aotearoa is a Pacific country and we are connected to other South Pacific nations by culture, history, politics, geography and family. Our services extend beyond Aotearoa and we have experience providing services in the Pacific Islands. This means we understand how to do business in the islands – we understand and appreciate the history, the culture and the importance of relationships and networks. We welcome the opportunity to contribute and make an impact for our neighbours in the South Pacific region.

Our team

Pås Peau is a collective of passionate individuals with a diverse range of skills and expertise. Our united goal is to make a positive impact for Pasifika organisations and the wider Pasifika community, by enabling them with the right skills and tools to deliver exciting, bold new outcomes.

Many of our team are Pasifika, or have extensive experience working with Pasifika communities and businesses. We understand the key cultural values that are at the heart of Pasifika organisations and we are passionate about delivering better outcomes for the Pasifika community.

Making an impact in the Pasifika community

We have teamed up with the Pacific Business Trust and the Ministry of Social Development to provide business support workshops for Pasifika organisations impacted by COVID-19.

We know that there’s more we can do for the Pasifika community beyond providing professional services. That’s why we are proud to support a number of internships and scholarships, which provide young Pacific people with opportunities to thrive and make an impact.

We currently support:

Tupu Toa - scholarship partnership is a pathway that provides professional opportunities for Māori and Pacific tertiary students into corporate, government and community organisations.
Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Award - Commercial and Corporate Award. This award recognises a young person who has shown significant academic achievement or business activity in the fields of commerce, accounting, marketing, international business or similar. The winner of this category will receive a paid Deloitte internship in our Wellington or Auckland offices, valued at $10,000.
Pacific Cooperation Foundation – host agency

Pås Peau thought leadership

Supporting Pasifika organisations and leaders through uncertain and challenging times

Providing you with practical business advice and access to expert resources

We are facing unprecedented circumstances; COVID-19 is challenging all of us and changing our way of living and working. At this time, it is important we prioritise the care we show for each other and we come together as a community.

Budget 2020: Pasifika community

Pasifika lessons for our recovery

Resilience is a foundational pillar on which the Pasifika community is built. The New Zealand Government would do well to embrace lessons from our Pasifika community as it maps its response to the devastating effects of COVID-19.