Business Analyst

Environment Canterbury; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional council in New Zealand is seeking a skilled professional to facilitate workshops, analyse systems, and drive business improvements. The ideal candidate has a background in business analysis and a relevant degree. This full-time role offers tailored learning opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact on community outcomes. Applications close on 15 October 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis, production of business cases, impact assessments.
• Ability to develop strong effective relationships across all levels of the organisation.
• Knowledge of systems leadership theory and project methodologies is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops to gather requirements for successful delivery.
• Build and manage working relationships across the business.
• Analyse data and systems for continuous improvement.

Skills

Analytical skills

Relationship building

Change management

Business process implementation

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Business

Job description

Job Category: Government, Defence & Emergency

• Join a collaborative team driving meaningful change
• Facilitate workshops to gather requirements for successful delivery
• Full Time | Fixed Term until June 2026 | City Centre

As a regional council, we are responsible for managing natural resources including air, soil, water and land. We work in partnership with mana whenua Ngāi Tahu to protect the health of our environment to ensure a sustainable and prosperous future for our region.

The region’s evolving environmental and political context means we will continue to be agile and adaptive, as we respond to regulatory and environmental changes.

Our mahi (work) is organised around the delivery of our three core services:

• Environmental Regulation and Protection
• Community Preparedness and Response to Hazards
• Public Transport

At Environment Canterbury, we are committed to enabling impactful change through the application of systems leadership theory, intervention theory framework and modern, human-centred approaches to leadership and system thinking.

More about the role:

• Demonstrate a sound learning behaviour of the systems leadership theory
• Flexibility to learn and adapt to new methodologies and ways of working
• Champion values-aligned, facilitations (e.g.workshops, training etc)
• Work collaboratively to ensure new frameworks and approaches are adopted

You will be supported through tailored learning opportunities, reflective practice, and capability-building initiatives that foster the growth and maturity of these critical ways of working.

This role is essential in ensuring our services continue smoothly and our stakeholders remain supported during a period of increased need for change. Your contributions will make a meaningful difference during this time, and we can’t wait to welcome you aboard!

• Build and manage working relationships across the business
• Identify the right problem to solve using a risk and impact lens
• Analyse data, information, work practices, and systems
• Ensure our systems and processes continually improve
• Embed best practice, and make it easier to do business
• Measure projects, services, processes, and systems success

For more information on this role, please refer to the job description.

You’ll bring a diverse range of experience and background in analysing problems, enabling change, and supporting innovation. You’ll enjoy connecting people, processes, and systems, and developing your skills in response to business and community needs. As we work on a breadth of projects and initiatives, your interest will lie in the realm of organisational outcomes and customer needs.

To enjoy this role, you’ll have:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Business
• Experience in analysing and implementing business processes, information systems, and enabling change as part of a cross functional team
• Experience in business analysis, production of business cases, impact assessments, and requirements documentation
• Ability to develop strong effective relationships across all levels of the organisation
• Experience in guiding strategic change across diverse services and stakeholder groups
• Proven results with problem and outcome definition and change delivery
• A knowledge of systems leadership theory, intervention theory and project methodologies is desirable

Our mahi is underpinned by our values: We understand and embrace a diverse workforce; this diversity will enable us to better serve our people, our community, and our greatest taonga, the environment.

We're on a journey to become a treaty partner of excellence, including incorporating te ao Māori into our work. We offer supportive opportunities to develop capability in this area and encourage our people to use kaupapa Māori, mātauranga Māori, and te reo Māori in our daily work.

For a confidential chat about this role, please contact Sam Mason.

Applications close on Wednesday, 15 October 2025. We encourage you to apply early, we will be reviewing applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close the advertising early.

Short-listed candidates will be required to complete an interview process, reference checks and a criminal check. Further background checking will be required when relevant to the role.