Business Analyst

University of Canterbury; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks annual leave +5 days holidays

Flexible working arrangements

Generous superannuation contribution (

Discounts across shopping, travel and,

Living in Christchurch

Job summary

University of Canterbury – Christchurch, South Island is seeking a proactive Business Analyst to support discovery, analysis, and solution shaping in UC's digital environment, with emphasis on migrating from on-premises storage to SharePoint Online. You will work with stakeholders and technical teams to translate needs into structured artefacts and ensure user-centric solutions.

You will facilitate workshops, draft user stories and process maps, and contribute to the design and build practices

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of recent business analyst experience in a large organisation.
• Experience in requirement gathering, gap analysis, data modelling and analysis, system/process analysis and user journey mapping.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Competency in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and iterative delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Support discovery, analysis, and solution shaping across UC’s collaboration environment, with a strong focus on SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams.
• Translate business needs into structured artefacts, including user stories, process maps, and supporting documentation.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement to define problems, opportunities, and future-state requirements.
• Contribute to migration planning from on-premises storage to SharePoint Online.
• Support continuous improvement of ways of working across SharePoint Online and Teams.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Documentation

Communication

Agile familiarity

Tools

SharePoint Online

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 16th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

University of Canterbury – Christchurch, South Island

• Fixed-Term position until 25 June 2027
• 37.5 hours per week
• 4 weeks annual leave +5 days university holidays
• Generous superannuation provisions (up to 6.75% employer contribution)

Āu Mahi | What You Will Do
As a proactive and delivery-focused Business Analyst, you will support discovery, analysis, and solution shaping across UC’s collaboration environment, with a strong focus on SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams. You will work closely with stakeholders and technical teams to understand current challenges and define clear, actionable requirements that support the migration from on-premises file storage and unstructured document libraries within Teams sites to SharePoint Online.

This role will contribute to the development of UC’s SharePoint Design and Build practices, ensuring solutions are user-centric, well-structured, and aligned to consistent information architecture and permissions models that support a sustainable and governable environment.

You will play a key role in bridging business needs and technical delivery, ensuring that requirements are clearly defined, well understood, and aligned to both user outcomes and technical feasibility. With a strong focus on customer experience, you will help shape solutions that are intuitive, practical, and fit for purpose.

Utilising your experience in discovery and stakeholder engagement, you will facilitate workshops, guide discussions, and work through ambiguity to define problems, opportunities, and future-state requirements. You will ensure that business needs are translated into structured artefacts, including user stories, process maps, and supporting documentation that enable efficient delivery.

Committed to continuous improvement, you will support ongoing refinement of ways of working, contribute to retrospectives, and help identify opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and user experience across SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams.

Work closely with stakeholders to deliver discovery and analysis for migration planning, producing clear, structured documentation that enables effective delivery.

Mōu | Who You Are
The Business Analyst plays a key role in supporting digital initiatives and delivery across Digital Services through discovery, analysis, stakeholder engagement, and documentation activities.

You will be able to demonstrate:

• A minimum of 5 years of recent business analyst experience in a business analysis role within a large organisation.
• Understanding business processes and business practices.
• Experience in requirement gathering, gap analysis, data modelling and analysis, system/process analysis and user journey mapping.
• Excellent writing skills, including the production of business requirements in the form of user stories, work stream documents, and detailed reports.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent documentation, planning, organisational, and time management skills.
• Willingness to work with a cross-functional team and be open to learning new skills.
• Competency in te reo Māori me ōna tikanga is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and iterative delivery practices.

MahiNgātahi| Who You Will Work With
Part of UC’s digital Business Services team, you will be in integral part of the Digital Information Programme project team, working closely with the Project Manager, Product Lead, Change Manager, Technical Lead, the Information Records Management team, and Vendor. You will be working across SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams to help define how UC transitions from on-premises storage into SharePoint Online.

You will lead discovery and analysis activities to reduce ambiguity, understand current-state challenges, and define clear, structured requirements. Working closely with business stakeholders and technical teams, you will ensure there is strong upfront clarity to support solution design and enable an effective, well-planned migration approach. You will help ensure user needs, information structures, and permissions are clearly understood and consistently captured, aligned to UC’s Information, Records and Data Policy.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC
At UC, being part of our team means more than just a job. We are committed to supporting ourkaimahi| staff’s career and wellbeing with benefits designed to help ourkaimahigrow and feel connected,supportedand valued.

UC’s Benefitsapproach is shaped byNgā Uara | Our ValuesWhanaungatanga,Tiakitanga, andManaakitanga. They are designed to be relevant, support and inspire our people, they include:

• 4 weeks annual leave +5 days university holidays
• Generous employer contribution to superannuation (up to 6.75%) (If over 9 months employment)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Supportive working environment
• A wide range of retail discounts across shopping, entertainment and travel
• Living in revitalised Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
• A unique working environment in a beautiful campus with access to UC facilities such as UC RecCentre and Staff Club at discounted rates plus onsite cafés and eateries, and more.

For more information, please visit us:https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/work-at-uc/benefits-working-uc

For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visithttps://www.canterbury.ac.nz/

The closing date for this position is: 27th September 2026 (midnight, NZ time)
Please note, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place before the close date.

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.

Please note, this is an onsite position.