Business analyst

Bay-of-Plenty-Regional-Counci; Tauranga; Sur place; NZD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working arrangements

Insurance and discount schemes

Career development and training

Located in Bay of Plenty – Tauranga or

Résumé du poste

Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join the Digital team and drive testing coordination and data migration across a major systems change programme. You will work with business users, SME, vendors, and technical teams to ensure seamless customer outcomes for the community.

The role focuses on coordinating testing, documenting data mappings, and supporting data migration, with flexible arrangements and the opportunity to base yourself in

Qualifications

• Proven Business Analyst experience delivering complex business and digital change.
• Experience coordinating testing activities across large or multi-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting data migration, data quality and reconciliation activities.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
• A track record of identifying and delivering business process improvements.
• Excellent planning, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A collaborative, adaptable and outcome-focused approach.
• Experience supporting the delivery of complex technology-enabled business change programmes would be highly regarded.

Responsabilités

• Take primary responsibility for coordinating testing across a major organisation-wide systems and process change programme, including developing the test approach and plan.
• Coordinate test preparation and execution, support defect management, and provide clear reporting on test progress, risks, and readiness.
• Work closely with Business Analysts and subject matter experts to prepare, validate, and document data mappings, transformation rules, data quality requirements, and business decisions.
• Coordinate data migration activities between business teams and the technical team responsible for extracting, transforming, loading, and reconciling data.
• Support data cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and migration testing to ensure data is complete, accurate, and fit for purpose.
• Maintain clear test and data migration plans, actions, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions, escalating matters where needed.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and define business requirements, ensuring solutions meet business needs and deliver value.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, influence project decisions, assess risks of various solutions, and prioritise competing business demands.
• Capture business needs, understand customer journeys, and define user requirements.
• Identify and drive business process improvement opportunities using digital tools, automation, and system enhancements to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to deliver additional value using our existing technology and information assets.
• Continue to contribute to broader Business Analyst activities across strategic digital initiatives and organisational change programmes as priorities require.

Connaissances

Testing coordination

Data migration coordination

Stakeholder engagement

Requirements gathering

Business process improvement

Analytical thinking

Description du poste

• Flexible working arrangements; Perks including insurance and discount schemes
• Career development and training opportunities
• Located in Bay of Plenty, choose either Tauranga or Whakatāne
  

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and adaptable Business Analyst to join our Digital team and support a major programme of core systems and business process improvement across the organisation. Alongside core BA responsibilities, this role will be the primary point of coordination for testing and data migration activities, working closely with business users, subject matter experts, vendors, and technical teams. Our team prides itself on understanding our people and their work and co-creating solutions that support seamless customer experiences and positive outcomes for our community.

Ngā āhuatanga o te mahi / Details of the job

This is a fixed term role (40 hours a week) until September 2028 that can be based in either our Whakatāne or Tauranga offices:

This role is expected to:

• Take primary responsibility for coordinating testing across a major organisation-wide systems and process change programme, including developing the test approach and plan, coordinating test preparation and execution, supporting defect management, and providing clear reporting on test progress, risks, and readiness.
• Work closely with Business Analysts and subject matter experts to prepare, validate, and document data mappings, transformation rules, data quality requirements, and business decisions.
• Coordinate data migration activities between business teams and the technical team responsible for extracting, transforming, loading, and reconciling data.
• Support data cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and migration testing to help ensure data is complete, accurate, and fit for purpose.
• Maintain clear test and data migration plans, actions, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions, escalating matters where needed.
• Work across our organisation to engage with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and define business requirements, ensuring solutions meet business needs and deliver value.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, influence project decisions, assess the risks of various solutions, and prioritise competing business demands.
• Capture business needs, understand customer journeys, and define user requirements.
• Identify and drive business process improvement opportunities using digital tools, automation, and system enhancements to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to deliver additional value using our existing technology and information assets.
• Continue to contribute to broader Business Analyst activities across strategic digital initiatives and organisational change programmes as priorities require.

To be successful, you will need:

• Proven Business Analyst experience delivering complex business and digital change.
• Experience coordinating testing activities across large or multi-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting data migration, data quality and reconciliation activities.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
• A track record of identifying and delivering business process improvements.
• Excellent planning, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A collaborative, adaptable and outcome-focused approach.
• Experience supporting the delivery of complex technology-enabled business change programmes would be highly regarded.

Ko wai mātou | Who we are

Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council is responsible for land, air and water, public transport, and economic development. A major focus of our work involves looking after the environment. We manage the effects of people's use of freshwater, land, air and coastal water. However, we also have a broader responsibility with others for the economic, social, and cultural well-being of the regional community.

We are a values-driven organisation that really cares about people. Highlights of working at Toi Moana include:

• Varied and challenging work that makes a real impact on the community and environment.
• Opportunities for growth, learning and development.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Company Insurance and discount schemes.
• A competitive remuneration and holiday leave package, including extra paid leave over Christmas/New Year.

A highly competitive salary commensurate with relevant experience will be offered to the successful candidate.

This role can be located in Tauranga or Whakatāne.

NB: To apply for this job, you must have the legal right to be able to work in New Zealand and also a current, valid driver's licence.

Applications close 5pm, Wednesday 4 November2026 and will only be accepted online.