Senior Advisor Reporting & Assurance

New Zealand Government Joba; Wellington; On-site; NZD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working culture

EPA Environment Day

Paid leave between Christmas and New Y

$400 home setup payment

Māori capability building program

EPA awards

Job summary

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) seeks a Senior Advisor Reporting and Assurance based in Wellington. You will lead high-quality performance reporting and risk-based assurance work for the Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement Group, turning complex regulatory data into clear insights and practical recommendations.

You will design reporting frameworks, measures and assurance reviews, communicating findings to senior leaders and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience delivering performance, governance or regulatory reporting in a complex organisation.
• Experience designing and delivering risk-based assurance reviews, audits or evaluations.
• Strong analytical skills to identify trends, gaps and data quality issues.
• Excellent written communication turning complex information into concise insights.
• Experience developing or improving reporting frameworks and performance measures.
• Ability to assess evidence against legislation, policy and standards.
• Experience identifying systemic issues and monitoring remedial actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-quality performance reporting and risk-based assurance work for the CME Group.
• Design and deliver assurance reviews, policy, standards or required outputs.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leaders and governance bodies.
• Support teams to implement improvements and monitor progress across the organisation.

Skills

Regulatory reporting

Risk-based assurance

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Reporting frameworks

Governance reporting

Evidence quality

Independent challenge

Time management

Education

Tertiary or professional qualifications in assurance/audit/evaluation

Job description

As New Zealand's environmental regulator, the work we do today helps shape the future of our tomorrow. Our purpose | To tatou kaupapa We are the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Aotearoa New Zealand's independent environmental regulator. Our role is important: to help protect our country's unique way of life by looking out for the health of its environment, its economy and its people. Our kaupapa is about making the right decisions based on evidence, mātauranga, and science. At the EPA, we encourage big ideas and bold goals. What we achieve today helps shape the future of New Zealand for generations to come. Jump in the waka - make history with us.

About our group | Mō te roopu

Compliance, monitoring and enforcement is an integral part of the EPA's work to protect the environment and the health outcomes of New Zealanders. Activities undertaken by the CME Group sit alongside decision-making and engagement and are fundamental to the overall strategic direction of the EPA. The Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement Group helps everyone - from small businesses to big organisations - understand and comply with environmental regulations to help protect communities, the environment and people. We do this through educating, engaging, monitoring and investigating, and taking enforcement action when necessary. This approach benefits the environment, the economy and communities, and means we can focus our resources (including our enforcement powers) on tackling the most important environmental issues. Our multi-disciplinary team of compliance, monitoring and enforcement officers work together, supporting each other to carry out this essential role in maintaining and upholding New Zealand's environmental regulatory regime for the good of all of Aotearoa today, and for future generations.

About the role | Mō te tūnga

This role is based in our Wellington office. While we're happy to consider work-from-home arrangements, this role is not designed for full-time remote working. As our Senior Advisor Reporting and Assurance, you'll lead high-quality performance reporting and risk-based assurance work across the Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement (CME) Group. Your work will provide senior leaders and governance groups with clear, evidence-based insights into performance, regulatory outcomes, risks and opportunities for improvement. You'll design and maintain reporting frameworks, measures and products that turn complex operational and regulatory information into clear conclusions and practical advice. You will also lead the design and delivery of agreed risk-based assurance reviews that assess the effectiveness, consistency and quality of CME's regulatory systems, decisions and practices.

This is a senior delivery and advisory role. A typical day could include preparing a performance or governance report, analysing trends and explaining their implications, designing and delivering an assurance review, policy, standards or agreed requirements, presenting findings and recommendations to leaders, or supporting teams to implement and monitor practical improvements. Working across the organisation, you will connect reporting, assurance and continuous improvement to strengthen accountability, organisational learning and regulatory performance.

About you | Mōhou ake

You will be an experienced reporting and assurance professional who can work with complex information, apply sound judgement and communicate clearly with senior leaders and operational teams. To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• substantial experience delivering high-quality performance, governance or regulatory reporting in a complex organisation
• demonstrated experience designing and delivering risk-based assurance reviews, audits, evaluations or other structured assessments
• strong analytical skills, including the ability to assess data quality, identify trends and gaps, test assumptions and draw well-supported conclusions
• excellent written communication skills, with experience turning complex operational, technical or regulatory information into concise insights and practical recommendations
• experience developing or improving reporting frameworks, performance measures, assurance approaches or quality systems
• the ability to assess evidence against legislation, policy, standards, procedures or other agreed requirements, and to document clear findings and recommendations
• experience identifying systemic issues, monitoring agreed actions and evaluating whether improvements have achieved the intended result
• confidence providing independent and constructive challenge, presenting findings and influencing senior leaders and subject matter experts
• strong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively across professional and organisational boundaries
• sound judgement and a disciplined approach to accuracy, evidence quality, information integrity and professional documentation
• the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work with limited supervision.

Experience in a regulatory, public-sector, audit, risk, evaluation or compliance environment would be an advantage. Relevant tertiary or professional qualifications in assurance, audit, evaluation, data analysis, public policy, risk or performance reporting would also be beneficial.

What's in it for you | Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou

There are extra benefits to working at the EPA:

• flexible working culture
• three additional paid leave days between Christmas and New Years in addition to four weeks' annual leave
• $400 non-taxable payment to help you set up working at home
• an annual paid EPA Environment Day to support the community with environmental initiatives
• in-house Māori cultural capability building programme
• learning opportunities, including the annual EPA Symposium
• active and lively social club, and diverse groups and support networks
• EPA awards recognising individual and team effort

Salary range

$90,801 - $136,201 per annum (midpoint $113,501). This is the full salary range of the band, from 80% - 120%. Appointments will generally be made at or below the midpoint of this range, depending on skills and experience.

Applications close | Rā Katinga

Sunday 9pm, 25 October 2026 We will review applications as they are submitted and may begin our selection process prior to the end of the application stage.