Senior Business Analyst

Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake; Christchurch; Híbrido; NZD 90.000 - 125.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

4 weeks leave

Professional development

Wellbeing fund

Wellness coach

Hybrid work

IT home bundle

Descripción de la vacante

Natural Hazards Commission Toka TŨā Ake is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Business Analysis and Process Design team on a fixed-term basis through to June 2027. Reporting to the Manager, Business Analysis and Process Design, you will lead complex discovery and analysis, translating evidence into practical recommendations, requirements and outcomes.

Working across business improvement and change initiatives, you will engage diverse stakeholders, assess current and

Formación

• Extensive senior BA experience across organisational change, service, process, policy, data or digital contexts.
• Ability to structure ambiguous information into clear insights.
• Strong problem-framing, facilitation and requirements engineering.
• Experience with senior stakeholders to test assumptions and outcomes.
• Experience taking initiatives from discovery to testing and implementation.
• Identify capability or learning needs and translate into solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Lead complex discovery and analysis, clearly defining problems, opportunities, intended outcomes and decision points.
• Gather evidence from stakeholders, customers, processes, systems, policies, data and operational experience.
• Translate agreed direction into prioritised, testable requirements and practical future-state processes and solutions.
• Identify organisational capability and learning needs and ensure these are reflected in delivery and implementation planning.
• Support initiatives through design, testing, implementation and transition, while coaching others and strengthening business analysis practice.

Conocimientos

Senior BA experience

Discovery & analysis

Stakeholder management

Requirements engineering

Process analysis

Descripción del empleo

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Business Analysis and Process Design team on a fixed-term basis until the end of June 2027. Reporting to the Manager, Business Analysis and Process Design, you will lead complex discovery and analysis, bringing clarity and structure to ambiguous problems and translating evidence into practical recommendations, requirements and outcomes.

Working across business improvement and change initiatives, you will support work from early discovery through to implementation. You will engage diverse stakeholders, assess current and future needs, and help ensure proposed changes are practical, sustainable and aligned with agreed business and user outcomes. The role will have a particular focus on understanding organisational capability and learning needs and translating these into fit-for-purpose solutions.

Key responsibilities include: Lead complex discovery and analysis, clearly defining problems, opportunities, intended outcomes and decision points. Gather and evaluate evidence from stakeholders, customers, processes, systems, policies, data and operational experience. Develop clear options, recommendations and decision-ready advice that enable informed organisational decisions. Translate agreed direction into prioritised, testable requirements and practical future-state processes and solutions. Identify organisational capability and learning needs and ensure these are reflected in delivery and implementation planning. Support initiatives through design, testing, implementation and transition, while coaching others and strengthening business analysis practice.

Skills & Experience

To be successful in this role you will bring: Extensive senior business analysis experience leading complex discovery and analysis across organisational change, service, process, policy, data or digital contexts. Proven ability to bring structure to incomplete, ambiguous or conflicting information and turn complex evidence into clear, defensible insights. Strong problem-framing, facilitation, process analysis, requirements engineering and options-assessment skills. Experience working with senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary groups to test assumptions, agree outcomes and resolve delivery issues. Experience supporting initiatives from discovery and requirements definition through to testing, implementation and outcome validation. Experience identifying organisational capability or learning needs and translating these into practical learning, change or workforce-enablement solutions.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary (including 3.5% superannuation)
• 4 weeks annual leave
• Commitment to your professional development
• Wellbeing fund
• Access to inhouse Wellness Coach
• Hybrid working environment
• IT home bundle

Why NHC Toka TŨā Ake is a great place to work

Natural Hazards Commission Toka TŨā Ake is an Aotearoa (NZ) Crown entity that invests in natural hazard research and education as well as providing natural hazard insurance to residential property owners.NHC Toka TŨā Ake mission is to reduce the impact on people and property when a natural hazard occurs while administering the natural hazard fund.Our values define who we are; they influence the way we work with each other and the way we engage with homeowners, stakeholders and with communities, every day. Connection – hononga Curiosity – māhirahira Confidence – māiaHe aha te mea nui o te au – he tāngata he tāngata he tāngataWhat is the most important thing in the world; it is people, it is people, it is people.

Our commitment is a diverse and inclusive workforce because we know our culture thrives when we get this right.

We make a difference for all New Zealanders and strive to increasingly reflect the diversity of communities we serve by including and valuing perspectives from all backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, gender, age, accessibility needs, sexual orientation, and national origin.

Applications close Friday 6 November 2026 at 12:00pm.