Senior Business Analyst (12-Month Fixed-Term)

Rabobank; Wellington; On-site; NZD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Rabobank New Zealand in Wellington seeks a Senior Business Analyst to join a significant, multi-year regulatory transformation programme supporting NZ DTA and Operational Resilience initiatives. Based in Wellington, you’ll work with Product Owners and senior stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, Operations and Technology to translate complex regulatory obligations into practical business outcomes.

You’ll lead discovery, document requirements, map processes and support testing, change activities

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst.
• Experience delivering regulatory, risk, compliance or governance initiatives.
• Strong requirements elicitation, documentation, process mapping and traceability skills.
• Experience translating regulatory obligations into practical business requirements, processes and controls.
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement capability.
• Experience working across large-scale programmes or multiple interconnected projects.
• Experience supporting change through design, testing and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and analysis across complex regulatory and operational resilience requirements.
• Document critical operations and the processes, systems, people, data and third parties that support them.
• Lead end-to-end process mapping, capture current-state operations and design future-state processes.
• Translate regulatory obligations into clear business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, processes and controls.
• Assess business, operational, technology and organisational impacts.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Partner with business and technology teams to shape system, process and control enhancements.
• Support the development of policies, procedures and business readiness materials.
• Maintain requirements, decisions and end-to-end traceability.
• Support testing and assurance activities, including UAT.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions.
• Support implementation and change activities to ensure new requirements are embedded.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Process mapping

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory projects

Education

Tertiary qualification

Job description

Senior Business Analyst (12-Month Fixed-Term)

At Rabobank, we're proud to be the world's leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. Our success lies in our people, who are committed to adding long-term value for clients.

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About the role | Mō te tūranga

Make an impact where regulation, resilience and transformation come together!

We're looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join a significant, multi-year regulatory transformation programme supporting Rabobank's implementation of the New Zealand Deposit Takers Act (NZ DTA).

With a key focus on Operational Resilience, this is an opportunity to work on a programme that will have a lasting impact on how we protect our critical operations, manage operational risk and strengthen resilience across our business, technology and third-party environments.

Based in Wellington, you'll work alongside Product Owners and senior stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, Operations and Technology, helping turn complex regulatory obligations into practical, sustainable business outcomes.

This is a 12-month fixed-term position.

What you'll be doing

• Lead discovery and analysis across complex regulatory and operational resilience requirements
• Help identify and document critical operations and the processes, systems, people, data and third parties that support them
• Lead end-to-end process mapping, capturing current-state operations and designing future-state processes and operating models
• Translate regulatory obligations into clear business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, processes and controls
• Assess business, operational, technology and organisational impacts
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with stakeholders across the organisation
• Partner with business and technology teams to shape system, process and control enhancements
• Support the development of policies, procedures and business readiness materials
• Maintain requirements, decisions and end-to-end traceability
• Support testing and assurance activities, including UAT
• Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions
• Support implementation and change activities to ensure new requirements are successfully embedded

About you | Ō pūkenga

You’ll bring strong Senior Business Analyst capability, along with the confidence to navigate ambiguity, unpack complex requirements and influence stakeholders across both business and technology.

• 7+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, including experience operating at Senior BA level
• Experience delivering complex regulatory, risk, compliance or governance initiatives
• Strong requirements elicitation, documentation, process mapping and traceability skills
• Experience translating regulatory obligations into practical business requirements, processes and controls
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement capability
• Experience working across large-scale programmes or multiple interconnected projects
• Experience supporting change through design, testing and implementation
• Exposure to New Zealand banking regulation, including the NZ Deposit Takers Act and Operational Resilience requirements, and/or experience with APRA CPS 230
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent practical experience

Experience within banking or financial services, operational resilience, business continuity or operational risk would be highly regarded. A Business Analysis certification such as CBAP, CCBA or BCS would also be an advantage.

Applications close Wednesday 4 November 2026

In return we can offer you:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a values-driven organisation with an ambitious growth strategy. We have a workplace culture that our people are proud of, where we embrace inclusion and belonging and strive to deliver positive experiences for our people and clients.

Our Values | ō mātou uara

Rabobank New Zealand fully embraces inclusion equity and belonging and delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here.

We are committed to our values; we are client focussed, action oriented, purposeful, and courageous in our work.

We are professional and considerate and bring out the best in each other and are committed to keep learning.

We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and valued for who you are. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard t