Senior Business Analyst — Transformation & Benefits Realisation

Nelson City Council; Nelson; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Health insurance

Generous leave

Professional development

Meaningful projects

Job summary

Nelson City Council is seeking two senior business analysts to support its transformation programme. Based in Whakatū Nelson, you’ll gather and analyse business needs, drive efficiency and help realise transformation benefits.

You’ll mentor colleagues and build strong relationships across Council and external partners to deliver measurable outcomes. You’ll work with workstream leads, develop business cases, dashboards and reports, and ensure delivery remains on track through active risk and

Qualifications

• A relevant degree with a significant business analysis or business process management component.
• Demonstrated experience applying business analysis techniques and technology.
• Experience gathering business requirements and designing and delivering solutions that meet organisational needs.
• Experience developing process maps, requirement definitions, current-state and future-state gap analyses, and impact assessments.
• Knowledge of Agile business analysis techniques.
• An understanding of benefits identification and realisation.
• Proven analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and business intelligence tools.
• Strong communication, relationship management and attention to detail.
• A flexible and change-adaptive approach.

Responsibilities

• Gather, document and analyse business requirements for transformation initiatives
• Facilitate interviews, focus groups and workshops with stakeholders
• Interpret data and develop user stories and evidence-based recommendations
• Identify solutions that improve operational efficiency, service delivery and productivity
• Contribute to business cases, dashboards, reports and presentations
• Identify and report risks and issues that could affect delivery
• Develop benefits management plans and assess benefits realisation
• Provide specialist business analysis expertise and mentor others
• Build trusted relationships across Council and with external stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Relationship management

Attention to detail

Agile BA techniques

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Impact assessment

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree with BA component

Tools

Microsoft Office

Power BI

Job description

Nelson City Council is seeking two senior business analysts to support its transformation programme. Based in Whakatū Nelson, you’ll gather and analyse business needs, drive efficiency and help realise transformation benefits.

You’ll mentor colleagues and build strong relationships across Council and external partners to deliver measurable outcomes. You’ll work with workstream leads, develop business cases, dashboards and reports, and ensure delivery remains on track through active risk and