Senior Data Insights & Reporting Analyst

New Zealand Government; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 91,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

37.5 hour week

15 days sick leave

End-year leave days

EAP & corporate rates

Career development

Job summary

Stats NZ is seeking a data analytics professional for a 12-month fixed term in Wellington, with consideration for Christchurch/Auckland for the right candidate. You will turn complex data into meaningful insights to support performance monitoring, government reporting, organisational insight, and strategic planning across the organisation.

You will translate datasets into actionable insights, help develop integrated planning and reporting frameworks, and contribute to scalable, automated

Qualifications

• Strong experience with data modelling, reporting and analytical problem solving.
• Experience developing and maintaining reporting products, dashboards and performance measures.
• Strong Excel capability and experience with analytical and visualisation tools such as Power BI or similar platforms.
• Experience with SQL or comparable data querying and transformation tools will be highly regarded

Responsibilities

• Work across a wide range of reporting initiatives — from HR and workforce data for government accountability reporting to organisation-wide performance and delivery monitoring
• Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights that enable leadership decision-making and organisational improvement
• Support the development of integrated planning and reporting frameworks that connect strategy, delivery, and performance
• Contribute to building efficient, scalable, and automated reporting processes, measures, dashboards and information products
• Contribute to improving the quality, consistency and usability of organisational reporting and information assets
• Collaborate with teams across Stats NZ to improve how we collect, manage, and use organisational data

Skills

Data modelling

Reporting

Analytical problem solving

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Data quality

Self-service reporting

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Job description

Stats NZ is seeking a data analytics professional for a 12-month fixed term in Wellington, with consideration for Christchurch/Auckland for the right candidate. You will turn complex data into meaningful insights to support performance monitoring, government reporting, organisational insight, and strategic planning across the organisation.

You will translate datasets into actionable insights, help develop integrated planning and reporting frameworks, and contribute to scalable, automated