Senior Business Analyst - Contractor

at  Westpac New Zealand

About us
At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to Help New Zealanders Succeed. As a Bank and one of New Zealand’s leading employers, we are passionate about helping people. We are taking action today to create a better future for the people who bank with us, work with us, invest in us or are part of our broader communities.
Mō te tūranga | About the Role
We’re looking for a senior business analyst to join our team. You’ll use your skills to shape our enterprise strategy and contribute to our goal of setting the industry standard for business analysis. You’ll work collaboratively with a talented team to support various initiatives and improve our processes. As a skilled communicator and problem-solver, you’ll be a key player in delivering successful projects and driving positive change.
Key responsibilities of the role include:

The Resilience and Resolution programme is a multi-year change programme, with the following key outcomes:

• Support WBC to achieve compliance with CPS230 (new APRA standard on Operational Resilience);
• Uplifting current operational resilience and business continuity management for WNZL through new tooling and Key Banking Service uplift; and
• Resolve non-compliance resolution matters

Operational Resilience spans multiple components across the bank:

• Technology resilience
• Scenario Analysis
• Business Continuity management
• Emergency Management
• Incident response
• Crisis Management

The programme is working closely across business units to ensure a connected ecosystem across Operational Resilience. Designing the end state target operating model and delivering key components within this TOM.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• 10+ years experience in business analysis with exposure to a variety of large-scale Transformation initiatives across multiple domains such as Operational Excellence, Regulatory change, Compliance, Technology, Process / User Journeys or Data.
• A master of your craft with a blend of technical, analytical, and communication skills who has knowledge and experience (both practical skills and theory) to mentor junior analysts on tools, techniques or approaches to different types of work.
• Strong experience working with a broad range of stakeholders to understand and document their requirements to discover, develop and refine their needs.
• Excellent facilitation experience, including workshops, presentations. Able to lead workshops and actively facilitate many people from different organisations.
• Growth mindset to develop skills and knowledge that are both deep and broad (T-shaped) to contribute to team delivery. Adaptable to change, collaboration, maintains focus on continuous improvement, and continuous delivery of business and customer value.
• Experienced working in multiple Delivery Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Kanban) and be able to influence/lead people and teams to take ownership and improve the way they work.
• Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to positively engage and influence people across all levels of the organisation with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Please refer the Job description for details