Senior Business Analyst

at  NZ Ministry for Primary Industries

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Role Type: Full-time fixed term through to August 2026
Location: Wellington
Salary Band: GSR D - $98,955 to $127,260 depending on skills and experience

Your key skills include:

• Interviewing users and stakeholders
• Writing requirements
• Interacting with IT teams and vendors
• Salesforce, Azure, and ArcGIS system

This newly created Senior Business Analyst position will be responsible for providing business analysis, process, and reporting advice.
You will support the preparation and implementation of new and updated carbon tables into our IT system to better reflect carbon storage in a wider range of forests. Your core role is to clarify and articulate the system and functional requirements (user stories) including supporting models and artefacts where appropriate for the required system development.
Developing a sufficient understanding of the impact of proposed Regulation amendments will be valuable as this environment can be technical and complex.
You will be working in an agile scrum environment, so an appreciation for the Agile methodology is important, we are looking for this role to provide continuity through development to implementation.
Engagement with key stakeholders is required to elicit requirements and pivot as required, this includes key SME’s in the ETS operations team and ETS product management team as well as vendors and MPI IT teams. These are mostly internal with some external.
This role contributes to the emission trading scheme and therefore climate improvement.

Your key skills include:

• Interviewing users and stakeholders
• Writing requirements
• Interacting with IT teams and vendors
• Salesforce, Azure, and ArcGIS systems