Senior Business Analyst
- Location: Hamilton North
- Salary: $110,425 - $114, 818
- Permanent
Mo tātou | About us
- Te Tari Pūreke – Firearms Safety Authority is New Zealand’s Firearms Regulator. Our Vision is to ensure the possession and use of firearms in Aotearoa is the safest in the world.
- To achieve this, Te Tari Pūreke delivers four core functions: effectively implementing the firearms licensing systems; managing the Firearms Registry; educating people to enable compliance with their legislative responsibilities; and promoting the safe possession and lawful use of firearms.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of safe and responsible firearms use, gun ownership and awareness by working collaboratively with the firearms community, our stakeholders, and fellow agencies.
Mō te tūnga | About the role
As senior business analyst for the Partnerships Directorate, you will take responsibility to scope and stand-up multiple pieces of strategic work that help develop our business. You’ll be a liaison between employees and our firearms community, subject matter experts, vendors, consultants, and other organisations in the analysis, design, configuration, testing, maintenance, and handover of projects that help us be more efficient, most cost effective, and more responsive to our community.
You will define and document business requirements, stakeholder requirements, business readiness assessments, current state analyses, gap analyses, and formulate implementation plans. You’ll drive operational efficiencies from start to finish with the support of a small but high-performing change team and a pool of subject matter experts who want to work with you to help you succeed.
You will be experienced in facilitating workshops to identify business needs, processes, and potential solutions. Employee involvement and engagement is critical, so an understanding of engagement techniques and positive psychology is a bonus.
You will have strong research and analysis skills, able to ferret out information as needed, all the while building your network.
Most importantly, you’ll need to be able to articulate and present your findings and recommendations in a way that makes commercial sense. So, impeccable communication skills are essential, as is the ability to create outputs and artifacts that demonstrate compelling stories to your audience.
Key Deliverables:
- Take on the research, analysis, feasibility and implementation for new systems and tools to help the business operate more efficiently.
- Produce compelling artifacts that propel your projects forward: business plans, budgets, current state analyses, business process maps, process workflows and business proposals.
- Track and document changes for functional and business specifications; write detailed universally understood procedures for permanent records and for use in training.
- Understand how policy changes could and should be applied, and what the wider implications are.
- Build Q&A and base packs for technical changes
- Oversee the implementation for your work: ensuring the right materials and stakeholders are engaged at the right time.
- Be the subject matter expert for your projects and following them through to completion, working with your team to ensure evidence of action and reinforcement is captured, presented, and acted on.
- Demonstrate commitment to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori and other communities and cultures.
What you’ll bring:
- Exceptional skills using the M365 suite of products.
- Be able to produce business artifacts to a very high standard.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
- Excellent understanding of modelling techniques and methods.
- Knowledge and experience in conducting cost/benefit analyses.
- Understanding of and experience with developing and obtaining approval for business cases.
- Better Business Case Methodology.
- Requirements gathering.
- Business process mapping.
- Using project methodologies e.g., PRINCE2.
- Modelling tools an advantage.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
- Keeps knowledge up to date and participates in ongoing professional development.
- Understanding of technical documentation.
- Understanding of system development methodologies.
Qualifications / Requirements:
Certificate Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) or equivalent an advantage
Relevant tertiary qualification containing significant component of statistics or other mathematical disciplines, or equivalent experience preferred.
Skills:
The following Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) technical skills are required for this role:
- Business Analysis (BUAN)
- Business Process Improvement (BPRE)
- Requirements Definition and Management (REQM)
- Consultancy (CNSL)
- Relationship Management (RLMT)
Working at Te Tari Pūreke in NZ Police
Come and join a team who are passionate about ensuring the possession and use of firearms in Aotearoa is the safest in the world.
We as the firearms regulator, collaborate closely with both the Ministry of Justice and NZ Police. The Ministry of Justice is responsible for policy advice and system oversight and NZ Police is responsible for law enforcement function.
Together we seek to continuously improve our approach across the firearms regulatory environment.
While we do look for skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
If you want to contribute to keeping our communities safe and enjoy purposeful and meaningful work, then come join our highly motivated leadership team
This role is set at an Individual Contributor level, this means your key purpose is “to deliver or enable others to deliver Our Business”.
We will ask you questions based on “How we will deliver Our Business – Core Competencies” and the appropriate role level, i.e. Individual Contributor. For more information on Our Core Competencies, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/core-competencies-how-we-will-deliver-our-business.pdf
These questions will be unique and specific to the role, focusing on the aspects the hiring manager believes are most important for that position at the time. For more information on Our Values, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/nzp-our-values.pdf
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Applicant Information Pack (External)
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If this position sounds like you, click apply now. You will be required to submit an application form and a CV. Before confirmation of hire, pre-employment checks will be undertaken.
For further information on the application process, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers
Salary
This position is covered by a collective agreement and salary will commence at $110,425 to a maximum of $114,818 dependent on skills and experience relevant to the role.
All applications must be submitted online and will not be accepted directly via email. All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand.
If you are an internal applicant, you must apply internally through the police system.
If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Senior Recruitment Advisor - Sandra on Swarti.Mehta@police.govt.nz
Please note: Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm Friday 7th February 2025. Applications may be reviewed prior to the close date as well as contact made with candidates.
