Principal Business Analyst at New Zealand Transport Agency, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Come join NZTA |Waka Kotahi to facilitate business improvement contributing to delivering a land transport system connecting people, products, and places for a thriving Aotearoa.

This is a newly created fixed term position (18 months) within the Corporate Capability and Support group which offers plenty of growth along with the opportunity to showcase your skills enterprise wide.

.Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity'
As the Principal Business Analyst you will ensure a holistic, human-centred enterprise analysis approach is used in designing and delivering business and customer change thereby creating great transport system and service experiences.

This role will be working on a key enabling programme that aims to improve investment decisions for NZTA, by way of creating ability to identify the location, scale, and timing of land transport problems more easily, and consider the best intervention(s) to resolve these problems. To better understand the benefit(s) from our interventions and how we can improve delivering them, and bring together all the evidence needed to support quality land transport planning and investment decisions. The Programme will also enable a common understanding of the insights that are available so we can better understand the impacts of our decisions and optimise our investments.

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Ko koe tēnei | About you'
In addition to your leadership attributes and to be successful in this role, you will bring:

Knowledge and experience:

• Applies significant enterprise analysis expertise to shape insights and new or improved service propositions, co-designing innovative solutions in line with human-centred design practices and organisational goals
• Provides thought leadership in enterprise analysis and human-centred design approaches and trends
• Leads and shapes human-centred solutions on the more complex and challenging projects
• Clearly identifies business objectives and unearths customers' and stakeholders' needs
• Drives quality customer outcomes using human-centred and data led approaches
• Prioritises high-value, feasible, and viable opportunities
• Develops effective measures for evaluating the performance of improvements and solutions
• Develops innovative visual artefacts that help bring services to life
• Provides oversight, guidance and mentoring for Senior Business Analysts and other less experienced team members as required to assist the Manager with building internal capability and increasing process maturity across the organisation
• Provides expert advice to internal stakeholders and manages multiple stakeholders needs and expectations
• Communicates and escalates any potential risks and issues appropriately
• Grows and maintains key relationships
• Contributes to the strategic direction of NZTA | Waka Kotahi's change delivery

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in delivering enterprise analysis, using various methodologies, to quality, time and budget constraints
• Significant practical experience using a broad range of enterprise analysis methods and approaches, particularly operational capability design, current state analysis and business process design

You will demonstrate knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori. You will also have knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an appreciation of te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as it applies in the public sector.

Ko wai mātou | About us
The purpose of our group, through demonstrating sound commercial acumen, is to:

Provide business planning (includes NLTP), financial, investment, and assurance services for NZTA | Waka Kotahi and the land transport sector, ensuring value for money and expected benefits are being realised, enabling NZTA | Waka Kotahi to run efficiently and effectively.

Deliver corporate services that underpin effective performance, including legal, governance, risk and assurance, business planning and budgeting, programme management, business support, and corporate properties and workplace services.

Corporate Capability and Support delivers shared support services across NZTA | Waka Kotahi, leads improvements in corporate and commercial capability, and drives organisational efficiency and effectiveness.

Along with our other benefits we also have new Waka Kotahi Life, Income Protection and Critical Illness Insurance scheme available for permanent employees. Others include:

• 5 weeks annual leave, 15 days sick leave after 3 years' service
• Annual flu vaccinations, health checks and eye tests
• A well-being initiative supporting activities that make a difference to both physical and mental well-being
• Service recognition programme.

Rā Katinga | Applications close
8th December 2024

For further information, email: careers@nzta.govt.nz

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

NZTA| Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.