Business Data Analyst

Role overview

This permanent full-time position is based in Wellington and sits within the Property Performance Improvement & Quality (PIQ) team. The role is suited to someone who enjoys working with data, systems, and business processes to improve how a property function plans, manages, and reports on a large and complex portfolio of work.

The PIQ team supports the Property leadership group and wider business teams to plan, deliver, manage, and make decisions across projects and programmes that drive major infrastructure and business change.

As the Business Data Analyst, you will connect data, systems, and workflows to help the Property team make better decisions and operate more efficiently. Your work will include converting complicated information into clear analysis, spotting problems and opportunities, and supporting practical improvements using approved Ministry tools and platforms.

What the role involves

You may be asked to improve reporting datasets, support solutions built on Power Apps and the wider Power Platform, reduce dependence on manual spreadsheets, and document processes clearly. The position also includes creating user guidance, helping deliver training, and contributing to day-to-day reporting and analysis work.

Experience and capability

This position calls for someone with strong experience in project, programme, portfolio, or asset management, ideally within a large government property environment. You should be confident using Microsoft Power Platform products such as Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Query, and SharePoint.

The Ministry values candidates who can produce polished written reports and presentations, manage and interpret data, map and refine workflows, introduce new tools or processes, and juggle several improvement tasks at the same time while meeting deadlines.

You should also be comfortable preparing training material, delivering training to different stakeholder groups, and communicating complex ideas to varied audiences. A working understanding of public sector systems and processes is important.

Advantageous experience

It would be beneficial if you have helped move work from manual spreadsheets or ad hoc reporting into more controlled, documented, and repeatable data processes. Experience with platform migrations is also useful.

Additional strengths include testing business applications, checking outputs against source data, logging defects, supporting user acceptance testing, and working knowledge of SQL, relational data concepts, data dictionaries, data lineage, data quality, or data governance.

About the organisation

The Ministry of Justice is focused on strengthening public trust in the law in Aotearoa New Zealand. Digital is central to how the organisation plans, delivers, and uses technology, and the team works closely with the judiciary, iwi, and sector partners to support justice services through digital capability.

Within Digital, this role sits in the Productivity and Collaboration team in Shared Services. The team delivers products and services used across the Ministry and Judiciary to help people work more collaboratively and productively in a digital environment, making use of the Ministry's investment in cloud platforms such as M365 and Azure.

The Ministry welcomes people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities, and religions.

Benefits

Working here comes with a range of benefits designed to support wellbeing and work-life balance, including 4.4 weeks of annual leave, flexible working arrangements, access to an online professional development portal, and membership in a range of inclusive and proactive networks.

The organisation also offers the chance to broaden your experience across a wide variety of roles, helping you build skills and develop your career.

Salary and remuneration

The pay band for this role is J06, with a range of $85,562 to $116,273. Final remuneration will be set in line with the Secondment Policy, and an Additional Duties Allowance may apply depending on the responsibilities involved and how the role aligns with your current position and pay.

Application process

Applicants are asked to submit a CV and cover letter through the organisation's careers system. A detailed position description and online application form are available during the application process.

Applications close on 16 June, although the team may review applications as they are received and invite suitable candidates to interview before the closing date. For questions, contact recruitment@justice.govt.nz.