Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst Contract Opportunity

Our client based in Wellington seeks an experienced Senior Business Analyst to contribute to a significant technical program running through June 2027. This role demands a strong focus on gathering and translating both business and technical requirements to enable successful delivery.

Primary Responsibilities

• Produce clear and thorough documentation encompassing both functional and non-functional business and technical requirements.
• Create process maps illustrating current operations as well as envisioned future workflows post-implementation.
• Draft user stories and acceptance criteria precisely to facilitate development teams in building and testing solutions effectively.
• Define data and integration specifications including data flow diagrams, system interfaces, APIs, and reporting necessities.
• Conduct system impact analyses to identify affected applications, processes, users, roles, and dependency chains.
• Perform gap analysis contrasting the existing capabilities against the necessary future state.
• Collaborate with the Architecture team to evaluate and recommend solution options that highlight feasibility, associated risks, benefits, and constraints.
• Assist in preparing test scenarios and support user acceptance testing (UAT), including defining test cases, validating outcomes, and managing defect resolution.
• Engage with stakeholders to document workshop outcomes, decisions made, assumptions, risks, issues, and agreed action points where applicable.
• Provide implementation assistance by contributing to change impact analysis, transition planning, training coordination, and ensuring operational readiness.
• Develop comprehensive handover documentation ensuring support teams fully understand the solution, dependencies, and ongoing business as usual (BAU) requirements.

Candidate Requirements

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification.

Additional Information

This position is based onsite in Wellington and extends through to June 2027. The company is committed to equal employment opportunities and actively supports diversity within the workplace, encouraging applications from individuals of all backgrounds.