Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

📍 New Plymouth or Wellington — with flexible and remote working options available

🕐 Permanent - Full-time

Do you thrive on bridging the gap between business needs and technical delivery, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with strategy?

If you’re a strategic thinker with a strong technical mindset, exceptional analytical skills, and a collaborative approach — we’d love to have you on our team.

About Us

Our purpose is to connect communities. It’s at the heart of everything we do as we serve our customers now and into the future. At Powerco, we’re passionate about doing mahi that keeps over 1.1 million customers connected and enables energy choices as we support Aotearoa on the journey to a low-carbon future.

Ngā Tikanga - Our Way, is what guides us to achieve our purpose and ensures we’re better together, work smarter, proud to be here, and future focused in how we work together with each other, our communities, and industry stakeholders.

About the Role

Make an impact. As a Senior Business Analyst in our team, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering technology-enabled change across the organisation.

You’ll work with stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical specifications — ensuring that our systems, data, and integrations are designed to meet evolving business needs.

This is a hands-on, collaborative role where you’ll contribute to high-impact initiatives, guiding solution design and ensuring delivery aligns with architectural standards and strategic goals.

What You’ll Do

• Analyse and translate business needs into technical requirements and solution specifications.
• Collaborate closely with solution architects, solution specialists, and business stakeholders to design feasible, scalable solutions.
• Lead and facilitate workshops, interviews, and process-mapping sessions to identify and define business and technical requirements.
• Support solution delivery through design reviews and ensuring traceability from requirements to outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement, identifying opportunities for automation, integration, and data-driven decision-making.
• Contribute to practice development by coaching peers and helping strengthen our business analysis and technical delivery capability.

What You’ll Bring

• A growth mindset and strong desire to deliver real business value through technology.
• Proven ability to engage and build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders — both business and technical.
• Highly analytical, with excellent problem-solving and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated experience across business analysis, including:
• requirements elicitation and documentation
• data analysis and mapping
• business process re-engineering and improvement
• Experience working with Agile and traditional project delivery methods.
• A collaborative and mentoring approach, helping to grow BA capability across the team.
• Comfort operating in complex, changing environments where you create structure from ambiguity.

Why Join Us

At Powerco, you’ll be part of a purpose-led organisation that values collaboration, flexibility, and innovation. You’ll work alongside talented professionals on projects that make a tangible difference to our business and our communities.

We offer:

• Flexible and hybrid working options
• Opportunities for ongoing learning and development
• A supportive, inclusive environment that encourages curiosity and growth

📅 Applications close: Tuesday, 18th November 2025

Please note, we’ll be screening candidates as applications come in, so don’t wait too long to apply!

Our ability to get the best out of people is what sets Powerco apart. We realise that candidates – especially from underrepresented and neurodiverse backgrounds – often won’t apply for roles unless they meet ALL the criteria. We encourage anyone who shares our passion for connecting communities to apply for any role that aligns to your strengths and interests. We will provide a safe space where you can bring your whole self to work and thrive.  

If you would benefit from support or adjustments in order to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please phone 0800 769372 or email kiaora@powerco.co.nz