Business Analyist (Start ASAP)

About the job

The Operations and Corporate Products Team have an opportunity available for a Business Analyst to us. As part of this team, you will work closely with our experience and product teams, business partners, project managers, change managers, application and development team and potentially third-party vendors to build and strengthen our capabilities across a wide range of operational and corporate product portfolios. Our goal is to have an effective and efficient organisation and seamless experience for our internal and external customers.

Key outputs for success in the role

• Analyse diversified and complex business processes, applications, and systems, and recommend changes that will address business problems and/or achieve organisational benefits
• Conduct discovery work to define and articulate business problems or opportunities, and elaborate their scope for facilitating project initiation and delivery
• Drive and facilitate improvements to achieve process and/or system efficiency, performance, and effectiveness
• Gather, articulate and document business requirements, and translate the requirements into user stories, use cases and/or other artifacts.
• Build and maintain effective, on-going relationship with a diverse range of business partners, project team members and other stakeholders
• Proactively contribute to the development of Air New Zealand's business analysis community of practice, and advocate the practice in projects

Key requirements of the position include:

• Previous BA experience in a sizeable organisation with a focus on digital transformation.
• Strong experience in articulating and documenting requirements (business, functional and non-functional), user stories, use cases, process models, activity diagrams, etc.
• Experience in working in an environment where both agile and waterfall methodologies are practised.
• Experience in prioritising product backlogs to ensure that each sprint is planned, groomed, and optimised for delivery.
• Experience in contributing to product strategy development, planning and implementation activities.
• Familiar with using reporting and monitoring tools to ensure that the right data is available and consumed for the right analysis and decision making.
• Familiar with facilitating meetings and workshops and using online collaboration tools such as Miro and Microsoft Teams.
• Ability to seek clarities out of ambiguity and identify viable solutions in a constrained environment.
• Ability to lead work from discovery to delivery phases and ensure that change is successfully implemented, and business benefits are achieved.
• A strong influencer, communicator, lateral thinker, problem solver and advocate of robust business analysis practice.