Business Analyst - Payroll Workstream - Wellington - Fixed Term

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Are you a skilled business analyst with experience in payroll systems?
• Fixed term from asap through to approx. Dec 2026
• Be a part of an exciting transformation journey

Join our team and use your Business Analysis skills to support the delivery of our Payroll and HRIS Replacement Programme.

Mō tēnei tūranga - about the role

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join our established Payroll Workstream within our wider Payroll and HRIS Replacement Programme. This role will involve deep business process analysis, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration across multiple workstreams to ensure accurate payroll processing, system alignment, and compliance with New Zealand payroll legislation.

This is a fixed-term role from now until approximately December 2026, offering the opportunity to make a lasting impact within a high-trust public service environment that supports both career and volunteer personnel across Aotearoa.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting system configuration and build by applying defined business requirements, and agreed design decisions to ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Developing detailed process maps, checklists, payroll operational controls and other templated resources to support business processes, identifying optimisation opportunities within the payroll and HR workflows.
• Documenting options analysis, configuration changes, specifications, testing outcomes and results to a high degree of detail.
• Translating business requirements to user stories to enable test case development, this will include well-defined and robust acceptance criteria.
• Supporting data migration and testing activities through identifying, investigating, tracking, and resolving configuration defects and integration gaps through structured issue management processes.
• Providing payroll compliance expertise to testing processes to ensure pay outcomes are compliant with legislation and employment agreements.

Ko tāu nā i tēnei tūranga - What you'll bring to the role:

You are a skilled business analyst with experience in payroll systems replacement. You bring strong payroll experience, working across multiple complex payroll environments. You demonstrate excellent understanding of operational best practice and compliance management.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience as a Payroll Business Analyst, within a large organisation with complex payroll requirements, with strong expertise in payroll system requirements, configuration, and business process optimisation.
• Experience working in large payroll project and programme environments, delivering business change.
• Deep understanding of New Zealand payroll legislation, Holidays Act requirements, and payroll reporting standards.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving capabilities in large programme environments.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, collaborative team of multi-disciplinary experienced project professionals

Ko wai mātou - who are we? 

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is a Crown Entity responsible for reducing unwanted fires, responding to structural and vegetation fires and other emergencies including motor vehicle crashes, medical emergencies, hazardous substance related incidents, natural disasters, and supporting increased community resilience.

Our vision is to build stronger communities and protect what matters most to the people within them. We are proud to be recognised as New Zealand's most trusted public sector agency. Our values reflect what our people believe is core to who we are and the organisation we aspire to be.

• Kia Tika - We Do the Right Thing
• Manaakitanga - We Serve and Support
• Whanaungatanga  - We Are Better Together
• Auahatanga - We Strive to Improve

Ko te tono mai - How to apply:

Come join us - we are excited about the future of Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and we'd love you to be part of it! We value diversity as a strength and welcome applicants that can help bring a difference to our organisation.

If this sounds like you, apply now. To download a copy of our position description please visit our vacancy page on our FireJobs website. 

If you have any specific questions about this role, please email: nhqjobs@fireandemergency.nz. Please note, applications sent via email will not be accepted. 

We will be reviewing applications as they are received and may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position.

Applications close Sunday 22^nd June 2025.

Please note:  Eligibility to work in New Zealand is mandatory for this role.