Senior Business Analyst
Shape the future of how a critical infrastructure business operates - not all Business Analyst roles are created equal. This is one where you're not just capturing requirements, you're cutting through complexity, influencing direction and helping shape how a business evolves in real time.
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst, you'll sit at the heart of meaningful change partnering across the business to translate ambiguity into clarity, connect people and systems and ensure the right things get delivered, the right way.
If you're more than just a BA, if you're someone who leans in, asks better questions, and drives outcomes, this is the role for you.
About us
Passionate, curious, and innovative are a few words that describe our people. We are powering the future, connecting communities, and igniting innovation. Orion owns and operates the electricity distribution network that provides power to central Canterbury. As the third largest electricity distribution network in New Zealand, we cover remote rural areas, regional towns, and the city of Christchurch.
We are an essential service and take our responsibilities seriously. We are community owned and working here means a career with meaning and purpose that makes a difference in your very own neighbourhood.
The role
- Lead end-to-end business analysis across multiple initiatives
- Facilitate workshops to align stakeholders, uncover insights, and drive progress
- Translate complex problems into clear, actionable outputs (user stories, process models, requirements)
- Analyse current processes and design effective future-state ways of working
- Identify impacts across systems, teams, and data to ensure a complete and considered approach
- Support prioritisation, decision-making, and delivery through structured, high-quality analysis
- Define success measures and support the realisation of expected benefits
About you
- Depth of previous experience as a Senior Business Analyst in complex, enterprise environments
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, building strong credible relationships
- Proven ability to cut through ambiguity and bring structure, clarity and direction
- Strong experience across requirements elicitation, process mapping, and supporting end-to-end delivery
- A pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset knowing when to go deep and when to keep momentum
- Experience working across Agile, waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments, adapting to different ways of working
We offer
You'll find at Orion, you can come as you are and just be you. You will be joining a workplace that values who you are, the work you do, and the way you think. Importantly, we offer:
- Flexible working arrangements, and flexible locations with our Head office in Burnside and satellite offices in Rolleston and Ferrymead
- Three days of “My Days” leave
- A broad range of workplace benefits from a wellbeing allowance to access to our holiday house in Hanmer!
You might be surprised to find out that the company that brings the power to your home is innovative, inclusive, progressive, and quite good fun.
To apply
We encourage you to be you in your application! We are truly committed to diversity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in these areas, but you do need to be on board with learning.
Please reach out to us with any questions at zoe.dalton@oriongroup.co.nz. We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interviews. To learn more about us, check out our careers site to find out more about working Orion.
You must have the right to live and work in New Zealand to apply for this job. Pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.
