• Full Time
• Application Closes 27 Jul 2025
• Manawatu - Palmerston North
• IT Business Analysts

The role: 

As a Business Analyst at Horizons Regional Council, you’ll be at the heart of our Information Management Programme, working across a range of business units to understand needs, analyse processes, and deliver improvements that enable better data use, digital transformation, and service delivery.

You’ll shape business cases, define system requirements, and support implementation and change management, ensuring projects deliver real value. Your work will directly enhance Council operations and contribute to more effective, efficient public services.

This varied and rewarding role is ideal for someone who thrives on connecting people, systems, and strategy. You’ll need to build strong relationships, manage expectations, and support change readiness across diverse teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Analysis & Improvement
  Work with stakeholders to understand business needs, identify process inefficiencies, and document current and future state workflows. Provide actionable recommendations that improve service delivery and system performance.
• Project & Solution Delivery
  Contribute to planning, design, testing, and implementation of system improvements. Ensure business requirements are translated into practical solutions, supported by clear communication and change management.
• Data & Information Management
  Assess data structures, standards, and quality. Identify and support initiatives that improve data governance, accessibility, integration, and maturity across the organisation.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners. Facilitate workshops and support change adoption to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
  Explore emerging technologies and prototype new solutions that enhance internal decision-making and improve public access to information.
• Organisational Contribution
  Actively participate in professional development, cross-functional initiatives, and Council-wide responsibilities including health and safety and emergency management, while contributing to a collaborative, values-driven workplace.

About you: 

You'll be a proactive and analytical thinker with a talent for understanding complex problems and translating them into practical solutions. You have at least five years of experience in business analysis, systems improvement, or digital transformation. You’re confident engaging with stakeholders at all levels, bringing clarity to requirements, and championing improvements in how data and systems are used. Ideally, you’ve worked in a public sector environment and are familiar with data governance, information management principles, and cloud-based tools like Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. You're a team player who’s curious, adaptable, and committed to making a difference.

Why join us? 

When you join us, you can look forward to a rewarding career full of opportunities to develop a positive and supportive work environment. We do this through: 

• Positive focus on employee health, wellness and wellbeing initiatives across the organisation including your birthday off, wellness day, life insurance for all permanent staff and 5 weeks leave after 2 years of service.
• Flexible family friendly work environment.
• Ongoing development and opportunities across the organisation to grow, specialise or diversify your skills.
• Working together for a better environment across our region.
• A supportive and social work environment across the organisation.  

About us: 

The Horizons region extends over 22,200km2 – from Ruapehu in the north and Horowhenua in the south, to Whanganui in the west and Tararua in the east. We work with and for our community in the use and protection of our environment, managing our precious resources of land, air and water; as well as public transport and a key role in emergency management. At Horizons Regional Council we work to make our region a healthy environment where people are thriving, including our staff.

Applications close 5pm Sunday 27 July 2025

Horizons are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to ensuring we have a diverse and inclusive workplace so our people reflect the diversity of our region.