Senior Reporting Analyst

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

Business Registries (NZ Companies Office) is a sub-branch of the Market Integrity Branch of Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery Group, MBIE. Our vision is to deliver world leading regulation to protect fairness and integrity of markets in New Zealand, in line with the Ministry's purpose of 'Grow New Zealand for All' and towards Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery's unique contribution to the goal 'Fair Markets That Thrive'.

Business Registries is the authoritative source of information about a variety of entities, securities over personal property, and financial products. We are the guardians of New Zealand's core business information through the Companies and NZBN register and play a crucial role in building trust and confidence in our economy, helping to make New Zealand a place where doing business is easy, transparent and fair.

The Senior Reporting Analyst leads the design, implementation, maintenance and administration of the Business Registries intelligence environment. The environment includes reporting, analysis and delivery of information, particularly across the Companies Office and the New Zealand Business Number programme. Information provided from the reporting team supports both internal and external clients.

The Senior Reporting Analyst is the business lead in developing and owning a data strategy. They lead the strategic thinking in identifying data issues and opportunities that deliver to the overarching strategy. They are the business lead in key projects such as the migration into the MBIE Datamart.

This role also plays a leadership role within the Reporting Team, taking ownership of the workflow across the team, and they contribute to the development of developing colleagues.  
The role is responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of advice and practices in relation to their team’s work.

A thorough technical knowledge of MBIE’s specialist reporting tools, programmes and registry databases is required. The role is part of a geographically distributed team spanning Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• A proven track record of experience and achievement in an analytical role, utilising complex information.
• Ability to understand the ‘bigger picture’ business strategy and to create sub-strategies and plans to contribute to it.
• Wide ranging knowledge of systems and tools for reporting.  
• Specific experience with Business Objects tools including Universe design and build, reports development and creating of reporting dashboards.
• Ability to analyse data requirements and design solutions using appropriate business intelligence tools.
• Excellent relationship management skills, with the ability to communicate appropriately and effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Highly organised with good time and task management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and demands from a range of stakeholders.
• Strong commitment to providing outstanding client service and public value for money.
• Working knowledge of public sector processes.
• Actively identifies potential to broaden or deepen existing expertise.
• Tertiary qualification, preferably in information management, systems development, statistics, computer science or other relevant discipline, and/or extensive and comparable relevant experience.
• Must have the ability to work in New Zealand.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Data and reporting

The Senior Reporting Analyst is required to deliver results in the following areas:

• Extract data from various register databases through the use of specialist technical reporting tools.
• Produce regular and on-demand reports for the unit, particularly Companies Office and the New Zealand Business Number Programme, as well as for wider internal stakeholders and external clients. This includes, when required, written analysis to accompany data sets.
• Identify data or information requirements, assessing existing registry data sources, and develop new reports where necessary.
• Undertake structured analysis of information, e.g. producing internal and/or external “dashboards”.
• Works with relevant subject matter experts to ensure business context is appropriately considered and incorporated in reporting where required.
• Analyse problems by collecting available data, eliciting additional information, shifting out irrelevancies and constructing an accurate picture of the situation.
• Lead the development of a reporting framework where reports are relevant, informative and produced in a timely manner.
• Lead the administration, maintenance and enhancement of the reporting infrastructure.
• Evaluate solutions critically on the basis of logical assumptions, factual information, resource constraints and Ministry’s values, and chooses the appropriate solution.
• Business lead and owner of the Business Registries Data Strategy.
• Presents and expresses ideas effectively in a range of contexts and settings, adjusting style and language to the context and the message.
• Uses persuasion and influencing skills to gain acceptance of ideas.
• Written material uses a range of tools to convey style and tone.

Stakeholder management

• Participates as an active team member and contributes knowledge and expertise needed to achieve Business Registries and MBIE’s outcomes.
• Develops effective working relationships with other managers and staff in order to transfer knowledge and learning from the team to the wider organisation.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, as necessary, in order to identify and share best practice information and to promote the Ministry, its products and services.
• Represents whole-of-Ministry views and protects its reputation in any external interactions.

Wellbeing, health and safety

• Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Ensures own and others' safety at all times.
• Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
• Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
• Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.

Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry

The Senior Reporting Analyst position reports into the Team Leader Data within the Market Integrity branch. The branch sits within the Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery group.

More information about MBIE’s structure

To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand

Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose – Grow New Zealand for All.

To Grow New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi (work). Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.

• As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world.
• We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders.
• We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).

Ngā matatau – Our competencies

Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.

Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.

Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.

Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.

Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.

Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti).

Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All.

The principles of Te Tiriti – including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work.

MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.

Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service

Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.

In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.

What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission