About the Company

Join a world-recognised global technology business known for delivering innovative solutions that help NZ organisations boost efficiency and performance.

They have a collaborative, supportive culture, enjoy working together, and genuinely value people.

They continue to roll out new software solutions across enterprise and mid-market customers - and internally, they are uplifting their own systems and processes.

About the Role

This contract focuses on the end-to-end rollout of a new payroll system, working across the New Zealand and Australian business.

As the Business Analyst, you’ll play a key role in supporting a major data migration initiative, ensuring payroll and HRIS data is transitioned accurately, securely, and with minimal disruption. You’ll work across business and technical teams to capture requirements, map current-state processes, and validate data throughout the migration lifecycle.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Business Requirements Gathering: Facilitate workshops, interviews, and analysis sessions to understand business needs across payroll, HR, and finance stakeholders.
• Process Mapping: Document current-state and future-state workflows, focusing on payroll operations, data flows, and system touchpoints.
• Data Migration Analysis: Define data mapping rules, transformation requirements, and validation criteria for payroll and employee data.
• Gap & Impact Analysis: Identify discrepancies between source and target systems and assess business impacts.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the bridge between business users, technical teams, and vendors to ensure clear communication and aligned expectations.
• Documentation: Maintain detailed BA deliverables including BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process documents, and data dictionaries.
• Change Support: Assist with training materials, communications, and readiness activities linked to payroll process or system changes.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience as a Business Analyst within complex programmes.
• Hands-on experience supporting data migration projects, ideally involving HRIS or payroll platforms.
• Solid understanding of payroll processes, rules, compliance, and data structures.
• Ability to translate functional requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Confident facilitator, able to work with both SMEs and technical engineers.
• Clear documentation and communication skills.
• Experience with UAT, data validation, and supporting cutover/hypercare phases

Next Steps

Apply online, or reach out to Louise - lhickey@brightspark.io with any questions.

Applicants must be based in NZ with valid work rights.