Business Analyst

Applications Close: 01/10/2026

With more than 150 years of history in Aotearoa New Zealand, SBS Bank is proud to help Kiwis find a place to call home. Our purpose drives us every day: supporting our members, their whānau and the communities we serve.

We're on an exciting transformation journey, investing in new capabilities to deliver a more modern, secure banking experience for today and the future. This role supports business improvement and change initiatives across SBS. You’ll help ensure processes are clear, well documented, consistently applied, and continually improved to support compliance, operational excellence, and positive customer outcomes. Working with stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts, and Senior Business Analysts, you’ll understand current processes, identify improvements, and turn complex information into clear, practical documentation.

To help us with this, we are searching for a fixed-term Business Analyst to join our team based in head office, Invercargill.

What you'll be busy with:

• Creating and maintaining clear standard operating procedures, work instructions, job aids, operational guides, and process repositories for Future Bank Programme.
• Working with SMEs and stakeholders to understand current-state processes, workflows, requirements, risks, and controls.
• Translating current-state processes into future-state processes aligned with the new core banking platform.
• Documenting future-state business processes using approved process mapping standards and tools.
• Identifying process gaps, duplication, inefficiencies, and opportunities to improve how work is delivered.
• Building trusted stakeholder relationships and communicate process information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

What you'll bring:

• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work well with people across the business.
• A practical mindset, with the ability to simplify complex information and support improvements that benefit our people and customers.
• Tertiary level qualification, relevant business analysis training, process improvement training or equivalent practical experience

This role is a full time, fixed-term role up to the end of December 2027, with hours of work of Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5.00pm

About Us:

As a 100% New Zealand member-owned bank, we have the freedom to focus on what matters most: creating real value for our members (customers) through competitive products, local sponsorships and meaningful community support.

To support growth, we're looking for passionate, curious people who want to make an impact and help shape the future of banking in New Zealand.

At SBS, we foster an inclusive, innovative culture where people are encouraged to challenge conventions, share ideas and bring their whole selves to work.

We're a close-knit, caring whānau that values diversity, supports wellbeing and invests in development, because when our people thrive, so do our members and communities.

If you're ready to be part of a team where your contribution is valued and your perspective matters, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today to join the Bank with Heart and become part of our SBS whānau