At AIA, our promise is to help people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by encouraging them to make positive lifestyle changes one step at a time. Our firm belief is that by following our Operating Philosophy of doing the right thing, in the right way with the right people, the results will come. AIA Insurance for Life, Health and Wellbeing.

The opportunity:

This is a 12 month contract opportunity for a Technical Analyst to join the team while covering parental leave. Working under a Scrum Team Lead, you'll be involved throughout the delivery cycle from project inception, solution design, delivery, process development and on-going operational monitoring. You will collect and analyse a diverse range of complex data and work to recognise trends, identify reasons behind outliers, derive insights and present the information in form that stakeholders can digest. 

Your analysis experience will ensure the right decisions are made to achieve the best outcome for the business as a whole.  Your influencing skills will ensure business buy in to these decisions and facilitate resolution of any issues.

About the role:

• Provide support and guidance to technical teams to ensure proposed solutions meet the needs of the business.

• Challenge the status quo and influence process improvement.

• Ensure traceability of requirements back to AIA’s strategy and business objectives.

• Prepare and present documentation to succinctly and precisely communicate information appropriate to a range of business and technical audiences

• Identify opportunities for technical analysis to improve technical and business outcomes. 

• Provide direction to other project team members and technical staff involved in the solution delivery as appropriate.

• Contribute to the development of business cases and design decisions.

• Review requirements and other documents using standard analysis methodologies and tools to identify the technical and service delivery impact.

• Identify, collect, collate relevant data and documentation to enable informed decisions to be made.

• Analyse technically focused data to identify trends; gain insights to support informed decision making.

• Adhere to project methodologies, including the appropriate SDLC, PMLC and Organisational Change framework.

• Adhere to ePMO processes, and use of templates and tools.

• Responsible for producing appropriate documentation to enable all recommendations to be substantiated and traced back to underlying data.

• Delivery content to improve the customer focused and internal technical documentation

• Ensure appropriate quality control processes are implemented and sign-off is obtained for deliverables.

About you:

• Tertiary qualifications in a technology or information science.

• At least 5 years’ experience in a technology focused analysis role ideally working in an agile environment

• High-level understanding of technical terminology and technology used in an enterprise and cloud-based environment

• Experience working on projects or process improvement experience of medium to large size and complexity

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills including development of high-quality documentation, proposals and presentation materials. 

• Competent in the delivery of presentations and proposals to a wide range of audiences.

• Strong analytical skills.

• Demonstrated high levels of proficiency with a range of data analysis tools including SQL and Excel.

• Enjoy being self-managing, proactive, inquisitive, thorough, precise, concise, and working concurrently on a diverse range of activities.

• Experience in the Insurance or Financial Services industry preferred

Why choose AIA:

At AIA, we’ve made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people.

• We invest in training and development to build on your current skills

• Career development through internal mobility opportunities

• Work for a business helping make positive health and wellbeing changes to the lives of New Zealanders

• Access additional leave days to recharge and refresh yourself

• Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you

• Work with supportive and inclusive managers

• Flexible working arrangements

What’s next?

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