Audit Intelligence Analyst

**Permanent, Wellington**:

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- Ships, planes, guns anddata Join the world of Defence
- Flexible working, excellent professional development

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**Mō mātou| About us**

The New Zealand Defence Force spend every hour of every day, 365 days a year contributing to the defence, security and well-being of Aotearoa.

The role of the Internal Audit | Arotake ā-roto team is to provide independent, meaningful, and insightful assurance services to the organisation. As a partner across the organisation the Internal Audit team adds real value, going beyond compliance to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and work proactively to help manage risk.

In the Audit Intelligence team, your data analysis work will touch on many aspects of what the NZDF is about - from camps and bases, overseas posts and governance systems, through to finance, travel and HR systems.

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**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

Reporting to the Manager Audit Intelligence, you will work collaboratively in a team of three to provide data-led audits and analytics. You will contribute to the delivery of high-quality insights that are extremely prized by senior stakeholders.

In this role you will get to:

- leverage data to solve interesting and unique problems that lead to tangible improvements
- access and utilise large datasets to create high-quality data analysis that supports the delivery of audits that are entirely data driven
- provide data analysis expertise and support to fraud investigations when required
- use your love of data and inquisitive mind to generate insights that help the organisation to better understand it’s data, augment decision making, and drive new initiatives
- contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of data analysis tools and techniques for the team
- work with the military and civilian components that make up the NZDF.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and Experience**

The right person for this role will offer:

- at least 2 years’ experience in a data analytics, modelling or data intelligence role
- exceptional technical skills and understanding with an inquiring mind
- the skills to spot dodgy data at 500Mbps
- superb attention to detail and accuracy
- the ability to translate technical information and data into clear, concise and easy to understand reports
- an applied understanding of data technologies including SQL, Access, Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot and VBA
- excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence and willingness to work with a range of people

A passion for c3RoZ2lzbmlvdG5pYXRhZGduaW5ydXQ.

Experience within an audit environment, or an understanding of audit is preferred, but not essential.

We have begun a period of transformation to shift to a modernised analytical environment, so a good understanding of technologies to interrogate and visualise data such as Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, R, Python and ACL, is desirable.

With the opportunity to work with a highly experienced, passionate manager and wider team of experts, an appetite for learning and continuous improvement is a must.

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**Nōu te rourou | What NZDF offers you**

In return, the NZDF offers you:

- a flexible working environment
- international and national travel opportunities
- a strong commitment to your ongoing professional development and career development
- fully funded life cover up to $300,000
- 5 weeks annual leave per year
- 4% KiwiSaver
- a strong, positive, diverse and inclusive organisational and team culture.

Inspired? If you're interested in learning more - call
**Katie Kemp** on
**(04) 931 9466** or
**Jacaleen Williams** on
**(04) 931 9450** quoting job number
**20339** to discuss this excellent opportunity further, or click
**APPLY**.

Position description can be found below.

Applications will close at
**5pm** on

Position Description (pdf)