Senior Commercial Analyst

**Job title**:Senior Commercial Analyst

**Role type**: Full time preferred, fixed term for six months

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary band & range**: D $100,934 to $129,804 depending on skills and experience_ _

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

You'll proactively ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and work through complex problems with clarity and confidence. Your understanding of operational environments and biosecurity risk will support annual levy planning and strengthen investment rigour. You'll bring together diverse business areas along with your business and commercial acumen to map workflows, identify priorities, and support strategic investment decisions.

Key responsibilities are to:

- Support investment analysis and business case development
- Connect financial, policy, and operational perspectives
- Map workflows and identify strategic priorities
- Triage investment ideas and justify decisions
- Ask critical questions to guide planning and prioritisation
- Understand biosecurity risk and operational contexts
- Contribute to annual levy investment planning for cargo and passengers
- Provide commercial and financial insight to shape investment frameworks
- Facilitate collaboration across teams to align investment strategy

**About You - Mou**

You bring strong commercial awareness, a strategic mindset, and the confidence to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions. This role suits someone who wants to move beyond monthly reporting and dive deep into operational realities. You understand how financial decisions link to biosecurity outcomes and can work across frameworks, business cases, and investment planning. You're a self-starter with broad experience and a practical approach to solving complex problems.

You will need to:

- Show commercial experience across diverse environments
- Demonstrate confidence in challenging and problem solving
- Ask clear, practical questions to guide decision-making
- Understand operational and biosecurity investment contexts
- Contribute to business case and framework development
- Link financial decisions to tangible biosecurity outcomes
- Work across teams to support investment prioritisation
- Bring a strategic and a commercial mindset to investment planning
- Step away from routine financial reporting to explore deeper analysis

**About the Team** - **Mo to matou Ropu**

You'll work closely with finance, cost recovery, border commissioners, principal advisers, and policy colleagues across the organisation. The role is fast-paced, collaborative, and focused on real financial outcomes rather than routine reporting. The team works across the country, with many interactions happening online. This is a forward-focused, project-based environment where understanding biosecurity risk and operational realities is key to success.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

We're a large organisation with massive scope from the frontline to policy development and beyond.
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**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Professional membership reimbursement
- Access to free professional confidential counselling

**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake?**
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes, and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

**Applications close at 11.59pm 30 October 2025**

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