Reporting & Analysis Manager x2
Birmingham, United Kingdom - 60% p/week in office.
Job Description
Salary: £46,406 pa to c.£54,595 pa depending on skills and experience.
In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As a Reporting & Analysis Manager at HS2 you will have a key role in establishing, automating, delivering and integrating programme and corporate reporting to enable effective, data driven decision making across the programme.
About the role:
We are recruiting two Reporting & Analysis Managers to join our team. Whilst both roles share the same core responsibilities and accountabilities, we expect successful candidates to bring complementary strengths. One role is likely to have a greater focus on programme reporting delivery, stakeholder engagement and executive-level reporting, whilst the second role is likely to have a stronger focus on reporting governance, data analytics, automation and development of reporting solutions using tools such as Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading the definition and formatting standards for key reporting, and assuring the quality and integrity of all Programme and Functional reports as they are submitted and ensuring there is a consistent approach to data capture and analysis.
- Leading the aggregation of programme reporting and data to develop a comprehensive view of programme performance against baseline and forecast (incl. Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis) across Phase One, Phase Two, Corporate functions (Infrastructure Directorate, Land & Property).
- Leading the development and analysis of programme reporting and data, identifying key trends, issues, insights and common themes, communicating these clearly and concisely.
- Ensuring a robust reporting process is deployed consistently and complied with across the organisation.
- To have responsibility for ensuring the Projects and Programmes provide necessary information per the required timeframes to enable effective decision making.
- Leading and maintaining alignment of reports with the evolving client and business needs, proposing changes to the development and delivery areas as required and developing innovative solutions to automate and simplify reporting.
- Developing and maintain relationships across delivery teams, supporting the production of project programme level periodic reporting
- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
About You:
Skills:
- Ability to collect, integrate, analyse and report on qualitative and quantitative data.
- Ability to assimilate large volumes of information, identifying key issues and presenting them in a clear and concise manner.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to drive reporting improvements, governance and consistency across complex programmes and organisations.
- Proficient in relevant reporting and analytical tools, including Microsoft Office applications.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of Reporting and Analysis in a large project/programme.
- Knowledge of Project Controls and Reporting systems in order to build regular reports and undertake trend analysis.
Type of experience:
- Experience in reporting and analysis in large complex programmes.
- Experience of large infrastructure or delivery programmes.
- Experience of managing stakeholders at all levels of a large organisation
Additional Experience Sought Across the Two Appointments
- For one role, we're particularly interested in candidates with experience leading programme or corporate reporting across multidisciplinary teams, including stakeholder management, team leadership, reporting governance and process improvement. Experience in Project Controls, rail/infrastructure environments and Power BI is desirable.
OR
- For the second role, we're particularly interested in candidates with experience in technical reporting, reporting transformation and process management, with strong Power BI capability essential and Microsoft Fabric experience desirable. A background in Project Management, PMO or Project Controls would be beneficial.
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.
Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: [1] Removing bias in the recruitment process (youtube.com)
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
References
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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWs5gdAY1Vg
