Reporting and Analysis Manager

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Job Description

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £46406 to £54595 + 20% flex fund

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.

Job Purpose

This role is responsible for establishing, automating, delivering and integrating programme and corporate reporting to enable effective, data driven decision making across the programme.

About the Role

• To be accountable for 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.
• To be accountable for 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).
• To be accountable for leading the development and analysis of programme reporting and data, identifying key trends, issues, insights and common themes, communicating these clearly and concisely.
• To have responsibility for 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.
• To be accountable for 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.
• To be accountable for 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, effectively analyse and report on qualitative and quantitative data.
• Ability to assimilate large volumes of detail, drawing out the key issues in a clear and concise way, suitable for all audiences.
• Ability to facilitate the integration of project scope and time and cost objectives and establish a baseline plan for performance measurement through reporting.
• Ability to establish a value management structured approach in reporting.
• Proficient user of IT systems (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Outlook, internet, MS Access, etc.).
• Communication and Influencing Skills - ability to produce clear communications which engage and influence colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels.

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.

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: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube.

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.