Senior Quality and Assurance Analyst

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Job Description

Salary: Base salary: £34,650pa to c.£40,750pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% 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 Senior Quality and Assurance Analyst at HS2 you will support the development and management of a risk based assurance programme and report on progress against the plan, including formal 6 monthly reports. Assist with provision of data and insights for quality and assurance reporting, including the Risk, Control, Assure report and Monthly Business Review. Management of all assurance related management information, such as action tracking, management of overdue actions for closure. Assist in the maintenance of a business and project wide operational assurance map and dashboard. Provide insightful analysis of assurance management information, clearly identifying and presenting issues, risks, and trends.

About the role:

• Support the planning, scheduling and approval of the annual Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan (IAAP).
• Provide data and management information for assurance reports, such as the Risk Control Assure report, and the Quality and Assurance contribution to the Tech Services MBR, as well as other reports as required, ensuring they contain sufficient detail, accuracy and insights to actively enable appropriate management decision making.
• Manage, create, maintain, and continuously improve assurance performance dashboards and management information, including those relating to open and overdue actions, and work with action owners to ensure timely completion of actions.
• Provide relevant MI to P-Rep to support the management of actions and reporting of progress to P-Rep
• Working with other members of the Assurance team to provide analytical and data support ensuring they have the information required to undertake their activities.
• Provide timely and accurate consolidation of business and project assurance data and analysis as required, identify areas of emerging risks and help inform operational assurance planning and delivery.
• Ensure reporting formats are up to date and that the Integrated Management System accurately reflects assurance reporting processes.
• 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:

• Skilled in distilling information from multiple sources
• Data management skills to assess business information to identify and present key issues and trends.
• IT literate with skills in reporting software, data systems including PowerBI, large Excel spreadsheets and other MS Office applications.
• Management skills, working on multiple activities simultaneously and prioritise the most critical activities to agreed deadlines.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Information Management, Data Quality and Data Analytics tools and techniques
• Knowledge of business information reporting cycle.
• Knowledge of matrix organisations and programme delivery
• Knowledge of relevant interfaces for similar infrastructure projects

Type of experience:

• Experience of managing data from multiple sources to create reports and provide insights
• Experience of planning across multiple business areas
• Experience of reporting teams on complex programmes

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

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: 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.