Senior Quality and Assurance Analyst

Senior Quality & Assurance Analyst

Base salary: £35 244 pa to £41 464 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the 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. As the Senior Quality & Assurance Analyst you will support the development and management of a risk‑based assurance programme and report on progress against the plan. Assist with provision of data and insights for quality and assurance reporting, including the Risk Control Assure report.

Manage all assurance related management information such as action tracking and 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.

• 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 contribution to the Monthly Review Board, 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 an 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 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 process.
• 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.

• 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 and reporting software data systems including Power BI, 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 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 of similar infrastructure projects.

• 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.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

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.