Senior Analyst in London

Location: Podium - Euston, London

Salary Base salary: c£44,380pa to £52,212pa 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.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. 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 Analyst at HS2, you will lead value for money assessment for HS2 and major rail schemes in the North of England. You will be responsible for delivering robust economic appraisal to inform investment decisions, ensuring schemes are affordable, efficient, and aligned with strategic objectives. This includes assessing costs, benefits, and risks, including the impact of construction inflation, and identifying opportunities to improve value through design and delivery optimisation.

You will translate complex analytical evidence into clear, authoritative advice for senior stakeholders, supporting transparent, well-informed decision-making and ensuring effective use of public funds.

About the role:

• Apply expertise in economic appraisal and value for money assessment to develop and maintain high-quality analytical approaches, models, and tools.
• Lead the delivery of a challenging analytical work programme, providing robust analysis and advice to the Department for Transport and HS2 Ltd to agreed scope, quality, and deadlines.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues across HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport, agreeing analytical requirements for senior and Board-level decisions and ensuring these are supported by high-quality evidence.
• Communicate analytical findings clearly to a range of stakeholders, including non-analysts, adapting style to suit the audience, and responding constructively to challenge.
• Draw well-reasoned conclusions from analysis, presenting clear evidence on costs, benefits and risks, and providing balanced advice to inform high-profile investment decisions, including where evidence is uncertain or incomplete.
• Identify opportunities for analysis to influence decision-making and improve value for money across schemes.
• Manage external analytical contracts where required, including procurement, delivery oversight, and financial management.
• Manage and support junior analysts where applicable, including objective setting, performance management, and professional development.
• 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:

• Applies economic appraisal and value for money principles to develop and deliver high-quality analytical outputs, drawing on appropriate tools, models, and techniques.
• Analyses and interprets complex data from multiple sources, identifying key insights, risks, and implications to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Translates high-level requirements into structured analytical work programmes, prioritising resources and managing delivery to time and quality.
• Plans and oversees model development or analytical frameworks, working with internal teams and external suppliers to define requirements, coordinate delivery and ensure quality assurance.
• Builds effective working relationships with stakeholders, securing inputs and influencing decisions through clear, credible analysis.
• Communicates complex analytical information clearly and concisely for a range of audiences, including non-analysts, to support senior decision-making.

Knowledge:

• Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics or a closely related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of public sector appraisal and value for money frameworks (e.g. HM Treasury Green Book, Magenta Book, Transport Analysis Guidance).
• Knowledge of analytical methodologies relevant to economic and financial appraisal, including cost-benefit analysis and risk/uncertainty assessment.
• Proficiency in Excel and experience working with structured models and large datasets to identify trends and insights.

Types of Experience:

• Experience delivering economic or financial appraisal, ideally within a government, infrastructure, consultancy, or regulated environment.
• Experience working with complex datasets and appraisal models, particularly in the context of value for money or investment decisions.
• Experience building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships, presenting complex evidence clearly and influencing decision-making.
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary analytical teams and applying or supporting quality assurance processes.

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