Location
Podium - Euston, London

Salary
Base salary: £44,380 to £52,212 per annum depending on skills and experience. In addition, a flexible benefits fund of 15% is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, alongside a range of competitive benefits.

About the Role
As a Senior Analyst at HS2, you will lead value for money assessments for HS2 and major rail schemes in the North of England. You will deliver robust economic appraisals 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.

Your responsibilities will include applying expertise in economic appraisal and value for money assessment to develop and maintain high-quality analytical approaches, models, and tools. You will 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. Building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues across HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport will be essential, agreeing analytical requirements for senior and Board-level decisions and ensuring these are supported by high-quality evidence.

You will communicate analytical findings clearly to a range of stakeholders, including non-analysts, adapting your style to suit the audience and responding constructively to challenge. Drawing well-reasoned conclusions from analysis, you will present clear evidence on costs, benefits, and risks, providing balanced advice to inform high-profile investment decisions, including where evidence is uncertain or incomplete. You will identify opportunities for analysis to influence decision-making and improve value for money across schemes.

Additional duties include managing external analytical contracts where required, including procurement, delivery oversight, and financial management, as well as managing and supporting junior analysts through objective setting, performance management, and professional development. You will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

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

About You
- Applies economic appraisal and value for money principles to develop and deliver high-quality analytical outputs using 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, coordinating with internal teams and external suppliers to define requirements 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.
- Actively promotes and embeds Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all work.

Qualifications
- 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.