Business Intelligence Analyst

Salary: Base salary: £41,750pa to c.£49,100pa 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 Business Intelligence Analyst  at HS2 you will be responsible for designing and leading the design and implementation of business intelligence reports and visualisations, to support and enable HS2 in the gaining insight through the effective use of information and data.

About the role: 

• To have overall accountability for the life-cycle of specific Business Intelligence projects. This includes identifying a specific business need, data gathering, specifying requirements, determining the best tools, data and techniques to address it, undertake analysis, ongoing deliverables and presentations.


• To be responsible for providing ongoing support for business intelligence reports, resolving issues and supporting change requests.


• To be responsible for engaging with Product Owners, Information Asset Owners, IT and Business colleagues to elicit the underlying causes of business problems and inefficiencies, supporting their design objectives with clear insights.


• To be responsible for inspiring best practice for business intelligence within the team and across HS2.


• To be responsible for working with other team members and the Senior Data Analytics Manager to identify, plan, develop, and deliver data and analytics services.


• To be accountable for designing, developing, and deploying reporting and data management process-flow systems through to implementation.


• To be responsible for providing user training and support to develop business intelligence skills and self-service capability across the HS2. 


• To be responsible for keeping up to date with business intelligence best practice and emerging technologies across the industry.


• 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 design, develop and test complex business intelligence reports.


• Ability to select and implement appropriate technologies to deliver resilient, scalable, and future-proofed data solutions.


• Ability to identify and respond to problems in databases, data processes, data products and services.


• Ability to use standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document programs and scripts from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations.


• Ability to produce high quality documents and reports and present to a variety of audiences, including internal stakeholders at various levels in the organisation.


• Ability to determine and document the explicit and implicit needs and requirements of various stakeholders.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of SQL, DAX and Power Query


• Knowledge of data modelling concepts


• Knowledge of data visualisation and report design using Power BI


• Knowledge of a range of cloud-based tools and technologies and importance of the role of business intelligence, data integration and process flow.

Type of experience:

• Experience of developing and maintaining end-to-end business intelligence reports to meet user needs.


• Experience of applying data engineering techniques.


• Experience of producing re-usable data models.


• Experience working in an BI/analytics function in a complex fast paced organisation, such as government, retail or financial services.


• 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.