Cost and Change Analyst - HS2 Phase 2

Location - Birmingham

Rate - <phone number removed> per annum

Contract - 12 months

My client is the development partner for a major rail infrastructure project in Birmingham.

Job Purpose

• Use deep technical knowledge and subject matter expertise to understand business and technical issues and impacts regarding proposed change.
• understanding of causes and effects and uses the knowledge gained from analysis to make recommendations or resolutions

Accountabilities

• Analysis of outputs from changes proposed and subsequent effect on cost models to support accurate reporting, benchmarking and analysis of HS2 infrastructure costs.
• Ensuring that the information received is harvested and inserted into the right change/cost systems, in order to drive the mechanics behind the systems for earned value and world class cost reporting.
• Draw on industry best practice in the development and maintenance of HS2 cost systems to ensure consistent best in class approaches and decision making across all directorates.
• Provide support to the development of programme wide models including (amongst others) indirect costs, whole life, and prelims.
• Provides subject matter expertise to understand the impacts of proposed changes.
• Provides business or technical information
• Provides recommendations to change asessors

Experience

• Understanding of the cost drivers that define a project and ability to convert engineering data into meaningful cost drivers.
• Quantity surveying skills and an understanding of the construction industry. Knowledge of cost systems.
• Ability to analyse effects of the proposed change on the financial data.
• Ability to analyse data and present as meaningful metrics.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and specifically the ability to present cost work

Desirable Criteria

• Working towards chartered status.
• Experience in infrastructure and/or the rail sector.

The successful candidate is someone who:

• can accurately and clearly interpret and articulate changes proposed, cost data and provide
• informative conclusions to allow effective decision making;
• has a good understanding of data usage;
• has proven ability to successfully conduct detailed project/programme planning; and
• Has experience of working with internal change management and cost systems.