Job Description
Base salary: £40750 pa to c.£50950 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% 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 Strategic Finance Analyst you will support all aspects of longer term Strategic Finance Planning and Management including but not limited to Inflation, Foreign Exchange, Long term forecasting including strategic planning for indirects costs and spending reviews.
About the role:
Insights & Decision Support
* Supporting strategic and tactical financial analyses and evaluation in order to assist decision making, controlling budgets, adopting alternative financial strategies and developing processes for controlling spend.
* Support Our Future Fit Finance programme and embed a continuous improvement culture and ethos Identifying and implementing process improvements where appropriate.
* Support strategic finance and funding issues including Inflation and Foreign Exchange risks working across HS2 and DfT stakeholders.
* Support Strategic review of Indirects costs focused on meeting Cost Efficiencies as agreed with HS2 Executive and in accordance with DfT led Efficiency Review.
* Manage Business Critical models including HS2 Funding Model and Indirects cost model supporting Comprehensive Spending Reviews and Project Baselines.
* Undertaking strategic and tactical financial analyses and evaluation in order to assist Directors in decision making, controlling budgets and adopting alternative financial strategies and developing processes for controlling spend.
Strategic Partnering
* Supporting the Head of Strategic Finance in other duties as necessary that may be required.
* Act as the key contact between Group Finance and the business to escalate or raise issues
* Identify and address any obstacles or challenges that may impact team performance and implement appropriate solutions [BA1]
* 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:
* Communication skills: Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial issues to non-financial colleagues and to secure compliance with Managing Public Money;
* Ability to interpret complex financial data and use it to support decisions and recommendations within the business
* Ability to analyse and interpret complex financial information throughout the programme lifecycle and to see HS2 from multiple dimensions
* Ability to use ERP systems, utilising data analytics software and complex Excel models
* Ability to deliver value adding MI and ensuring effective financial controls within a major project
* Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage, communicate and develop consensus with both internal and external stakeholders.
* Ability to critically review business plans, assessing plans for their affordability, value for money, timing and impact on programme delivery;
Knowledge:
* Knowledge of accounting systems and the ability to develop and manage off-system analyses and records (e.g. spreadsheets)
* Knowledge of how to develop output driven, activity based budgets, clearly aligned to programme delivery requirements, making clear and reasoned recommendations to the Executive and the HS2 Ltd Board;
* Ability to develop and set clear timetables, guidance, templates and communications for use by the business that capture all relevant supporting information behind plans and forecasts;
Type of experience:
* Studying towards relevant accounting qualification
* Experience operating in a complex environment which may include infrastructure projects
* Experience of driving output focussed, activity-based budgets and forecasts;
* Leading the process for development of the annual business plan and budget setting processes within funding caps set by the Spending Review.
* Experience engaging and collaborating with key stakeholders and partner functions (such as planning, procurement, contract management and HR teams) to ensure a holistic view taken to the required capabilities and resources needed to effectively deliver plans;
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.com)
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.