Senior Benefits Analyst

Salary Base salary: c £41,092pa to £48,344pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top 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. 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 Senior Benefits Analyst at HS2 you will support the delivery of HS2 and related rail programmes by leading defined benefits and business case work streams. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and clearly articulating robust evidence on passenger, economic, and wider public benefits, ensuring that agreed benefits commitments are understood, tracked, and embedded across the programme. The role also contributes to benefits management and reporting, using proportionate analysis and judgement to support advice to the Department for Transport, including how benefits are developing and how they are realised over time.

• The post holder leads agreed benefits and business case work streams, ensuring that evidence, analysis, and narrative are delivered to the required quality, within agreed timescales, to support HS2 Ltd and Department for Transport decision‑making.
• The role combines qualitative and quantitative evidence from HS2 delivery teams, analysts and the HS2 supply chain, assessing benefits, impacts and trade‑offs, and providing clear, well-judged advice, including where the evidence may be incomplete or evolving.
• The role supports benefits reporting, engaging with stakeholders to ensure robust inputs, and producing assured and timely outputs to provide senior leaders at HS2 Ltd with the benefits evidence base to support the scheme.
• The post holder works collaboratively across HS2 Ltd and with the Department for Transport to agree evidence requirements, provide proportionate assurance, and ensure that decision-making is based on reliable and transparent information.
• The role communicates benefits evidence and findings to key stakeholders, including non-analysts, adapting communication styles to the audience, and providing constructive challenge where improvement or action is required.
• The role may manage a junior analyst, including objective setting, performance appraisals, coaching, and 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.

Skills:

• Ability to apply benefits management and business case approaches to bring together evidence from multiple sources and provide clear advice that informs strategic narratives and investment decisions.
• Ability to analyse and interpret qualitative and quantitative evidence from multiple sources, identify risks and implications for benefit realisation, and communicate these clearly to stakeholders.
• Ability to manage a defined programme of work from high‑level requirements, prioritising tasks, coordinating inputs and assuring quality to meet agreed timescales.
• Ability to work constructively with analysts, delivery teams and the HS2 supply chain to shape requirements, coordinate inputs and assure the quality of benefits evidence and data used for reporting and assurance.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to present complex analysis clearly and accessibly through written material, briefings and presentations tailored to different audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to maintain strong relations with key stakeholders for the purpose of providing timely benefits evidence and expanding the evidence base.

Knowledge:

• An undergraduate or postgraduate qualification or the equivalent professional experience, in a relevant discipline such as benefits management, business case development, economics, finance, public policy, programme…