Senior Cost Intelligence Data Analyst
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19 hours ago
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Job Summary
Job Description
Overview
The Senior Cost Intelligence Data Analyst provides rigorous and defensible cost intelligence for our major infrastructure client. Working with large and imperfect datasets the role applies structured analytical reasoning to understand cost behaviour variability and uncertainty. The analyst is expected to explain justify and defend analytical conclusions in high-scrutiny environments where decisions have material consequences. This is a senior analytical position grounded in mathematics reasoning and judgement rather than reporting.
This position sits within the specialist Cost Data Intelligence and Analytics team who support a variety of complex infrastructure programmes across transport water energy aviation and defence. Outputs generated by the team inform business cases comparator schemes assurance reviews and investment decisions and are frequently subject to independent challenge.
Your Role
- Own the analytical integrity of cost intelligence outputs.
- Ensure conclusions reflect data quality uncertainty and context not convenience.
- Shape how cost data is interpreted challenged and relied upon by senior stakeholders.
- Set expectations for analytical rigour proportionality and governance.
- Analyse large and complex datasets to understand distributions variance outliers and structural drivers.
- Design analytical approaches that are mathematically sound proportionate and transparent.
- Challenge assumptions methodologies and narratives using evidence and structured reasoning.
- Explain complex analysis uncertainty and limitations clearly to senior non-technical audiences.
- Defend analytical conclusions under challenge including from assurance reviewers and subject-matter experts.
- Develop analytical outputs and visualisations only where they improve understanding or decision quality.
- Work closely with cost commercial and programme teams to ensure analysis aligns with scope maturity and delivery context.
- Contribute to shared analytical frameworks benchmarks and standards.
- Promote disciplined approaches to data quality lineage and governance.
- Knowledge of governance frameworks such as AACE IPA or Green Book guidance.
- Experience with project or cost systems (e.g. EcoSys P6 CostX Unifier).
About you
- Intellectually rigorous and sceptical of weak inference.
- Comfortable operating under challenge and defending analytical positions.
- Values clarity and proportionality over false precision.
- Motivated by improving decision quality not producing volume.
- Exposure to cost commercial or capital programme environments.
- Familiarity with benchmarking comparative analysis or assurance activity.
Reward & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health wellbeing financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
About AtkinsRéalis
Additional information
Security clearance
This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV details of any current or previously held security clearance.
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So we offer a range of family friendly inclusive employment policies flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer we value applications from all backgrounds cultures and ability.
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RegularAt AtkinsRéalis we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender ethnic or national origin sexual identity and orientation age religion or disability but enriches itself through these differences.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- All-Source Intelligence
- Military Intelligence
- GIS
- ICD Coding
- Intelligence Experience
- Military Experience
- Analysis Skills
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Joint Operations
- Intelligence Analysis
- Leadership Experience
- Writing Skills
About Company
We are a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems.
