Business Intelligence Assistant

High Speed Two (HS2)
London, GB
On-site

Job Description

Base salary: £32,050pa to £31,700 pa 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.

Job Purpose

This role is responsible for 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 support the delivery of Business Intelligence projects including 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 working with other team members and the Senior Business Intelligence 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 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 business intelligence reports.
  • Ability to 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 under supervision, and support in their presentation to a variety of audiences, including internal stakeholders at various levels in the organisation, both verbally and written.
  • Ability to determine and document the explicit requirements of various stakeholders.

Knowledge:

  • Basic Knowledge of SQL, DAX and Power Query
  • Basic 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.

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.

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

SqlDaxPower queryPower biCloud-based toolsCommunicationProblem solvingBusiness intelligenceData analysis

Salary

£31,700+

year

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

mid

Posted

4/14/2026

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