Senior Consultant

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom First Rail Full time

**Salary: £45k - £60k dependent on experience**

**Who are we?**

First Rail Consultancy provides specialist services across the public transport sector, particularly in the rail industry. We work closely with other FirstGroup plc businesses including operators Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway, South Western Railway, Hull Trains, all-electric train operator Lumo and advising DfT on the future operation of HS2. We also provide consultancy services for First Bus, London Trams and external clients.

We deliver a wide range of services to meet our clients' needs including business development, branding, data analysis, engineering, project management, editorial work, and training. We also engage in commercial activity for FirstGroup plc to expand our business, both nationally and internationally. This work encompasses everything from contract bids and business planning to developing software services and new rail routes.

We have assembled an experienced team with expertise in a range of disciplines. Just as importantly, we take great pride in being friendly, inclusive and supportive. We support all employees in their personal and professional development through training, academic qualifications, and interesting, varied project work.

**About the job**

We are recruiting Senior Analysts to join the Consultancy's Analysis & Modelling team. The Analysis & Modelling team works with the Consultancy's clients on a wide variety of consultancy and bidding projects to provide persuasive and insightful analysis and develop business initiatives to positively impact both our customers and our operations.

**Your main responsibilities will be**:

- Developing best practice models to assess and forecast revenue, costs and operational performance.
- Collating and analysing information including in-depth data analysis of business performance.
- Reviewing analysis and modelling done by others.
- Helping to identify solutions for structural or long-term train performance issues and risks.
- Communicating ideas and recommendations to clients and regularly engaging with colleagues to evaluate business cases and strategy for business initiatives.
- Conducting research using a wide variety of industry and data sources.
- Supporting the preparation of reports and models for internal reviews and submission to the external bodies.
- Coaching other analysts and line management.

The roles sit within the First Rail Consultancy which provides expertise and support to FirstGroup's rail division.

**You'll need to be**:
The successful applicant for the role will:

- Have excellent analytical skills with an ability to define opportunities and problems, collect and analyse data and make valid conclusions.
- Enjoy working with a wide range of data and stakeholders, with the ability to build productive relationships across the business.
- Have strong attention to detail.
- Be commercially savvy, able to challenge your own and other's thinking.
- Be able to work independently, determine priorities and drive forward projects in an enterprising way to meet challenging deadlines.

**You will need to have**:

- Advanced Excel skills.
- Programming skills (e.g. R, Python, SQL), statistical analysis techniques and European languages would be an advantage.
- Degree qualified with 5+ years in the passenger transport sector.
- Experience of analysis and modelling of any of the following areas: economic benefits, rail performance, cost, or revenue.
- Experience of line management or coaching others.
- Knowledge in rail performance and operations an advantage.
- Experience using rail industry forecasting guidelines (TAG, PDFH) an advantage.

**The Reward**
- Minimum of 10% contribution to your Pension (5% employer and 5% employee)
- 25 days holiday plus national bank holidays
- Travel offers for Bus and Rail**:

- Payroll Giving - donate directly from your pay to a charity of your choice
- Shopping discounts including discounts and cashback on electrical goods, your weekly shop, holidays, cinema trips, car insurance, upgrading your mobile and lots more
- All employee Share Schemes*
- Buy as You Earn share scheme*
- Employee Assistance Helpline - free, confidential employee support service provided by an independent provider
- Flexible working - a mix of remote working/in-office with an average of 3 in-office days per week. Note: remote working is restricted to within the UK.
- _After 6 months employment_

We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA+, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We maintain a zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.

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