Rail - Head of Reporting - East London

There is a requirement for a Head of Reporting to join the Crossrail project for at least a year on a Fixed Term Contract-basis in East London, Stratford.

Role Brief:

• Manage the reporting process and team to produce high quality and on time deliverables (on a tight 4 week cycle)
• Maintain good relationships with diverse Leadership Team and contributors, who have diverse opinions
• Continuous improvement and refinement in report formats given the rapidly changing nature of the programme
• Perform data analysis to identify performance concerns/insights

Skills & Experience Required:

• Strong skills in performance data analysis and synthesis (including analysis of financial and operational data)
• Strong process management skills and the ability to ensure adherence to a defined process effectively whilst combining efforts from a multi disciplinary team.
• Strong inter-personal and stakeholder management skills.
• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills (e.g. project planning, problem definition, options analysis, solution definition, change / journey management, embedding and measuring change)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to make complex information intelligible for audiences of all types
• Strong presentation skills, including data visualisation and the effective use of PowerPoint and Excel
• Substantial hands on experience in production of project and/or Programme reporting in a multi-million pound infrastructure project.
• Substantial experience of managing and motivating reporting teams on major infrastructure programmes.
• Experience of working in a complex, changing, high calibre environment, for example in professional services or major programmes
• Extensive knowledge of the use of Project and Programme control tools, processes and techniques and the ability to use then to improve efficiencies and performance communication.

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