Senior Project Controls Data & Reporting Analyst

As a senior member of the Project Controls function, you will lead the development of data models, dashboards, and reporting suites that provide critical performance insights for complex infrastructure and construction projects. You will apply deep knowledge of project controls principles to ensure that reporting outputs accurately reflect performance across cost, schedule, risk, change, and quality. You will oversee the delivery of dashboard solutions, manage junior members of the team, and ensure all reporting products meet the highest standards of accuracy, clarity, and analytical value. A pre-screening technical test will be required as part of the recruitment process.Your role Leadership in Data Modelling & Reporting

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust data models (including fact/dimension structures) supporting Power BI dashboards and reporting suites.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of dashboard creation, from requirements definition to deployment and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the reporting suite meets stakeholder needs across project cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance measurement.
Project Controls Expertise
• Apply advanced knowledge of project controls principles, ensuring reporting outputs align with recognised methodologies including cost control, schedule management, risk analysis, and Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Provide expert interpretation of project performance data and support senior stakeholders in decision-making.
• Oversee the integration of cost, schedule, risk, change, scope, and quality data to produce a complete picture of project health.
Reporting Oversight
• Lead the preparation and assurance of periodic and ad-hoc reports, taking responsibility for their accuracy, consistency, and analytical quality.
• Drive the production of the monthly project review pack and present information to senior leadership where required.
• Establish reporting standards, templates, and governance processes to ensure consistent outputs across the project.
Team Management & Development
• Manage, mentor, and support less-senior team members, overseeing their workload and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Allocate tasks effectively, provide technical guidance, and support the development of team capability in Power BI, data modelling, and project controls reporting.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the team.
Stakeholder Engagement
• Build strong relationships with project stakeholders, understanding their information needs and translating them into robust reporting solutions.
• Work across the project environment to ensure timely and accurate data flow into reporting systems.
Continuous Improvement & Best Practice
• Drive enhancements to data structures, reporting processes, automation opportunities, and dashboard design.
• Contribute to the wider Project Controls community by sharing lessons learned, best practice, and innovations.
  
  Expertise in Power BI dashboard development, including dataset design, star-schema modelling (fact/dimension tables), and relationship management.
• Strong, demonstrable experience working in Project Controls within the construction or infrastructure sector (this is essential).
• Proven ability to report on project controls metrics including cost, schedule, risk, change, and EVM.
• Advanced proficiency in Power Query, DAX, and data transformation techniques.
• Strong capability in Advanced Excel for analysis, modelling, and reporting.
• Experience managing or mentoring junior team members and directing their workload.
• Experience delivering reporting solutions for large, complex programmes or portfolios.
• Experience establishing reporting processes, frameworks, or governance within a project controls function.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate).
  
  We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people., At 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.
  
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