Senior Cost Intelligence Data Analyst, AtkinsRéalis
World-class engineering services and nuclear organisation
Job no longer available
World-class engineering services and nuclear organisation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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)
Application process
- 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
Our take
Connected energy systems and infrastructure require connected companies, and AtkinsRéalis is the result of a web of businesses integrating into one large engineering and nuclear services enterprise. With companies under its umbrella dating back to 1911, it’s a major player in the energy services and consulting space.
Covering the whole lifecycle of energy assets, AtkinsRéalis is hired to consult and advise on energy and infrastructure projects, building the tech and data surrounding its clients' projects. Services include intelligent networks & cybersecurity, project and construction management, decommissioning and environmental services.
Having been acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, AtkinsRéalis is one of the most trusted voices in the energy and infrastructure sector, and its global client base means it’s only set to continue on an impressive growth trajectory.
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Company HQ
Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal, QC
Leadership
Ian Edwards
(President & CEO)Previously the President & CEO of SNC Lavalin, Managing Director of Leighton Asia, Division Director of Gammon Construction and studied Civil Engineering at the University of Lancashire.
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