Business Risk Associate in London

Building a sustainable tomorrow. What if your next step led further than you thought? Wherever you want to go, we'll help you get there. BAM UK & Ireland is recruiting a Risk and Control Analyst to join us in our finance department to be based out of our London office. The UK&I Risk & Control Analyst plays a key role in actively strengthening BAM's ability to build, implement and embed the Risk and Control Agenda, moving a compliance-led framework to an effectively operating internal control framework.

This role reports to the UK&I Risk and Control Lead (part of the Finance Leadership Team) for the UK&I Division and contributes to BAM's long-term success by supporting a proactive, effective, insight-driven and performance-enabling capability aligned with Group strategy. The Analyst role will proactively support the timely delivery and adoption of the new BAM Control Framework within UK&I, ensuring it becomes an enabler of performance, efficiency and consistency.

Key activities/responsibilities

• Deployment of the BAM Control Framework: Supports the UK&I implementation of the BAM Control Framework by participating in assigned activities and ensuring timely deployment and embedding across the division.
• Assists on training, communication and change management activities in collaboration with Delivery Assurance and Group teams.
• Helps shape and operationalise the controls framework across finance and key risk areas.
• Understands financial and operational processes to identify and help design suitable controls.
• Translates control findings into targeted improvement actions that support better business performance, not just compliance.
• Supports automation and simplification in controls and risk processes to reduce manual effort and increase insight quality.
• Comfortable with unstructured business environments on a journey to enhance maturity standards.
• Understands the feedback loops of a matrix organisation (Group, Division and Segments) to support the Risk and Control Agenda.
• Business Partnering & Performance Enablement: Uses risk & control tools to support continuous improvement and capability building across the division.
• Supports shifting from reactive, after-the-fact action implementation to a more proactive mindset.
• Works with the business in addressing key assurance findings, when requested, through practical action plans aligned with risk appetite and priorities.
• Supports the adoption of data and digital tools that support real-time risk visibility, control automation and predictive analytics.
• Assists the preparation of risk and controls reporting packs as per established governance rhythms.
• Helps promote a risk and control culture focused on anticipation, ownership and value creation, not compliance policing.
• Actively contributes to the implementation of the internal control framework, ensuring robust testing and root cause analysis, proposes control remediations, and training of control owners on processes, control execution and use of risk and control tools.
• Actively contributes to prepare robust reports on control weaknesses and impact analysis.

Your team

This position is based in Central London, where travel to the office is required 2/3 days per week.

What do you bring to the role?

• Bachelor's degree required in Finance and Business or related required.
• Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) is highly desirable.
• 5 years' experience in internal controls, internal or external assurance, preferably in complex or project-driven environments, and ideally with acquired experience in both in-house functions and practice.
• Experience in a similar role in a complex or project driven environment.
• Big 4 experience in business assurance and consulting is highly preferred.
• Sound technical understanding of financial processes, risk management and control environments, preferably acquired in companies compliant with Corporate Governance Codes, such as Provision 29 and SOx.
• Proven experience with internal control frameworks, controls design, implementation, test and reperformance (financial and non-financial).
• Comfortable with change management, process development, training and process enhancements.
• Comfortable with data handling, analytics and digital tools (e.g., Power BI, SAP, S4HANA, risk and control tools).
• Confident in proposing best practice solutions and helping management in addressing control gaps and issues.
• Works effectively within the team and across functions, with business partnering as a core skill.
• Flexibility: Comfortable in working in both planned and ad-hoc assignments.
• Translates complex evidence, insights, and data into simple narratives, effective reporting, and action.
• Supports effective risk and control discussions, training activities, navigates resistance, and provides constructive challenge to promote effective ways of working, drawing on informed insights and experience to foster collaboration.
• Confident in working with complex data, identifying trends and quantifying impacts.
• Digital/data orientation: Comfortable with data tools, dashboards and process automation.

It's how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe. We're on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

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