Business Controller in Buildings UK in London

Are you excited about using your financial knowledge, experience and capabilities to provide effective financial planning and analysis support to management? Do you want to grow your career in an open, collaborative and empowering culture? If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Business Finance department as our new Business Controller and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

As our new Business Controller, you will belong to a team of 8 people from Denmark and UK, that is part of Buildings Business Finance with a total of nearly 80 Business Finance professionals in various roles. You will have a strong focus on the local Buildings business and will have the opportunity to drive progress and create impact while developing relationships throughout the organization, both nationally and internationally. The key focus areas of the role include:

• Business Controlling / Enhanced Business Advisory
  • Applies mindset of proactive, forward looking and value creation in daily activities.
  • Attends management meetings and presents financial results.
  • Proactively flags risks and opportunities to management and follows up on actions.
• Working Capital
  • Including WIP Analysis, Risk & Opportunities/Contingency management.
• Reporting & Analysis
  • Oversee Income Statement reporting (including Income Statement analysis).
  • Perform root cause analysis (including Staff Costs, Margins, Billing Ratio/Non Productive time).
  • Prepare management reporting commentary for relevant stakeholders.
  • Ad hoc financial reporting as required (including year end audit).
  • Project analysis and reporting including – customer/project profitability/project mix vs. targets and potential risks and opportunities.
• Planning & Forecasting
  • Manage the budgeting/forecasting process through consultation and review with management.
  • Ensure the budget and forecast is accurate and is bought into by business leaders.
• Continuous improvement
  • Take an active lead in the identification and implementation of improvement initiatives.

About you

From the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you can continue to grow with the company. Whilst we look forward to supporting your continued learning and development, for this role we have identified some qualifications, skills, and capabilities that will set you up for success.

• Strong academic background with a 2.1 or better in a relevant degree, ideally Qualified ACA/CIMA or another relevant professional qualification in finance.
• Proven commercial finance / business partnering experience within a consultancy (engineering consultancy experience is beneficial but not required).
• Good understanding of project accounting/financial/management accounting principles.
• Robust analytical & modelling skills particularly using Excel.
• Experience with Group ERP systems.
• Flexibility and adaptability to engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels of the Business; remaining objective and preserving a strong sense of commercial awareness.
• Able to build positive business relationships and work collaboratively.

What we can offer you

• Investment in your development.
• Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles.
• Be valued for the unique person you are.
• Never be short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects.
• The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company.
• Work at the heart of sustainable change.

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realise their full potential.