Risk and Control Analyst
Building a sustainable tomorrow
With a reputation built over 150 years, BAM has the depth, scale and momentum to offer you more than a next step. We offer you a path. One that can take you across sectors, into leadership, or even around the world. We invest in development because we want our people to stay and grow. Wherever you want to go, we’ll help you get there.
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 the BAM’s long-term success by supporting a proactive, effective, insight‑driven and performance‑enabling capability aligned with Group strategy.
The role is part of a small, high-skilled subject matter expert team working with diverse stakeholder groups across the UK&I Division and liaising with Group stakeholders. 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.
Making Possible
Key activities/responsibilities
Deployment of the BAM Control Framework
• Brings strong technical finance and controls expertise, acting as a trusted partner to stakeholders.
• 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.
• Helping shape and operationalise the controls framework across finance and key risk areas.
Internal Control Maturity & Continuous Improvement
• Understands financial and operational processes to identify and help design suitable controls.
• Performs internal control assessments and maturity reviews specific to supporting processes, ensuring gaps are addressed in line with divisional priorities and Group expectations.
• Performs control walkthroughs, testing and self-assessments to strengthen confidence in control design, development of processes and operations.
• Identifying control gaps, prioritising remediation and supporting pragmatic, proportionate solutions.
• 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.
Dynamic Internal Control activities & Forward-Looking Insight
• 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
• Proactively supports control owners in completing remediation actions.
• Uses risk & control tools to support continuous improvement and capability building across the division.
Assurance & Audit Support (tactical, not operational)
• 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.
Key activities
• Collaborates with colleagues across the organisation to enhance the maturity and successfully embed the Internal Control Framework.
• 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 promoting 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.
• Follow-up of control open actions and proactively oversee tracking through to completion.
• Maintains all control documentation to a high standard ensuring clarity of records for audit trail.
Your team
This position is based in Central London, where travel to the office is required 2/3 days per week.
What’s in it for you?
⦁ Competitive salary
⦁ Company Car or Car allowance
⦁ A wide range of family friendly policies
⦁ 8% matched pension contributions
⦁ Private healthcare
⦁ Life assurance
⦁ 26 days holiday
⦁ 2 wellbeing days
⦁ 1 volunteering day
⦁ Personal and professional development
⦁ Flexible benefit pot
What do you bring to the role?
Qualifications & Experience
• 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).
• Familiar with governance rhythms, reviewing and following up on open actions from audit/ remediation logs.
• Confident in proposing best practice solutions and helping management in addressing control gaps and issues.
• Strong collaborator and communicator with credibility at cross-functional management level.
• Exposure to construction and engineering environments is advantageous but not essential.
Competences
• Team player: Able to actively guide management teams without authority, actively contribute to solution-oriented outcomes with the view to bringing management teams to a consistent high performing level.
• Results Orientation: Able to prioritise workload that underpin the credibility of deliverables and a high-performing team.
• Collaboration: 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.
• Communication: Well-articulate; builds confidence with management and teams; translates complex evidence, insights, and data into a simple narratives, effective reporting, and action.
• Facilitation: 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.
• Analytical capability: Confident in working with complex data, identifying trends and quantifying impacts.
• Digital/data orientation: Comfortable with data tools, dashboards and process automation.
About BAM
Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.
We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. 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.
The application process
BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you. "Join us in Making Possible"
For more information including full job description and an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact Paul Howes, Recruitment Manager: paul.howes@bam.com
Closing date 21st August
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