Senior Risk and Control Manager

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BAM UK & Ireland is recruiting a Senior Risk and Control Manager to join us in our finance department to be based out of our London office.
The UK&I Senior Risk & Control Manager plays a key role in actively strengthening BAM’s ability to implement and embed the Risk and Control Agenda in an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. This role proactively supports the UK&I Risk and Control Lead (part of the Finance Leadership Team) for the UK&I Division and to move the UK&I risk and control function to an 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 Senior Manager is not an entry-level role, as can act as a deputy to the Risk and Control Lead when required. It is responsible for helping strengthen Enterprise Risk Management and proactively supporting 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 risk and controls expertise, acting as a trusted business partner to stakeholders and teams

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. Supports the implementation planning, training, communication and change management in collaboration with Delivery Assurance and Group teams. Helping shape and ope rationalise the controls framework across finance and key risk areas.

Internal Control Maturity & Continuous Improvement Designs risk-based controls and has deep experience and understanding in financial and operational processes. Performs internal control assessments and maturity reviews specific to supporting processes, ensuring gaps are addressed in line with divisional priorities and Group expectations.

Leading control walkthroughs, testing and self-assessments to strengthen confidence in control design, development of processes and operations. Able to lead on control weaknesses analysis and severity impact assessments for Division and Group reporting. 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 promoting automation, simplification and Lean thinking in controls and risk processes to reduce manual effort and increase insight quality. Dynamic Risk Management activities & Forward-Looking Insight Comfortable with unstructured business environments on a journey to enhance maturity standards.

Supports the continuous enhancement of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework with experience and best practices. Supports moving the division toward dynamic risk management, including more frequent risk sensing, predictive analytics, leading indicators, and horizon scanning.

Understands the feedback loops of a matrix organisation (Group, Division and…