Audit Assurance - #1798622

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Assurance & Controls Auditor within the Finance Function. This role will be based on site in Birmingham.

Role responsibilities

• Prepare and execute audits, including participating and leading meetings, performing testing, evaluating evidence and documenting testing.
• Identify potential findings and agree their factual accuracy and potential impact with stakeholders.
• Provides necessary support to Sublots and conduct review, including review processes in place, to ensure overall control of financial information in line with the contract and BBV processes
• Fully understand the contract, the schedule of cost components and be able to understand and assess risks associated with it. This will help in any audit work
• Formulate and agree action plans to strengthen the internal control environment, including their importance and timeframes, with stakeholders.
• Participate in Continuous Monitoring cycle.
• Facilitate roll-out of Internal Control Framework.

Experienced required

• Internal audit/internal controls or finance background
• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to draw conclusions from data sets
• Experience in completing fraud investigations is preferable but not essential.
• Passionate about continuous learning and have a growth mindset
• Capacity to adapt to evolving priorities
• Well-developed interpersonal skills including being able to deliver difficult messages in a constructive manner
• Independent and objective, but commercially astute
• Able to produce high quality work and work well as part of a team
• Their written outputs will be of a high standard.
• Effective time management and planning.

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.