Assurance Auditor

Full job description
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 (EDI) 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. Read more