Senior Business Controller - Construction

Building a sustainable tomorrow

What if your next step led further than you thought?
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BAM UK & Ireland are recruiting a Senior finance business controller to be based from Hemel Hempstead or Bristol office on a hybrid basis.

Making Possible

Delivery of efficient and effective strategic and operational financial leadership in support of the overall strategy and performance objectives.
Operate as a key member of the Management Team, and wider finance leadership group.
Provide comprehensive high quality analysis to aid and support business decision making with focus on the use, rather than preparation, of data.
Ensure compliance with Group and Segment specific business, financial and commercial procedures and policies.
Responsible for a significant, large or complex Business area or Multiple Business areas.

Strategic Agenda Process
Contribute to the BAM Group vision and plan, translate this into a vision and plan for Finance.
Align key stakeholders around the Finance vision, strategy and plan and communicate it internally as well as externally.
Portfolio Analysis - aggregate data on BAM portfolio, transforming information into portfolio optimization ideas and driving the need for fact-based decision making in policy setting.
M&A and Divestments - support the BAM group with making M&A and divestments decisions in the 'pre-deal' and 'post-deal' phases, providing considerations on funding acquisitions with debt & equity.

Business Management & Support
Develop the capabilities, tools, techniques and models to enable finance to influence and drive better decision making in the organization.
Rationalize and improve the production of management reporting and analysis across processes, commercial policy, people and technology.
CAPEX Investments - supporting the Business area with analysis of and justification for CAPEX investments and post investment analysis. This includes supporting business cases and post-investments analysis, and drawing on lessons for future investments and budgeting.

OP (Operating Plan) process
Set Sector or regional Operational Plan financial targets, in line with the Segment / Division strategic plans to enable the achievement of organizational performance goals. Establish the OP planning cycle which includes;
Ownership, management and communication of the timetable.
Provision of OP Sector templates and supporting guidance.
Providing the business with information to support the OP process.
Active involvement in the OP process including Sector reviews.
Set assumptions for revenue and cost levels and deliver the Strategic plan (SP) and Operating Plan (OP)

Your team

To based from Hemel Hempstead or Bristol office on a hybrid basis.

What's in it for you?

A challenging and continuously changing environment in a forward thinking organisation. In addition to an attractive salary and benefits package, we support further personal growth and development.

What do you bring to the role?

Senior Finance Professional.
Significant PQ experience.
Significant experience of finance roles in large complex organisations.
In depth knowledge of sector related markets and regulatory environment.
Significant experience of working directly alongside leadership teams in developing & delivering to strategy & business plans.
Excellent understanding of the management systems, policies and processes that underpin a successful large complex enterprise. Leads, communicates and initiates improvements.
Significant experience of developing strong internal and external relationships to drive individual and business performance.
Significant leadership experience of functional roles within large complex organisations, projects and programmes.
Able to set out & act as consultant to senior stakeholders on the political, business and economic issues affecting customers and the market.
Significant experience shaping a customer focused business. Uses network to ensure commercial knowledge is topical. In-depth understanding of financial models and commercial business processes.
Significant knowledge and evidence of setting a strategic agenda, portfolio & performance analysis & capex and business case analysis. Highly likely to have M&A experience.
Significant knowledge and evidence of business planning, cost management (CTC), management reporting, statutory accountability & investment and accounting principles. Excellent knowledge on Accounting guidelines, IFRS and External reporting and can articulate to others.
Significant knowledge and evidence of project budgeting & forecasting & reporting; risk and opp management & cash forecasting, likely on large complex projects.
Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around corp finance, bonds & guarantees, financial logistics, structured finance and Investment tenders.
Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around enterprise risk management, BRF and controls.
Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around tax strategy, filling, accounting, transfer pricing, JV's, indirect and payroll taxes and supply chain tax liabilities.
Understanding and experience of critical finance transactional operations and underlying control points and best practice. Can communicate to others. Across full scope of P2P, R2R, O2C & Master data.
Interest in and desire to drive wider business to adopt best practice information and digital literacy, digital content creation, problem solving in a data environment, data strategy and planning, data analytics and data visualisation.

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 we need to do something to make it more accessible to you, 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 or an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact Paul Howes, Recruitment Manager paul.howes@bam.com.

Closing date 23rd October 2026

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