Senior Risk Analyst

Senior Risk Analyst

Essex, Kent or London

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to work on one of the biggest transport projects in the UK? Can you collaborate with our client and multiple stakeholders? Are you experienced working in projects controls? Then, this is the place to apply your knowledge and curiosity to enable a better tomorrow.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To support the delivery of risk management activities, we are looking for a Senior Risk Analyst to join us. Working on a major infrastructure programme, you’ll join an integrated team spanning client, delivery partner, and PMO functions, ensuring a consistent and high-quality approach to risk management.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Collaborating with client, Delivery Partner, and PMO teams to coordinate risk management activities, including the systems, tools and templates across the programme
• Collaborating with the risk Management Team and Project Control Managers to support risk management and reporting activities.
• Supporting the production of risk reports, metrics, and insights as part of the monthly reporting cycle
• Assisting in quantitative risk analysis, including cost and schedule risk modelling
• Analysing risk data, including data quality, trends, and KPIs
• Maintaining and manage risk registers and associated documentation
• Administering and coordinate risk systems, tools, and data
• Supporting project teams in the regular update and continuous improvement of risk information
• Ensuring compliance with established risk management processes and governance
• Facilitating risk workshops and meetings, producing clear and structured outputs
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of risk management practices across the programme.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Experience within a project controls environment, ideally on infrastructure projects
• Proven experience working with client and delivery teams on complex programmes
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present project data clearly
• Experience using risk management tools, systems, and methodologies
• Understanding of NEC contracts and infrastructure delivery environments (e.g. highways)
• Confident communicator, able to engage stakeholders and gather information effectively
• Experience facilitating workshops and engaging cross-functional teams
• Ability to work within matrix and integrated team environments
• Comfortable working to tight deadlines in fast-paced delivery settings

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.  

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well. 

Some of our benefits include: 

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Corporate gym membership  

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM.

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer.

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national o