Data Risk Analyst - Insightful Risk Data & Dashboards

Balfour Beatty plc; Dundee; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Annual leave

Family policies

Pension and shares

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Data Risk Analyst to join our risk data team in the UK. You will support the development, maintenance, analysis and reporting of robust, evidence-based risk data across both the baseline risk process and in-flight delivery stage, ensuring information is accurate, complete, consistent and auditable.

The role emphasizes data validation, dashboards and collaboration with project teams, with hybrid working and a focus on quality, governance and client-facing outputs.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant technical, data, analytical or management discipline.
• Experience in a Data Risk Analyst or risk-data-focused role within a medium to large organisation.
• Strong analytical and data-management capability, including experience developing, validating and interpreting cost, schedule and business risk models.
• Knowledge of QCRA and QSRA principles and the data requirements that support quantitative analysis.
• Knowledge of risk management, project management and project controls methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate, structured and auditable risk registers and associated risk datasets across Stage 1 and Stage 2 Project Lifecycles.
• Support collaborative risk identification, root-cause analysis, risk structuring, data cleansing, reconciliation and validation.
• Monitor risk data quality and completeness, identify inconsistencies and gaps, and work with project teams to resolve data issues.
• Support the effective use of risk systems, reporting tools and analytical models, maintaining appropriate controls, version discipline and traceability over risk data.
• Assist with the preparation, review and interpretation of QCRA and QSRA inputs and outputs, ensuring source data and assumptions are appropriately recorded.
• Produce clear dashboards, reports and portfolio-level analysis that translate risk data into meaningful management information.
• Track risk actions, mitigation measures, contingency information and changes in exposure, escalating overdue or incomplete data where appropriate.
• Expected outputs: accurate risk registers and datasets, quantified exposure reporting, data-quality checks, inherent risk justification evidence, residual cost and schedule exposure data, mitigation and contingency information, GTIC/BTIC-ready risk outputs, client-facing register extracts, live risk updates, compensation event support data, project and group-level reporting, dashboards and portfolio insight.

Skills

Risk analysis

Data management

Excel

PowerPoint

Communication

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

Degree in a relevant technical, data, analytical or management discipline

Job description

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Data Risk Analyst to join our risk data team in the UK. You will support the development, maintenance, analysis and reporting of robust, evidence-based risk data across both the baseline risk process and in-flight delivery stage, ensuring information is accurate, complete, consistent and auditable.

The role emphasizes data validation, dashboards and collaboration with project teams, with hybrid working and a focus on quality, governance and client-facing outputs.