Infrastructure Risk Strategy Consultant

Accenture UK & Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Project Controls Consultant focusing on risk management within Infrastructure & Capital Projects. The role is hybrid from Dublin or Cork, Ireland, with occasional travel, and involves embedding risk‑by‑design across development, design and construction.

You will lead risk processes, run QRA/QSRA analyses, and coach teams in risk standards while collaborating with planners, engineers and commercial managers to improve contingency and decision making.

Qualifications

• Proven capital project risk experience across multi‑project environments.
• Solid knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk techniques (QRA/QSRA).
• Ability to translate complex uncertainty into clear, actionable insights for teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead/support risk processes aligned to frameworks and digitally enabled workflows.
• Facilitate structured risk workshops and drive data quality linking risks to schedule, cost and commercial baselines.
• Track emerging risks and mitigation performance with live KPIs and visual risk signals.

Skills

Capital project risk experience

Risk facilitation

Qualitative risk techniques

Quantitative risk techniques

Clear stakeholder communication

Tools

Integrated risk platforms

QRA tools

Scenario modelling software

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Project Controls Consultant focusing on risk management within Infrastructure & Capital Projects. The role is hybrid from Dublin or Cork, Ireland, with occasional travel, and involves embedding risk‑by‑design across development, design and construction.

You will lead risk processes, run QRA/QSRA analyses, and coach teams in risk standards while collaborating with planners, engineers and commercial managers to improve contingency and decision making.