Financial Controls Manager - IT Controls

Why BT Group?

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled.  As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband.  Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come.  This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies. 

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented.  BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.   

Why this job matters

The transformation of BT’s financial control framework is a key objective of the BT board and Executive Committee.

This role is critical in ensuring that transformation programs deliver improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness our financial controls and maintain the integrity of BT’s financial reporting.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

Working  together with both operational and transformation teams from across the company you will set, objectives, define accountabilities and drive towards best practice for finance control delivery within major transformation programs.

• Actively horizon scanning to identify transformation programs that may impact BT’s financial control framework and IT systems and ensuring appropriate risk / impact assessments are completed
• Pro-actively identifying relevant stakeholders and raising their awareness of financial control through training, policies and guidance
• Working with transformation teams, unit compliance teams and other key stakeholders to ensure clear accountability for financial control within transformation programs
• Providing transformation teams with expert guidance on best practice for financial control design and implementation and ensuring compliance with relevant internal and external policies and regulation
• Reporting on the status of financial control delivery within major transformation programs

The skills you’ll need to succeed

• Good knowledge of SOX and ITGC frameworks including design and test of operating effectiveness
• Matrix working: Comfortable working in a large organisation where activities are managed according to a matrix structure. Able to work collaboratively and influence others to achieve goals
• Communication: translating technical and business challenges to senior leaders and key stakeholders through both oral and written communication
• Technical Mindset: ability to understand, dedupe and explain complex process, systems and controls
• Ability to Challenge: bias towards bold and confident thinking, challenging the status quo where appropriate
• Pragmatism: able to deal with ambiguity, identify resources to implement and determine pragmatic solutions
• Prioritisation: able to prioritise work and work independently on core deliverables

Leadership accountabilities

• Leading inclusively and safely: Interacting respectfully and effectively across diverse teams
• Owning outcomes: Collaborating effectively across teams, functions and business units to deliver effective financial controls for BT
• Growth mindset: Being open to explore and learn new technology and ways of working and taking responsibility for own development
• Building for the Future: Proactively monitoring and driving adoption of developments in technology and best practice from internal and external sources

Experience you’d be expected to have

• Mandatory - Professionally qualified accountant, risk manager, auditor or equivalent experience
• Preferred – Experience of Telco Sector
• Preferred – Experience working in large complex organisations

Key decisions

• Recommends policies and standards for financial control
• Recommends whether transformation programmes have met the required standards for financial control