We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation, and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So, if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Why this job matters

This role would be responsible for ensuring adherence to the existing control framework and call out for any non-compliance to respective operations team.

This role would be accountable to close any kind of internal/external audit observation by providing management response and timely execution of the same.

This role would also decide if existing controls are effective or needs revisit and lead discussion with the 1st LOD Team.

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities

Skills required for the job

• Effective execution of the SOX and internal controls
• Should be able to pre-empt any risk on timely manner
• Should be able to deliver on stringent timeline
• Liaise with both internal and external auditors
• Support ad-hoc request around other responsibilities within the Sub tower
• Participate on meetings with senior management for Quarterly Sign-offs

•This role would be accountable to close any kind of internal/external audit observation by providing management response and timely execution of the same
• This role would also decide if existing controls are effective or needs revisit and lead discussion with the 1st LOD

• Aged item clean-up for Europe and LatAm regions - you will contact the business users related to the invoices that are waiting for approval in our system, working from functional mailboxes

•Support quarterly control testing and sign-off process for Europe and LatAm regions - you will be responsible for support the testing of the I2P controls that are part of our control matrices

•Prepare analysis for Europe and LatAm regions- you will be responsible for preparing reports and statistics based on our processes and upon ad-hoc AP requests

•Audit support for Europe and LatAm regions- you will request, collect and review the evidences from AP teams based on internal and external auditors' requests and support the audit process by keeping the contact with the auditors and with the relevant stakeholders       

•Delegation of Authority- you will support to manage the DOA queries and issues in GFP and iBuy

• Need to have excellent understanding of the end to end of I2P process

• Well versed with control framework and has clear understanding of consequences on failure

The role needs excellent communication skill to deal independently with senior leads and have collaborative skills

• Should be an effective change agent and have strong influencing skill

Key decisions

Experience you would be expected to have

This role would be responsible for ensuring adherence to the existing control framework and call out for any non-compliance to respective operations team
• This role would be accountable to close any kind of internal/external audit observation by providing management response and timely execution of the same
• This role would also decide if existing controls are effective or needs revisit and lead discussion with the 1st LOD

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Finance
• Having the end-to-end view and being able to grasp complex processes and systems quickly
• Prior hands-on experience in I2P
• Having strong accounting background.
• Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office-Word, Excel, and Outlook)
• Knowledge of Oracle Finance modules is an advantage