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Senior Finance Manager - Finance Controls

Job Req ID:  44040
Posting Date:  13 Feb 2025
Function:  Finance
Unit:  Finance & Business Services
Location: 

Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom

Salary:  Competitive + Excellent Benefits

This role can be base in Bristol or Gurugram,

 

Closing Date: Thursday 27th February 2025

Why this role matters

Transforming BT’s financial control framework is a key objective of the BT board and Executive Committee. Significant investments have been made in recent years to establish a robust COSO-based ICOFR framework. BT’s transformation programs continue to simplify and standardize business processes and IT systems.

In this role, you will drive this transformation by managing the delivery of our annual financial controls assurance plan.

What you'll be doing

  • Develop and drive the multi-year financial controls transformation plan.
  • Define policies, standards, ways of working, and metrics to ensure consistent delivery of controls transformation across business units.
  • Collaborate with BT transformation programs to embed financial control requirements within their delivery plans.
  • Manage the annual financial controls assurance plan to support board sign-off of accounts and disclosures related to the effectiveness of financial controls.
  • Oversee the Financial Control Group Risk Category (GRC) and contribute to BT’s broader risk management and control framework.
  • Prepare monthly CFO dashboards, biannual risk category reports, and board papers to update on the health of the financial control framework.
  • Provide guidance and support to unit financial control leads.
  • Identify and drive opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the financial control framework.
  • Lead multiple virtual teams to ensure successful delivery of business outcomes.
  • Ensure robust IT general controls as well as business controls are in place and effectively managed.

The skills you'll need

  • Professionally qualified Auditor, Risk Manager or Accountant
  • Experience of developing financial control frameworks in a large, complex organisation
  • Demonstrable knowledge and expertise of ICOFR/SOX/COSO frameworks and controls best practices.
  • Able to lead multiple virtual teams to drive successful business outcomes
  • Skilled in translating technical and business challenges to senior leaders and key stakeholders through both oral and written communication
  • Ability to understand, deduplicate, and explain complex controls, both business and IT
  • Working with complex IT systems
  • SAP systems, particularly GRC

Benefits

  • 15% on target bonus
  • Health Care
  • Car allowance or cash alternative
  • BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
  • Equal family leave:  receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
  • Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
  • 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
  • 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
  • 2 weeks carer’s leave
  • World-class training and development opportunities
  • Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

 

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.  

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

 

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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