Financial IT Compliance and Controls Specialist

BT Group; Bristol, London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Financial IT Compliance and Controls Specialist to drive IT controls and ensure robust financial reporting. This pivotal role involves assessing risks, designing controls, and collaborating with teams to maintain compliance. As part of a significant digital transformation, you will contribute to the integrity of financial reporting and support the company's ambitious goals. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to innovation and inclusivity, where your expertise will directly impact the future of connectivity in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in driving complex IT controls with business sponsors.
• Good knowledge of risk management and compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Assess and identify risks related to IT systems and financial reporting.
• Design and implement IT controls to mitigate identified risks.
• Collaborate with IT and finance teams for compliance.

Skills

IT Controls Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

ICOFR Controls

Compliance Knowledge

Project Management

Tools

SAP

Job description

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Financial IT Compliance and Controls Specialist

Posting Date: 3 May 2025

Function: Finance

Unit: Finance & Business Services

Location:

Building No 14 Sector 24 & 25A, Gurugram, India

This role can be based in Bristol, London or Gurugram.

Closing Date: Friday 9th May 2025

BT maintains robust financial control to ensure the company's financial health.

Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICOFR) are central to maintaining the integrity of financial reporting, ensuring compliance with regulations, and fostering trust among investors and stakeholders. By implementing robust ICOFR controls, companies can safeguard their financial health and reputation, ultimately facilitating long-term success.

IT systems play a crucial role in facilitating Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICOFR) by ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and security of financial information.

BT’s financial control framework is undergoing a period of significant change as part of the Digital Transformation. It is critical that the significant transformation programmes in BT design processes and controls in line with the strong ICOFR framework. Working together with both operational and transformation teams from across the company, you will set the objectives, define the accountabilities of the IT controls, while also helping prioritise and deliver continuous improvement and our high level of reporting standards.

What you’ll be doing

• Assess and identify risks related to IT systems and financial reporting.
• Design and implement IT controls to mitigate identified risks (including Continuous Controls Monitoring and assurance controls).
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of IT controls.
• Collaborate with IT and finance teams to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Prepare and present reports and dashboards (including in SAP) on IT control effectiveness to senior management.
• Support Senior Manager and key stakeholders in Risk and compliance teams. Work as part of a small team of ICOFR controls and assurance specialists.
• Support horizon scanning for new emerging risks and applications required to underpin ICOFR controls.
• Support BT Transformation projects and programmes in developing and implementing controls in line with standards and guidelines for the BT IT framework for ICOFR.
• Design, develop and maintain BT’s 2LoD Policies, Standards, Guidelines.

The skills you'll need

• Experience in driving complex IT controls with business sponsors and IT technical delivery teams.
• Comfortable managing stakeholders in a complex environment of business and audit risk demand.
• Good knowledge of risk management and Enterprise Risk Management practices.
• Experience of ICOFR controls, compliance controls, and frameworks to ensure assurance through the three lines of defence model.
• Experience in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Core project and programme management skills.

About us

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. We are at 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 focused on how we organise ourselves to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Through our application of AI and technology, we aim to create the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on this scale is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to improving connectivity for millions, and there has never been a more exciting time to join our company and leadership team, which has the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take us into a new era.

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

We also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required. Please do not hesitate to inform us.

Studies show that women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodiverse people, or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply unless they meet every qualification. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can thrive. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, please apply anyway—you might be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.