Group Internal Audit Senior Manager

Job Req ID: 60804

Location: Birmingham or London, three days a week in office and two days a week working from home

About the role

BT’s purpose is to ‘connect for good’ and its ambition is to become the most trusted connector of people, devices and machines. To achieve this, it’s important we are clear where we are on track and where we need to focus. Our Group Internal Audit team shines a light on what works well and where things can be improved, helping BT build solid foundations so it can go faster in delivering and achieving its purpose and ambition.

As a GIA Senior Manager you will play a key role in providing high quality assurance to the Board Audit and Risk Committee. You will lead the development of the internal audit plan for your business and risk area(s), working with senior stakeholders and other assurance teams to deliver co-ordinated assurance that provides appropriate coverage of risks. You will be responsible for representing GIA at relevant governance forums and for providing quarterly updates on GIA activity.
In terms of delivering the audit plan, you will lead teams of auditors, with third party expertise as needed, to deliver a portfolio of internal audits across BT Group. You will own key relationships with senior business stakeholders up to ExCo level, holding strategic conversations to support them in identifying assurance requirements.

Alongside leading the delivery of the audit plan, you will lead small groups of auditors to deliver strategic initiatives, driving continuous improvement and bringing external best practice and innovative thinking into our Internal Audit processes and methodologies. This role also includes the management and development of Audit Managers.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of the risk-based audit plan for your risk and business area(s). This will include working with other Assurance providers to ensure the combined plans are aligned and flexing plans, when needed, to ensure they remain aligned to risk.
• Lead the delivery of a portfolio of audits, with Audit Managers and third-parties, across the business to time and quality, ensuring work is aligned to risk.
• For complex, sensitive and / or strategic risk areas, deliver high quality assurance to key stakeholders.
• Provide real-time support, challenge and actionable insight to management when they are developing and implementing new processes, including business change.
• Respond to requests from business stakeholders, providing ad-hoc independent audit insight and advice and co-ordinating support as appropriate.
• Act as a single point of contact for GIA in your Unit, building strong relationships with stakeholders including Risk and Assurance providers.
• Represent Audit at Unit Audit and Risk Committees and other formal and informal governance fora.
• Lead specific Internal Audit improvement initiatives with support from the broader team.
• Meet External Audit on a regular basis to share plans and drive efficiency, as appropriate.
• Manage Audit Managers to support them in their career and personal development. This will include delivering timely and appropriate feedback.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Significant experience of leading both in-flight assurance and a broad range of risk-based audits that consider compliance, operational and technology risk within a complex, regulated organisation. This includes developing audit plans and delivering high-quality assurance across strategic business risks.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and engage senior leaders while building trusted partnerships across the business.
• Proven leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring and developing audit professionals to support team capability and performance, as well as driving continuous improvement opportunities.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Professional qualification in Audit, Accounting, Risk Management or a related discipline (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIA, CISA or equivalent).
• Knowledge of governance, risk and control frameworks within a highly regulated environment.
• Experience working with large-scale business transformation, technology or change programmes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex information and provide practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Experience presenting audit findings, insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders, executive leadership teams or governance committees.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• Company car scheme (or cash alternative)
• 15% on target annual bonus
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.