Group Financial Controls Manager- IT Controls

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About the role

The Risk, Controls and Assurance Manager (2nd Line of Defence (2LOD)) manages a team to implement the Groups Risk, Controls and Assurance Management framework, including enabling enhanced identification, mitigation / controls, governance, and oversight and reporting.

What you’ll be doing

1. Manages a team in executing the review of the Groups risk framework refining risk management and oversight processes, templates, and executive management reporting dashboards.
2. Facilitates the refining processes for regularised engagement with key risk owners and business sponsors and enable relevant management updates with respect to priority risks, mitigation actions.
3. Manages regular reporting of key risk developments and emerging risks as well as ongoing alignment of key risks to company goals and progress, for management and Board of Directors.
4. Maintains the development of crucial partnerships with functional leaders and assures effective ongoing alignment to the Group Risk Management Framework
5. Manages and maintains mechanisms to enable regular analysis of key business impacts / exposures based on existing and new or emerging threats, security / other risks, vulnerabilities, contributing to the development and maintenance of effective risk strategies and mitigation actions.
6. Manages teams in regularly assessing priority risk threats and effectiveness of controls, crisis identification / response / recovery plans and capabilities, both internal and at critical third party vendors / supplier organisations, provides guidance on effectively managing the risk of ineffective capabilities, and influences decision making by educating business stakeholders on the risk.
7. Leads training and guidance for 1LOD stakeholders on policies, standards and methodology, cultivates a community of practice.
7. Coaches talent, and manages others, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.
8. Implements ways to improve working processes within Risk.

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Our Package

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.