Group Internal Audit IT Senior Manager - Digital, Data and AI

Job Req ID: 60457

Location: London or Birmingham, Hybrid working pattern of 3 days a week in office and two days a week at home.

About the role

BT's purpose is to connect for good and become the most trusted connector of people, devices and machines. To achieve this, it is important that we understand where we are on track and where we need to focus. Group Internal Audit provides independent assurance across BT, highlighting what works well and where improvements can be made, helping to build the foundations that enable the business to deliver its purpose and ambitions.

As a Group Internal Audit IT Senior Manager – Digital, Data and AI, you will play a key role in providing high-quality assurance to the Board Audit and Risk Committee. You will lead the development of audit plans for your business and risk areas, working with senior stakeholders and assurance teams to deliver coordinated assurance across BT's key risks. You will represent Group Internal Audit at governance forums, provide updates to senior stakeholders, lead teams delivering complex audits and strategic initiatives, and support the development of Audit Managers and the wider audit function.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of risk-based audit plans across your areas of responsibility, ensuring audit activity remains aligned to business risks and coordinated with assurance providers.
• Lead the delivery of a portfolio of Digital, Data, AI and technology-related audits, ensuring reviews are completed to the required quality standards and agreed timelines.
• Deliver assurance over complex, sensitive and strategic risk areas, providing meaningful insight, challenge and recommendations to senior stakeholders across the business.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of IT Audit Managers, creating a high-performing environment that supports both individual and team success.
• Manage and coordinate third-party audit specialists where required to support the successful delivery of audit engagements.
• Provide real-time support, challenge and practical insight to management as new processes, technologies and business change initiatives are developed and implemented.
• Respond to requests from business stakeholders by providing independent audit insight, advice and assurance support where appropriate.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Group Internal Audit within your areas of responsibility, building strong relationships with stakeholders, Risk Managers and assurance providers.
• Represent Group Internal Audit at formal and informal governance forums, providing assurance updates, professional challenge and risk insights to support effective decision-making.
• Lead audit improvement initiatives and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of Internal Audit methodologies, practices and ways of working.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Significant experience leading IT, Digital, Data and technology-focused audits within a complex, regulated organisation, including developing risk-based 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 leading audit teams, developing Audit Managers, driving continuous improvement initiatives and successfully delivering complex audit and assurance programmes.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience auditing data governance, data management and AI-related controls, including data architecture, metadata management and data analytics.
• Knowledge of industry-standard technology and data control frameworks and benchmarks, such as DCAM, and their application within audit and assurance activities.
• Professional qualifications such as CISA, or equivalent audit, risk or technology-related accreditation.
• Experience leading audits across multiple technology and risk domains, including DevSecOps, Agile delivery, Application Security, Data and Information Security, Third-Party Management, Transformation and GDPR.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues, identify underlying risks and deliver practical, actionable recommendations.

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.