Job Description

KEY PURPOSE OF ROLE

The key objective of this role is to provide a high-level quality assurance over the financial statements to the top management across BT Group

In this diverse role within BT Group, you will be working with a dynamic finance team and contribute to strengthening our financial control framework, advising on governance and policy uplift, and embedding change initiatives. With a global lens, you will be partnering with key stakeholders in Finance, Risk, Tax, Treasury, Tax across multiple geographies and functional teams. In this team, you will have the opportunity to expand your Audit, risk management, operational excellence and financial & regulatory reporting knowledge.
The role involves the understanding of financial statement specifically from UK laws perspective and understanding the risk involve in misstatements of financial statements. As an integral part of a compliance team, you will be responsible for providing an additional assurance to the management on consolidated financial statement at a group level.
You will be responsible for validating the reconciliation between the management books and statutory financial statements of BT Subsidiaries across the globe and determining whether there is any risk involve of material misstatement at consolidation level. You need to interact to various finance team (SSC, cluster fianc\xc3\xa9 etc) for validation of numbers and document the findings thereon.

Qualification:

• CA (Qualified Accountant) - Ideally with an Audit training background from practice (big 4 or medium sized firm), with professional experience- ideally 3-5 years, preferably qualified accountant or Semi-qualified or relevant audit experience
• Good understanding of Auditing Standards (IFRS) and willingness to maintain and enhance your technical knowledge is required. Good understanding of materiality and related concepts.
• Should be good at analysing the data, financials statements and should be good at excel and PPT skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Key tasks and responsibilities of the role include:

• As a team player you will be supporting the Finance manager for auditing the financial statement of UK subsidiaries as an Internal Auditor.
• Preparation of briefing document for directors/ stakeholders describing about the company, what happened during the year, YOY analysis, material concerns etc.
• Independent review of Stat to corporate reconciliation of all BT Entities.
• Review and validation of material deviation in the re-conciliation and documenting it for further review.
• Collating the data from various sources and compiling it.

You will be joining an inclusive team member who value diversity of thought and are energised by the opportunity to support a diverse portfolio of work. You will have a keen interest in financial services and a desire to understand the implications of changes in both the financial and regulatory environment on the group. This role will provide you with the opportunity to obtain a broad understanding of the group\'s corporate and governance structure and specific reporting requirements

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. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says \'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.

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