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**About this role**

BT is obliged to report financial compliance under the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Indian Companies Act (ICA) (amongst others).

The role is pivotal As part of delivering brilliant Services to BT using Third Party Suppliers, the role drives the quality of work our vendors do on our behalf through the audit compliance and ownership of key controls. This role will act as the team lead on the our SOx compliance, working with internal stakeholders and external auditors to prove best practice, whilst mitigating any identified failures to a conformant state.

This role will also drive the continual improvement and leadership reporting to ensure BT has control over its commitments as well as providing strong insight to the Group Internal Audit team. The role holder will be accountable for the review of key artefacts and reporting from vendors, providing management insights and recommendations to the BT IT Senior Leadership Community, lead on Delivery Unit change and alignment initiatives and co-ordinate the regular reporting within the IT function to assure end to end, documented compliance.

**You'll have the following responsibilities**
- Assures the successful delivery of the areas SOx and Audit key control obligations, providing management support and guidance to both internal and partner resources as required.
- Owns the framework and supporting templates to drive compliance through continual improvement
- Deliver the regular audit reviews to ensure compliance of our key controls, providing the validation on manual controls as well as the assurance of all controls in the domain.
- Agrees and aligns the audit validation approach across the DU and with the leadership team.
- Drives best practice, continual improvement review and benefits analysis on the framework with key stakeholders across the business.
- Holds key stakeholders to account to deliver upon their commitments and reporting obligations at a Senior Manager and working level, Co-ordinating with the Validation Specialists and partners to ensure timely delivery of audit artefacts and associated management reporting.
- Report on compliance against the vendor controls framework.
- Report on compliance against the Audit controls for the area on behalf of the business.
- Provide observations and recommendations against failed controls, with recommendations, whilst driving remediation steps as agreed with key stakeholders.
- Report and track on Assurance and Audit compliance initiatives, delivering a single, unified Management Reporting dashboard with supporting narrative
- Lead on best practice adoption with the Supplier Partners, bringing the assurance outcomes and key messages to the table and holding them to account to drive best practice Where required, audit the Supplier Partner to assure consistency of approach and capability to support a consistent internal frame work, reporting outcomes back to Senior Management for review and action as required.

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- Financial monitoring and control of funding and costs.

**You'll have the following skills & experience**
- Expert knowledge of security, compliance and control requirements and the frameworks to ensure assurance through the three lines of defence model.
- Expert knowledge of the EE SAP environment and its IT Control frameworks and the critical dependencies between IT controls as a building block to financial reporting control and how they impact to BTs overall business controls & processes.
- Expert knowledge to identify clearly the specific aspects of EE SAP internal control requirements and the additional matters that indirectly impact and are covered by financial reporting standards.
- Have a good knowledge of financial control frameworks i