External Reporting Manager - 6 month FTC

As the External Reporting Manager, you will oversee key elements of the group’s external quarterly and annual financial reporting processes. You will coordinate the preparation and publication of results releases and financial statements, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery. Working closely with senior stakeholders, auditors, and cross-functional teams, you will manage critical disclosures and reporting governance while driving continuous process improvements.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage elements of the annual and quarterly external reporting processes, ensuring timely and accurate delivery.
• Oversee the quarterly reporting timetable and coordinate drafting, review, and signoff of results releases and trading updates.
• Own and review year-end and interim financial statement notes and disclosures.
• Manage discrete processes and disclosures related to group financial publications, including related parties, exceptional items governance, litigation provisions, and ESG reporting.
• Coordinate XBRL tagging of group reports in compliance with ESEF requirements.
• Liaise with external auditors on audits of consolidated financial statements and internal controls.
• Contribute to the preparation of Audit Committee and Board papers on financial performance and reporting matters.
• Drive continuous process improvements, maintaining up-to-date documentation and workflows.
• Lead the production of ancillary financial reports and pro forma publications.

The skills you’ll need

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience producing or reviewing IFRS financial statements, including IFRS 9-related disclosures.
• Strong knowledge of audit planning and procedures, with experience working alongside professional services auditors.
• Proven ability in process improvement and transformation within financial reporting.
• Experience with SAP consolidation and financial reporting systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across senior teams.
• Detail-oriented with strong organisational skills to manage multiple reporting deadlines.

Benefits

• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

Our leadership standards

• Looking in: Leading inclusively and Safely - I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
• Owning outcomes: I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
• Looking out: Delivering for the customer - I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
• Commercially savvy: I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
• Looking to the future: Growth mindset - I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
• Building for the future - I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business. Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies. Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch. We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us. Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.