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IT Controls Specialist

  1. Permanent - Full time
£competitive plus benefits
  1. Travis Perkins plc
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

hrs/pw

Monday to Friday

Birmingham; Leicester; Milton Keynes; Nottingham; Warwick

45490

Are you a Qualified Accountant looking for a new and challenging role? We have an opportunity for a IT Controls Specialist that will play a key part in the design, implementation and improvement of the IT control environment across various key IT systems including Oracle Cloud.


You may currently be in an IT Audit role but have the desire to be involved in the solution. 

What you’ll do

As the IT Controls specialist you will be instrumental in supporting our IT controls readiness journey for the upcoming UK Corporate Reform regulatory changes and will become our technical expert in the related minimum IT controls requirements; to strengthen and formalise our IT processes in areas such as User Access Management, IT Change Management, key integrations, job processing, error handling and data security. 

What you will be responsible for - 

Working with Senior members of our tech team to scope the IT landscape.
Performing gap analysis to identify areas of control weakness. 
Document and maintain formalised IT general controls and application controls
Active involvement in new system implementation projects 
Lead the testing of IT general controls and application controls
Reporting to our Group Leadership team. 


Is this you?


To be considered, you'll need to be a qualified accountant and experience within a IT Controls / Application controls / IT Audit role with Oracle cloud knowledge. 


You will be self motivated, can influence key stakeholders and can prioritise and meet deadlines.. In return, we can offer you a long term career opportunity to progress through the organisation, alongside a competitive salary and excellent company benefits. 


What’s in it for you?

Joining the Travis Perkins group means joining a reputable and expanding business offering great company benefits such as discounts across our businesses and the support of an employer who values your development as much as you do.  

 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

- Competitive performance related bonus
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As leading partner to the construction industry and the largest distributor of building materials in the country, Travis Perkins plc has c.20,000 colleagues in the UK and also in France, Belgium and the Netherlands through Toolstation.

We are proud to have helped to build Britain for over 200 years, and we’re here to help build better communities and enrich the lives of those who live there; whether that’s by building new, or transforming our existing homes into places that people love, and helping to create the infrastructure, schools, hospitals and businesses that everyone deserves. This is our purpose.

We understand what really matters to our customers and communities, and care about delivering the very best; now and in the future. This means sourcing responsibly, playing a leading part in decarbonising construction and moving towards a sustainable future.

 

Click to apply, if you're ready for your next exciting challenge!


Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

To keep our business and customers safe, if you are successful in the role you will be made a conditional offer subject to additional background checks.

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