Manager, Controls and Compliance

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

We're looking for a passionate Business Controls Manager to join our Risk, Compliance and Controls team to drive strategy control initiatives and collaborate with key stakeholders for control environment maturity within the Global Finance function at National Grid.

You'll oversee the SOX compliance for the business processes, providing advisory support to management to maintain the first line control environment, increase risk assessment awareness and driving a strong controls culture.

This role is based in our Brooklyn office, and we'd hope to see you at least two days per week but you're welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We're happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

• Play a key role in assisting and coordinating our Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) approach, including liaising with internal / external auditors and other assurance teams.
• Responsible for coordinating the risk assessment andscoping of key SOX controlsfor internal control over financial reporting (ICFR)
• Proactively supporting with the business to identify risks and design mitigating controls based on changes in business or regulatory impacts on financial reporting processes.
• Drive control rationalisation and leveraging understanding of the processes to identify and embed opportunities for automation using technology (e.g., RPA, continuous controls monitoring)
• Work with key stakeholders across the organization, including finance and IT to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) that are aligned with SOX requirements.
• Support day to day relationships with internal / external auditors and other stakeholders, including developing and maintaining effective communication channels and providing timely and accurate information.
• Work with 1st line control owners and performers when control remediation is required. Work closely with 1st line control owners to ensure all deficiencies are addressed in a timely manner.
• Provide internal Risk, Compliance and Control (RCC) support for delivery KPIs and control initiative roadmap activities including facilitation of Controls self-assessment (CSA) support with stakeholder comms as well as ensuring internal governance is embedded.
• Provide advisory and consultative services to Business process and control owners on the design and implementation of controls to support proposed changes to the financial controls and IT framework.
• Provide training and guidance to employees on SOX compliance requirements, including the development and delivery of training programs.
• Preparing content and inputs in various internal Committees
• Support 1st line control owners with maintaining Risk and Controls within GRC tool

• Earned your CPA, ideally with an external audit or consulting background
• Experience working within a financial control environment across Business and financial controls and frameworks (COSO).
• Good understanding of core financial processes
• Experience of implementing and managing ongoing compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
• Proactive self-starter with ability to manage own workload, to time and desired levels of quality.
• Pragmatic can adapt quickly to a changing environment and can adapt approaches and utilise and align skills to different customer groups.
• Ability to set and manage customer expectations and manage key stakeholder.
• Experience in leveraging technology (e.g., RPA, CCMs (continuous controls monitoring)) to improve overall control environment will be highly desirable.
• Very effectivestakeholder management, influencing and collaboration skills.
• Very effective results orientation
• Good working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and Archer GRC tool highly desirable.

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