Director of Global Accounting Operations

Team Finance Business Unit Finance and Enterprise Business Services Requisition No. 9038 City Brooklyn, US, 11217 Date posted 3 June 2026

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.

Due to a promotion, National Grid is hiring a Director of Global Accounting Operations in our Brooklyn, NY location.

In this role, you will:

• Provide strategic leadership of global general accounting operations, ensuring the integrity, scalability, and efficiency of core financial processes while continuously advancing a standardized, future-ready operating model that delivers sustained value to the enterprise.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of global general accounting activities, ensuring all outputs are accurate, timely, and compliant, while continuously enhancing operational efficiency and aligning to 1st quartile cost to serve metrics.
• Drive a high-performing, best-in-class controlled accounting environment by embedding robust governance, polices, risk management, and internal control frameworks, supporting audit readiness and reinforcing a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across global teams.
• Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with key global stakeholders—including Controllership, FP&A, Finance Business Partners, and Group Finance to ensure alignment on business requirements, deliver high-quality financial insights, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance service delivery and business performance.

• Define and execute the strategic vision for global General Accounting, transforming the function into a standardized, scalable, and technology-enabled capability that delivers accurate, timely, and high-quality financial information to support enterprise decision-making.
• Lead the global delivery of General Accounting services – ensure the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial outputs across revenue, general ledger, balance sheet, and OpEx accounting (journals, allocations, GSAs, month‑end closes, burdens, etc…) executing in alignment with accounting policies established by Controllership and providing operational insight to inform policy evolution, while continuously improving performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Own and optimize the end‑to‑end close and accounting processes, driving standardization, automation, and simplification to enhance cycle times, reduce manual intervention, and improve overall process effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain strong, trusted relationships with global stakeholders (including Controllership, FP&A, Finance Business Partners, and Group Finance), ensuring alignment to business priorities, performance, proactive issue resolution, and delivery of high-quality financial insights that support decision-making.
• Deliver high‑quality balance sheet integrity and control outcomes, ensuring reconciliations, allocations, and accounting judgments are robust, transparent, and aligned with regulatory and policy requirements, with clear coordination with Controllership on complex accounting judgments and position alignment.
• Provide advanced accounting and advisory support, including revenue assurance, cost transparency, and contract accounting, proactively identifying and resolving complex accounting issues and driving improved financial clarity.
• Champion a best‑in‑class controls and compliance environment, embedding strong governance, risk management, and internal control disciplines to support audit readiness and maintain stakeholder confidence in financial reporting, owning the execution and documentation of key financial controls and partnering with Controllership on control design, policy alignment, and effectiveness assessments.
• Lead the delivery of management reporting and performance insights, ensuring outputs are aligned to…