Manager; Controls and Compliance), Audit and Financial Controls​/Compliance

Team Finance Business Unit Finance and Enterprise Business Services

Requisition No.
11054 City Syracuse, US, 13202
Waltham, US, 02451
Brooklyn, US, 11217 Date posted 28 August 2026

Department: Group Financial Control - Risk, Controls & Compliance (RCC)

Location: Brooklyn, NY, Syracuse, NY, or Waltham, MA (Hybrid working)

At National Grid, we bring energy to power possibilities. As we help lead the energy transition, modernize critical infrastructure, enable economic growth, and deliver safe, reliable and affordable energy for millions of customers, this is one of the most exciting periods in our company’s history. We are focused on doing the basics brilliantly, driving big shifts, and building long-term growth while creating lasting value for the customers, communities and economies we serve.

We are seeking an innovative, adaptable and results-oriented Manager, Risk, Controls and Compliance to join our US RCC team within Group Financial Control. This role plays a critical part in strengthening our SOX and non-SOX control environment while supporting major business transformations, evolving regulatory requirements, emerging technologies, and the modernization of our financial and operational processes. Whether supporting large-scale system implementations, enabling growth initiatives, or providing independent challenge on complex accounting and controls matters, you will help ensure National Grid can confidently deliver on its commitments to customers, investors and regulators.

This position can be located in Brooklyn, NY, with candidates eligible to reside in Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont or Maine. If you thrive in a fast-changing environment, enjoy tackling complex challenges, and want to play a meaningful role in one of the largest energy, technology and business transformations underway in North America, we want to hear from you.

This is a broad second-line role spanning SOX and non-SOX business controls, with exposure to business transformation, systems change, and technically complex financial reporting matters. The Manager will oversee SOX compliance for business processes, support controls outside SOX attestation, strengthen the first-line environment and promote a strong controls culture.

Support RCC with the development, delivery and embedding of business processes and control maturity across SOX-scoped and non-SOX activities. Ensure effective ICFR, provide constructive challenges on complex and judgmental matters, and maintain a robust control environment that adapts to changes in business processes, systems, regulation, and organizational structure.

• Lead SOX risk assessment, scoping, control design and enhancement activities, providing practical advice to Finance, business and control owners to ensure financial reporting risks are effectively identified and mitigated.
• Support major business and technology transformations by assessing financial reporting and controls impacts, performing pre-implementation reviews, and determining when new or evolving processes and systems become relevant to the control environment.
• Support pre-implementation reviews of new financial systems and act as a bridge between IT and Finance / controls teams.
• Lead coordination with Internal Audit and External Audit, including planning, walkthroughs, testing support, evidence reviews, issue resolution and ongoing stakeholder engagement.
• Support delivery of control KPIs, the controls roadmap and facilitation and quality review of Controls Self-Assessments (CSA).
• Provide practical, risk-based advice to Finance and business stakeholders to strengthen the control environment, increase risk awareness and promote a strong controls culture.
• Support change and control roadmap activities and embed consistent RCC ways of working across a Global team.
• Provide clear, timely, and practical advice to stakeholders.
• Independently evaluate, document and support remediation of control deficiencies, including root cause, compensating controls, severity, and aggregation.
• Assess control impacts from organizational and people changes, including ownership, reviewer reassignment and segregation-of-duties risks.
• Identify opportunities to rationalize, automate, and continuously monitor controls.
• Leverage data, automation and AI-enabled capabilities to strengthen Controls Culture, Controls…