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National Grid is hiring a NE Senior Assurance Analyst - Gas, for our Safety, Health, and Assurance department in Waltham, MA.

Job Purpose

To support National Grid in achieving its strategic objectives by providing assurance over the key controls and mitigating activities that the organization relies on to manage risk. The Senior Analyst, Assurance will sit within the 2nd line of defense and be responsible for assisting with planning, execution, and reporting of a wide variety of regulatory obligations and principal risks. This role will be ideal for someone with 3+ years of experience in either Risk, Audit, Sox, or a similar business function.

Key Accountabilities

• Schedule meetings with 1st line, participate in the walkthroughs with stakeholders and assist with documenting the end-to-end process in narrative format.
• Support the Manager(s) and other team members with 2nd line controls testing, documenting results and completing workpapers in the standard guidance provided by Chief Risk Office (CRO).
• Assist 1st line in completing Control Self-Assessment Process within the GRC tool Archer.
• Support Manager(s) and other team members in updating PowerPoint slides and Excel spreadsheets used for meeting materials and tracking status of controls testing.
• Complete training on risk management techniques and internal control design in a timely manner.
• Attend all training for the Archer GRC tool as well Power BI to ensure 1st and 2nd line is supported in completing tasks within these tools.
• Create Standard Operating Procedures to support the risk functions.
• Perform updates to Excel spreadsheets to track completion of monthly targets.
• Administer and support reporting mechanisms, KPIs, and resulting scorecards for effective risk performance management (e.g., aggregation of local, functional, and regional performance).
• Provide support, advice, and challenge to National Grid's First Line of Defense (the business) in the Three Lines of Defense approach.
• Provide advice and training support on regulatory compliance management techniques and internal control design.
• Execute risk-based controls testing, documentation and reporting in line with good practice guidance.
• Prepare and present comprehensive, clear, concise reports, maintaining objectivity and impartiality.
• Manage and coordinate the timely execution of team projects, ensuring that activities, including testing plans, are properly focused on key obligations and delivering value to the business.
• Manage remediation of Assurance findings.
• Proactively look for areas of improvement and provide value adding and insightful recommendations on process and control improvements.
• Communicate with Manager(s) to avoid surprises, highlight issues and ensure timely delivery.
• Leverage software/technology to support regulatory compliance management, controls testing work and assurance findings.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Engineering or relevant field.

• 3+ years of relevant work experience, including Risk Management, Internal or External Audit, SOX with a Big 4 or Medium-sized consultancy or other similar business function within a large organization (preferably Energy/Utilities).
• The Senior Analyst, Assurance should bring basic exposure to business process such as internal or external audit, SOX, Risk, or other similar business functions.
• Must be able to contribute to the risk plan and complete the risk and control testing requirements within the required time frames.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Understands basic risk assessment techniques, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lines of defense frameworks.
• Some previous experience with controls testing preferred.
• Willing to be trained in business governance and control testing techniques.
• Basic planning and/or project management skills.
• Basic understanding of data analytics (e.g. ACL) and visualization tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau); GRC Archer a plus.

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