Director of Global Accounting Operations

About us

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.

About this Role

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. 

What You'll Do

•    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 stakeholder requirements and provide clear, actionable narratives to support business performance tracking.
•    Oversee the performance of third-party and offshore delivery partners, establishing clear accountability, driving service excellence, and ensuring continuous improvement and value realization from the global operating model.
•    Support the successful delivery of external and internal audits, ensuring preparedness, coordination, and timely resolution of audit findings to strengthen the control environment.
•    Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global organization, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and capability development aligned to future finance skills, including digital and analytics.

What you Need

•  Advanced knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP and/or FERC
•  Excellence in Record to Report end-to-end process & experience

•    Knowledge of Leading general accounting transformation efforts through S/4 
•   Advanced experience in  Delivery of accounting automation, AI and advanced analytics
•   Strong Data mining and management skills
•    Skilled in the Delivery of metrics: close cycle efficiency, control effectiveness and cost optimization
•    Advanced system knowledge (S/4, Blackline, PowerBI)
•    Advanced Financial accounting / reporting experience
•    Expertise in Management accounting / reporting
•    Advanced experience in Optimizing global delivery models; leveraging strategic partners
•    Extensive exposure to Building large globally diverse, future-ready finance talent pipelines
•    Significant experience Upskilling teams in digital, AI, analytics and business partnering capabilities 
•    Strong skills in Planning, forecasting & budgeting
•    Superior Business partnering experience
•    Significant Governance, risk and internal control frameworks experience
•    Expertise in  Transaction and close process management
•    Fully qualified accountant: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance; MBA Preferred; CPA Required
•    5 yrs. + qualified accountant

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