Assurance Specialist

2 weeks ago


Warwick, United Kingdom National Grid Full time

**Assurance Specialist - National Grid Ventures**:

- Location: Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA- Division: NGV SHE- Job Type:
- Requisition Number: 50110- Department: National Grid Ventures- Job Function: Safety, Health, Environment and Resilience**About the role**:
National Grid Ventures (NGV) is the competitive division of National Grid, and operates outside of its core regulated businesses in the UK and US, playing a critical role in enabling the energy transition. NGV develops, operates and invests in energy projects, technologies and partnerships to accelerate the development of a clean energy future.

The energy environment is experiencing unprecedented challenges from those posed by a complex geo-political landscape to changing weather patterns.

As an Assurance Specialist, you'll drive the development and delivery of 2nd Line Assurance activities across NGV to provide assurance against risk and controls relating to compliance with both regulatory and National Grid standards.

You will have proven experience in delivering a range of assurance activities in a Risk Management capacity. An ability to work to tight timescales to deliver quality assurance outputs whilst achieving high levels of customer satisfaction is essential.

As part of an ambitious Assurance department, we’ll empower you to expand your knowledge and experience across the entire National Grid Ventures organisation and make a real difference in the way the company works. You can expect to be challenged and stretched in your capabilities and will receive excellent career development opportunities.

We’d hope to see you in the Warwick office one or two days per week and 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

**Key accountabilities**:

- Support in the development, planning and delivery of Risk, Compliance, Safety and Resilience related assurance activities across the NGV portfolio, providing assurance against controls and compliance against National Grid Group Standards, regulatory and legal requirements.
- Deliver assigned assurance plans to time, quality and ethical standards, proactively looking for areas of improvement and providing value adding and insightful recommendations that address control and process opportunities and issues.
- Produce assurance output reports that are of high quality and effectively communicate the agreed scope of work, key findings and recommendations of each assurance activity to related stakeholders.
- Operate GRC tool for Risk Management to record, track and monitor assurance activities and output.
- Work effectively with the Enterprise risk function in embedding the risk framework.

**About you**:

- Proven understanding in the execution of control self-assessment and/or assurance activities.
- Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the confidence and courage to challenge behaviours and issues, and influence decision making.
- The ability to foster and build a collaborative working relationship with a range of both internal and external stakeholders, effectively utilising/ mobilising virtual teams.

**What you'll get**:
A competitive salary between £44,000 - £50,000 - dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

**About us**:
Our diverse businesses include subsea electricity interconnectors, wind and solar power generation, competitive electricity transmission, battery storage, conventional generation and LNG regasification and storage. We’re also developing emerging technologies such as offshore hybrid assets and hydrogen, which could play a key role in decarbonisation.

Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK - you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

**More information**:
At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualificatio



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