Risk & Compliance Manager

National Grid; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking a Superpowered Risk Manager to join their Warwick team on a full-time basis. This role involves providing risk and controls advice while leading a team to ensure effective risk management and decision making aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives. A competitive salary range of £66,000 to £80,000 is offered, along with generous benefits including annual bonuses, pension schemes, and family-friendly policies.

Benefits

Annual bonus up to 30%

Generous pension scheme

28 days annual leave

Flexible benefits

Professional development support

Family care benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in risk management, internal controls, assurance, or audit.
• Deep understanding of the Three Lines Model and enterprise risk management frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Support and appropriately challenge first line managers on risk identification and assessment.
• Lead and manage a team of Risks and Controls Leads and Analysts.

Skills

Leadership skills

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Excellent communication

Education

Relevant CIMA/ACCA qualification

Job description

The role

Risk Manager

Warwick/Hybrid - in office 2 days a week.

Are you ready to play a defining role in the UK's transition to net zero? Join National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) and be part of a business powering a clean, fair, and affordable energy future for everyone.

We're excited to offer an opportunity for a Superpowered Risk Manager (Business Partner) to join our team on a full time, permanent basis. This is a high impact role embedded within the NGET business, working closely with our Electricity Transmission delivery units to help them achieve their strategic objectives.

You'll provide superpowered risk and controls advice, acting as a trusted business partner who brings clarity, insight, and constructive challenge. Leading and inspiring a team of Risk and Controls Leads and Analysts, you'll ensure our risk management activities deliver meaningful insight, drive stronger performance, and enable confident, informed decision making at every level of the organisation.

What's in it for you?

A competitive salary of £66,000 to £80,000 per annum dependent on capability and experience.

• An annual bonus of up to 30% and annual pay review.
• A generous pension scheme - we double match your contribution up to 12%.
• 28 days' annual leave plus the option to buy/sell up to 5 days per year.
• Life insurance - 10 x annual salary
• Flexible benefits (National Grid Share Incentive Plan, Salary Sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity plus many more)
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it's relevant to your role.
• Generous family friendly policies and family care benefits
• Access to numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.
• Opportunity to be part of our Employee Resource groups

What you'll be getting up to

• As a business partner, you will seek to become a critical friend and trusted advisor to the delivery units and support functions that you are supporting by providing constructive challenge and actionable insight as the Electricity Transmission network looks to achieve unprecedented levels of growth and expansion to support the UK's Net Zero commitments.
• Effectively lead and manage a team of Risks and Controls Leads and Analysts in the second line of National Grid's Three Lines Model approach to risk management, providing support, advice, challenge, and oversight to the first line.
• Support the Head of Risk and Controls to implement the risk strategy and the ERM Framework.
• Ensure the NGET business-wide risk register is actively managed, fit for purpose, with robust mitigations mirroring appropriate risk taxonomies.
• Support and appropriately challenge first line managers on risk identification and risk assessment including the identification and facilitation of discussions around emerging risks with senior leaders including members of the NGET Executive Team.
• Provide best practice advice to risk and controls owners, develop and lead training on risk management and risk mitigations and controls design techniques.

About you

• Leadership skills with a track record of developing high-performing teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, working with colleagues at all levels of the business to gain engagement, coach and develop first line understanding of risk, controls and assurance.
• Proven experience in risk management, internal controls, assurance, or audit.
• Deep understanding of the Three Lines Model and enterprise risk management frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare concise, insightful reports for Executive audiences.
• Ability to maintain independence, integrity, and objectivity while building trusted stakeholder relationships.
• Relevant CIMA/ACCA qualification.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don't match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

More Information

The closing date for this position is 31st January - please ensure we have received your application by this date.

National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system. However, in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and demonstrable need for specialist skills that cannot be sourced from the local labour market, National Grid may consider offering sponsorship. All applications are welcome from candidates who meet these requirements, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin.