Job Introduction
Are you ready to help shape how we plan, forecast and manage performance across Finance? Our Finance Transformation programme is looking for a Business Process Analyst to join the Plan to Perform Workstream and play a key role in transforming critical finance processes.
This is a hands-on opportunity to work at the heart of a major transformation programme, helping design simpler, more consistent and insight-led planning processes that improve decision-making and performance management.
Reporting to the Plan to Perform Workstream Lead, you will collaborate across Finance and related functions to turn analysis into action, support delivery and help build the foundations for our future operating model.
This is a 2 year fixed-term contract to support the delivery of our Finance Transformation Programme.
Main Responsibility
- Support delivery across the Plan to Perform Workstream by coordinating stakeholder input, tracking actions and providing clear progress updates.
- Bring clarity to the process landscape by defining scope, responsibilities, hand-offs, operating principles and service expectations.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and standardise budgeting, forecasting and performance management, enabling Finance to focus more on insight and decision support.
- Apply continuous improvement methods, including LEAN or similar approaches, to support root cause analysis, waste reduction and cycle time improvement.
- Turn detailed process analysis into practical outputs that inform design decisions, reporting improvements and future ways of working.
- Contribute to key workstream outputs, including process requirements, KPI definitions and governance materials.
- Support change from design through to go-live and business as usual handover, helping improvements land and embed successfully.
- Identify, track and support resolution of risks,issues and dependencies, including links to IFS rollout activity and adjacent finance processes.
- Help prepare the business for planning tools, reporting solutions and workflow requirements that support a more efficient future model.
- Prepare high-quality materials for governance discussions, decision-making, stakeholder communication and change activity.
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity, turning insight into action and working with others to make things better. You may have experience in business process analysis, continuous improvement, finance transformation or workstream delivery, and will be confident working with detailed information, producing clear documentation and engaging stakeholders across Finance and related functions. If you are organised, analytical, curious and motivated by making a practical difference, this role offers the chance to contribute to a high-profile transformation while building valuable change, process and delivery experience.
This Role Would Suit Someone Who:
- Has experience in business analysis, continuous improvement, finance transformation or project delivery support.
- Brings strong analytical and documentation skills, with the ability to create structure and clarity from complex planning and performance activity.
- Understands budgeting, forecasting, performance manage mentor planning-related reporting processes.
- Isa confident organiser and communicator who can coordinate actions, engage stakeholders and support delivery in a programme environment.
- Wants to play a meaningful part in our Finance Transformation programme and shape a more consistent, efficient and insight-led Plan to Perform operating model.
If you are looking for a role where you can make a visible impact, build your transformation experience and help shape the future of Finance, we would love to hear from you. This is your opportunity to be part of our Finance Transformation programme and help create a better, more consistent way of working for Plan to Perform.
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.
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