Job Introduction
At William Grant & Sons, our ambition is to build sustainable growth while preserving the values and independence that have defined our business for generations. As Chief Financial Officer for our USA business, you'll provide commercial and financial leadership in our biggest market, shaping performance in a complex and dynamic environment.
As a key member of both the US Executive Team and Board Structure, you'll influence decisions at the highest level, helping the business identify growth opportunities, navigate risk and deliver its business priorities. You'll combine commercial insight, financial leadership and stakeholder influence to make a tangible impact on the business's future success.
Main Responsibility
You'll lead the market's finance agenda, bringing together commercial insight, robust governance, financial discipline and forward-looking analysis to support sustainable growth, maximise profitability and create long-term value.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing executive oversight of financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis, ensuring robust financial stewardship and enabling data-driven decision-making across the organisation through high-quality insight, governance and performance management.
- Helping the Executive Team maximise performance and deliver business priorities by identifying opportunities, risks and emerging market trends.
- Driving a strong governance and controls environment, ensuring compliance with Group policies and all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Partnering closely with commercial, marketing and functional leaders to improve profitability, optimise investment decisions, and enhance return on marketing spend.
- Leading the net revenue management agenda, embedding the tools, capability and processes required to accelerate profitable growth.
- Building strong relationships across the wider business, distributors and finance community, ensuring effective collaboration and the sharing of leading practices across markets.
- Leading a high-performing US Finance organisation, setting the direction for financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis, and developing a sizeable, multi-disciplinary team. Ensuring the business has the insights, governance and financial discipline to deliver its business objectives and growth ambitions.
Our Ideal Candidate
You're an experienced finance leader, bringing a long-term perspective, strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence a broad range of stakeholders.
You'll bring:
- Proven experience operating at Finance Director, CFO or executive finance leadership level within a complex, fast-paced international business.
- Demonstrated ability to establish best-in-class financial controls and provide clear, insightful analysis to inform key business decisions, support profitable growth and create long-term value.
- A professional accounting qualification (CPA preferred), or equivalent executive financial leadership experience gained within a complex international organisation.
- A track record of partnering with executive leadership teams to shape strategy, drive performance and deliver sustainable growth.
- Strong commercial insight, with experience translating financial data into clear recommendations and business actions.
- The ability to challenge constructively, influence executive stakeholders and build effective relationships across multiple functions and markets.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams, creating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and engagement.
- A proactive, results-focused mindset, combining long-term ambition with a practical approach to delivery.
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 vacation entitlement.
- Comprehensive Private Healthcare that includes Medical, Dental & Vision
- Our employees can join our 401(k) savings plan. The company matches employees’ contribution up to 5%, in addition to a Discretionary Contribution.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life and AD&D cover is a multiple of three times your annual basic salary.
- Product allowance so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands with your family and friends.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim funding each 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.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. We’re proud to provide equal opportunity to all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, family medical history or genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymize 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 anonymize 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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