Job Introduction
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Analyst to join us for 18 months at our Bellshill site, in the context of a major ERP re-implementation project that will require a strong involvement from the Group Management Reporting department in the coming months, this role aims at providing support to the team on delivering the business as usual activities. This role will provide support on group wide financial and management reporting analysis ensuring accurate and timely information is available when required to support business decisions and to provide insight to current business performance and future business developments.
Main Responsibility
- Support the implementation of appropriate business analysis to identify trends, opportunities and risks, including analysis and follow up of month end management accounts.
- Support the delivery of the processes as detailed within the Finance Calendar to ensure the integrity of the information.
- Provide support to the delivery of the business planning process to ensure that challenging but achievable financial targets are built into budgets and strategic plans, liaising closely with Business Units to link strategic plans to the financial outputs.
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement, identifying and implementing process improvements as required.
- Monitor the effectiveness of KPIs to provide the business with relevant metrics.
- Support the requirement of the Executive and Supervisory Boards through providing appropriate business analysis and financial support.
- Support ad-hoc projects as required.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Qualified accountant (or equivalent) with strong financial analysis skills
- Ability to adhere to deadlines and adopt a challenging approach to deliver robust and accurate financial data and information to meet business needs
- Comfortable engaging with a wide range of internal stakeholders
- Self-starter who can work on their own initiative
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Attention to detail and ‘right first-time mentality’
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. 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.
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