Plan to Perform Workstream Manager

Introducción del empleo

Step into a pivotal role at the heart of our Finance Transformation programme, helping shape how Finance plans, budgets, forecasts and measures performance. 

As Plan to Perform Workstream Manager, you will help turn ambition into action, supporting the design and delivery of standardised, insight-led processes that improve decision-making across Finance. 

Working with the Workstream Lead, Finance teams and programme stakeholders, you will coordinate activity, translate ideas into clear deliverables and help build the tools, standards and ways of working for a more efficient and consistent finance operating model. 

This is a 2 year fixed-term contract to support the delivery of our Finance Transformation Programme.

Responsabilidad del cargo

• Supporting the design of the target operating model for budgeting and forecasting, coordinating inputs, documenting requirement sand engaging Finance stakeholders.
• Supporting the Plan to Perform process taxonomy, ensuring alignment with the William Grant Way and maintaining agreed standards and documentation.
• Turning workstream priorities into clear plans, actions and timelines that maintain pace and focus.
• Keeping delivery moving through disciplined follow-up, proactive problem solving and clear escalation.
• Helping shape the tools and applications required to enable the target operating model, including user requirements, impacts and readiness considerations.
• Reviewing relevant Activity Analysis outputs to establish baseline activity and cost understanding and inform prioritisation.
• Identifying, tracking and supporting resolution of dependencies, risks and issues to protect workstream delivery.
• Supporting Plan to Perform inputs to the IFS rollout, ensuring standardised ways of working are reflected in deliverables.
• Supporting development of standardised Plan to Perform KPIs, coordinating definitions, data inputs, ownership and measurement approach.
• Supporting change management and communications, ensuring clear stakeholder updates and completion of engagement actions.

Nuestro candidato ideal

You will be highly organised, delivery-focused and energised by the opportunity to make change happen. Bringing experience in finance transformation, operating model redesign or business change, you will understand Plan to Perform processes including planning, budgeting and forecasting. Confident working with stakeholders, you will simplify complexity, manage priorities and turn strategic objectives into practical, high-quality deliverables. Strong analytical, communication and governance skills, together with experience of process documentation, KPIs and technology-enabled change, will help you succeed. 

This Role Would Suit: 

Qué podemos ofrecerte?

• 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.

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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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