Working Capital Workstream Lead

Job Introduction

We’re seeking a Working Capital Workstream Lead, to take ownership of designing our Order to Cash processes and driving improvements in working capital performance across the business as part of a number of finance projects. 

In this role, you’ll lead the design of standardised global O2C processes for our finance function, support the rollout of IFS Cloud, and champion initiatives that enhance credit management, cash collection, treasury activities and banking. 

You’ll work closely with Finance, Customer Management and the Project Management Office to ensure all initiatives are coordinated, well‑governed and delivered effectively. 

Main Responsibility

• Leading the development of a future‑state operating model for Order to Cash processes, collaborating with customer management and billing teams. 
• Defining the tools, systems and applications required to support efficient and standardised O2C operations. 
• Creating and maintaining the O2C process taxonomy and ensuring alignment with the William Grant Way. 
• Using activity analysis to establish baseline costs and insights that inform future design and process improvement work. 
• Developing workstream goals and shaping the initiatives required to deliver them, supported by clear execution plans. 
• Identifying risks, dependencies and issues across the O2C landscape and ensuring they are proactively managed or resolved. 
• Assessing resource and budget requirements and helping mobilise the appropriate teams to deliver the roadmap. 
• Acting as the O2C Subject Matter Expert for the IFS Cloud rollout, ensuring consistent processes, controls and ways of working across all implementations. 
• Designing the multi‑year O2C change roadmap, ensuring all projects follow established governance and secure necessary approvals. 
• Developing standardised O2C KPIs and ensuring they are measured consistently across global sites. 
• Maintaining a continuous improvement mindset and identifying opportunities to streamline and strengthen the end‑to‑end O2C process. 
• Ensuring effective change management and communication activities underpin all O2C initiatives. 
• Leading the organisation’s efforts to analyse the drivers of working capital performance, identify key levers for improvement and implement the resulting action plans. 

Our Ideal Candidate

You’re an analytical, process‑driven professional with strong knowledge of Order to Cash operations and working capital performance. You excel at bringing structure and consistency to complex processes, and you have a natural ability to translate financial insights into practical improvement plans. You collaborate confidently with senior stakeholders and enjoy working at the intersection of systems, process design and financial performance. You’re motivated by creating scalable solutions that strengthen cash flow, improve controls and enhance operational efficiency.

This Role Would Suit:

• Someone with experience managing or improving O2C processes within a complex or global organisation.
• A finance or change management professional with strong knowledge of working capital, credit management or cash collection (experience with LEAN or Six Sigma methodology is desirable).
• An individual with experience in ERP rollouts or process standardisation projects.
• A clear communicator who can influence stakeholders across Finance, Customer Management and Operations.
• A structured thinker who values documentation, governance and robust performance measurement.

If you’re excited by the challenge of shaping global O2C processes and leading improvements in working capital performance as part of our finance projects, we’d love to hear from you.

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.