Group Accounting & Controls Team Member

Main Responsibility

This role is responsible for maintaining the global financial control processes over balance sheets on a monthly and annual basis. You will engage with a broad group of finance stakeholders, ensuring all accounts are properly owned and understood, providing advice and training to new and existing users on the established processes and systems.

As part of a project team, you will identify opportunities for continuous improvement to key finance processes, including new implementation of functionality of our accounting systems.

You will provide analysis and reconciliations of ledger balances, reported in consolidated financial statements to underlying financial information reported within Group entities on a regular basis supporting the wider finance function.

You will be an aspiring professional with a keen interest in finance and accounting. An accountancy qualification is desirable, but you can work towards obtaining a qualification while in this role. Being an impactful individual who can collaborate within a team and confidently communicate with a broad group of stakeholders is a key ability for a successful candidate.

You will have excellent analytical and numeracy skills enabling you to learn and understand monthly finance processes and execute them using our IT systems as well as Excel. Knowledge of the spirits industry and/or manufacturing businesses is also desirable.

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits 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, 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.

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process, anonymising all applications during the screening stage so that every applicant is treated equally. Applications are handled in a single format, and details such as name, dates and education are only visible to the hiring team once an applicant is invited to interview.