Group Accounting & Controls Team Member

William Grant & Sons; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading spirits company based in Glasgow is seeking a finance professional to manage global financial controls and improve finance processes. The successful candidate will work closely with finance stakeholders, providing insights and support. Requirements include strong analytical skills and a keen interest in finance, with opportunities for accountancy qualifications. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits focused on employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous holiday entitlement

Private Healthcare

Defined contribution pension plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance cover

Cycle to Work scheme

Learning resources

Qualifications

• Aspiring professional with a keen interest in finance and accounting.
• Ability to learn and execute monthly finance processes.
• Knowledge of the spirits industry or manufacturing businesses is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain global financial control processes over balance sheets.
• Engage with finance stakeholders to ensure understanding of accounts.
• Provide analysis and reconciliations of ledger balances.

Skills

Analytical skills

Numeracy skills

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Accountancy qualification (desirable)

Tools

Excel

Job description

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.

Our Ideal Candidate

You will be an aspiring professional with a keen interest in finance and accounting. An accountancy qualification is desirable, but the option is available to you to 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 of 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.

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.

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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