This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in shaping the future of our global Purchase to Pay landscape as part of our Finance Transformation programme, one of our most significant finance transformation programmes.
As Purchase to Pay Workstream Lead, you’ll have the chance to design and embed standardised, efficient and well-controlled P2P processes across the organisation, helping to create a simpler, stronger and more scalable way of working for the future.
Working closely with Procurement, Finance, the Project Lead and senior stakeholders, you’ll be at the centre of a high-profile transformation that will support accounts payable activity, strengthen financial controls and integrate seamlessly with our IFS Cloud migration.
This is a 2 year fixed-term contract to support the delivery of our Finance Transformation Programme.
You’re a confident and credible process leader with strong Purchase to Pay or accounts payable expertise and the ability to bring structure, pace and clarity to complex change. You enjoy working across functions, engaging stakeholders and turning operational challenges into practical, scalable solutions. You combine strong process discipline with curiosity, collaboration and a desire to make things better - helping to build stronger controls, clearer ways of working and a more efficient experience for teams and suppliers.
This Role Would Suit:
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A P2P or accounts payable specialist who is ready to step into a visible transformation leadership role, ideally with experience in a global or multi-market environment.
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Someone with experience in change management, ERP implementation or process standardisation, ideally supported by LEAN or Six Sigma methodology.
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A structured thinker who enjoys designing operating models, frameworks and future-state processes that can be embedded and sustained.
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A clear and engaging communicator who can influence across Finance, Procurement and wider business teams.
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Someone who values good governance, strong controls, clear documentation and meaningful metrics as enablers of better performance.
If you’re energised by the opportunity to lead a high-impact workstream, shape world-class P2P processes and help deliver meaningful change through our Finance Transformation programme, we’d love to hear from you.
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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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