Finance Analyst - Africa & Middle East

Job Introduction

This is an exciting opportunity to join our BBU Finance team and play a key role in supporting the financial performance of the Africa and Middle East region. You’ll work closely with market teams and commercial partners to ensure the accuracy and integrity of our financial data, helping the business make confident, informed decisions. This role offers variety, regional exposure and the chance to contribute to shaping how we operate as we embed the William Grants Way across the business.

Main Responsibility

You will support monthly financial processes across the region, ensuring accurate management accounts, A&P tracking, customer discount analysis and timely month‑end reporting. You’ll help coordinate planning cycles — including budget, forecasts and other key submissions — ensuring all data is aligned, consistent and delivered on time. Working closely with the commercial team, you will provide insight, challenge performance and support monthly business reviews. A key part of the role will be maintaining data integrity across Hyperion, IFS and Power BI, ensuring systems, reports and costing processes run smoothly and reliably. You will also contribute to improving regional processes, support governance and compliance, and provide ad hoc analysis that supports the regional leadership agenda.

Our Ideal Candidate

You will bring strong analytical skills and attention to detail. You enjoy working with different systems, solving problems and helping teams understand financial information clearly. You are comfortable managing deadlines, working with stakeholders across markets and supporting multiple priorities. A proactive mindset and a willingness to learn will help you thrive, along with the confidence to challenge numbers and contribute insight that strengthens decision‑making.

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.

William Grant & Sons

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