Commercial Finance Manager - Middle East & Indian Subcontinent

Job Introduction

This role sits at the heart of our BBU Finance team, supporting one of the most diverse and dynamic regions in our business. You will help shape financial performance and provide insight that enables strong commercial and strategic decisions. Working closely with the Regional Head of Finance, you’ll support markets across the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent, each offering unique challenges and opportunities. This is a chance to make a meaningful impact in a fast‑growing, high‑profile part of the organisation.

Main Responsibility

You will manage core financial processes across the region, ensuring accurate monthly results and supporting local teams to meet key reporting and planning deadlines. You will lead the coordination of budgets, forecasts and long‑term plans, helping markets align to regional strategy. As a trusted partner to the commercial and marketing teams, you will provide clear analysis, challenge performance and highlight risks and opportunities. You’ll also play an important role in strengthening governance and compliance, working closely with the controls team and helping refine processes that improve how we operate.

Our Ideal Candidate

You bring strong financial skills, sound judgement and the confidence to work across multiple markets and stakeholders. You enjoy simplifying complexity and using insight to guide decision‑making. You are comfortable working at pace, managing competing priorities and building strong relationships across cross‑functional teams. Experience in commercial finance will help you hit the ground running, and your proactive, solution‑focused mindset will enable you to thrive in this broad and varied role.

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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