William Grant & Sons
Purchase to Pay Workstream Lead
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Purchase to Pay Workstream Lead
Purchase to Pay Workstream Lead
We’re looking for a Purchase to Pay Workstream Lead to shape, deliver, and embed the future of our global Purchase to Pay (P2P) processes as part of our finance projects.
About the Role
You’ll take the lead in designing standardised, efficient, and well-controlled P2P processes across the organisation, ensuring they fully support accounts payable (AP) activities and integrate seamlessly with finance projects, including our IFS Cloud migration.
Working closely with Procurement, Finance, and the Project Lead, you’ll ensure every initiative is well-designed, fully governed, and delivered with clarity, confidence, and strong financial controls.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of a future-ready target operating model for P2P processes in collaboration with Procurement and Finance stakeholders.
- Define the tools, systems, and applications required to support efficient global P2P operations.
- Establish and maintain the P2P process taxonomy, ensuring alignment with Group standards and the William Grant Way.
- Perform activity analysis to build baseline cost insights and inform future process improvements.
- Set workstream goals and design initiatives with clear execution plans.
- Identify interdependencies, risks, and issues across the P2P landscape, ensuring robust mitigation, escalation, or resolution.
- Assess resource and budget requirements, supporting the mobilisation of capabilities to deliver the P2P roadmap.
- Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the IFS Cloud rollout, ensuring P2P processes, controls, and ways of working are embedded across implementations.
- Own the multi-year P2P roadmap, ensuring governance standards are followed and necessary approvals are secured.
- Design and implement standardised P2P KPIs to drive performance, visibility, and continuous improvement.
- Continuously review P2P processes to identify opportunities for simplification, strengthening, and efficiency.
- Ensure effective change management and communication practices support every P2P initiative.
- Coordinate activities with the Programme Management Office, ensuring risk awareness and on-time, on-budget delivery.
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What We Offer
We provide a competitive salary and benefits designed to support your financial wellbeing, including:
- Eligibility for a bonus plan.
- Generous holiday entitlement, including the option to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ holiday.
Additional benefits include:
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- A defined contribution pension plan (employee contributes 4%–5% of salary, supported by 8%–10% from the company).
- Employee Assistance Programme for support in areas such as medical, financial, legal, home, and family issues.
- Life Assurance cover of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation, allowing access to our premium portfolio of brands.
- Cycle to Work scheme—savings of at least 25% on bike hire with full ownership options.
- Up to £1,000/year for charity donation or volunteer contributions.
- Learning resources to support professional and personal growth.
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Our Ideal Candidate
You are a process-driven, detail-focused professional with:
- Deep knowledge of Purchase to Pay or accounts payable processes.
- Passion for bringing order and clarity to complex process landscapes.
- Ability to translate operational challenges into structured, scalable solutions.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and change management skills.
- A track record of process improvement, standardisation, and leveraging methodologies like LEAN or Six Sigma.
Ideal Background
- P2P or accounts payable process expertise in a global setting.
- Experience in ERP implementation or process standardisation.
- Expertise in designing operating models, frameworks, and future-state processes.
- Ability to influence both finance and non-finance stakeholders with clear, impactful communication.
If you thrive in a challenge-driven environment where shaping world-class P2P processes excites you, we’d love to hear from you.
About William Grant & Sons
"A home for Rare Characters."
At William Grant & Sons, we celebrate diversity and inclusion as core values. Our purpose is to empower every employee—each contributing their unique skills, perspectives, and character—to grow with us. Our flexibility philosophy is rooted in trust, ensuring agile working practices allow colleagues to have their best work day every day.
We take inclusivity seriously throughout recruitment, ensuring an equitable and accessible process for all candidates. Join us to bring your rare character to a company where everyone belongs.
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