At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and governance of finance solutions in McLaren's ERP programme.
- Company: Join McLaren, a leader in innovation and technology.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, private healthcare, and access to fantastic facilities.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on finance processes and drive transformation in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Strong understanding of finance processes and ERP systems; experience in product ownership or business analysis.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Purpose of the Role
This is a strategic role at the heart of McLaren’s ERP programme. The Finance Lead is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the end-to-end finance solution within the ERP programme. This role ensures that the ERP solution aligns with Finance strategy and operating model, delivers robust financial control and reporting, supports scalable, standardised processes across the organisation, and transforms current processes to suit the depth and breadth of the business. The Finance Lead acts as the primary finance authority on the programme, working closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, and implementation partners to ensure the system meets business requirements and delivers long-term value. Reporting to the Finance Director, this role will be empowered to make decisions and identify where escalation is required to design and build a new ERP tool for the business.
Design
- Lead the design of core finance processes within the ERP, supporting the mapping of existing process to standard process against business cycles such as:
- Record-to-Report (R2R)
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
- Order-to-Cash (O2C)
- Define and govern the financial data model and chart of accounts architecture
- Establish design principles aligned to finance strategy and reporting needs, whilst also challenging the way in which these are delivered today
- Ensure alignment with accounting standards, policies, and internal control frameworks
Business Partnering
- Translate business requirements into functional finance design for ERP
- Act as the key interface between Finance, Technology, and implementation partner
- Support solution architecture decisions to ensure scalability, performance, and compliance
- Review and challenge system configuration to ensure best practice design
- Understand the business requirements to ensure the appropriate design to achieve statutory, regulatory, and management/shareholder reporting
Governance and Best Practice
- Support the governance process for the project to ensure collaboration with the technical team, finance team and implementation partner, and ensure finance’s requirements are clear
- Ensure clarity and create suitable templates to support design decisions, data governance and change control that achieve finance’s requirements
- Ensure an audit-ready delivery
- Maintain clear reporting and support decision authority on the project
Integration and Data Management
- Understand and input to integrations between Workday and upstream/downstream systems
- Ensure integrity, consistency and governance of financial data across platforms
- Collaborate with data and integration teams to optimise data flows and reporting
- Oversee finance-related testing including System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Define acceptance criteria and validate finance outputs based on the requirements of the Finance team
- Ensure readiness for go-live including data migration validation, process readiness and control sign-off
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Strong understanding of good process and ERP system capability
- Strong understanding of finance processes (R2R, P2P, O2C) and accounting principles
- Experience in product ownership, business analysis, or ERP governance
- Ability to translate business needs into system requirements
- Familiarity with integrations, data flows, and security models
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Exposure to AI/ML capabilities within Finance platforms
- Commercially aware, able to connect platform decisions to business outcomes
Personal Attributes
- Strategic thinker with a strong architectural mindset
- Confident decision-maker able to balance business needs and system constraints
- Clear communicator who can simplify complex system concepts
- Positive approach to change and thrives in an empowered position
- Collaborative and able to influence across teams
Benefits and What McLaren Offers
- Hybrid working with 3 days a week on site at McLaren Technology Centre (MTC)
- Comprehensive benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and pension contributions
- Access to facilities such as gym, restaurant, break-out areas and convenient transport links
