Reporting to: Finance Director
Department: Finance
Grade: F – Senior Manager
Date of Publication: July 2026 Q
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
- Transforms current process 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 reporting
- Regulatory reporting
- Management and 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)
- 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
- 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.
Our brand values
These are our core values. They support our vision to set the standard for high performance in sport and are the things that we believe are most important in the way we live and work within the McLaren Racing family. They directly inform how we think, how we behave, and how we perform at every level of our team.
Innovative
- We always strive for better
- We seek out every edge
- We use our imagination
- We take the leap
Respectful
- We compete with integrity
- We let our actions speak loudest
- We act with humility
- We recognise the value of each teammate
Inclusive
- We are a racing family
- We are open minded, to people and ideas
- We embrace diversity, in all forms
- We work as a team
Energetic
- We bring energy to everything we do
- We connect people to the thrill of racing
- We share passion for our sport
- We never give up
Brave
- We embrace opportunity
- We take responsibility for our actions
- We carry Bruce's dream forward with courage
- Win or lose, we fight on
All employees must ensure compliance with the Company Health and Safety Policy, and all relevant other statutory Health and Safety legislation.
This job description may not detail some less major duties allocated to the post holder, nor cover duties of a similar nature, commensurate with the role, which may from time to time be reasonably required by the relevant manager.
