Finance Lead - ERP Implementation Program (12month FTC)

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

• 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.

Pulled from the full job description

• Shuttle service provided
• Life insurance
• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Car scheme

At McLaren, our mission is to set the standard for high performance in sport. And everyone, in every part of the team, has a role to play. So if you want to test your ideas with the world watching... And measure your progress in milliseconds... And play your part in racing history... You belong here. High performance starts with you., What can McLaren offer? We constantly strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Our ambition is to be the most pioneering and exhilarating racing team in the world, and our collective task is to set the standards for high performance in sport. We show up every day with energy and enthusiasm, ready to play our part. We encourage and support diversity, equity and inclusion. We will actively promote a culture that values difference and eliminates discrimination in our workplace. McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) near Woking. Here at McLaren, we offer hybrid working with 3 days a week based in the MTC. Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park and common land. The MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 30 minute train ride. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.