ERP Finance Transformation Partner

McLaren Racing; Woking; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Racing seeks a Finance Business Partner to represent finance for the ERP programme, linking Finance, Operations, Technology and the Systems Integrator to design, build and deploy ERP processes and controls. This 12-month FTC will drive standardisation, readiness and benefits realisation across the organisation.

The role reports to the Finance Lead and requires strong stakeholder management and finance process knowledge to translate business needs into effective ERP solutions.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of finance processes (R2R, P2P, O2C) and accounting principles.
• Experience in product ownership, business analysis, or ERP governance.
• Comfort in working in a sprint environment with changing tasks and priorities.
• Exceptional internal business partner.
• Ability to translate business needs into system requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Commercially aware, able to connect platform decisions to business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary finance representative for designated business functions and workstreams.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Procurement, Commercial, Technology and People teams.
• Understand current business challenges, reporting requirements and operational processes.
• Ensure stakeholder perspectives are reflected in the future-state ERP design.
• Participate in workshops and design sessions to gather business requirements and validate proposed solutions.
• Support decision-making by presenting options, impacts, risks and recommendations.
• Be prepared to drop in to support other functions as different sprints require different skill sets and resources across the Finance team.
• Support the design of end-to-end processes across: Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), Projects and Cost Management, Expenses and Credit Cards, Fixed Assets, Integrations with MRP, Financial Planning and Reporting.
• Understand existing ways of working to promote standardisation and best practice.
• Ensure processes align with governance, controls and reporting requirements.
• Identify opportunities for automation and reduction of manual effort.
• Champion the ERP programme within the business.
• Support change impact assessments and stakeholder readiness activities.
• Assist with training design, communications and user engagement initiatives.
• Help develop super-user networks across departments.
• Drive adoption of new processes and ways of working.
• Support test planning and business acceptance testing.
• Coordinate business participation in testing activities.
• Validate that business processes operate effectively in the new environment.
• Assist with defect triage and resolution.
• Support cutover planning and go-live readiness activities.

Skills

ERP governance

Finance processes

Product ownership

Stakeholder management

Agile

Requirements gathering

Analytical thinking

Commercial awareness

Job description

McLaren Racing seeks a Finance Business Partner to represent finance for the ERP programme, linking Finance, Operations, Technology and the Systems Integrator to design, build and deploy ERP processes and controls. This 12-month FTC will drive standardisation, readiness and benefits realisation across the organisation.

The role reports to the Finance Lead and requires strong stakeholder management and finance process knowledge to translate business needs into effective ERP solutions.