Finance Lead - ERP Implementation Program (12month FTC)

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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