Job Title
Finance Analyst - Control
Ref #
54193
Date posted
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Country
United Kingdom
Location
Woking
Business area
Finance
Department
Finance
Position level
5
Working time
Full Time
Contract type
Permanent
Working pattern
37.5 Standard 9:00 - 17:00 (30 min lunch)
Salary
£
What to Expect

As a Finance Analyst, you will be supporting effective financial control across the McLaren Automotive Group, including assisting in the training of a Finance Graduate colleague. You will be primarily responsible for:

  • Contributing to the correct keeping of accounting records for McLaren Automotive, ensuring accuracy of postings made by yourself, and also monitoring the accuracy of postings made by non-Control colleagues across the Finance Department.
  • Taking responsibility for key repeating tasks and analysis, requiring diligent adherence to existing processes alongside identifying opportunities to optimise and simplify those processes where possible.
  • Implementing financial controls, processes and systems to support a robust and fit-for-purpose control environment.
  • Collecting or extracting, and then refining financial data in order to feed essential business analysis to ultimately inform decisions at Executive Committee level.
What You'll Do
  • Key contributor to the monthly financial close process, taking on repeating tasks such as detailed journals and routines, covering a broad range of inputs and outputs to be delivered on a pressured timeline.
  • Understand and manage interdependencies within the processes for which ownership is taken, in order to resolve problems and ensure minimal rework and corrections are necessary.
  • Operate as an effective component of the Core Control team, fluidly communicating with other team members to call in assistance where required, and to offer assistance and swing capacity over to other tasks when possible.
  • Analyse specific Profit and Loss general ledger accounts, in order to assist management in highlighting anomalies, postings or balances of concern.
  • Perform reconciliations for given groups of Balance Sheet accounts, providing outputs for review my management colleagues.
  • Provide listings to support general ledger account balances to auditors, and liaise with audit team members to provide supporting evidence for transactions and balances, or to facilitate the provision thereof from other teams within the Finance department.
  • Support colleagues within business partnering teams (UK and international) by solving problems with systems and accounting as they arise, and calling upon assistance from other teams as appropriate (such as IT colleagues).
  • Provide supportive camaraderie to the Finance Graduate – Control, in order to help them to get up to speed with life in a professional finance environment, and train them in some of their day-to-day tasks (such as posting journals etc).
  • Input to the design of financial and data processes in the interest of strengthening and optimising our control environment, ultimately in order to enhance the integrity of our financial data.
What You'll Bring

  • Trainee accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
  • Desire to gain experience in a Financial Control environment, with a clear appreciation of how this might contribute to a solid grounding in accountancy.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively, understanding other perspectives, proposing solutions and highlighting limitations as appropriate.
  • A desire to understand the process of external audit, and willingness to engage proactively and collaboratively where appropriate, with representatives of the Company’s auditors.
  • Reasonable base proficiency with Microsoft Excel, with a desire to build out those skills and also to develop capability with Power BI and Powerpoint
  • An enthusiasm for analysis and for transforming data into information which can then be taken forwards to provide insight.
  • A continuous improvement approach to work, and an instinct for optimising processes where possible.

Personal Attributes / Competencies:

  • Quick learner & results orientated.
  • Curiosity to understand the workings and flows of information behind the scenes.
  • A desire to resolve issues and fix problems so that they do not repeat.
  • A passion for getting things right first time.
  • Highly motivated and with a desire to grow into the accountancy profession.
  • Strong reasoning skills with the desire to apply this to solving problems.
  • Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills.
  • Team player, with the patience to retain ownership of seemingly mundane repetitive tasks against the understanding of their wider importance, and the continued learning which derives from such repetition.
  • Ability to build relationships with colleagues throughout the Finance Department and within the wider business functions.
  • Persistence and drive to see tasks through to completion, with a desire to iteratively improve.
What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • Structured career development framework
  • 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
  • Enhanced company pension scheme
  • Discretionary annual bonus award
  • Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • Life assurance benefit
  • Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • Generous parental leave policies
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. 

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey. 

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