McLaren

• Finance Business Partner responsible for insourced manufacturing (MPC)
• Key member of Manufacturing and Finance senior management teams reporting into Head of Finance for operations & procurement
• Responsible for supervising & development of two direct report
• Responsible for financial management and oversight of Performance car manufacturing

• Full financial management and support of performance car manufacturing:
• Business partner support for all associated costs for performance car manufacturing and supporting with delivery on budget & approval of changes through governance processes.
• Devise and manage processes for cost tracking, forecasting and reporting
• Month end closure, process improvement and proactive business partner support for all financial aspects of insourced manufacturing including headcount.
• Programme gateway support with detailed casual factor analysis against prior gateways, targets and business plans.
• Ensure all Directors and Heads-of have full budget responsibility for their areas, that this is reported on, and appropriate targets are set, managed and controlled
• An integral part of the Manufacturing Operations team so that all decisions are made having been fully analysed by both the team and finance
• Control and maintain live register of risks and opportunities and communicate to business partners
• Play a key role to support the Operations leadership team in respect of insourced manufacturing
• In conjunction with Manufacturing Management Team, develop and report against key manufacturing KPIs both financial and non-financial
• Ensure robust development of “best practice” automotive manufacturing techniques and measurement
• Liaison with external auditors on items of CoGs, WIP and raw materials
• Develop reports to follow best practice, encouraging knowledge sharing across teams

• Fully qualified accountant with proven post qualified experience
• Demonstrable experience within a cross functional business; operations engineering and product development, fast-paced and ever evolving environment
• Experience of business partnering with sales & marketing and/or operations and product development.
• Experience of team management in a lead management position with cross functional outward facing business partnering experience
• Provides examples of change management and process implementation
• Demonstrates a continuous improvement approach to work, including but not limited to, identifying areas for process improvements and implementing robust solutions
• SAP and managing SAP standardization/new processes would be an advantage
• Experience in managing budget control, forecast and reporting to manage multiple areas of cost and activity with multiple stakeholders in order to deliver the collective whole on target.  To manage the trade-offs and risks and opportunities, working collectively to deliver improvements across the business

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