# Finance Analyst - Product Development

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

As a Finance Analyst, you will oversee many aspects of financial support and reporting for Product Development across Engineering and Vehicle Line Delivery, working closely with the teams who design future luxury performance vehicles.

Responsibilities:

- Lead Business partner for one major vehicle programme, with additional minor projects, working closely with Programme Management, Functional Engineering and Purchasing to report performance against programme targets throughout programme gateways from concept to production

- Support the approval of budgets at shareholder level and drive accountability at budget holder level

- Manage capital budgets for one major vehicle programme, ensuring appropriate level of approval is delivered across capital spending and material cost

- Support month end, including assisting with journal preparation and contribution to monthly management accounts commentary

- Challenge stakeholders to drive accountability, providing them with tools to track progress against financial targets and allowing them to keep within agreed budgets

- Prepare programme key performance indicator reporting across all aspects of programme profitability and present to senior leadership

- Prepare monthly internal forecasts for input into wider business forecasting tools and process

Requirements:

- Experience in maintaining reporting structures and adapting to structure change, comfortable with large volumes of data

- Strong system skills including SAP and MS Office, particularly Excel (Pivot tables, IndexMatch, Power Query, etc)

- Demonstrate a team supporting mindset with ability to take on new challenges with effective execution

- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, with ability to build strong and lasting relationships with internal stakeholders

- Time management and organisational skills, with adaptable and flexible working style

- Self-starter who can work independently with minimal support, but also work in a team environment

- Able to work under pressure, yet deliver on time with attention to detail and accuracy

- Confident in questioning validity of information and offering ideas and solutions

- Demonstrate ability and desire to progress through business

- Ability to work with and influence colleagues at all levels of organisation

- Passion for automotive industry

- Persistence and drive to get job done

Benefits:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday

- Enhanced company pension scheme

- Discretionary annual bonus award

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan

- Life assurance benefit

- Ability to apply for sabbatical of up to one year after two years' service

- Benefits adaptable to lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

- Generous parental leave policies

- Range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

## Skills

### Required
- SAP
- MS Office
- Excel
- financial analysis
- budgeting
- forecasting

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