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    4. Graduate Finance Analyst Woking 2024
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    At McLaren Racing, we believe only by chasing performance in everything we do can we give ourselves the best chance of success. Performance on track and in the factory. Performance for our people, our business and our partners. It’s about more than winning. It’s about hitting the highest standards, and then raising the bar again.

    Purpose of the role

    At McLaren Racing, we're constantly looking at new ways to add value in our pursuit of performance.

    The McLaren Racing Finance graduate role aims to provide the ideal start to your finance career, by offering a rotational scheme across our finance organisation as we work together to take McLaren back to the front of the grid. This role aims to combine your passion for competitive sport alongside your desire to become a balanced and highly experienced finance professional.

    Finance plays an ever-increasing role in directly contributing to our on track performance, and in support of that, we have a very close working relationship with our operational and leadership teams across our organisation. We work to deliver the right information, at the right time, to support critical decisions and ensure our financial controls complement our organisations progress.

    Principal accountabilities

    The graduate role will be across 3 years and you will get the chance to gain experience and exposure across both technical accounting and controls as well as business partnering roles, in departments including:

    • F1 Race Team Operations and Engineering Business Partners
    • F1 Manufacturing & Production Business Partners
    • Formula E / Extreme E and IndyCar Business Partners
    • Financial Controls and Services
    • Financial Strategy, Planning and Analysis
    • Commercial Operations

    The roles are designed to give you true visibility across McLaren Racing and provide you with an opportunity to develop your skills in the areas that most suit and interest you. During the scheme, you will gain an in depth understanding of the business, contribute towards forecasts and budgets as well as ensuring the financial targets for the relevant business units are met, through collaboration with business partners, financial analysis, and the application of financial controls.

    You will also be enrolled on either the CIMA or ACCA which you will be expected to complete within the 3 year programme.

    Job requirements

    Knowledge, skills and experience

    • Finance or Numerical based background with strong desire to build a career in Finance.
    • A recent graduate (ideally in either Accounting, Finance, Economics, Mathematics or other numerate degree) or other relevant experience
    • With a keen interest in becoming a Chartered Accountant
    • Prior experience in the Automotive, Manufacturing or Engineering sector is beneficial but not essential.

    Professional qualifications are important but only play part of your ability to thrive within our culture, so your personality and approach are more important for this role.

    The right candidates will have

    • A strong passion for McLaren and the sport in which we aim to thrive
    • A keen interest to work in the competitive motor sport industry
    • Confidence to communicate with stakeholders of all levels, up to the senior executive team
    • A proactive self-starter who can independently manage their workload daily
    • An ever-learning mindset, looking to take new challenges and solve new problems
    • The ability to be flexible and on hand to support team members when required
    • The ability to translate complex financial data to non-finance colleagues

    Additional information

    We’re offering the opportunity to work with and learn from a team of highly motivated, top performing finance professionals. We work in a fast-paced environment and do so as one team, with one objective, that we will fully integrate you within.

    As a team we pride ourselves on being open, honest and challenging to each other in order to operate at our best. At the end of the 3-year programme you will be a qualified and experienced finance professional who we would aim to place into our permanent work force.

    What McLaren can offer?

    We strive to provide a fun, innovative, collaborative and open culture where everyone’s input is welcome, and everyone feels part of our achievements. We work hard to create a culture of continuous improvement and support this with a proactive approach to management and personal development