Governance, Testing and Release Management

• Ensure Workday Financials changes follow agreed design principles, governance standards, controls and approval routes.
• Lead and coordinate testing activity across configuration changes, enhancements, integrations and releases, including unit testing, system testing, regression testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Own release management planning for Workday Financials, assessing Workday release impacts, coordinating business readiness and ensuring changes are adopted safely and effectively.
• Maintain clear documentation of configuration decisions, process changes, testing evidence and release outcomes.
• Support training, change management and user adoption so that Finance teams can use Workday confidently and consistently.

Integration, Data and End-to-End Process Ownership

• Understand how Workday Financials connects with Workday HCM, Adaptive Planning and wider upstream and downstream systems.
• Ensure system design supports joined-up processes, accurate data flows, clear ownership and strong governance across Finance and People data.
• Work closely with data, integration and reporting teams to improve data quality, resolve integration issues and ensure reporting outputs are trusted.
• Identify risks, gaps or inefficiencies across end-to-end processes and drive practical improvements that strengthen controls and reduce manual work.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Strong hands-on functional experience configuring Workday Financials to a high level.
• Strong understanding of finance processes, including record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, expenses, supplier management, projects, assets and financial reporting.
• Proven ability to take business requirements and translate them into Workday processes, configuration, functionality and delivery plans.
• Experience leading or supporting Workday testing activity, including regression testing, UAT, release testing and defect triage.
• Experience managing Workday releases, assessing release notes, coordinating impact assessments and planning adoption of new functionality.
• Strong understanding of Workday security, business process configuration, reporting, data structures and integration principles.
• Understanding of the links between Workday Financials, Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning.
• Ability to connect process, data and system design so that solutions are scalable, governed and easy to operate.
• Experience working with Finance, Technology, Data and implementation partner teams in a complex transformation or ERP environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to challenge poor process design and simplify complex requirements.

Personal Attributes

• Hands-on and delivery-focused, with the confidence to configure, test and problem-solve directly.
• Strong functional thinker who can see how finance processes, data, controls and systems connect.
• Pragmatic and structured, able to turn ambiguity into clear requirements, decisions and action.
• Confident communicator who can translate complex Workday concepts into business-friendly language.
• Collaborative and able to influence across Finance, People, Technology and delivery partners.
• Curious, improvement-focused and comfortable challenging existing ways of working to create better outcomes.

Our brand values

These are our core values. They support our vision to set the standard for high performance in sport and are the things that we believe are most important in the way we live and work within the McLaren Racing family. They directly inform how we think, how we behave, and how we perform at every level of our team.

Innovative

• We always strive for better
• We seek out every edge
• We use our imagination
• We take the leap

Respectful

• We compete with integrity
• We let our actions speak loudest
• We act with humility
• We recognise the value of each teammate

Inclusive

• We are a racing family
• We are open minded, to people and ideas
• We embrace diversity, in all forms
• We work as a team

Energetic

• We bring energy to everything we do
• We connect people to the thrill of racing
• We share passion for our sport
• We never give up

Brave

• We embrace opportunity
• We take responsibility for our actions
• We carry Bruce's dream forward with courage
• Win or lose, we fight on

All employees must ensure compliance with the Company Health and Safety Policy, and all relevant other statutory Health and Safety legislation.

This job description may not detail some less major duties allocated to the post holder, nor cover duties of a similar nature, commensurate with the role, which may from time to time be reasonably required by the relevant manager.