Group Financial Controller

Overview

As Group Financial Controller, you lead the Controllership function for the McLaren Group, owning end-to-end financial control, reporting, and governance. You’ll partner with executive leadership and the Board to ensure accurate financials and a robust control environment. The role blends technical accounting, consolidation, and external audit management to support strategic decision-making. You will shape the Group’s financial control standards and lead a high-performing Controllership team to enable the business to grow responsibly.

Pay / Benefits

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end close and reporting for the Group, including consolidation and related-party accounting
• Act as Group authority on IFRS and technical accounting matters and maintain accounting policy
• Lead external and internal audit relationships and ensure timely audit delivery
• Prepare materials for Audit & Risk Committee, Board, and executives with clear conclusions
• Design and enhance the financial control framework, including segregation of duties and fraud risk management
• Lead the Controllership team, develop talent, and strengthen leadership capability
• Oversee balance sheet governance and substantiation of significant judgements
• Drive transformation to simplify and automate close, control, and reporting processes
• Own shareholder and lender reporting, covenant compliance, and collaboration with treasury and tax

Key requirements

• ACA, ACCA or equivalent Chartered Accountant qualification
• significant post-qualification experience in complex international organisations
• experience at Group Financial Controller/Head of Financial Control level in a large, multi-entity group
• extensive experience in Group consolidation, statutory reporting, and external audit delivery
• ability to interact credibly with executives, Boards and Audit & Risk Committees
• experience managing external audit relationships and deadlines
• substantial people leadership experience

• leadership and people development
• clear and commercial communication
• stakeholder management
• IFRS expertise
• technical accounting, including complex transactions
• Group consolidation and reporting

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