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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

    The key purpose of the role is to assist in the operation of the purchase ledger, ensuring accurate and timely processing of invoices and credit notes, enabling supplier payment terms to be met. As part of our continuous improvement to be cost cap competitive, the role will be an important part in identifying and driving transformation within the finance function, in order to streamline and maximise resources.

    Principal accountabilities:

    • Matching and processing both GBP and foreign invoices and credit notes, ensuring they are coded correctly
    • Reconciliation of supplier statements
    • Liaising with internal staff, and external suppliers
    • Dealing with supplier queries
    • Running fortnightly BACS payment runs, and check bank details are up to date
    • Setting up new suppliers on the system, and sending any bank details off to be verified, in line with anti-fraud processes
    • Assisting in month end tasks such as o Invoice accrual, VAT accrual, Contractors accrual, DPO and Intrastat
    • Completely the monthly deferment statement
    • Submit payment practices and performance report bi-annually
    • Preparation and posting of fuel invoices, ferries, shipping and sixth invoices
    • Liaising with the buying team to resolve any queries on prices or quantities

    Job requirements

    Personal Attributes:

    Communication

    • You will be able to communicate to all levels of management
    • Escalate any significant matters to management on a timely basis

    Teamwork

    • Be able to work within a small fast moving department
    • Support the month end process and deliver high quality output

    Organising

    • You will have excellent organisation and management of your own time
    • File Company data in a logical and methodical order

    Problem solving

    • Persistent when resolving issues
    • Good at questioning and spotting irregularities
    • Have good attention to detail

    What can McLaren offer?

    We constantly strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Our ambition is to be the most pioneering and exhilarating racing team in the world, and our collective task is to set the standards for high performance in sport. We show up every day with energy and enthusiasm, ready to play our part.

    We encourage and support diversity, equity and inclusion. We will actively promote a culture that values difference and eliminates discrimination in our workplace.

    McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) near Woking. Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, swimming pool, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park and common land. The MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 30 minute train ride.

    Hybrid working patterns give you options to balance your home life and outside interests with your work. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.