Senior Accounting Specialist (Fixed-Term Contract)

This is a fixed-term contract until March 2027. The role owns and delivers the financial consolidation of McLaren Group Limited and provides experienced accounting support to the Financial Control Team across McLaren Racing Limited. It helps ensure accurate intercompany accounting and eliminations under FRS 102 while supporting Group reporting under IFRS.

• Own the end-to-end financial consolidation of McLaren Group Limited accounts under FRS 102, ensuring accurate and timely completion.
• Prepare and review consolidation journals, intercompany eliminations and supporting schedules, maintaining a clear audit trail.
• Own intercompany and related-party reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and coordinating their resolution across Group entities.
• Support consolidated financial statements, disclosures and analysis, including complex or judgemental consolidation areas.
• Provide financial accounting support across month-end close, including journals, accruals, prepayments and other accounting entries.
• Prepare or review balance-sheet reconciliations and control accounts, investigating unusual or aged items.
• Support statutory reporting and external audit through accurate, complete and audit-ready schedules, reconciliations and working papers.
• Apply FRS 102 and Group accounting policies within the role's scope, escalating areas requiring judgement.
• Prepare Group reporting to shareholders with awareness of IFRS conversion requirements.
• Support finance-process and ERP improvements, including data validation, testing and reconciliation, and provide practical guidance and knowledge-sharing to less-experienced colleagues.

• Experience of end-to-end financial consolidation under FRS 102.
• Experience of preparing and reviewing consolidation journals, intercompany eliminations and supporting schedules with a clear audit trail.
• Experience of intercompany and related-party reconciliations, including investigating and resolving discrepancies across Group entities.
• Experience of supporting consolidated financial statements, disclosures and analysis, including complex or judgemental consolidation areas.
• Experience of providing financial accounting support across month-end close, including journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Experience of preparing or reviewing balance-sheet reconciliations and control accounts, including investigating unusual or aged items.
• Experience of supporting statutory reporting and external audit with accurate, complete and audit-ready schedules, reconciliations and working papers.
• Knowledge of FRS 102 and Group accounting policies, with the ability to escalate areas requiring judgement.
• Experience of preparing Group reporting to shareholders with awareness of IFRS conversion requirements.
• Experience of supporting finance-process and ERP improvements, including data validation, testing and reconciliation.
• Ability to provide practical guidance and knowledge-sharing to less-experienced colleagues.
• Technical judgement combined with practical delivery.