Finance Business Partner (FTC)
Location: North Dublin (Hybrid)
Salary: €70,000 – €75,000
A well-established organisation is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join its finance team on an 18-month fixed-term contract covering a maternity leave. This is a great opportunity for a qualified accountant to play a central role in budgeting, forecasting, performance management and investment governance, supporting a significant programme of business change and investment over the coming years. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, in a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
Your Role
- Build strong working relationships across the organisation, sharing knowledge and best practice
- Own budgets, forecasts and business plans across both Capital and Operating Expenditure for your business areas
- Provide robust financial assessment of investment proposals, evaluating costs, benefits and risks, and ensuring consistency of assumptions and methodology
- Manage the full pipeline of project and programme spend across your area of responsibility
- Act as Finance Business Partner to senior management and leadership stakeholders
- Identify and track cost reduction opportunities, partnering with functional management to implement synergies
- Support the monthly capitalisation process, ensuring accurate capitalisation of resources and liaising with project managers on queries and reporting
- Work cross-functionally to track initiatives and benefits, preparing reports for senior stakeholders
- Lead the review and challenge of business case benefits to ensure alignment with strategic targets and KPIs
- Drive continuous improvement, proactively seeking feedback and identifying new opportunities for efficiency
Your Skills
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), ideally with 2 years’ post-qualification experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentation ability
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail and the ability to consistently meet deadlines
- A continuous improvement mindset within your area of responsibility
- Strong proficiency across the Microsoft Office suite and general IT systems
- Solid accounting background within a finance function or group reporting environment
- Experience with reporting tools such as Hyperion, Cognos or similar
- Working knowledge of an ERP system such as SAP or Oracle
Should this position be of interest, please forward your CV to Aoife Davis in Abrivia Recruitment. All applications will remain in strict confidence.
