Finance Director

Our Clients, a large Multi-national Pharma company, are looking to recruit an experienced Finance Director to join their team in Citywest.

The Role:

As Finance Director, the person will be responsible for key financial processes within the organisation, and managing the Finance team. The person will be responsible for a number of legal entities with the emphasis on ensuring that all statutory and tax reporting requirements are achieved and that systems and processes are maintained and enhanced to ensure reporting requirements, both local and internationally, can be delivered in an efficient manner.

In addition, the person will have responsibility to mange the monthly close process, ensuring timely and accurate submissions to Head office and ensuring key SOX controls are maintained.

The person appointed will need to have initiative and drive to work in a fast paced, ever changing environment. Excellent communication skills and an ability to work well within a small team are essential.

Full responsibility for all legal entity reporting
- Annual Statutory financial statements
- Interim Statutory Financial Statements
- Annual Statutory Audit
- Creating processes to ensure financial statements can be delivered efficiently
- Interpreting legal documentation and accounting appropriately
- All CSO and other statutory reporting requirements
- SOX compliance for relevant areas
Tax Compliance Reporting for all legal entities
- Tax provisioning – current & deferred tax
- Annual tax submissions and queries
- Tax reporting to Corporate Tax Group
- Tax planning with Corporate Tax Group
Management Fee accounting & reporting
FX analysis for legal entity
Preparation of presentations for board meetings
Responsibility for Government support initiatives
- Managing grant agreements from inception to close
- Grant applications
- Grant claims
- R&D Tax credits
Continuous improvement programme for all areas of responsibility
Other ad hoc requests

The Person:

Qualified Accountant with 8+ years post qualification experience
Experience in accounting for complicated financial structures
Good working knowledge of accounting software packages required – Peoplesoft, SAP, HFM
Advanced Excel skills
Ideally practice trained, with experience of Multi-national environments.
High ethical standards, strong verbal and written communication skills, and team player
Ability to interact with all levels within the organization, including senior management
Individual must work well in a dynamic environment and be able to implement process improvements, create efficiencies, work independently and handle multiple tasks simultaneously

For more information, please call Keith on 01 4663983 or email Keith@executiveedge.ie

Finance Director