Finance Director Permanent

Finance Director

Our Client, part of a multi-national manufacturing company, are looking to recruit an experienced Financial Director. The role will entail the management and development of the local finance teams, ensure robust financial controls, and ensure accurate monthly and fiscal reporting for the all Irish entities. The role covers 4 manufacturing sites in Ireland, but the role is Dublin based.

The position will act as a key business partner to the country Managing Director, with a direct report to the Europe FD and be a peer member of the Country Leadership Team, who are accountable for the delivery of sustainable growth across all Ireland business locations.

The Role:

• Lead the integration of Irish business to create one dynamic finance and accounting team
• A strong business partner to the MD and provide support to the other business functions.
• Identify opportunities to drive gross margin improvements and non-productive spend across all functional areas of the business.
• Manage the preparation of consolidated accounts for the Irish business, along with a number of limited activity / dormant entities
• Ensure effective and robust financial controls are in place and reviewed regularly.
• Deliver the monthly reporting and analysis for the Irish businesses. Monthly reporting includes Cognos Controller submissions, trial balances, control files, and business analytics.
• Oversee inputs to monthly financial reporting, ensuring that accruals are accurately reflected, and reporting is carried out in compliance with corporate deadlines.
• Day to day interaction with Ireland Finance Teams to ensure delivery of services in relation to invoice processing, payments and purchase orders.
• Accountability for all statutory reporting and tax compliance.
• Oversee the team for the preparation of journals in line with corporate deadlines and ensuring they complete month end balance sheet reconciliations to corporate deadlines.
• Preparation of capex requests and the control/monitoring of spend
• Drive continuous process improvements in the financial processes.
• Management and development of a team of 17 (4 direct reports).
• Identify and drive improvements in accounting systems and processes.
• Develop controls of working capital with clearly defined action plans on inventory management, AR and AP terms, working with the commercial, production, supply chain teams to drive efficiency improvements and cost reduction initiatives.
• Prepare and present the monthly/quarterly financials to the local Leadership team and to the Europe Executive Team for all Ireland Operations.
• Liaise with Group concerning tax and treasury, as well as both internal and external auditors.
• Work closely with Group IT to improve the IT systems.

The Person:

• Educated to Degree Level
• 10 years post qualified experience (ACCA, CIMA, CPA, Chartered)
• Be a self-starter in a very dynamic environment with the ability to both implement and continuously improve processes and have excellent analytical skills.
• Positive “can do” attitude, with enthusiasm to “make a difference”.
• Hands on, detail orientated approach
• Proactive problem solver, with proven ability to manage integration projects and motivate employees.
• An effective and dependable team member who can work unsupervised and provide sound financial reasoning to influence decisions
• Experience of implementing and maintaining strong financial controls.
• Flexible to respond to changing priorities and issues, able to multi-task, work on multiple concurrent projects
• Culturally aware, with excellent communication skills and ability to work with all levels with the company and able to demonstrate strong organisation skills, possess a high degree of numeracy and have good analytical skills.
• Strong local legislation knowledge and cost accounting process/implementation experience
• Highly proficient with Microsoft suite.
• Previous experience & detailed knowledge of ERP systems 

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