Finance Director

Finance Director – Oranmore, Co. Galway

Role & Responsibilities:

• Full responsibility for all aspects of a busy accounts department and manage and recruit appropriate personnel.
• Preparation of monthly management accounts with supporting documentation to CEO and external shareholders/investors/banks.
• Preparation of audit for external auditors
• Supervision of fortnightly payroll & expenses
• Ensuring proper books of accounts are being kept and all Debtors & Creditors invoices are prepared and inputted correctly to accounting system and properly and accurately reconciled.
• Managing debtors collection and creditors payments on a timely basis
• Current systems include Sage & Callsoft.
• Migrate current systems to other efficient systems to improve overall workflows and drive efficiencies. Integrate current HR time & attendance software and other features to payroll software.
• Manage purchase order and similar systems. Ensure value for money in all aspects of the business to include particularly energy contracts, insurances.
• Monitor contracts of clients
• Preparation of cash flow forecasts and budgets to include profit & loss and balance sheet.
• Presentation of key performance indicators particularly labour costs on a weekly and an ongoing basis.
• Prepare and monitor actual results with budget
• Manage all expenses heads to miinimise costs where appropriate and similarly maximise all income opportunities.
• Manage all other miscellaneous items within the accounting department.
• Manage a team on 2 in finance

Requirements:

• Qualified professional accountant
• Minimum of 5 years of post-qualified experience
• Industry experience in a large multinational or mid-sized SME an advantage.
• Commercially astute, articulate, technically strong, and dynamic leader.
• Exceptional communication skills at all levels.
• People Management experience
• Strong IT skills and ability to adapt to new technologies.