Financial Controller

CREGG are currently partnering with a global leader in innovative energy and retail solutions who are recruiting for an experienced Financial Controller to join their team based at their Dublin HQ office.

Location: Dublin 22
Reports To: Managing Director, Ireland.
Type: Full-time Permanent – will consider hybrid working once established in the role.

Role Overview:
The Financial Controller is responsible for the full financial management of the company, ensuring accurate, timely reporting and strong financial controls. This role manages a finance team of six and requires both high-level oversight and a willingness to support basic transactional processing when required. The Financial Controller plays a key role in maintaining financial integrity, driving performance, and supporting strategic decision-making.
This position demands strong leadership, excellent analytical capability, and the ability to operate effectively in a deadline driven environment with multiple stakeholders, including Group Finance (North Europe) and senior management in Ireland.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, mentor, and develop a finance team of six, ensuring high performance and continued upskilling.
• Ensure best practice financial processes, internal controls, and systems are consistently applied.
• Setting internal finance deadlines and ensuring compliance with Group (North Europe) reporting deadlines.
• Cashflow management, including rolling forecasts, liquidity oversight, and bad debt management.
• End-to-end month-end close management.
• Stock processing and reconciliations.
• Trend and variance analysis to identify performance issues and risk areas against budget.
• Profitability analysis on key projects and contracts.
• Budgeting and forecasting.
• Finance systems ownership (currently Opera3), including maintenance of schedules and data integrity.
• Integration and consolidation of acquisitions into Irish reporting structures.
• Leading process and system improvement initiatives across finance.
• Payroll management and oversight.
• Reporting of monthly results to North Europe.
• Fixed asset and lease management.
• Lead the annual business planning cycle, partnering with senior management.
• Coordinate and manage the year-end audit, including preparation of corporation tax documentation.
• Prepare statutory financial statements for the company.
• Assist with M&A activity, including due diligence support where required.
• Support Group and Irish management with ad hoc financial analysis and queries.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) preferred.
• Proven experience in a Financial Controller or Senior Finance Manager role.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High level of systems literacy (Opera3 experience beneficial).
• Strong understanding of cashflow, forecasting, and month-end close processes.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present financial information to senior stakeholders.

Summary:
This role is central to the financial performance and operational effectiveness of the company. The successful candidate will combine strong technical accounting knowledge with operational awareness, leadership skills, and a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement.

Offer: The successful candidate will be rewarded with an attractive salary commensurate with skills & experience along with excellent benefits on offer.

For a confidential chat, please feel free to get in contact with me directly:
Barry Dolan
Phone: 061 363 318 
Email: [email protected]

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