Head of Finance Operations

AA Euro Recruitment Group
Head of Finance Operations – Dublin
Euro Executive are working with a leading engineering firm in Dublin on a Head of Finance Operations role. Reporting to the Group FD you will be a key part of the Senior Leadership Team on the forefront of a 200mil+ turnover multi specialist firm.
The Role:
- Design and implement treasury management process / procedures
- Efficient bank balance management
- Debt covenant management
- Cash movement
- Currency management
- Cashflow forecasting
- Refine and implement foreign currency hedging strategies:
- Identify hedging requirements by currency
- Manage exposures effectively
- Implement and execute appropriate hedging strategies by jurisdiction
- Proactively manage and coach the AR & AP teams / managers in delivery against ongoing improvement objectives
- Retention tracking and management
- Provisioning
- Invoice matching vs POD / Certs / volume management
- Participate in and drive efficiencies in taxation planning and structuring:
- Transfer pricing
- Tax structure
- CT efficiency
- Manage day-to-day delivery of multi jurisdiction multi-currency payroll function
- Efficient delivery of service
- Liaison with key stakeholders
- Manage team delivery and additional requirements around mobility
- Participate in ERP system implementation
- Output design
- Requirements planning (foreign currency / payroll / tax planning / jurisdictional requirements)
- Participate in implementation of project accounting
- Consolidated project profitability tracking and reporting
- Consolidated project cashflow reporting and forecasting
- Drive finance transformation project
- Team structuring
- Process upgrade and improvement
- Process & ERP implementation
- Contribute to and manage significant elements of bottom-up budgeting and reforecasting process
- Promoting a value-adding, proactive and agile finance function
- Manage and promote strong control environment and robust financial oversight
- Work closely with project / commercial accountant to ensure consistency in budgeting and forecasting across project profitability, project and organizational cashflow and HQ overhead management
- Day-to-day responsibility for:
- Robust cash management and forecasting
- Treasury policy and foreign currency management
- Tax compliance, planning and structuring
- Multi-jurisdictional payroll management and sign-off
- Cost management, budgeting and forecasting of cost base
Experience & Skills:
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role
- Qualified Accountant with 8+ years PQE
- Experience in the construction industry / project based environment an advantage
- Big4 trained an advantage
- Experience in a large, multi-currency, multi-entity organization & consolidation environment
- Experience in tax planning and structuring / understanding of tax compliance across international markets
- Experience managing finance team with significant headcount
Salary & Benefits:
There is a full-time permanent position with a market leading package on offer for the successful candidate.
To apply, please call David Glavin on +353 21 206 6078 or +353 85 8621542 or send your CV to david@aaeuro.com..