Strategic Planning:

• Collaborate with CFO/CEO/Group to develop long-term financial strategies across AIR Ireland.
• Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes. 

Financial Analysis:

• Analyse financial performance against budgets and forecasts.
• Identify trends, variances, and financial risks/opportunities.
• Provide variance analysis for key project metrics, material price & usage variances, labour usage, make vs. buy variances, etc.
• Provide insights and recommendations for cost optimisation and revenue enhancement.
• Commercial analysis (Customer, project type) with trending and insights. 

Reporting:

• Prepare and present commercial & financial reports for the AIR Board team.
• Responsibility of revenue recognition for month end
• Develop and maintain financial dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Streamline and improve internal and external reporting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with departments to gather necessary data and insights.
• Ensure alignment of financial goals with overall company objectives.
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure accurate financial reporting and decision support.
• Working closely with the commercial team on sales pipeline management

Process Improvement:

• Identify and implement improvements in financial planning processes and systems.
• Standardise and streamline reporting processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.  

Additional Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain financial models to support business decisions.
• Support the month-end and year-end close processes.
• Provide training and support to junior team members.
• Ad-hoc participation of implementation of ERP system

Qualifications & Experience:

• 5 years+ PQE experience in a Management Accountant / Cost Accountant / Financial Analyst Role
• Accountancy qualification, ACCA, ACA, CIMA or CPA
• MS Power BI knowledge would be an advantage.

Key Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to translate financial data into solutions
• Highly motivated and driven
• Excellent communication Skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams across the business
• Commercially focused
• Keen interest in developing usable business insights (not just reporting)

If you are living in Ireland and hold a valid work permit, we would love to hear from you, if however, you do not hold a valid work permit unfortunately we will not be in a position to assist you with your job search.