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Head of Finance, DELI LITES Ireland, Unit 1 Milltown Industrial Estate Warrenpoint
Employment Type
Full Time
Application Start Date
19-05-2025
Application End Date
30-06-2025
Location
DELI LITES Ireland, Unit 1 Milltown Industrial Estate Warrenpoint
State/County
Co. Down
Zip Code
BT34 3FN
Country
United Kingdom
Work Style
Hybrid
Experience
As per job description
Education
As per job description
Description
Company Overview
DELI LITES is a leading Irish food-on-the-move solutions provider with over 25 years of experience. DELI LITES offers award-winning food-to-go and heat-to-eat products, inspired by the New York deli scene.
The company is the world’s first sandwich manufacturer to earn a B Corp Certification and has three manufacturing facilities across Ireland and exports worldwide with a vision of bringing the best Irish food products to the global market.
DELI LITES are now recruiting for a Head Of Finance to help lead a 6-strong team of talented finance individuals through an exciting phase of expansion and development, with a constant focus on financial excellence.
Position Overview
Title: Head of Finance
Location: Head Office: Warrenpoint, County Down / Hybrid
Reporting Relationship: Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Website: www.delilites.com
Key Responsibilities
Financial Management
- Support the CFO in providing effective management of the finance function by aligning the team to the company’s vision for the future and driving positive change at pace.
- Assist in developing and delivering annual budgets and setting KPIs for the finance function in accordance with the wider strategy of DELI LITES.
- Manage the finance team to consistently deliver high performance and financial excellence.
- Ensure robust internal controls, financial systems, performance analytics, and management practices are in place and upheld, to support a high-performing manufacturing organisation.
- Effective Treasury management, based on developed forecasts and projections, ensuring the business has appropriate Working Capital and Investment facilities in place to meet targets and goals.
- Identification of external funding opportunities from finance houses and government bodies, development of business cases and management of the subsequent projects and programs.
- Successful production and management of all weekly, monthly and annual reporting requirements, including internal and external auditors.
Commercial Impact
- Provide strong support to the CFO on business-wide matters, including all financial matters.
- Demonstrate commercial excellence and evaluate, challenge and optimize pricing and margin to help create competitive advantage and drive profitability.
- Knowledge and understanding of the business’ processes and an ability to translate this to operational costs and ultimately profitability.
Teamwork
- Develop constructive working relationships with the C-Suite Team and Board through inciteful communication and reporting.
- Manage a high-performance culture within the Finance Function, focusing on talent identification and development.
Year-One Critical Success Factors
- Drive an organized and disciplined finance function, with robust internal and external financial reporting standards and control measures.
- Deliver Functional KPIs in line with targets.
- Deliver Functional Projects on time and on budget.
- Help to manage a team culture focussed on driving excellence through inspirational people management.
- Develop understanding of market intelligence and business performance to inform accurate financial forecasts and commercials.
Candidate Profile
Qualifications
- Qualified accountant (preferably ACA).
- 5+ years of post-qualification experience in finance management roles, ideally including experience as a proven Financial Manager, Controller or similar role in a substantial manufacturing business or in a related space.
- Experience of working closely with C-Suite executives and reporting to Senior Management and Leadership Teams
- Full finance skill set including experience in financial control, reporting, technical accounting, FP&A, M&A, and tax.
- Experience in projects and successfully working to deadlines
Skills and Competencies
- Strong people management and team leadership skills, with the ability to lead by example.
- Collaborative with a strong preference for team play.
- Curious nature with a willingness to challenge.
- High level of integrity and excellent problem-solving skills.
- Energetic, proactive with a strong work ethic.
- Natural drive and appetite to operate and thrive in an entrepreneurial business with a strong can-do mindset.
In return you will receive;
- Competitive Salary
- Discounted Food
- Free on-site parking
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Staff Events
- Perks Card
- Tech Scheme