Job Description:
Job: Finance Planning Manager
Sector: Technology
Location: North Dublin
Working type: Hybrid (2 days in Office, 2 Days at home)
Salary: 90,000 + Bonus, package
We are looking for a talented Finance Planning Manager, to take responsibility for the end-to end finance operations within our customer's Tech department and planning the various Financial Planning tasks, such as Monthly Quarterly and Annual Financial Reviews. This job is vital to ensuring that the business continues to operate efficiently and cost-effectively and will support the company's overall success. Managing all contractor spend and overseeing all agency/partner relationships.
For the role you will be responsible for:
- Overseeing end-to-end finance operations, financial planning and analysis, looking to make improvements to procedures and controls, as well as ad-hoc projects and requests as and when they come up
- Leading and coaching the Tech Finance team and supporting Technology Business Manager as required and agreed
- Overseeing the signing off and authorising of all contractors spend
- Control of spend of all onshore/offshore resources within Tech ensuring over 30 agencies/partners are paid within terms and producing monthly contractor accruals for finance enabling the re-charging of costs to projects
- Overseeing the Analysing and approving purchase requisitions.
- Managing our customer's re-charge invoicing each month and investigating any discrepancies and escalating with management
- Overseeing the planning and forecasting activities throughout the financial year with finance business partners ensuring accuracy of budgets and maintaining control of spend
- Overseeing the reviewing of weekly payment file for all payments to be included in the weekly payment run
- Overseeing the collaboration with departments in line with business objectives to understand their financial requirements, forecast IT expenses, and establish budgetary guidelines
- Monitor IT spending, analyse cost variances and provide recommendations for optimising costs and resource allocation
- Liaising with department leads ensuring that software renewals are in place and in line with budgets
- Identifying new cost-efficient ways of working focusing on payment solutions whilst further driving down costs
- Providing financial reports and interpreting financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action
- Identify, track and support cost reduction initiatives and work with functional management to identify and implement synergies
- Producing financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses etc.
We are looking for people with the below experience/skills:
- Exceptional knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of software applications (including PowerBI) combined with general proficiency in IT systems
- Good working knowledge of Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence and Tempo) is mandatory
- Focused attitude to work, with the ability to constantly meet deadlines while ensuring excellent attention to detail & high levels of accuracy
- A solid understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles
- Ability to synthesise large quantities of complex financial data into actionable information
- Excellent business judgment, analytical and decision-making skills
- Bachelors and/or masters degree in business, finance, or accounting with a minimum of 5 + years of financial experience in industryAbility to identify and implement new process changes in order to drive efficiencies across the business and generate cost savings
- Proven knowledge of financial analysis and strategy
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing business in a critical role. You will work closely with the senior team and gain unrivalled experience within the sector. With excellent training provided, the career prospects are endless. If you would be interested in applying, please submit your CV to the link provided or whatsapp us now for more details.