Financial Operations Manager

Finance Operations Manager, 8 month contract

My client is one of Ireland's leading professional membership bodies, with a large member base in Ireland and overseas. They are hiring a Finance Operations Manager on a fixed-term contract to run the finance function day to day while the Senior Finance Manager focuses on a finance transformation project. It's a hands-on role that combines leading a team with owning core finance operations.

Main duties:

• Lead the day-to-day finance operations, including receivables, payments, payroll, pensions and cash processing
• Maintain the general ledger and review journals, reconciliations and adjustments
• Manage the month-end close and help prepare financial reports for the Senior Finance Manager
• Review payroll calculations and make sure payroll complies with employment legislation
• Oversee billing, credit control and collections to reduce bad debt and improve cash flow
• Support cash flow monitoring, short-term forecasting and liquidity management
• Apply and strengthen internal controls, procedures and financial governance
• Support system optimisation, automation and process improvement
• Help embed changes from the finance transformation project across the function
• Look after audit requests and keep process documentation up to date
• Supervise, mentor and develop the finance team, allocating work and acting as the first point of escalation

The person:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA or CIMA) with a degree in accounting, finance or a related field
• Proven experience in a finance operations or finance management role
• Experience supervising and developing a finance team
• Strong grasp of transactional finance, month-end, payroll and controls
• Strong with accounting systems and Excel
• Hands-on and proactive about process improvement, and willing to challenge inconsistencies
• Strong communicator, comfortable working with budget holders, vendors and senior management