Job Description
Job Summary
Join our Strategy Execution Office as a Strategic Finance Manager.
Collaborate with Finance & Business Strategy representatives to deliver monthly financial steering reporting.
Oversight and reconciliation of strategic budgets & forecast.
Create reports for senior management.
Provide external challenge and support to business areas.
Take full end to end responsibility for specific assigned projects.
Key Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with Finance & Business Strategy representatives in the division to deliver the monthly financial steering reporting which provides insights to budget variances and demonstrates alignment to the project progress.
* Oversight and reconciliation of strategic budgets & forecast to prior periods and project approval submissions.
* Creating reports with highlights for senior management.
* Proactive involvement in regular strategy programme reporting into Irish Life group's senior leadership team.
* This includes collation, assessment & analysis of strategic updates from divisions and providing challenge where necessary.
* Challenge pace, quantum of investment/benefits and success criteria for key strategic initiatives across the group.
* In addition to providing external challenge and support to business areas in addressing strategic and business questions.
* Support review of business cases submitted to the Design Review Board for approval.
* Support development of business cases with the business as required.
* Taking full end to end responsibility for the delivery of specific assigned projects, including management of project budgets and deliverables.
* Stakeholder management, including at a senior level and with certain external partners, as well as strong commercial and strategic perspectives.
Requirements:
* Qualified accountant with at least 5-7 years PQE in a financial services environment.
* Experience in managing financial aspects of cross functional projects from business case development to performance tracking and issue remediation would be preferable.
* A proven ability to foster effective relationship, collaborate across different stakeholders, identify, discuss and execute the steps necessary for issue resolution.
* Expert analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
* Highly motivated with an ability to manage deadlines, work on own initiative and ensure quality in every aspect of reporting.
* Expert organisational skills with the ability to prioritise across multiple tasks to tight timelines and to coordinate cross teamwork.
* Very strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.
* Strong computer systems (SAP & EPM) and end user computing skills (in particular MS Excel and PowerPoint) essential and an awareness of AI and collaborative tools an advantage.
About Us:
Irish Life is one of Ireland's largest financial institutions with a presence across a range of financial services markets.
We are one of Ireland's leading financial services groups with over 1.5 million customers.
For over 80 years, we've been helping people to look after their life insurance, pension and investment needs, and more recently their health insurance.
It is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies.
We are proud of our culture of developing and supporting the growth and professional development of our people.
The focus has resulted in a team of top talent with high standards, positioning us at the forefront of our industry.
Irish Life is proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer.
We have created an environment of inclusion and growth to help people achieve their potential, to ensure they can bring their whole selves to work and to feel valued.
We celebrate diversity of thought and perspective and want all of our employees to feel valued, respected and supported.
We have built a culture that promotes equality and inclusion for all of our current and future employees and strive to ensure that our behaviours, processes and practices are aligned to this culture.