Finance Manager Financial Control Job In Dublin

Finance Manager Financial Control

Responsible for overseeing finance controls across the Authority, ensuring a robust financial control environment, and driving a comprehensive control ecosystem.

• Own and lead overall financial control management, including coordination with various finance teams to ensure a robust and comprehensive risk and control matrix is in place.
• Own and lead overall financial policy management, including coordination with various finance teams to ensure a robust and comprehensive policies, procedures, and statement of practices are in place.
• Own and lead on financial compliance activities, including GDPR, Payment Card Industry compliance, and privacy impact assessments.
• Coordinate the finance change control board, ensuring overarching governance over process change is in place, including drafting and reviewing change impact assessments for proposed changes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Executing the vision, strategy, roadmap, and implementation of performance indicators and supporting metrics and trends for finance controls.
• Coordinating the consolidation and reporting of financial control Key Performance Indicators.
• Supporting and critically challenging global process owners to ensure that controls in their area of responsibility are operative efficiently and effectively.
• Continually assessing the impact of emerging finance and finance-related technologies, regulatory, and industry trends against strategic business needs.

Requirements:

• Hold a professional accountancy qualification and be admitted to membership of a recognized professional body of accountants.
• Have at least 7 years of recent satisfactory experience with 3 years of managerial experience.
• Have experience in building and maintaining strong internal control systems.
• Have excellent analytical skills, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Have the ability to work on own initiative, as part of a team, and as leader of a group.

Desirable criteria include:

• Strong controls and risk experience with experience in audit.
• Experience in managing contracts and third-party suppliers.
• Project management skills and experience.
• Experience managing and controlling finance systems and modules.
• Excellent business analyst skills with experience in process mapping and redesign.
• Knowledge of practices/procedures of the public sector and particularly public sector accounting procedures.