Finance Manager (Revenue & Controls)
Location: Dublin (Hybrid)
Salary: DOE + Excellent Benefits
An established, large-scale organisation operating in a complex, high-volume environment is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to lead a specialist revenue accounting and credit control function.
This is a key leadership role combining strong technical accounting expertise with hands-on people management. The successful candidate will take ownership of end-to-end revenue reporting processes, ensure robust financial controls, and lead a high-performing team through ongoing systems and process improvements.
Key Responsibilities
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Own the end-to-end month-end, quarter-end and year-end revenue accounting processes, ensuring accurate, complete and timely reporting into management accounts.
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Prepare, review and present detailed financial analysis and commentary to senior stakeholders.
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Oversee debtor performance and credit control activities, working closely with customers and internal teams to improve information flows, automation and on-time payment.
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Review and approve monthly balance sheet reconciliations and ensure timely resolution of reconciling items.
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Lead and support ongoing finance systems enhancements, including project involvement, testing, process design and training.
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Provide technical accounting expertise to support business change initiatives, system development, standardisation and automation projects.
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Partner with commercial stakeholders in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.
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Support commercial management with financial insight, ad-hoc reporting and system guidance.
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Lead regular team and stakeholder meetings to embed new processes and drive continuous improvement.
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Manage, mentor and develop a team of 10+ finance professionals, ensuring clear accountability, performance management and development planning.
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Document end-to-end processes to improve efficiency and minimise reporting risk.
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Ensure operation within a strong financial controls framework and maintain oversight of control procedures.
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Consolidate and review data from multiple sources, identifying and escalating issues or variances as required.
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Participate in cross-functional projects and respond to ad-hoc financial queries.
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Promote strong corporate governance and control awareness across the function.
Candidate Profile
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- 2-5+ years’ post-qualification experience in revenue accounting and credit control within a high-volume or complex environment.
- Proven experience leading and developing a sizeable, high-performing finance team.
- Strong background in process improvement, systems change, and finance transformation initiatives.
- Excellent technical accounting knowledge combined with commercial awareness.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse complex information, challenge constructively, and make sound decisions.
- Strong communicator with the ability to simplify complex financial information for non-finance stakeholders.
- Ability to operate effectively under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Key Competencies
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People Leadership & Team Development
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Technical Accounting & Financial Controls
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Results Orientation
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Influencing & Stakeholder Management
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Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong finance professional with proven leadership capability to step into a highly visible role with significant scope to influence systems, processes and team performance.
