Finance Director
EPUKI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dublin • 🇮🇪 Ireland
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Lead
About the role
- Being a key member of the All-Island senior leadership team involved in devising, implementing, and delivering business strategy.
- Acting as a critical financial business partner/sounding board to the All-Island wider leadership team.
- Leading and developing a high performing All-Island finance team focused on exceeding targets and objectives, including leveraging individual talents and capabilities, and encouraging individual responsibility and ownership.
- Overseeing the Finance team, ensuring that they drive Business Unit Gross Margin, cost control and cash flow performance, and ensuring all relevant parties are in receipt of analytical support.
- Co-ordinating and monitoring the financial impact of hedging activities with the Trading team and business unit leaders.
- Reviewing and identifying gaps in functional processes and outputs and create a plan to bridge them.
- Enhancing existing operational processes, systems, and procedures to ensure efficiency improvements are realised, bringing experience of using technology to automate wherever possible.
- Anticipating and evaluating the impact of new and amended regulation on the business and provide expert guidance to the senior team and Board on its implementation.
- Oversight and governance of business reporting and planning processes, ensuring strong financial controls over expenditure, reporting, hedging and cash management.
- Monitoring and amending trading and credit risk management, including cashflow, collateral and credit optimisation.
- Oversight of financing activities, including covenant monitoring and compliance, new project finance issuance and EPH group funding rounds as required.
- Leading the various Pension optimisation strategies across the All-Island group.
- Liaising with Tax regarding the execution of tax strategy and tax compliance activities at asset-level operations groups.
- Liaising with EPH Finance in Prague to ensure conformity with Group Finance reporting requirements.
- Conducting special projects as and when required.
Requirements
- Previously held a senior Finance position (ideally at CFO / FD level, however exceptional step-up candidates will be considered).
- Previously operated as an integral part of the senior commercial leadership of an organisation.
- Managed high performance teams of c.10+ individuals, leveraging and growing internal talent.
- Experience within energy, utilities or the large-scale industrial commodity processes sector would be highly advantageous.
- Broad experience across Finance / business faculties is required, including; Accounting Standards, Controls and Processes, FP&A, Business Partnering, Working in a Regulated Industry, Tax, Statutory Accounting, Cash Cycle and Working Capital Management.
- Excellent knowledge of the MS Office suite.
- Strong Excel skills, with the ability to apply those skills to market modelling and analysis.
- Experience of how technology can assist in driving automation across Finance processes.
- Relevant Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Business or Finance.
- Fully qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA).
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
financial analysisbusiness strategycost controlcash flow managementfinancial reportingrisk managementtax complianceFP&Amarket modellingautomation in finance
Soft skills
leadershipteam managementstrategic thinkingcommunicationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationownershipresponsibilityperformance management
Certifications
ACCACIMAACArelevant degree in Mathematicsrelevant degree in Economicsrelevant degree in Businessrelevant degree in Finance