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This is a key strategic leadership role within Three Ireland reporting to the CEO as a member of the Leadership that will provide key expert knowledge, insight and business experience in driving forward the success of Three in achieving its strategic plans.
This role leads Three Ireland’s Finance function and is accountable for developing and delivering a Finance strategy that drives effective financial decision‑making for Three Ireland to ensure a strong financial position from which to achieve wider Three Ireland objectives and deliver value for shareholders. It also leads on Tax and Treasury, Procurement, Governance & Integrity and ensures overall financial resilience in a rapidly evolving telecommunications landscape.
What else it involves:
Strategic Financial Leadership: Accountable for the development and delivery of Three Ireland’s Finance strategy, including Cost Management and Investments that align with business objectives and shareholder expectations.
Commercial Insight & Decision Support: Provides leadership and acts as the ultimate decision maker for the Finance organisation, including commercial finance, financial planning & analysis, statutory reporting, financial control, tax & treasury, procurement, financial operations and revenue & billing.
Financial Planning: Partners with the CEO and other members of Three Ireland’s Leadership to shape overall strategy and financial plans including key investment decisions, the Three Ireland budget, shaping business cases and assessments and ensuring Three Ireland is meeting its financial objectives.
Financial Reporting: Oversees all financial and management reporting for Three Ireland, ensuring compliance with all regulations and accounting standards, and shapes the overall financial narrative provided to shareholders and other key stakeholder groups.
Enterprise Agile Transformation: Partners with cross‑functional leaders to embed agile ways of working across the business, ensuring finance supports and enables agile delivery, value stream alignment and iterative planning.
Transformation & Efficiency: Drives finance transformation initiatives, including automation, digital tools and process optimisation to enhance operational efficiency to ensure delivery of accurate and timely data to enable business decision making.
Governance and Integrity: Oversees the development and delivery of Three Ireland’s Governance and Integrity strategy ensuring best practice in adoption of new solutions such as AI deployment across the Company and compliance with all relevant frameworks such as NIS2.
Procurement Oversight: Oversees the development and delivery of Three Ireland’s Procurement strategy, ensuring it’s aligned to the broader Company strategy and cost management approach.
Risk Management: Partners with product and channel owners to manage fraud risks, including but not limited to ensuring that clear financial controls are in place, fraud risks are captured and mitigated, and that financial value is protected.
Stakeholder Management: Drives strategic buy‑in for the Finance strategy across key stakeholder groups and acts as the primary financial liaison with CK Hutchison, ensuring alignment on strategic priorities and timely delivery of group reporting requirements. Represents the Finance function in external events.
Leadership & Culture: Leads a high‑performing finance team, fostering accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
The Skills we are looking for:
Proven experience as a CFO/Finance Director, or other senior role within a Finance function for a market‑leading Telco organisation.
Experience working closely with executive level stakeholders.
Expert knowledge in all aspects of strategic finance and financial operations.
Highly knowledgeable of latest industry trends and competitor practices within the Finance space.
Experience in managing a Procurement function.
Commercially astute, with the ability to manage overall significant budgets and oversee large‑scale negotiations.
Experience working within a group reporting structure or multinational, with strong stakeholder management skills.
Critical Success Factors/Capabilities/Competencies:
Leading others: Engage, align and empower teams to achieve goals and ambitions.
Delighting customers: Prioritise, enhance and maximise the customer experience.
Shaping strategy: Develop long‑term business direction based on data and insight.
Thinking commercially: Apply deep commercial understanding to drive business goals and outcomes.
Delivering results: Drive continuous improvement and higher performance levels.
Driving transformation: Foster a culture of change and align the organisation to achieve new direction.
Fostering innovation: Create an environment that nurtures innovation and builds capabilities.
Influencing collaboratively: Guide, influence and work effectively with others to drive outcomes.
Driving operational excellence: Lead the operation of the function to deliver best‑in‑class performance.
Navigating complex problems: Tackle complex challenges proactively to achieve optimal solutions.
Growth mindset: Lead with a growth mindset, driving inclusion, continuously learning and seeking new possibilities.
KPIs:
Overall Financial Performance indicators such as Operating Profitability and Financial Performance, Unlevered Free Cash Flow, Operating Expense Ratio, Cash Conversion Cycle, Return on Assets, and CapEx Efficiency.
Benefits of Working at Three:
Flexible working with our new Hybrid model, our employees will enjoy more flexibility working from home and our Dublin head office location (office based 3 days per week).
Competitive salary, annual performance bonus & pension contribution.
Annual Leave buy or sell (buy or sell up to 5 days AL each year).
Healthcare Insurance through our flexible benefits programme.
Access to learning & development tools.
Free on‑site parking.
Apply now at: https://www.three.ie/careers #Jobs
At Three, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. As Ireland’s largest mobile telecommunications provider, we provide a better connected life for our diverse customer base, and want our teams to reflect this. We welcome and celebrate all identities and strive to create a culture of belonging where employees can thrive as their authentic selves.
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