Head of Commercial Finance
Cairn Homes plc is offering an exceptional opportunity for a highly skilled Head of Commercial Finance to join our Finance function. Reporting to the Director of Finance & Treasury, you will lead a team of six dedicated and experienced accountants. The ideal candidate will have the following key responsibilities and requirements.
Key responsibilities
Working closely with the Director of Finance & Treasury on a day‑to‑day basis. Lead for all forward‑looking financial and operational analytics for the CEO, CFO, Leadership Team and the Board of Directors, including short, medium and long‑range financial planning, budgeting and reforecasting. In doing so, having a full understanding over time of the operations of the business, the key interdependencies between business functions and their impact on our overall financial performance.
Delivery of the annual budget and three‑year plan and mid‑year reforecast by driving deliverables from all business functions.
Oversee and drive business partnering with key business functions including commercial, construction and sales. Establishing and maintaining strong and productive working relationships with the Leadership Team members will be critical to success in the role.
Lead the development of predictive analytics and performance dashboards to support Leadership team decision making, as well as areas of importance to the business, including but not limited to work‑in‑progress and operating expenditure spend, workforce planning and liquidity management.
Review the financial evaluation of all strategic initiatives including land and business acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, debt structure, deal structuring and other commercial initiatives, from both a returns and an accounting perspective. This will involve collaboration with other senior leaders within the business.
Work closely with the Group Financial Controller across multiple workstreams, including annual budget and mid‑year reforecast, managing Group liquidity, accounting treatment for transactions and any other areas where Commercial Finance and Financial Reporting overlap, including regular analytical reporting (monthly pack), to enable integrated ways of working across the finance function.
Other ad hoc projects as they arise and impact the business from a financial or operational perspective.
Responsible for the continued optimisation of our financial modelling capabilities to ensure that Commercial Finance continues to deliver real‑time, value‑add forecasting and optionality to the business.
The candidate – key requirements
Qualified accountant with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
Ability to overlay technical accounting knowledge commercially.
Construction or property experience is advantageous.
Ability to communicate at all levels across functional departments.
Good interpersonal skills with experience of interacting with senior executive team members in a Group HQ environment.
A strong ability to multi‑task and work under pressure to deadlines in a fast‑paced environment with conflicting priorities, where relationships, organisation, accuracy and a high attention to detail are required.
Self‑motivated team player within the Finance function with the ability to work on one’s own initiative in managing the Commercial Finance function.
Hands‑on approach to issue resolution and driven to deliver the required result.
Excellent verbal and written presentational skills.
Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Working with Cairn
At Cairn, we believe it is essential that our employees feel valued and appreciated. We therefore offer above industry average remuneration packages with a comprehensive benefits portfolio that’s ready to support you for whatever life brings.
We are delighted to offer a suite of benefits when you join Cairn which include:
Competitive salary
Performance‑related bonus
Pension scheme with matching contributions
Full health insurance with Irish Life health
Annual salary review
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme & funding
Paid maternity & paternity leave
Free Cairn annual leave days
Life assurance
Income protection
Employee Assistance Programme with VHI
Tax saver – travel and bike to work
Culture Committee
Talent Development Programmes
Approved Profit Sharing Scheme (APSS)
Company vehicle (role dependent)
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