Your new company
A leading global automotive brand with shared services here in Ireland are looking for a newly qualified Finance Business Partner to join the team as a result of their ongoing digital transformation journey. Initially a 2 year fixed-term contract, there may be an opportunity to go permanent in this role.
A company that promotes from within, offers excellent benefits, boasts an active sport and social committee with plenty of exciting events organised, an excellent culture and a close-knit finance team - an excellent company to join for a newly qualified accountant who would like to progress their career in a commercially focused Finance Business Partner role.
Your new role
Reporting to a Finance & Controlling Manager, you will join a team of 4 people and your role will involve finance business partnering, working on strategic pricing, month-end close and plenty of budgeting, forecasting and financial planning. Your duties will include:
1. Delivering analysis and insight on various matters, providing options and scenarios for business decisions and presenting to senior management on same
2. Understanding the cost drivers across the business, building strong relationships with non-financial stakeholders to truly get an understanding, and offering up cost-saving solutions
3. Preparing monthly management accounts, sales reports, monthly board pack slides
4. Detailed variance analysis on budgeting and forecasting
5. Significant input to quarterly forecast cycle
6. Proactively identify & implement process improvements to enhance efficiency & improve accuracy in the forecasting process
7. Pricing review by brand and models
8. Prepare inputs for monthly pricing committee meetings including product analysis & review performance compared to budget
9. Creating and implementing enhanced pricing standardisation process flows for existing and new product requirements
10. Assist with Business Intelligence tool developments and implementations, automate BI and data where possible
11. Liaise with internal and external auditors
12. Reporting and monitoring of €1.2 billion contract portfolio
13. Ad-hoc reporting and financial analysis for senior management
14. Ongoing continuous improvement of processes and systems, be a superstar that does this without being asked and present solutions to senior management
What you'll need to succeed
The idea Finance Business Partner for this role:
15. Newly qualified accountant (or finalist) with financial services or banking experience
16. Experience with SAP CO (implementation experience a plus)
17. Experience with BI tools a must-have (PowerBI, Alteryx or Tableau)
18. Personable individual who builds relationships really well
What you'll get in return
You will be rewarded with a salary of €50,000 + bonus (stretching to €55,000 for a superstar), every six months a brand new company car for a significantly reduced rental fee monthly, pension and healthcare (after 1 year), 23 days annual leave and flexible hybrid days (2 in office, 3 at home) as well as flexibility on working hours.