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Ward Personnel is a highly successful and award-winning recruitment agency, headquartered in Cork, with offices in Dublin and Internationally in Poland and Denmark. We specialise in supplying staff to the Construction and Mechanical and Electrical sectors. As part of our continued ambitious scaling and growth plans, we are now recruiting for a Head Of Finance.

Job Description – Head of Finance: 

The role is based in our Cork office, involves leading a finance team of six people, and is to replace our existing Head of Finance, who is retiring. The role reports to the Operations Director (who has a finance background) with a dotted line to the Managing Director. We are looking to recruit a top class, hands on, and ambitious finance professional for this role.

Over the last 14 years we have developed an excellent reputation as an industry leading supplier of staff (both labour & trades and white-collar) to the wider Construction sector, mainly in Ireland and Denmark to-date and we have ambitious plans to scale our services offerings within Europe in the coming years.

We are now recognized as a market leader in our sector with forty internal staff supporting a site workforce of over six hundred workers, across our client sites every week.

Key responsibilities of the role

The role will entail managing the entire finance function and team for Ward Personnel and its subsidiaries. Core duties and responsibilities will include the following:

• Prepare timely monthly management accounts, KPI pack, and commentaries on all the key financial metrics of the business across all of our trading divisions.
• Support the finance team in relation to the accuracy of the weekly payroll and weekly invoicing for circa six hundred site workers.
• Drive continuous improvement in all related processes and our related tech stack around the management of this weekly cycle, which is pivotal to the success of the overall business model.
• Support the broader leadership team in relation to additional timely management and financial reporting across the business, including weekly gross margin analysis, customer onboarding, monthly customer and project profitability reporting, commission reporting etc.
• Manage the monthly reporting and local compliance with our external financial advisors in Poland and Denmark (and other European countries in the future).
• Manage and report on all cash management and associated cash reporting including supporting the credit control and collections team as required.
• Ensure compliance across all areas including financial, tax, legal filings and employment law, with a key focus on risk management across the business.
• Manage the annual financial audit process and build relationships with all key external advisors including auditors, financial and tax advisors, legal advisors, IT advisors etc.
• Drive the annual budgeting process across all divisions and departments in the company, including detailed monthly reporting of actual versus budget on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure our cost management and accounts payable procedures across the business are fit for purpose to ensure we are getting value for money from all suppliers and in turn maximising company performance and profits.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified accountant with at least 10 years’ experience in a commercial environment.
• Be very hands on, with a strong focus on accurate and timely management reporting, compliance and risk management, and implementing best practice across all aspects of the finance function.
• Have specific expertise in managing and running large payrolls but this is not essential.
• Be very strong in IT in general, and in particular in excel and data manipulation and analysis.
• Be very eager to drive continuous improvement in the Finance function via automation/AI tools.
• Have strong commercial and strategic acumen to work with the other members of the leadership team to help drive the growth and profitability of the business.
• Have strong management and leadership skills to manage, mentor and grow the finance team.
• Be enthusiastic, positive, energetic and a good communicator.
• Be hard working, results focused, and a strong team player to work closely and constructively with leadership colleagues to drive the continued growth of the business.

An excellent salary package is on offer, including strong base salary, bonus structure, additional benefits, and major career development opportunities. Please send your CV to pcarr@wardpersonnel.com or contact him on 087 796 3747 for an initial confidential discussion. Ward Personnel is an equal opportunities employer.