Role:

Excellent opportunity for an individual with IT/data engineering skills and interest in accountancy to join the Finance Function of a leading Multi-national company based in Galway. This is a permanent role which will allow the successful candidate to develop, learn new skills and take on responsibility in a high-performance finance team.

The ideal candidate will possess the right balance of technical knowhow along with influencing and relationship building skills necessary to drive projects to a successful conclusion.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Finance Team and Process leads on creating efficiencies in current processes using suitable tools
• Evaluate business needs and build data systems to help analyse and organise raw data.
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability
• Develop analytical tools and programs
• Drive deliverables to completion within challenging timelines ensuring collaboration and effective communication with all stakeholders
• Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely
• Manage risks and flag issues to the relevant Stakeholders as they arise
• Provide project support to assist with finance and accounting improvement initiatives and to drive their implementation
• Produce detailed, high quality and clear documentation as required
• Work closely with technical team during the implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects

Essential Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar field essential

• Knowledge or certification of data engineering tools such as Alteryx, PowerBI, Visio, Winshuttle or similar tools an advantage
• Strong IT skills, including knowledge of Database structures and experienced excel user
• Experience in process analysis, design & documentation
• Track record of knowledge application & results delivery
• Curiosity for emerging technology & Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Knowledge of SQL an advantage
• Ideal candidate would be interested in training in accountancy

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to liaise professionally with a diverse group (executives, managers and subject matter experts)

• Positive attitude and flexibility
• Ability to work on own initiative, handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines with accuracy and consistency
• Highly organised, self-motivated, team player with excellent analytical skills and an ability to handle large volumes of data
• Fluency in a second European Language is beneficial