Job Description

Glanbia Enterprise Solutions (GES)

Financial Controller

The opportunity

As the Financial Controller - GES, you will have full responsibility for all aspects of Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Service Recharge Process, external audit as well as the business partnership service provided to the GES management team. The business partnership role is critical and you and your team will be a key point of contact on commercial finance, financial process as well as technical accounting matters for the global GES management team.

Key stakeholders at a senior level across Glanbia are the GES Senior Leadership Team, Group Finance, Group FP&A, Group Tax and Business Unit Finance. Ideally, you will be equally comfortable in the detail and as commentator on the performance of the GES business through presenting largely but not exclusively financial information to a broad stakeholder group.

This 12 month fixed term contract opportunity will report to the Finance Director

Key Responsibilities

• Develop an effective Stakeholder Management and Business Partnership relationship with the global GES Senior Leadership Team for the Finance, HR and IT GES business.
• Lead and develop an experienced finance team responsible for month end, financial planning and ad hoc analysis.
• Responsible for the Month end close process and review with a particular emphasis on providing guidance to the team on technical accounting matters and matters requiring specific judgement associated with business knowledge.
• Lead commentary on the month end-results for sharing with various stakeholders.
• Act as the key point of contact for the external audit of GES entities manage all aspects of the audit from planning to close.
• Lead the FP&A process for GES including supporting the presentation of service recharges to the business units and commentary of financial and non financial impacts of recharges for budget and forecast cycles.
• Oversee GES cash forecast process.
• Development of efficient ways of working through transformational project support.
• Ensure that the internal control environment in operation in GES provides the appropriate level of control assurance as it pertains to entities within the global GES organization.
• Other ad hoc project support as required.

The skills you will bring to the team

• Professional qualified accountant either ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent and retain membership of the relevant accounting body
• 5+ years finance experience in industry.
• Demonstrated technical accounting experience.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Demonstrated experience of leading and managing teams in a fast-paced dynamic and changing environment.
• Demonstrated record of implementing change through technology to achieve continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated record of working to and managing tight deadlines.
• Record of leading effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
• Structured and analytical thinker, data-driven with strong technology capability.
• Strong process mindset and attention to detail.

Where & how you will work

The base location of the role can be Citywest, Dublin 24, Kilkenny or Dungarvan, Co Waterford where our GES offices are located with hybrid working arrangement available allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance

About Glanbia 

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.