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:

• Delivering analysis and insight on various matters, providing options and scenarios for business decisions and presenting to senior management on same
• 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
• Preparing monthly management accounts, sales reports, monthly board pack slides
• Detailed variance analysis on budgeting and forecasting
• Significant input to quarterly forecast cycle
• Proactively identify & implement process improvements to enhance efficiency & improve accuracy in the forecasting process
• Pricing review by brand and models
• Prepare inputs for monthly pricing committee meetings including product analysis & review performance compared to budget
• Creating and implementing enhanced pricing standardisation process flows for existing and new product requirements
• Assist with Business Intelligence tool developments and implementations, automate BI and data where possible
• Liaise with internal and external auditors
• Reporting and monitoring of €1.2 billion contract portfolio
• Ad-hoc reporting and financial analysis for senior management
• 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:

• Newly qualified accountant (or finalist) with financial services or banking experience
• Experience with SAP CO (implementation experience a plus)
• Experience with BI tools a must-have (PowerBI, Alteryx or Tableau)
• 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.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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