Senior Financial Analyst, Global Manufacturing

If joining a global manufacturing company in a Senior Financial Analyst job is a career move that you have wanted to make, then this commercial and finance business partnering job is ideal for you. Working in Galway 3 days a week and commutable from Mayo, Roscommon and Clare, you will gain exposure to site level annual budget planning, business partnering with 1-2 specific departments to support them with financial analysis as well as overheads and headcount financial analysis for this large scale site. So, if you have finance business partnering experience from other industries or financial services this is the perfect avenue for you into a major manufacturing company.

Budgeting, forecasting & analysis
As the Senior Financial Analyst, you will shape the Annual Operations Plan (AOP) and conduct 3 forecasts during the year to report on the current spend versus budget which senior leaders in the business will rely on. You’ll have specific responsibility for overheads and headcount planning including FTE and agency staff expenditure, overtime expenditure, professional contracts and utilities expenditure vs budget, providing insights into trends and where costs can be reduced. In addition, you will partner with a specific business unit, for example, New Product Development, Operations, Supply Chain or Research & Development, where you will provide ongoing financial guidance and analysis to senior leaders. At month-end you’ll be supported by an offsite team who perform reconciliations and post relevant journals allowing you to do the value added work of investigating variances and providing commentary on spend versus the budget.

This company is a global player in their field with their Galway hub being a major centre of innovation. Producing over 4 million products annually onsite, they have teams to manage the full product lifecycle such as R&D, Engineering, Design Assurance, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance which will give you fantastic, manufacturing specific exposure. With multi-billion annual turnover, a share price that has doubled in the last 4 years and a 60 acre site, you’ll join a company that is going from strength to strength, They pride themselves in offering career progression where you can join as a Senior Financial Analyst and progress to managerial level jobs or move onto global finance jobs which come to the Galway site due to their record of high performance. Being a publicly listed company, they invest heavily in their people and systems meaning that you will work with the best in every sense, they have a site wide A.I. working group tasked with integrating more A.I. solutions as well as an imminent upgrade to SAP S4 Hana. On this 27 person Finance Team, flexibility is at the heart of how they work with start times ranging from 7:30am-9:30am ensuring you work at optimal times for you.

The package on offer is worth €85,000-€90,000 including base salary, annual bonus, full family health insurance, sizeable company pension contribution, share options scheme, hybrid working of 2 days per week and non-monetary benefits of working for a major brand name, significant career progression opportunities and manufacturing operations exposure.

Experience
To become the Senior Financial Analyst will be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with exposure to financial or commercial analysis which informed business decision making from any sector.

Apply today
With your latest CV apply now or contact Shane Lynott, Talent Acquisition Manager, on 086-1282059 or email Shanelynott@fpna.ie to arrange a confidential discussion.