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HEAD OF FINANCE

Mount Congreve Gardens and Waterford Treasures

Reports to: CEO

Functional oversight: Financial Reporting & Audit; KPI Dashboards & Performance Reporting; Bookkeeping & Payroll; Data Governance & Integrity; Procurement, Compliance & Revenue Insight; HR governance and oversight.

Role purpose: Lead the finance function and provide strong financial control, planning, reporting and insight to support organisational decision-making, public accountability and commercial performance, while also holding responsibility for the organisation’s HR governance, controls and oversight framework.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the finance function across bookkeeping, payroll, accounts, controls and cashflow management.
• Prepare annual budgets, forecasts, management accounts and year-end reporting.
• Coordinate audit processes and ensure appropriate audit readiness and evidence trails.
• Provide financial analysis and commentary to the CEO, Board and senior leadership team.
• Responsible for compiling and preparing Board packs, ensuring all materials are accurate, complete and circulated in line with agreed timelines
• Act as Company Secretary and attend Board and committee meetings and take clear, accurate minutes, capturing key discussions, decisions and actions for timely distribution
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards and management reporting across finance and wider organisational performance.
• Ensure procurement controls, delegations and compliance processes are robust and consistently applied.
• Oversee data governance and financial information integrity across reporting systems.
• Support grant budgeting, financial returns and funder reporting requirements where relevant.
• Provide insight into commercial performance, margins, cost drivers and revenue trends.
• Maintain oversight of HR governance, ensuring policies, procedures, controls and reporting frameworks are in place and kept up to date.
• Act as the senior owner of people-related governance, including workforce reporting, payroll integrity, headcount data and compliance assurance.
• Ensure managers are supported and held accountable for day-to-day people management within their own teams
• Oversee the organisational approach to contracts, onboarding compliance, policy governance and mandatory people-related training.
• Provide oversight on employee relations governance, ensuring formal processes are managed consistently and in line with Irish employment law.
• Support the CEO on organisational design, workforce planning, remuneration governance and people-related risk.
• Ensure volunteer governance arrangements are in place from a policy, compliance and reporting perspective.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Strong technical finance and control capability.
• Excellent analytical, reporting and dashboarding skills.
• Ability to explain financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong governance, compliance and risk awareness.
• Good systems knowledge and data integrity focus.
• Strong knowledge of HR governance, Irish employment law frameworks and people-related compliance.
• Ability to work across finance, operations, commercial and people-related issues.
• Confidence to challenge and support managers on governance, process and accountability.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Relevant experience in a not-for-profit, public body, visitor attraction or comparable organisation desirable.
• Additional HR, governance or employment law training would be an advantage.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From €50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Company events
• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• Do you hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)?
• Do you have at least 5 years’ experience in a senior finance role with responsibility for financial reporting, budgeting, and audit processes?

Work Location: In person