Finance Planning Manager

As a Tech Finance Planning Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to end finance operations within our customer's Tech department and planning the various Financial Planning tasks, such as Monthly Quarterly and Annual Financial Reviews. This dynamic role is vital to ensuring that the business continues to operate efficiently and cost-effectively and will support the company's overall success. Managing all contractors' spend and overseeing all agency/partner relationships will be a key oversight of this role. 

This role will operate on a hybrid model, with 2 days working from our customer's Dublin office and 3 days from home.

Key responsibilities & duties include:

• Overseeing end-to-end finance operations, financial planning and analysis, looking to make improvements to procedures and controls, as well as ad-hoc projects and requests as and when they come up
• Leading and coaching the Tech Finance team and supporting Technology Business Manager as required and agreed
• Overseeing the signing off and authorising of all contractors spend
• Control of spend of all onshore/offshore resources within Tech ensuring over 30 agencies/partners are paid within terms and producing monthly contractor accruals for finance enabling the re-charging of costs to projects
• Overseeing the Analysing and approving purchase requisitions. Managing the our customer's re-charge invoicing each month and investigating any discrepancies and escalating with management
• Overseeing the planning and forecasting activities throughout the financial year with finance business partners ensuring accuracy of budgets and maintaining control of spend
• Overseeing the reviewing of weekly payment file for all payments to be included in the weekly payment run
• Overseeing the collaboration with departments in line with business objectives to understand their financial requirements, forecast IT expenses, and establish budgetary guidelines
• Monitor IT spending, analyse cost variances and provide recommendations for optimising costs and resource allocation
• Liaising with department leads ensuring that software renewals are in place and in line with budgets
• Identifying new cost-efficient ways of working focusing on payment solutions whilst further driving down costs     
• Providing financial reports and interpreting financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action
• Reviewing, monitoring and managing budgets
• Identify, track and support cost reduction initiatives and work with functional management to identify and implement synergies
• Producing financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses etc.  

Required Skills:

• Exceptional knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of software applications (including PowerBI) combined with general proficiency in IT systems
• Good working knowledge of Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence and Tempo) is mandatory
• Experience with reporting tools such as Power BI
• Focused attitude to work, with the ability to constantly meet deadlines while ensuring excellent attention to detail & high levels of accuracy
• A focus on continuous improvement in area of responsibility
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, to include proven report writing & presentation skills
• A solid understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles
• Ability to synthesise large quantities of complex financial data into actionable information
• Excellent business judgment, analytical and decision-making skills
• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in business, finance, or accounting with a minimum of 5 + years of financial experience in industry
• Ability to identify and implement new process changes in order to drive efficiencies across the business and generate cost savings
• Proven knowledge of financial analysis and strategy
• Ability to work and effectively communicate with senior-level business partners
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken