Financial Accountant

What’s the Opportunity

Due to continued expansion we are looking for an ambitious recently qualified Financial Accountant to join our team. The successful candidate will be hard-working, dynamic, enthusiastic, highly organised, ambitious, with an eye for detail.

In this role you will play an integral part in delivering finance objectives and input into the design and operation of finance processes while also providing accurate financial reporting and insights.

What will I be doing

• Preparation of monthly management accounts to meet internal and external reporting deadlines. As part of this process you’ll prepare reports for executive management, with corresponding analysis and commentary.

• Provision of detailed performance analysis against plan, explaining variances across our various revenue and cost lines.

• Reconciliation of Balance Sheets accounts will be a particular focus.

• Twice monthly revenue reporting and analysis presented to executive management.

• Working with the various business divisions in the group to assist with the production of timely and accurate financial forecasts and budgets to strict deadlines.

• Business partnering with key managers to understand business performance and addressing their financial requirements.

• Continual review of current financial processes, identifying improvements and introducing cross functional changes as required.

• Working with our credit controller, reduce and manage our aged debt to required levels and report to company management on a weekly basis.

• Support the annual audit process.

• Provide ad-hoc support to the finance team as required.

What skills and experience do I need

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 1-2 years post qualification experience in an industry role.

• Exceptional analytical skills (sophisticated Excel), with very strong numeracy and comfortable handling large data sets.

• Excellent communicator with experience developing relationships with internal partners to understand their requirements.

• Strong report writing experience and excellent presentation skills.

• Strong commercial acumen, with understanding and belief in how the finance department contributes to strategic decision making.

• Well organised with experience working to deadlines.

• Previous management accounting experience required.

• Prior experience with system design and migration would be an added advantage.

• An organised individual who can self-manage multiple priorities, routine work and urgent issues as they arise. The ideal candidate is focused on resolving issues in a proactive and timely way.

• Strong analytical & interpersonal skills.

• An aptitude for identifying & implementing operational & system improvements.

• The ability to function efficiently in a fast-paced environment with multiple and shifting priorities.

• Customer focused with the ability to collaborate with other departments whenever necessary

• A positive, hardworking, can-do attitude and flexible approach to work

What’s it like to work here

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovation

Benefits - what you can expect

• Our goal is to maintain a culture where people look forward to work – whether in our centrally located office in Dublin or working from home, which is optional for all employees.

• We do that by making Distilled a place you'll be listened to and trusted to do your job. Where you can have fun, learn and feel appreciated. And where you get focused career development, growth and progression opportunities.

• We want you to feel confident that this is the right place for you, your career, your wellbeing and your future.

• Above all, your health and wellbeing are at the forefront of how we build the business. That means looking after you while you're here and later in life. So you'll receive life insurance, fully-paid healthcare and a 5% contribution towards your pension.

More about Distilled

We exist to make buying and selling in Ireland simple.

We put our people first, creating an inclusive environment where we can develop products that put our users first. We value people’s work and time, creating a community where they have an opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Our challenge is to enhance our market-leading products using insights and empathy to present our users with the perfect match.

What we build is technology, but what we do is create connections for life’s most meaningful moments. We are Distilled and we bring people together.

Our Values

We have five core values: We have a growth mindset. We like to simplify things and make things happen. We collaborate across teams, business units and brands. We're passionate about what we do.

These values give us a framework for leadership and daily decision making. They embody how we behave and present ourselves — as individuals and as a business — both internally and externally for our colleagues, our users and our customers.

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.