Hybrid Finance Director

at EPUKI

• Job title: Finance Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dublin, Ireland

About the role

• Finance Director leading financial strategy across Ireland and EPUKI group. Collaborating and driving performance through leadership and strategic decision-making within finance functions.

Responsibilities

• Being a key member of the All-Island senior leadership team involved in devising, implementing, and delivering business strategy.
• Acting as a critical financial business partner/sounding board to the All-Island wider leadership team.
• Leading and developing a high performing All-Island finance team focused on exceeding targets and objectives, including leveraging individual talents and capabilities, and encouraging individual responsibility and ownership.
• Overseeing the Finance team, ensuring that they drive Business Unit Gross Margin, cost control and cash flow performance, and ensuring all relevant parties are in receipt of analytical support.
• Co-ordinating and monitoring the financial impact of hedging activities with the Trading team and business unit leaders.
• Reviewing and identifying gaps in functional processes and outputs and create a plan to bridge them.
• Enhancing existing operational processes, systems, and procedures to ensure efficiency improvements are realised, bringing experience of using technology to automate wherever possible.
• Anticipating and evaluating the impact of new and amended regulation on the business and provide expert guidance to the senior team and Board on its implementation.
• Oversight and governance of business reporting and planning processes, ensuring strong financial controls over expenditure, reporting, hedging and cash management.
• Monitoring and amending trading and credit risk management, including cashflow, collateral and credit optimisation.
• Oversight of financing activities, including covenant monitoring and compliance, new project finance issuance and EPH group funding rounds as required.
• Leading the various Pension optimisation strategies across the All-Island group.
• Liaising with Tax regarding the execution of tax strategy and tax compliance activities at asset-level operations groups.
• Liaising with EPH Finance in Prague to ensure conformity with Group Finance reporting requirements.
• Conducting special projects as and when required.

Requirements

• Previously held a senior Finance position (ideally at CFO / FD level, however exceptional step-up candidates will be considered).
• Previously operated as an integral part of the senior commercial leadership of an organisation.
• Managed high performance teams of c.10+ individuals, leveraging and growing internal talent.
• Experience within energy, utilities or the large-scale industrial commodity processes sector would be highly advantageous.
• Broad experience across Finance / business faculties is required, including; Accounting Standards, Controls and Processes, FP&A, Business Partnering, Working in a Regulated Industry, Tax, Statutory Accounting, Cash Cycle and Working Capital Management.
• Excellent knowledge of the MS Office suite.
• Strong Excel skills, with the ability to apply those skills to market modelling and analysis.
• Experience of how technology can assist in driving automation across Finance processes.
• Relevant Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Business or Finance.
• Fully qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA).

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements