ROLE: Senior Manager, Finance Transformation
LOCATION: Dublin South | Hybrid
CONTRACT: 12-month contract
Barden are delighted to partner with a high-profile Irish PLC on the appointment of a Senior Manager Finance Transformation. An exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role within a global finance transformation function, driving large-scale change across systems, processes and reporting.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of global finance transformation initiatives, ensuring solutions are effectively implemented, embedded, and adopted across the organisation to deliver measurable business value
- Act as a critical conduit between Finance, Technology and Data teams, translating business needs into scalable system and process solutions, while ensuring alignment with overall strategic objectives
- Drive finance process optimisation across end-to-end workflows, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate processes to improve efficiency, control, and data integrity
- Champion the use of automation and digital tools to reduce manual intervention, enhance reporting capabilities, and enable more timely, insight-driven decision-making
- Partner closely with technical teams to shape solution design, ensuring finance requirements are clearly defined, prioritised, and delivered in a practical and sustainable way
- Proactively identify and evaluate emerging technologies, including AI and advanced analytics, to support the evolution of a more data-led, digitally enabled finance function
- Lead and influence the prioritisation of transformation initiatives across the finance function, balancing business needs, resource constraints, and strategic impact
- Embed robust governance and control frameworks into all transformation activities, ensuring compliance with SOX and audit requirements by design
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation, ownership, and accountability across finance teams and transformation programmes
- Support and enable finance stakeholders through change, ensuring business readiness and building capability in new systems, tools, and ways of working
ABOUT THE PERSON:
What you will ideally need:
- Qualified ACA or ACCA professional with significant post-qualification experience and a strong foundation in finance and business operations.
- Proven track record delivering finance transformation, process improvement and automation initiatives within complex environments.
- Strong programme and stakeholder management capabilities, with experience influencing and collaborating across multiple functions.
- Commercially minded problem-solver who can translate complexity into clear, actionable solutions and drive change effectively.
- Experience working with enterprise finance systems, reporting tools and data-driven transformation programmes; knowledge of SOX and controls environments is highly desirable.