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About the Company

Barden are exclusively partnering with a rapidly growing organisation operating within the live events, experiential, and entertainment space. Delivering large-scale projects and memorable experiences across multiple markets, the business is entering an exciting phase of expansion and investment.

As part of this growth, they are looking to strengthen their finance team with the appointment of a Financial Accountant who will play a key role in supporting financial performance, reporting, and operational excellence across the organisation.

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified accountant looking to broaden their commercial finance experience within a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Working closely with the Finance Manager, you’ll gain exposure across management reporting, operational finance, controls, stakeholder engagement, and business improvement initiatives, making this an ideal next step for someone keen to develop a well-rounded finance career.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day operations of the finance function, ensuring transactions are processed accurately and efficiently.
• Prepare month-end management accounts, including journals, accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Assist in the production of monthly reporting packs and financial commentary for senior management.
• Review and manage employee expense submissions, ensuring policy compliance and timely processing.
• Maintain accurate accounting records and support robust financial controls.
• Assist with cash flow reporting, supplier payments, customer receipts, and general ledger maintenance.
• Partner with budget holders to understand expenditure, investigate variances, and provide financial insight.
• Support year-end processes, external audits, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Contribute to finance transformation projects, system improvements, and process enhancement initiatives.
• Provide wider support across the finance team and take ownership of key responsibilities as the business continues to grow.

About You

Qualifications

• Newly qualified ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.

Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of month-end accounting processes, management accounts, reconciliations, and financial controls.
• Previous Big 4 or Top 10 practice experience would be advantageous.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work accurately under deadlines.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with finance systems.
• Effective communicator, capable of translating financial information for non-finance stakeholders.
• Highly organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Commercially minded with a willingness to contribute beyond traditional accounting responsibilities.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving and evolving business environment.

Finance Graduate Programme (3 and a half year contract)

Are you a recent Finance or Accounting graduate looking to launch your career with a global multinational or are you someone who wants to pivot into MNC?

We are recruiting for a Trainee Accountant to join a high-performing team in Cork. This is an excellent opportunity to gain practical experience across finance, internal controls, audit, data analysis and global business operations.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

You will gain hands-on experience in:

• Internal control testing across key finance processes.
• Financial data analysis, reconciliations and reporting.
• Using Excel and ERP systems such as SAP.
• Reviewing risks, controls and business processes.
• Supporting internal and external audit activities.
• Working with Finance and Operations teams across global locations.
• Identifying control issues and supporting remediation and process improvements.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

We’re looking for someone who has:

• A degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Good Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookups.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• A proactive attitude and genuine interest in developing a career in Finance.

WHATS ON OFFER?

This graduate programme provides structured development, exposure to a global finance environment and excellent opportunities for career progression.

You’ll build valuable experience across Finance, Accounting, Risk, Controls and Audit, while working with experienced professionals and international teams.

If you’re ambitious, analytical and ready to build your career within a global organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits:

• Additional study leave
• Professional exam fees covered
• Bonus
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Work from home

Barden are delighted to be partnering with a large multinational and global brand to identify a Lead Financial Accountant to join a high performing Finance team.

Working closely with local and international finance leaders, this organisation has an excellent reputation in the market, both as an employer and brand. This role will have a strong focus on financial accounting, controls, US GAAP and statutory compliance, as well as partnering with cross functional teams across Finance, Tax and Legal.

It’s a role that offers real variety, ownership and the opportunity to develop further within a global environment. The successful candidate will be technically strong, a self-starter, and confident operating in a fast paced, multinational setting.

While initially a fixed term contract, there may be more longer-term opportunities for the right person. If this sounds interesting please get in touch with myself (caroline.frawley@barden.ie) or my colleague Denis Galvin (denis.galvin@barden.ie)

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Responsibility for accurate and timely month end, quarterly and year end close activities for multiple legal entities
• Preparation of high quality financial statements and ownership of statutory accounting requirements
• Lead role in managing relationships with external advisors and statutory auditors
• Active partnering with stakeholders across Finance, Tax, Legal and wider business teams to deliver successful outcomes
• Support for external audits, including tax audits from governmental agencies
• Driving standardisation and continuous improvement of processes and controls to ensure the highest level of compliance
• Contribution to wider group initiatives and ad hoc projects, offering variety and broader organisational impact

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Fully Qualified Accountant with 5+ years PQE
• Strong technical knowledge
• Excellent financial and analytical acumen
• Organised, detail oriented and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across regions and functions
• A natural problem solver with the ability to assess complex accounting and tax matters and provide practical, business focused solutions

Barden are delighted to be selected as the exclusive recruitment partner for a growth-stage, venture-backed medical technology company in their search for a Finance Manager.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the heart of a fast-growing, innovation-led business. Reporting directly into the CEO, you will take ownership of the finance function, playing a critical role in supporting the company’s continued growth, fundraising activity, and governance as it scales.

This is a broad, close-to-the-business role, blending financial accounting and reporting with budgeting, forecasting, and direct exposure to fundraising and board-level activity – ideal for someone who wants genuine breadth and influence in a smaller, agile environment.

The role can be remote (with the availability to travel to Cork weekly) on a 4 day week.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Prepare quarter-end management accounts and year-end financial statements.
• Liaise with external advisors on statutory accounts preparation and corporation tax.
• Lead quarterly budget and forecast revisions, working closely with the CEO and CTO to ensure all business drivers are reflected.
• Build strong working relationships across the leadership team to ensure alignment on financial processes.
• Oversee cash flow and working capital management on an ongoing basis.
• Assist the CTO with R&D grant applications.
• Report and present at board meetings.
• Support fundraising activity, including managing shareholder queries and reviewing shareholder agreements and amendments with the CEO and legal advisors.
• Maintain oversight and control of funds raised during fundraising rounds, and follow up with investors as required.
• Oversee company secretarial obligations, including filing of relevant statutory returns.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant, with strong technical financial accounting background.
• Experience operating in a growth-stage, venture-backed, or similarly fast-paced environment
• Strong systems experience, with ERP/accounting software exposure essential.
• Hands on, pragmatic approach with the ability to operate across both strategic and transactional finance.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with confidence presenting to a board.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a lean team structure.

If you are a commercially focused finance leader looking for a role with real impact and breadth, I would welcome a confidential conversation. Please get in touch directly for more information denis.galvin@barden.ie or message me on LinkedIn.

Barden are delighted to be selected as the exclusive recruitment partner for a well established engineering and project based business based in Waterford, as they seek to appoint a Financial Controller to lead their finance function.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially minded Financial Controller to take ownership of the finance function of a well established, project driven business. Reporting to senior leadership, you’ll play a central role in shaping financial strategy, strengthening controls, and driving system improvements, all while leading and developing a team. This role would suit someone who enjoys being close to operational detail while also contributing at a strategic level.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Oversee the financial management of the company, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting.
• Lead and develop a small tight knit finance team.
• Own the nominal ledger structure and monthly reporting, including site, project, and departmental P&L’s.
• Collaborate with project managers to track costs and profitability across multiple concurrent projects.
• Prepare quarterly financial statements and lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Manage cash flow, working capital, and supplier payment terms aligned to project cycles.
• Prepare for and manage the annual audit process, liaising directly with auditors.
• Oversee Statutory and taxation compliance, including relevant sector-specific tax reporting and CSO returns.
• Support the roll-out of an upgraded finance system.
• Other duties behest of a Financial Controller such as acting as Company Secretary, environmental reporting, insurance, pension administration and other adhoc duties required as part of the leadership role in Finance.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with strong post-qualification experience in a Financial Controller or senior finance role.
• Strong people-management experience, with a track record of developing and cross-training a finance team.
• Excellent commercial acumen, comfortable operating hands-on across cost accounting while also engaging at a strategic level.
• Confident, personable communicator, capable of building strong relationships with project teams and senior leadership alike.

Barden are delighted to be partnering with a leading multinational organisation to identify a Revenue Accountant to join their Global Revenue Accounting Team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experience Finance professional looking to further develop their experience in a dynamic, multinational environment. This person will play a key role in supporting revenue accounting activities as well as significant stakeholder engagement across Commercial, Legal, Tax and Finance functions globally.

The ideal candidate will be technically strong, detail-oriented and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Although an initial contract, there may be more longer-term opportunities for the right person.

If this sounds interesting, we would be delighted to share some more information with you. Please contact me caroline.frawley@barden.ie or my colleague Denis Galvin (denis.galvin@barden.ie).

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Support month-end and quarter-end close activities
• Assist in the review and analysis of commercial contracts to ensure appropriate revenue recognition treatment
• Partner with Commercial, Pricing, Legal, Tax and global Finance teams
• Support revenue reporting activities and provide insights to key stakeholders across the business.
• Assist with year-end financial audits, SOX compliance activities and SEC reporting requirements.
• Support ad hoc financial analysis and business queries as required.
• Identify and drive opportunities for process improvement and increased efficiencies across the revenue accounting function.
• Support ongoing projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified Accountant with 5+ years PQE
• Strong technical accounting and analytical skills
• Working experience with ASC 606 is preferred
• Ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines
• Motivated self-starter who enjoys working as part of a team
• Excellent communicator, people person

Barden are delighted to be partnering with our client, a large Global biopharmaceutical business in their search for a Senior Manager, Financial Accounting and Reporting, based in Cork.

Reporting to the Director of Finance within the Controllership function, you will own the accounting and reporting for a defined area of the business, partnering closely with stakeholders across finance and the wider organisation to strengthen the quality of Financial Reporting and support the growth of the team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process for your area.
• Analyse financial performance and provide clear, well-reasoned variance commentary.
• Prepare management information and external reporting schedules that support group disclosures.
• Build and maintain a strong internal control environment across your remit.
• Partner with FP&A, Legal, Technical Accounting, and other teams on complex commercial arrangements.
• Manage internal and external audit cycles, along with balance sheet reviews.
• Contribute to budget and forecast preparation.
• Lead or support ad hoc projects as they arise.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent), with at least eight years’ relevant experience.
• Experience gained within a multinational organisation; biotech or pharma exposure is an advantage.
• Proven ability to manage complex arrangements and build strong cross-functional relationships.
• Highly organised, analytical, and a confident communicator.
• A genuine self-starter who takes ownership of their work.

If you are a technically strong accounting professional looking to broaden your experience within a highly sought after, international business, I would welcome a confidential conversation. Please get in touch directly at denis.galvin@barden.ie or caroline.frawley@barden.ie or message me on LinkedIn.

I’m currently recruiting for an exciting opportunity within a world-leading business.

This is a permanent position that would suit an Accounts Assistant or Part-Qualified Accountant looking to take the next step in their career and gain broader exposure across management accounting, financial reporting and commercial finance.

The role offers the opportunity to work closely with senior management and gain valuable experience within the racing industry, with genuine scope to develop and progress.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Preparation of monthly management accounts and variance analysis

• Monthly reconciliations

• Supporting the annual budgeting and forecasting process

• Assisting with statutory reporting and external audit requirements

• Providing financial analysis and support to the wider business

• Contributing to continuous improvement across financial reporting processes and systems

• Supporting ad hoc projects as required

ABOUT THE PERSON:

• Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant, or an experienced Accounts Assistant ready to progress

• Strong technical and management accounting skills

• Good IT skills and experience using financial accounting and reporting systems

• Excellent attention to detail and a strong work ethic

• A proactive approach with the ability and willingness to learn

• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen

• Excellent communication skills and confidence liaising with colleagues and senior management

We are delighted to be working with a large, well-established multinational manufacturer who are growing their Indirect Tax team here in Cork. This group is present in over 50 countries and their products end up behind some of the best-known consumer and industrial brands in the world.

Their Cork shared service centre plays a genuinely central role in the group’s global finance operations, and it’s an exciting time to join as they push further into digitalisation and modernise how the function works.

About the role

The VAT Accountant will join a small, close-knit and experienced team. It’s a broad, business-facing role with VAT and indirect tax at its core, alongside ledger management, balance sheet and system reconciliations, period-end close, and ERP troubleshooting. It’s a great fit for someone who wants their VAT expertise to plug into the wider business.

Responsibilities

• Support the VAT and indirect tax compliance process across multiple jurisdictions
• Contribute to month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close, including reconciliations and reporting
• Help resolve day-to-day system and process issues, working closely with IT and other teams
• Build strong working relationships with auditors and tax authorities as a key point of contact
• Get involved in improving processes and controls as the function continues to evolve

About you

• Qualified accountant or tax consultant
• Ideally some multinational experience or hands on experience from an accounting firm
• Comfortable with ERP systems (Oracle Financials or similar); strong Excel skills is an advantage
• A “solutionist” mindset – curious, keen to connect the dots rather than just process transactions
• Initiative and enthusiasm, with genuine interest in getting closer to the wider business

If this sounds like a fit, I’d love to hear from you – contact me, aideen.murphy@barden.ie.