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A well-established and growing manufacturing business based in Co. Kerry is looking to appoint an experienced Payroll & Accounts Administrator on a part-time basis, working 2 days per week (Monday/Tuesday).

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced payroll and accounts professional looking for a part-time role within a long-established and growing business.

About the Role

Reporting to the Financial Controller and Managing Director, you will support the business across payroll and day-to-day accounts administration.

• Accurately calculating and processing salaries
• Managing PAYE, PRSI, USC and pension contributions in line with Revenue requirements
• Administering employee travel and subsistence expenses
• Preparing and posting payroll journals
• Processing customer and supplier invoices and payments
• Reconciling supplier and customer accounts and resolving queries
• Assisting with credit control
• Preparing VAT, PAYE and other relevant taxation returns
• Processing payment runs
• Completing bank and credit card reconciliations

About the Person

The ideal candidate will have:

• A minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience
• IPASS payroll qualification would be desirable
• Experience with Sage 50 Payroll would be advantageous
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong organisational and communication skills
• Good proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and Outlook
• The flexibility to adapt to changing requirements
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team and on your own initiative

This is an opportunity to become an integral part of a growing Irish manufacturing business, with a varied role and the opportunity to make a real contribution to the company’s continued growth.

An established and growing manufacturing company based in Co. Cork is seeking an experienced Accounts Assistant to join their team.

The company has experienced significant growth since launching and now employs people across manufacturing, design, quality control and administration. With further expansion planned, this is an excellent opportunity to join a growing business and play a key role in its continued development.

About the Role:

This is a hands-on role combining bookkeeping, payroll processing, facilities coordination and direct support to the CEO.

• Maintaining accurate financial records using Sage
• Processing purchase invoices, sales invoices and credit notes
• Managing accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Completing bank reconciliations
• Preparing and processing supplier payments
• Preparing and filing Revenue returns, including VAT and RCT
• Assisting with payroll administration using Thesaurus
• Supporting external accountants with required documentation
• Monitoring cash flow and company expenditure
• Assisting with budgeting and cost control
• Providing administrative support to senior management
• Managing diaries, meetings and scheduling
• Preparing reports, presentations and documentation
• Handling confidential business information with discretion
• Supporting internal coordination and general office operations

About the Person:

• Proven experience in bookkeeping or accounts assistant type role
• Strong working knowledge of Sage accounting software
• Experience with payroll processing using Thesaurus or an equivalent system
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Good proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and Outlook

About the job

PMO Specialist (Delivery) | Dublin (Hybrid) | Permanent

A commercially focused growth division of a large Irish organisation is building out its PMO function, and is hiring a PMO Specialist to take ownership of delivery oversight across a portfolio of scaling businesses.

This is a genuinely greenfield role. There is no delivery framework in place today, no inherited playbook, and no template to follow. The person who takes this on will decide what good delivery governance looks like here, build it, and then run it.

What you’ll do

• Own delivery oversight across a multi-business project portfolio, from initiation through to close
• Design and embed project controls, stage gates, and assurance standards where none currently exist
• Run project boards and hold delivery owners to commitments, milestones, and reporting deadlines
• Monitor portfolio health and escalate early rather than reporting after the fact
• Work directly with commercial, operational, and technical leads across several separate businesses

What we’re looking for

• Circa 10 years’ experience in project delivery, controls, or PMO, ideally gained in a construction, main contractor, or capital projects environment
• An engineering or project management background, with a relevant qualification
• Real self-starter credentials — you will need to map out your own first six months
• Strong stakeholder management, specifically the ability to chase, challenge, and follow up with senior people who don’t report to you
• Comfort with technology and process improvement, including AI tools and the Microsoft stack. This is not an IT project management role
• A full driving licence is essential — the role covers multiple sites not always served by public transport

The practicals

Permanent role at middle-management grade, hybrid with two days on site in Dublin

Interested in a confidential conversation? Get in touch and I’ll talk you through the detail.

About the job

SAP Order to Cash Manager (SAP SD)

Kilkenny / Dublin · Hybrid · Permanent

Most SAP roles ask you to keep the lights on. This one asks you to build the room.

A large, established Irish organisation is moving off an outsourced IT model and building its own in-house capability. New operating model, new Centre of Excellence, new team — and they need someone to own Order to Cash inside it. The SAP instance already exists. The function around it doesn’t yet. Whoever takes this shapes how it works rather than inheriting how it works.

What you’d do

Own SAP Order to Cash end to end, from customer order through to invoice and payment. Be the bridge between the technical solution and the commercial and supply chain stakeholders who need to understand what’s possible. They’re clear-eyed that this translation piece is the hard part, and it’s what they care most about.

You’d lead a small team — one internal specialist plus two dedicated offshore colleagues who work as a genuine extension of the team, not an outsourced ticket queue. Hands-on, but real management.

What you’d need

• 5+ years in SAP Order to Cash, with SAP SD as your core territory
• S/4HANA Sales certification — the first thing the hiring manager looks for
• Real understanding of supply chain processes, not just the module
• Experience managing or directing at least one other person (informal delegation counts)
• A degree in IT, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or similar
• The ability to explain a technical solution in language a non-technical audience would use themselves

Transportation management exposure and full SAP deployment experience are both a bonus.

Who it suits

Someone with energy who wants to leave a mark. The hiring manager is new in post and the honest description offered on our briefing call was that the function operates like a start-up — a gift if you want influence, a poor fit if you’d rather be handed a roadmap.

It also suits someone ready to step up. If you’re a strong senior analyst or team lead waiting for the title to catch up with what you already do, they’ve said openly they’d rather back someone on the way up than hold out for a like-for-like match.

Why people say yes

Genuine influence over how this gets built. A flat structure where the executive team are as approachable as anyone at any level. Recently built offices in both locations. Flexible Fridays, free parking with EV charging, on-site gym, parenting room, subsidised lunch. And when we asked what sets the place apart, the answer wasn’t the technology — it was the people.

Interested?

Get in touch for a confidential conversation and we’ll tell you who it is and whether it’s worth your time. If it isn’t right for you, we’ll say so.

Jane Olden · jane.olden@barden.ie · Barden

About the job

SAP Procure to Pay Senior Analyst

Dublin/Kilkenny | Permanent

A newly formed IT function, and a platform to own from day one.

We are working with a substantial Irish business with international operations, currently building out its own internal IT capability. The heavy lifting on systems is behind them; what comes next is shaping how those systems are run and where they go. It needs people who want to own something rather than inherit it.

This is the SAP Procure to Pay Senior Analyst appointment, sitting in a newly established systems centre of excellence covering manufacturing and supply chain, and reporting to its Manager.

Why people say yes to this one

The culture, honestly. It is flat, grounded, and genuinely collaborative — the leadership team is as approachable as anyone else in the building. There is a start-up feel to the new IT function that is rare in a business of this scale, which means visible influence and the chance to make a mark early. Modern offices, hybrid working, on-site parking, and a good few other things worth having.

Interested?

Get in touch with Jane at Barden for a confidential conversation. We will tell you who the business is, what the package looks like, and what the process involves before you decide whether you want to go further.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Own SAP procurement and SAP Ariba end to end — not just keeping the lights on, but deciding where these platforms go next.
• Configuration, integration, and adoption of Ariba.
• Requirements gathering through solution design, testing, and deployment on P2P developments. Performance, incidents, and the troubleshooting that keeps a large, multi-site operation moving. You would be the IT point of contact that procurement, finance, and external partners come to, and you would manage the workload of a dedicated offshore resource who functions as an extension of the team.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

• Five-plus years in SAP procurement and Ariba administration, ideally in a supply chain environment, with SAP certification behind it.
• Strong SAP ERP and purchasing-workflow knowledge, integration and automation experience, and a track record of running IT projects in procurement or supply chain. Experience of a full SAP deployment would put you well ahead.
• More than any of that: you need to be a business analyst first and a technologist second. The person who succeeds here is the one you can leave in a room with the business, confident they will translate a technical solution into something a stakeholder can act on.
• Some exposure to managing or directing the work of others matters too.

Interested?

Drop a note to Jane Olden at jane.olden@barden.ie and Jane and her team will take it from there.

Barden is partnering with an international law firm seeking a Knowledge Lawyer to join the Finance & Capital Markets department in Dublin.

The firm will consider the option of full-time or a 4-day week.

THE ROLE

The department advises an excellent client base in the areas of banking, debt capital markets, finance, private credit, fund finance, real estate finance, securitisation and structured credit.

The successful individual will work closely with the partners and support in areas such as:

strategies and processes to develop and maintain legal and professional resources including:

• Precedents and Know-How;
• Training;
• Research;
• Internal and external (client-facing) guidance/opinions.

Full job spec is available.

THE PERSON

• Qualified Solicitor or Barrister in Ireland or UK with 4+ years’ PQE;
• Experience in a leading law firm in some of the areas identified above
• Strong knowledge of the resources required for a Knowledge Lawyer and for knowledge management within a law firm.
• Superb oral and written communication skills.

We are working with a growing and innovative business in Cork that is passionate about sustainability and creating high-quality products for leading hospitality brands. Due to continued growth, they are now looking to add an Accounts Assistant to their Finance team.

Reporting directly to the CFO, this is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys a hands-on finance role and wants exposure beyond traditional accounting. You’ll work closely with Finance, Customer Success, Production and Operations, playing an important role in keeping the business running smoothly.

This is a varied, hands-on finance role with genuine exposure across the wider business, where you will have the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and gain valuable cross-functional experience.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

You’ll support across three key areas:

Finance & Accounting

• Manage day-to-day accounting transactions, including accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliations and expenses.
• Assist with month-end and year-end processes, including journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support management accounts, cashflow reporting and variance analysis.
• Manage weekly supplier payment runs, ensuring invoices are approved and paid on time.
• Assist with VAT returns and maintain accurate and compliant financial records.
• Support the CFO with ongoing finance process improvements.

Customer & Accounts

• Work closely with the Customer Success team to manage the order-to-cash process.
• Oversee invoicing, credit control and the resolution of billing queries.
• Build positive relationships with customers and monitor accounts to ensure payments are received on time.
• Identify and escalate any payment or account issues where required.

Production & Operations

• Track invoices from production partners and ensure they are reviewed, approved and paid promptly.
• Maintain schedules for supplier deposits, production payments and outstanding balances.
• Track gross margin by customer order, ensuring production, materials, freight, duty and delivery costs are accurately captured.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

• Previous accounting experience, ideally within a manufacturing, production or FMCG environment, although this is not essential.
• Good technical understanding of accounting principles, reconciliations and financial reporting.
• Experience using accounting software.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with non-finance teams.
• A proactive, collaborative approach with the confidence to get involved across different areas of the business.

Barden are exclusively partnering with a leading distributor of capital equipment as they seek a Financial Accountant to join their team on an initial 12 month basis. We’re looking for a motivated and ambitious Financial Accountant to join their team in Tipperary as the business continues to expand. With close exposure to the Finance Director, you’ll support the finance function in delivering accurate, timely, and compliant financials across the business, while developing strong technical, analytical, and commercial skills.

This is a great opportunity for a newly/ recently qualified accountant to gain broad exposure across financial operations in a growing business. We’re looking for someone commercially minded and forward-thinking, who’s proactive and enjoys problem solving, detail-oriented, eager to learn, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a busy environment.

As the business grows, we’re always looking for ways to improve the efficiency of our Finance function, whether through better processes, automation, or new ways of doing things. So we want someone who won’t just deliver to a high standard, but who’ll question existing processes, spot opportunities for improvement, and bring ideas to the table.

Key Responsibilities:

– Assisting in the preparation of monthly management accounts

– Preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules, including banking reconciliations

– Overseeing warranty reconciliations

– Completing year-end accounts and coordinating the year-end audit

– Managing unit stocking facilities

– Assisting in the preparation of the Group’s consolidated accounts

– Debtor and cash flow management

– Reviewing GLs and providing explanations for variances

– Working closely with Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable teams

– Close exposure to the Finance Director

– Ad hoc duties and projects

About You:

– Qualified ACA/CPA/ACCA/CIMA accountant

– Previous experience working on audit engagements

– Strong numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills

– Excellent attention to detail and organisational ability

– Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office

– Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

– Ability to manage multiple tasks and work effectively in a fast-paced environment

Interested in joining a growing, family-owned business at an exciting stage of its development? We’d love to hear from you.

Barden has been engaged on an appointment for a Financial Controller within one of Ireland’s leading retail services businesses, based in West Dublin, to join their growing Finance team.

This is a newly created, pivotal role at the heart of the Finance function, taking full ownership of day-to-day controllership as the business scales. Reporting to the Director of Finance, this person will own month-end close, statutory reporting, tax compliance and internal controls, while leading a small finance team through a period of meaningful change.

About the role

• Own the end-to-end month-end close process, including management accounts, Balance Sheet Review and board pack delivery.
• Lead the preparation of annual statutory financial statements in line with Irish GAAP, and manage the external audit relationship end-to-end.
• Take ownership of Irish tax compliance: VAT, Intrastat, VIES, Corporation Tax and Deferred Tax.
• Supervise AP/AR, cash forecasting, treasury operations and FX management across the business.
• Design, document and embed a robust internal controls framework, including implementation of a segregation-of-duties matrix.
• Act as the principal finance point of contact for an outsourced payroll provider, ensuring controls are documented and operating effectively.
• Directly manage a Financial Accountant, Accounts Assistant and a Credit Controller.
• Partner closely with the FPA function and act as a trusted finance counterpart to operations, IT and commercial leaders.

About the person

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with at least 5 years PQE.
• Proven experience owning month-end close and statutory reporting end-to-end.
• Hands-on experience coordinating an external audit cycle.
• Practical, current experience of Irish tax compliance.
• Experience managing and developing a small finance team.
• Strong ERP experience, SAP highly advantageous, with advanced Excel and familiarity with Power BI.
• Comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-changing, entrepreneurial environment.

Please reach out for a confidential discussion.