Barden is delighted to be working with a fast-growing Irish software company in the Tipperary as they look to hire a Finance Business Partner. This is a broad, newly shaped role that sits right at the centre of the business, reporting directly to the Head of Finance.

You will own the numbers that drive decisions, working side by side with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to show what is working, what it costs, and where to invest next. It is an excellent next step for a recently qualified accountant who wants real commercial influence, not just month-end.

You will be close to every part of the business, and your analysis will shape how we plan, price, and grow.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and scenario modelling.
• Partner with department leads on performance, spend, and investment cases.
• Lead SaaS reporting, including ARR, churn, NRR, and CAC/LTV.
• Produce the monthly management accounts with clear, practical commentary.
• Own multi-entity accounts, VAT, consolidation, and the year-end audit.
• Drive headcount reporting, people costs, and workforce planning.
• Automate recurring reports and own KPI reporting for leadership.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA), 1–3 years PQE.
• Hands-on FP&A or business partnering experience.
• Strong month-end, balance sheet, and VAT experience.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets modelling skills.
• Confident presenting numbers to non-finance colleagues.
• SaaS, subscription, or multi-entity experience is a real plus.

Barden are delighted to be partnering with a leading, high-growth business operating across Ireland and the UK, part of a large international group, on a key controllership role in Dublin. The business has grown significantly in recent years through organic growth and acquisitions, and has ambitious plans to expand further.

This is a hands-on role at the heart of the finance function. You’ll own core areas of the financial control framework and balance sheet, make sure the numbers are complete, accurate and well supported, and play a central part in a major finance transformation programme.

Key responsibilities

• Own month-end and year-end close & reporting across ROI and UK entities
• Oversee balance sheet accounts, including accruals, provisions, fixed assets and leases
• Review journals and reconciliations, making sure they’re well supported and audit-ready
• Strengthen internal controls, tackle recurring issues at the root, and drive lasting process improvements
• Act as a key contact for internal and external audit
• Help design future-state processes, controls and reporting as accounting lead on the transformation programme
• Build strong relationships across Finance, Payroll, Procurement, HR and Operations
• Lead, coach and develop team members

What they’re looking for

• A qualified accountant with strong controllership or financial reporting experience
• Solid IFRS knowledge, including IFRS 16 and IAS 37
• Experience in a high-volume, multi-entity business, ideally across Ireland and the UK
• Strong month-end close, reconciliation and balance sheet experience
• Someone confident to challenge and take ownership
• Transformation or ERP experience is a plus

Barden has been exclusively engaged by the co-founders of a scaling digital health company to appoint a Finance Director to a newly created leadership role.

This is a broad and influential role with real visibility. You will work closely with senior stakeholders to drive performance, support key decisions, and shape how the finance function develops as the business scales.

This role would suit a hands-on financial controller who is equally comfortable setting strategy and rolling up their sleeves. Experience in a start-up or scale-up business is key. You will know what it takes to build processes, systems, and reporting from the ground up, and you will enjoy the pace and variety that come with a growing company.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of financial planning and reporting across the business

• Partner with finance and operational teams on performance, trends, and opportunities

• Support senior stakeholders with analysis and reporting that drives informed decision-making

• Enhance finance processes, reporting capabilities, and systems

• Play a key role in business improvement and transformation initiatives

• Deliver ad hoc analysis and support strategic projects

What they are looking for

• Qualified Accountant (Big 4 or Top 10 trained preferred) with 8+ years’ post-qualified experience

• A strong background in financial reporting and controllership

• Experience in a scaling company, as part of a close-knit leadership team

• A confident communicator who builds trusted relationships across a business

• Commercially minded, curious, and solutions-focused

• Someone who takes ownership, drives improvements, and thrives in a fast-paced environment

For a confidential chat, please reach out to elaine.brady@barden.ie, ornaith.giblin@barden.ie, or tony.kerslake@barden.ie.

A dynamic and growing professional services firm in Cork, who provides a broad range of corporate services to clients is hiring an accountant.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a broad, client-facing role for a qualified accountant who wants to build their career in that direction. You’ll manage your own portfolio of clients, deliver a range of accounting services, and get exposure to advisory work alongside managers and directors. There’s also a mentoring element, supporting more junior staff as they develop.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing a portfolio of clients across a range of industries
• Ensuring all deadlines are met in a timely manner
• Responding to ad-hoc tax queries, including research and preparing memos
• Working closely with managers and directors on advisory projects
• Assisting with the training and mentoring of junior staff

ABOUT YOU

• Qualified accountant with some experience in a client-facing role
• Positive attitude and a good communicator
• Comfortable dealing directly with clients
• Open to change and keen to help improve processes as the firm grows

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

In Barden we are delighted to be working with one of our clients as they look to hire a Senior Indirect Tax Accountant in Cork.

You will join a global finance team, own VAT, Intrastat, and EC Sales compliance across multiple jurisdictions, and help shape how the function works as it modernises.

The hiring manager is looking for someone who enjoys getting to the root of an issue and making the process better, not just keeping it running.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Prepare and review VAT, Intrastat, and EC Sales filings
• Reconcile indirect tax accounts and resolve balance sheet and P&L items
• Partner with finance, tax, and market teams across the globe
• Spot risks and control gaps, and recommend fixes
• Help build the processes and controls for a centralised model
• Improve how the work is done through automation and technology

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Tax and/or accounting qualification preferred
• Experience managing indirect tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions
• Multinational, shared service, or pharma background is an advantage
• SAP and strong Excel skills, with comfort using AI tools
• Curious, proactive, and confident working across teams

OTHER DETAILS

• Cork
• Permanent

Interested? Please apply through the link or contact Aideen Murphy (aideen.murphy@barden.ie) for a confidential conversation.

Head of Tax

Barden is delighted to partner with one of our clients in Cork, an excellent employer, as they look to hire a Tax Leader.

The business is at an exciting point in its journey, and this is the moment to take ownership of tax and lead the function. This is a strategic role reporting to the CFO, with real involvement in transactions and in structuring deals, so you will help shape where the international group goes next.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Set the tax direction for the group
• Find ways to protect and release cash
• Shape the tax structure behind acquisitions, disposals, and joint ventures
• Take charge of compliance, transfer pricing, and risk across Ireland, the UK, and Europe
• Be the point of contact with tax authorities in the relevant jurisdictions
• Work closely with finance, treasury, legal, and external advisers

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant and/or CTA, with a corporate tax background from a major accounting firm
• Experience at a similar level in an international organisation
• Strong Irish and UK tax knowledge, with European exposure
• Transfer pricing and IFRS tax accounting experience
• Commercial, practical, and a clear communicator
• Infrastructure experience an advantage

OTHER DETAILS

• Based in Cork, hybrid
• Full-time, with a competitive package

A strategic tax leadership role of this kind is rare in Cork. Interested? Please apply through the link or contact Aideen Murphy (aideen.murphy@barden.ie) for a confidential conversation.

We are delighted to be working with a global Irish business to identify a Group Accounting Manager. This opportunity has a lot to offer: a growing business, a close-knit team, great flexibility, and the chance to take ownership of consolidation for the group.

This is a technical role with real variety beyond the usual month-end and year-end activities. You will be responsible for group consolidation and technical accounting, with a strong commercial side, partnering with Strategy, M&A, and Commercial teams. There is also the opportunity to get involved in group-wide projects, the business is adopting new ways of working through AI and automation.

You will report to an impressive Group Financial Controller with extensive knowledge of the business. There is huge flexibility on offer, this role can be fully remote or on a hybrid basis .This will suit someone technically strong who enjoys variety, likes the commercial side of finance, and has plenty of energy to bring to the team.

If you are looking for the next step in your career in a varied role with great flexibility, please get in touch: caroline.frawley@christine-mccarthy

ABOUT THE ROLE

Responsibilities will include:

• Ownership of the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated results for the group, in line with IFRS
• Preparation of the annual group financial statements
• Main point of contact for technical accounting queries across the group
• Advising on the accounting treatment of new and complex transactions and the impact of new standards
• Ownership of group accounting policies, guiding subsidiaries on consistent application
• Leading improvements to financial controls, systems, and processes, and giving senior stakeholders clear analysis to support decisions
• Supporting the development of junior team members in the wider Finance team

ABOUT THE PERSON

You will have:

• Strong technical accounting skills, ideally with some IFRS knowledge.
• Experience of group consolidation, ideally across multiple entities.
• Good commercial awareness and the confidence to partner with senior stakeholders.
• A positive attitude and plenty of energy.
• Openness to AI and automation.

Barden are delighted to partner with a fast-growing, private equity-backed global business as they look to hire an FP&A Manager. This is a high-visibility finance role in a deal-active business, where the function is moving from reporting towards decision support.

Reporting directly to the VP of Finance, in a flat structure with access to senior leadership, you will turn the numbers into insight that shapes commercial decisions and finds value that reaches the bottom line. With acquisitions continuing, integrations under way, and AI training being rolled out to the team, there is plenty to get your hands on.

“We have a well-run reporting process and now we want to make it sharper. I am looking for someone ambitious and commercial who can tell us what the numbers mean and where the value sits, and who enjoys working with people across the business” VP Finance

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Own budgeting, forecasting, and the monthly reporting cycle.
• Analyse variances and performance to find where value can be created.
• Partner with commercial and operational leaders to support key decisions.
• Build financial models and support due diligence and integration on acquisitions.
• Develop KPIs and dashboards that move reporting towards decision support.
• Improve the finance toolset, with a focus on continuious improvement.
• Ability to bring tangible recommendations and value to the organisation through business and commercial analysis.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with strong FP&A experience.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with ERP exposure (SAP a plus).
• Commercial mindset, with the ability to turn numbers into clear recommendations.
• Confident communicator who collaborates well with colleagues outside finance.
• Ambitious, with an interest in a deal-driven, private equity-backed environment.

Barden are delighted to be working with our client, a US multinational company with a significant presence in Cork to identify an FP&A Senior Analyst to join the business. This is a key role for the business, and they are seeking a Finance Professional with strong commercial acumen. This company is well known for its globally diverse workforce and collaborative working culture.

This role will report to a Global Head of FP&A and will suit someone who is passionate about partnering with business stakeholders, with a natural skill in translating finance data into meaningful insights for the business.

While initially a fixed term contract, there may be more longer-term opportunities for the right person. For more information, please get in contact caroline.frawely@barden.ie.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Take on a lead role in the budgeting and forecasting processes, actively engaging with varying departments.
• Presenting to senior leadership on business unit financial performance, delivering key insights and analysis.
• Develop relationships with various stakeholders, creating a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Become a central point of contact between Finance and the wider global business.
• Participate in group wide projects as required.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant with 5+ years post qualified experience.
• Excellent communicator with proven influencing skills across all levels.
• Highly analytical, with a natural numerical aptitude.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Ability to problem solve and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Motivated self-starter who enjoys working as part of a team.