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.

ROLE:                 Project Manager                          

LOCATION:        Dublin (Hybrid – 3 days on site) 

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Barden is partnering with a highly innovative, entrepreneurial Irish business to appoint a permanent Project Manager to support the delivery of a growing number of strategic initiatives. This is a hands-on generalist role: you’ll run projects end to end while coordinating a number of live workstreams across different teams.

This is a standalone role within an SME environment, so it will suit someone happy to build and shape as they go rather than plug into an existing PMO structure. You’ll work closely with senior leadership and have real scope to influence how projects are delivered, with the emphasis on practical, day-to-day delivery rather than building out a heavier Programme and Project function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver a number of live projects directly, while coordinating a wider set of workstreams across different teams.
• Bring structure and best practice to how projects are initiated and delivered, from business case and scoping through to execution, without over-engineering process for an SME environment.
• Partner with subject-matter-expert leads across the business to guide and support effective project delivery.
• Put in place right-sized governance, including RAID management, delivery controls, and reporting, suited to a fast-moving, standalone environment.
• Provide clear visibility to leadership on progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Help ensure new initiatives are thoroughly assessed and set up for success.
• Facilitate steering governance and decision-making forums, owning the agenda, materials, actions, and follow-through that keep senior decision-making sharp and timely.
• Work closely with senior leadership with regards to strategy and innovation.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

Required Skills and Competencies:

• +7 years’ experience delivering projects and programmes end to end, often across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Recognised programme or project management certification.
• A strong project generalist background: equally comfortable managing real projects hands-on and coordinating multiple workstreams at once.
• Genuinely hands-on and highly assertive; this is a doer’s role, not one for someone looking to build out a structured Programme and Project organisation.
• Comfortable operating as a standalone project resource, supporting multiple teams within an SME environment.
• Confident engaging with senior stakeholders (CEO, CFO etc) across the business, with experience supporting and facilitating executive decision-making forums.
• Proven ability to shape project governance in a proportionate way for an evolving, fast-paced SME environment.
• Strong portfolio management capability, including risks, dependencies, change control, and benefits tracking.
• Confident operating at C-suite level, influencing and guiding senior stakeholders.
• Motivated by the opportunity to build and enhance project delivery capability from the ground up within a growing organisation.
• Experience operating in an SME or similarly lean environment is a strong advantage; experience in regulated, high-governance, or large operational environments is useful but secondary to a hands-on, generalist mindset.

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.

Our client, a global organisation with Dublin as a key hub, is hiring an IT Systems & Support Analyst – a genuinely blended role combining real business systems analysis with hands-on IT support.

About the Role

You’ll play a genuine role in how the business uses its core systems – including Workday and Microsoft Power Platform – helping gather requirements, support workflow improvements, and drive better use of existing tools across the organisation. Alongside this, you’ll be a key local point of contact for day-to-day IT support for the Dublin office. This is a role for someone who wants to build real depth on both the systems and support side, not a narrow helpdesk position.

About the Person

2-5 years’ experience in systems analysis, IT, or technology projects, with a genuine interest in business systems work as well as hands-on support. Training provided on internal systems – what matters most is problem-solving, communication, and a proactive mindset.

Other Details

Fully onsite in Dublin, 5 days a week.

Some flexibility on hours required due to collaboration with US-based colleagues.

Barden is delighted to be working with a large, established Irish organisation as they look to hire a Master Data Governance Analyst – a role for a technically minded data professional who takes real pride in data quality, and enjoys the governance side of the work too.

“Master data is the foundation everything else is built on, so we need someone genuinely curious about how data is created, used, and governed. The technical analysis is a big part of the role, but the person who’ll thrive here also enjoys raising the standard – building the controls and governance the whole business can rely on.” – Hiring Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is roughly 70% hands-on master data work – profiling, analysing, and root-causing data quality issues across a broad SAP landscape – and 30% governance, embedding the standards, ownership, and stewardship that keep master data trusted across the business.

• Analyse SAP master data to find quality issues, duplicates, and gaps, and get to the root cause.
• Build and maintain data quality controls, validation rules, and exception reporting.
• Help shape and embed master data standards and governance processes with data and process owners.
• Support compliance with internal controls, audit, and GDPR requirements.
• Report and share insight using SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, and Excel.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• 3-5 years’ experience with SAP master data or enterprise data environments.
• Hands on experience analysing, validating, and maintaining large, complex datasets, with a track record of resolving quality issues through profiling and root cause analysis.
• Solid grasp of, and genuine interest in, data governance – ownership, stewardship, and standards.
• Advanced Excel, plus tools like SAP Analytics Cloud or Power BI.
• Strong stakeholder and communication skills, comfortable working across business and IT.
• Bonus: exposure to SAP S/4HANA, a formal MDM/data governance framework, or ERP transformation.

Barden is delighted to be working with one of our clients as they look to hire an experienced Principal Engineer in Cork. This is a hands-on senior role focused on modernising an ageing .NET system into clean, modern, and maintainable software, while setting the technical standard for the team around you.

You’ll spend most of your time in the code, with real scope to lead from the front, shape how the team works, and bring modern tooling to bear on the modernisation effort.

“We want a builder – someone who can take an ageing system, show us a better way, and lead from the front while they do it.” – CTO

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Own the technical execution of modernising an ageing .NET codebase into clean, testable, and maintainable services.
• Write production code every day, review PRs with rigour and care, and pair with engineers on the complex problems.
• Set the technical bar: coding standards, testing practices, and design reviews that teach rather than simply approve.
• Explore how modern AI development tooling can accelerate the work.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• 10+ years in software engineering (.NET)
• Solid cloud, database, testing, and CI/CD practice.
• A genuine interest in modern AI development tools and currently using tools like Claude Code, Cursor
• Comfortable leading design reviews, setting standards, and levelling up the engineers around you.

OTHER DETAILS

• Hybrid role – 3 days a week in the office (Cork City)
• Permanent – base salary + benefits (full family healthcare, pension, etc)

Barden have been engaged by a large Irish Pharma PLC to recruit a Finance Business Partner, Director to join their high performing team. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior commercial finance professional with a minimum of 8-10 years PQE to join a Dublin Headquartered global business.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Ownership and responsibility of all monthly reporting deliverables, including monthly forecasting, and annual budget process.
• Provide strong financial leadership to the business, continually building trust and integrity through the provision of timely, accurate and insightful information.
• Demonstrate sound commercial judgement and decisive decision-making.
• Interpret the data and communicate clearly to non-finance colleagues.
• Sponsor process, systems and reporting enhancements through close collaboration with the ERP and broader finance teams.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

• Qualified accountant with a minimum of 6 years commercial finance experience ideally in a PLC environment.
• People management experience.
• Excellent IT skills, in particular advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Good working knowledge of ERP systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to interact effectively and confidentially with employees of all levels.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast paced international environment.

Working across all business types, but exclusively within the accounting, finance & tax community, Barden exists to share bespoke advice, guidance and support to professionals along each step of their career journey.

Barden are delighted to be engaged by the CFO of a growing, international business to hire a Financial Controller to lead their finance team. It is a broad leadership role that offers exposure to reporting, treasury, team, strategy and a seat close to decision-making.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Working closely with the CFO, this role takes ownership of the full breadth of the finance function in a business trading internationally.

Main duties and responsibilities will include:

• Preparation of monthly and annual management accounts;
• Leading, mentoring, and developing the finance team;
• Managing day-to-day treasury operations, cashflow forecasting, and FX exposure;
• Ownership of the annual audit process and statutory compliance across multiple jurisdictions;
• Enhancing financial systems, processes, and controls;
• Contributing to financial planning and strategic decision-making.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with 5 to 10 years’ experience at a senior level;
• Prior experience in group finance, commercial finance, or financial control;
• Experience leading or developing finance team members;
• A confident communicator, comfortable with stakeholders at all levels;
• Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with ERP systems.

This role will suit an ambitious experienced accountant with strong financial control and team leadership experience, looking for a broad Financial Controller role in an international business with genuine input into strategic direction.

If interested, please hit apply or get in touch for a confidential discussion.