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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 one of our clients in the banking domain as they hire their first dedicated IT Officer. It’s a genuine ground floor role: you’ll own IT on the ground across the business while the wider IT function is built around you, with a real path to IT Manager in time.

“This is our first dedicated IT role, so we want someone who’ll make it their own – keep everything running, and help build the function from here. Attitude matters most.” – Hiring Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Be the go to person on the ground for connectivity, hardware, and day to day systems across the business.
• Own the relationship with the outsourced managed service provider.
• Take a hands on role in cybersecurity, including firewalls and protecting systems and data.
• Help meet regulatory obligations, including DORA, building on the gap analysis already completed.
• Get involved in IT projects and play an active part in the IT Committee.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• A broad IT generalist across connectivity, hardware, and cybersecurity fundamentals.
• Comfortable managing an outsourced MSP relationship.
• Regulated environment experience, and awareness of DORA, a real plus.
• A self-starter and a driver who takes ownership and makes things happen.
• Keen to grow into an IT Manager role as the department expands.

Barden is delighted to partner with a large, established Irish organisation as they look to hire a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst. This is a rare ground floor hire: the business is moving from an outsourced model to a team it owns and builds itself – and this is one of the people who will shape how the organisation turns its data into decisions.

“We’re building our IT capability from the ground up, and BI sits right at the heart of it. I want someone who can get close to the business, understand the real problem behind the data request, and turn it into something people genuinely use to make better decisions. There’s huge scope here to shape how we work with data across the whole co-op.” – IT Applications Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Turn data into insight that leadership and operations across the business rely on to make decisions.
• Work directly with stakeholders to get to the real business problem, then design the reporting, dashboards, and data models that answer it.
• Build rich, interactive visualisations on SAP BW, Datasphere, BO, and SAC – bringing large, complex datasets to life.
• Own data quality, consistency, and governance across the BI platforms.
• Optimise the performance of existing reports and data flows, and continuously improve what’s already there.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Experience developing reporting solutions across the SAP BI stack – SAP BW, Datasphere, BO, and SAC.
• Strong hands on expertise with SAP BW, SAP BO Analysis for Excel, and SAP SAC.
• Solid data modelling, ETL, and performance tuning skills, with a track record of high-quality data visualisations.
• Experience delivering functional designs across multiple data areas (e.g. COPA, MM, IM, C4C, AR, AP, Product Costing).
• S/4HANA Embedded Analytics (CDS views) experience; leveraging SAP Datasphere in solution architecture is an advantage.

Barden is working directly with the Partners in the Cork office of an established law firm looking to expand their practice in the area of Commercial Property.

With circa 15 people in its Cork office, the firm has a small to mid-size “feel” to it, with a strong and friendly work culture. However, its large presence and client base domestically and internationally offers the quality of work and other benefits of a larger practice.

The organisation is open to flexible working arrangements with a high level of hybrid and/or remote working. While every case would be assessed individually and presence in the Cork office is an advantage, the firm will consider applications from Solicitors based elsewhere in Ireland who can do circa 1 day per week in the office (subject to discussion).

The successful individual(s) will be an Irish qualified Solicitor with strong real estate and commercial property experience, ideally between 3-5 years’ PQE.

However, the firm would also be very open to more senior appointments. Equity partnership will be considered for Solicitors with strong client following..

Applications and discussions will be treated extremely discretely and confidentially.

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.