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Barden are proud to be working exclusively with a global manufacturing/technology organisation to identify an ambitious and smart Senior Financial Accountant to join their well-established and highly collaborative finance team.

The successful person will work closely with the Finance Manager on a range of tasks including month-end reporting, variance analysis and ad-hoc project work. This person will get broad exposure across the global business while liaising with multiple teams across finance and beyond.

Responsibilities include:

• End-to-end accounting for your assigned entities within the EMEA region;
• Preparation of the month-end and quarter-end reporting processes;
• Completion of variance analysis and related reports for your entities;
• Liaise with internal and external auditors and support the audit process by providing timely and accurate information and data;
• Assistance with Corporate tax, VAT and payroll tasks;
• The development of strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business;
• Ad-hoc projects as required.

About the person:

• Recently qualified accountant with 3+ years’ PQE is essential;
• Experience in a multinational environment is a strong advantage but not essential;
• Strong Excel and systems experience;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Strong team player with the ability to interact with stakeholders at all level of the organisation.

Curious? Please get in touch with Siobhán Sexton in Barden (siobhan.sexton@barden.ie) for more information.

Barden are delighted to be engaged by a well-regarded company in Dublin City Centre, on an exclusive basis, to hire a Senior Accountant to join their growing finance team.

With a market-leading package, and flexible hybrid working, it is a role worth getting curious about, for a qualified accountant with 2-5 years PQE, who is ambitious and looking to move into an exciting company, known for its good culture.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Preparing financial statements;
• Working on strategic projects;
• Liaising with finance and non-finance people;
• Helping to improve processes.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

• Qualified Accountant, with 2-5 years PQE;
• A self-starter;
• Advanced excel skills;
• A strong communicator.

This role will suit recently qualified accountants, with at least 2 years PQE in Ireland or abroad, looking for a broad Senior Accountant role in Dublin City Centre.

Barden are delighted to be partnering with a Global business in the Energy Technology space as they seek a Revenue Accountant to join their team in Cork on a 12 month fixed term contract. This role offers the chance to work at the heart of a global finance function, partnering with cross-functional teams whilst playing a key role in revenue recognition and reporting.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring accurate and compliant revenue accounting across multiple entities, supporting month-end and quarter-end close processes, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives within a global revenue team. You’ll also play a key role in commercial finance, partnering with FP&A and operational teams to provide insight on revenue performance, support forecasting, and help drive informed business decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage revenue-related journals and ensure timely close activities
• Drive month-end and quarter-end processes across global entities
• Maintain and review revenue recognition models (ASC 606)
• Partner with FP&A, GBS, Sales, and Service Delivery teams
• Support forecasting of revenue impacts and contract evaluations
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP and internal controls (SOX)
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and revenue reporting
• Liaise with auditors for group and statutory reporting

What We’re Looking For

• Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition
• Excellent analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Excel skills; Oracle or Alteryx experience a bonus
• 3+ years’ experience in a similar role (preferred, not essential)

Barden are partnering with a global leader in manufacturing as they seek a highly skilled and motivated Senior RTR Accountant to join their dynamic team in Cork. Reporting to the RTR Lead, you will manage general ledger accounting for one or more entities and play a key role in supporting a multi-year SAP transformation project. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a global finance function within a multinational environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and act as a primary relationship manager for assigned entities.
• Contribute to defining service standards, KPIs, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintain ledger integrity and ensure compliance with GAAP, internal controls, and company policies.
• Review and post month-end close transactions; perform P&L and balance sheet analysis, reconciliations, and resolutions.
• Support statutory accounting and VAT programs within international operations.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors during quarter-end and year-end audits.
• Evaluate processes and implement improvements to enhance efficiency.
• Champion global financial services philosophy and architecture for finance.
• Flexibility to support US hours during late close (approx. 1–3 days per month).

About You

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA) and a BA/BS in Accounting or equivalent.
• 2–3 years’ experience in a multi-country RTR environment within a multinational corporation.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and European statutory/tax reporting requirements.
• Experience with Oracle or equivalent ERP systems; proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Exposure to shared services and SAP implementation projects is an advantage.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work across cultures and functions.
• Additional European language skills (French, German, Spanish, or Italian) are a plus

Barden are delighted to partner with a large multi-site retail organisation seeking a Master Data Manager to join their Dublin-based team.

This is a hands on team leadership role overseeing a team responsible for business critical master data across multiple systems, brands, and retail locations during a major POS transformation programme.

The successful person will lead work across pricing, vendor data, and store setup, ensuring accuracy and consistency across SAP and POS systems, while driving process improvement and stakeholder engagement across the business.

About the Role:

• Leading and mentoring a master data team of 6 across onshore and offshore locations.
• Managing priorities, workloads, and service delivery.
• Driving process improvements and governance initiatives.
• Working closely with commercial and operational stakeholders.
• Supporting ongoing retail systems and POS transformation projects.
• Ensuring high levels of data quality and accuracy across multiple platforms.

About the Person:

• Previous experience within Master Data Management or Data Governance.
• Strong team leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within retail, FMCG, or multi-site environments.
• Exposure to SAP and/or POS systems.
• A proactive, hands-on approach with a continuous improvement mindset.

This role will suit someone who enjoys operating in a dynamic environment where no two days are the same and who can balance operational leadership with process enhancement and business engagement.

ROLE: Technical Programme Manager

CONTRACT: 12 months

LOCATION: Dublin

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Our Client is seeking a Technical Programme Manager to drive the adoption, enablement, and optimisation of internal automation, AI, and analytics tools across multiple business teams. This role will partner closely with stakeholders, operational teams, and technical customers (internal customers) to identify inefficiencies, reduce manual effort, and implement scalable technology-driven solutions using for example Amazon’s tooling ecosystem and AWS-native technologies.

The successful candidate will play a key role in helping teams leverage solutions such as Amazon QuickSight, AWS AI/ML services, automation platforms, and agentic systems to improve operational efficiency, decision-making, and customer outcomes.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone with a strong technical foundation — particularly in software engineering or systems development — who is looking to transition into a more strategic project and programme management role.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Drive the adoption and enablement of internal Amazon tools, platforms, and automation capabilities across business teams.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify operational pain points, manual processes, and workflow inefficiencies.
• Lead discovery workshops to understand business challenges and define scalable automation opportunities.
• Evaluate and recommend the most effective technical solutions using AWS infrastructure, AI services, analytics tooling, and internal Amazon platforms.
• Work closely with engineering, product, operations, and business teams to deliver automation and optimisation initiatives.
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of technical projects from requirements gathering through implementation and rollout.
• Support the development of AI-enabled and agentic workflow solutions to improve operational productivity and reduce manual intervention.
• Build reporting and operational insights using tools such as Amazon QuickSight and AWS analytics services.
• Develop business cases demonstrating cost savings, productivity gains, and operational improvements.
• Coordinate cross-functional programmes involving technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, measurable, and aligned with business objectives.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

Required skills & expertise:

• Experience in Technical Project Management, Programme Management, or Technical Product Management roles.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and technical systems architecture.
• Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure and modern automation ecosystems.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled workflows, automation tooling, and agentic systems.
• Experience working with analytics and reporting platforms such as Amazon QuickSight.
• Ability to translate business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience identifying operational inefficiencies and driving process optimisation initiatives.
• Comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams in fast-paced environments.

Preferred Background:

• Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Developer, Solutions Engineer, or Technical Analyst.
• Experience transitioning from hands-on technical delivery into project or programme leadership.
• Exposure to AWS services such as Lambda, Bedrock, SageMaker, CloudWatch, Athena, Redshift, or related technologies.
• Experience delivering AI, automation, workflow optimisation, or operational transformation projects.
• Understanding of intelligent document processing, workflow orchestration, or enterprise automation platforms.

Hybrid Role | 3 days per week in the office | Cork City Centre

Barden is delighted to partner with a tech company in Cork in their search for a Principal Software Engineer to join their team. This person will work closely with engineering leadership to evolve legacy systems into modern, cloud-native architectures.

ABOUT THE ROLE (.NET | C#)

• Leading the technical execution of large-scale platform modernisation initiatives
• Writing production code and leading complex engineering work across the team
• Decomposing legacy systems and introducing modern architectural patterns
• Partnering with architecture, platform and product teams to define service boundaries and integration patterns
• Establishing engineering standards, testing practices and design principles across the team
• Leading technical design discussions and mentoring engineers at different experience levels
• Driving incremental modernisation approaches that avoid large-scale rewrites
• Identifying opportunities to leverage AI-assisted development tools and intelligent capabilities within the platform

ABOUT YOU

• Deep expertise with .NET / C# and modern engineering practices: 10+ years of hands-on experience
• Active daily user of AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) – these are how you work, not tools you’ve tried once
• Significant experience modernising legacy systems into modern architectures
• Strong TypeScript / Angular experience, with the ability to own features end-to-end across the full stack
• Strong experience designing and building distributed or service-oriented systems
• Cloud-native development experience (Azure preferred)
• Experience working across the full development lifecycle including CI/CD and automated testing
• Strong database and performance optimisation experience
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering standards across teams

OTHER DETAILS

• Opportunity to play a key role in the modernisation of a large-scale production platform
• Work alongside senior engineering leadership and architecture teams
• Modern engineering environment with strong focus on cloud and AI-enabled development tools
• Opportunity to influence engineering practices and technical direction across multiple teams

Permanent position: salary + benefits (pension, full family healthcare, etc.)

If suitable, please apply here or contact rachel.mcguckian@Barden.ie for more information.

Full-Stack AI Engineer (12-Month Contract) – Dublin

Hybrid Role (1 day/week in office)

Global Tech Company

We are seeking an experienced Full-Stack AI Engineer to join our client on a 12-month contract. This is a hybrid delivery role combining hands-on development of GenAI-powered applications with a strong emphasis on training, enablement, and upskilling teams. You will build production-grade AI solutions, support existing applications, and help drive adoption of new technologies across the organisation.

The ideal person is technically strong, a confident communicator, and passionate about enabling others to work effectively with modern AI systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-grade GenAI applications
• Build and maintain AI-powered systems and existing applications
• Deliver technical training and enablement sessions for engineering teams
• Support adoption of AI tools and best practices across the organisation
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions

Required Skills

GenAI & Agentic Systems (Primary Focus)

• AWS Bedrock (foundation models, multi-agent workflows, knowledge bases, evaluations, guardrails)
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration
• RAG pipelines: embedding models, vector databases, chunking and parsing strategies
• Experience fine-tuning models for performance and efficiency
• LLM-based document processing at scale

Full-Stack Development

• Python (FastAPI, async programming, authentication, concurrency/multi-threading)
• React (streaming UIs, real-time chat interfaces, enterprise applications)
• REST APIs, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events
• SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)
• Version control (Git) and automated testing

AWS Infrastructure

• AWS services: Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, Bedrock, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SQS
• Authentication & security: AWS Cognito, IAM, OAuth 2.0, JWT
• Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK)
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and maintenance

Experience Required

• 5+ years software engineering experience
• 2+ years experience in production AI/ML or GenAI development
• Strong track record working with AWS cloud environments
• Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of delivery
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent documentation skills (code, architecture, technical specifications)

If suitable, please apply in the link below or contact rachel.mcguckian@Barden.ie for more details!

Barden is delighted to partner with a growing tech company in Cork in their search for a Senior Platform / Backend Engineer.

We are looking for someone who has experience building and scaling the core backend services that power their engineering teams. With continued expansion, the company is now investing heavily in AI-powered platform capabilities.

You will work directly with the Head of Platform Engineering, focused on building the internal services, tools, and frameworks that power the entire engineering organisation; not end-user product features or infrastructure maintenance.

You’ll help shape core platform areas such as:

• Auth & Identity
• Messaging Infrastructure
• Shared Libraries & SDKs
• Agentic / AI tooling & workflows
• Developer Experience tooling
• Design system components
• Select product-enabling platform features

What they’re looking for:

• Strong experience in one or two of the following or similar languages: Python, Node.js, TypeScript, C# –> you have written production code in the last 6 months
• Prior experience building platforms, services, or internal tools used across multiple engineering teams
• Experience in cloud-native distributed systems with decoupled eventing/messaging communication patterns
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or Azure Container Apps) in production environments

Details:

• Hybrid role: 3 days/week in Cork city office
• Salary: open and talent-led (flexible based on experience)

If you enjoy building the foundational systems other engineers rely on – and want to work on modern AI-enabled platforms – apply below or get in touch for more details.