Senior Financial Controller

About the Position

We're recruiting a Senior Financial Controller on a 15–18 month contract for one of Ireland's leading banking groups. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a team at the center of a major bank's financial reporting, with real exposure to technical accounting, audit committees, and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of finance professionals through the Group's monthly, quarterly, and half-year reporting close, ensuring timely and high-standard delivery.
• Own the Primary Statements, Statutory, and FinRep close processes, ensuring reviews and controls are completed to best practice.
• Identify, understand, and mitigate risks across the team's end-to-end processes.
• Lead the preparation of subsidiary statutory accounts, including the audit and governance process, and present at audit committees.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across Finance, the wider Group, and external auditors.
• Work with the Commercial Partnering team to drive continuous improvement and process efficiencies.
• Play an active part in the Group Financial Control team's strategic initiatives.
• Set the tone for a team culture built on accountability, agility, collaboration, and customer focus.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with around 5 years' professional experience.
• Experience leading a team in Financial Control or another control-based function.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge.
• A track record of delivering tight reporting deadlines while juggling competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Self-motivated, able to work on your own initiative, and plan and coordinate delivery.
• Banking or financial services reporting experience (Statutory, FinRep) is a strong advantage.
• Must be resident in the Republic of Ireland.

We Offer

• Competitive daily rate, depending on experience.
• Genuine hybrid flexibility.
• Opportunity to lead a team at the center of a major bank's financial reporting.
• Exposure to technical accounting, audit committees, and senior stakeholders.

About the Company

Our client is a major Irish banking group. Its Finance Division oversees Group budgeting, forecasting, and statutory, regulatory, and external reporting, partnering with each business division and with centralized finance services. The Group Financial Control team owns the control environment around accounting processes. It prepares Group and subsidiary statutory accounts and regulatory returns, and delivers accurate, timely financial information to senior stakeholders across the Group.

Contact

Interested, or know someone who might be? Get in touch with Matthew at Cpl Accounting & Finance for a confidential chat: [email protected] or 01 947 6312.