Our client, a leading biochemical company, who focus on developing products for the agricultural industry are seeking a Management Accountant to join their business. This is a newly created role and will support the forecasting and budgeting process through analysis and the production of user-friendly reports to be utilised in board packs and presentations.

The Role

As a Management Accountant, responsibilities will include:

• Participating in the annual 5-year planning and budgeting process
• Preparing forecast and budget templates for the business and its subsidiaries
• Liaising with local teams on forecast and budget submissions, ensuring they are in accordance with policies and procedures
• Establishing assumptions, spreadsheet modelling, consolidation and presentation preparation
• Preparing group rolling forecasts and reporting against same (risks; opportunities)
• Designing, developing and maintaining reports
• Understanding the company's projections and underlying cost variances and proposing potential improvement opportunities
• Responsibility for the preparation of the monthly business performance reviews for all functional areas of the business and related subsidiaries
• Analysing and suggesting improvements to the current systems, processes and procedures
• Providing finance support in relation to ad-hoc requests

The Person

To be considered, you will have previous experience in a similar management accountant role from a similar environment, along with:

• Exceptional IT experience with strong SAP experience and advanced excel skills with the ability to use macros and pivot tables
• Excellent analytical and numerical abilities, strong business and commercial awareness
• Good interpersonal skills and an ability to influence where necessary

Salary: Up to €65,000 + benefits, including bonus, health, pension.

To discover more about this role, apply now or contact Clair Schindler on 01-6321881 for a confidential discussion.