Regional Accountant – Galway
My client, a multinational volunteer organisation is looking to hire a fully qualified accountant for their Galway office. This will be a permanent contract position, initially fully onsite with hybrid options negotiable after a settling in period.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Manage the keeping of proper books of accounts, deliver financial information and reports.
• To ensure directions are applied regarding regulation and compliance matters, financial risk management, internal financial controls, financial analysis, planning and reporting accountabilities and transparency, meeting deliverables and timelines.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with Society policies, Charity Act and regulations, accounting standards and other legislation, standards, or codes.
• Keep proper books of accounts to SORP standards.
• Implement and monitor internal financial controls.
• Ensure source documents are received and retained, and that transactions are recorded, timely and accurately.
• Prepare and present periodic Management Accounts.
• Prepare Annual Financial Statements for audit.
• Manage the audit process, through to completion.
• Periodic financial reporting to Regional Council and National Council, including quarterly and annual reporting.
Accounting Workflow and Processes: Accounts Payable & Receivable, income transactions, expenditure, assets and liabilities
• Ensure transactions source documents are received, retained, and recorded to ensure compliance with policies for procurement, approval matrix, and internal financial controls.
• Supervise the accounts payable and receivable processes.
• Supervise banking and cash processes.
• Ensure fundraising function documents and record transactions regarding donations, fundraising income, Revenue reclaims (e.g. CHY) and are timely and accurately recorded in accounting records.
• Maintain accurate and up to date regional register of legacies and bequest.
• Maintain an accurate register of property leases, and property transactions, additional, disposal and CAPEX within the region.
Annual Reports and Financial Statements, submissions, reporting to National Consolidation
• Manage and coordinate the region’s Annual Reports and Financial Statements (AR) Cycle.
• Provide technical guidance to the TSO as required during the annual report cycle.
• Develop and maximise the use of ‘Live Agresso’ by Council and Conferences.
• Coordinate the collating of the region Annual Reports submissions.
• AR input into Agresso/Unit 4, where council or conference not ‘Live’.
• Implement quality assurance of Annual Reports.
• Ensure Annual Reports are accurate and reflective of the activities of the conference.
• Maintain accurate tracking of the Annual Report cycle, follow-up on outstanding Annual Reports /issues, intershare out of balances or non-matching posting between councils or conferences.
• Support the National Consolidation team regarding matters for the region and annual report completion process.
Employment Cycle / Staff Pay for the Region
• Manage and coordinate employment cycle related transactions and information to ensure accurate records required for payroll processing are maintained and implemented.
• Ensure the timely accurate input to payroll processing and perform quality assurance in line with payroll processing dates.
• Apply Society policies, procedures, and internal controls.
Cash Flow Management, Financial Planning and Analysis of the Region
• Manage cash position, cash flow analysis, forecasts and report as required.
• Manage the restricted and unrestricted funds.
• Support National Financial Planning and analysis as required.
EXPERIENCE
• Fully qualified with a professional accounting qualification ACA, ACCA, CIMA is essential.
• +3 years post qualification experience is essential.
• Experience of annual audit, audit pre-work including audit file, working papers, advance audit analysis, annual reporting / audit is essential.
• Experience of financial Statement preparation to filling/publication stage.
• Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis experience is desirable.
• Experience in analysing trends and KPI’s is desirable.
• Experience with presentations is desirable.
• Experience of key performance metrics reporting, variance analysis for inclusion in management reports.
• Experience of system implementation/systems improvement.
• Development and implementation of policies, procedures and controls.
If interested, please forward your most updated CV to [email protected]
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