Head of Finance Governance and Assurance

at  Savills

SAVILLS COMPANY BACKGROUND:

Savills is one of the world’s leading real estate advisors with more than 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. The scale of the organisation gives it wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, enabling its people to provide best-in-class advice to individuals, businesses, and institutions in making better property decisions.
Savills Ireland has been at the forefront of the Irish property market for more than 50 years and is firmly established as the number one player in the commercial real estate advisory market in Ireland.
As a full-service real estate advisor covering the island of Ireland, Savills Ireland is comprised of sixteen separate fee earning departments with close to 400 employees based at offices in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and across client properties.

TO GET THIS JOB, YOU WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Qualified accountant with post qualification experience of auditing and advising on governance, risk and controls, with a strong knowledge of financial principles, practices, and relevant accounting standards and, ideally, an understanding of property industry regulations.
Demonstrated experience in managing functions, implementing process improvements, including a deep understanding of month end and year end close activities for multiple entities including financial and management reporting.
Ability and desire to act autonomously with excellent organisational, planning and project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities, lead complex and challenging projects.
Driven and self-motivated with a hands-on practical approach and an ability to work to deadlines, achieve accuracy, inspire and lead others, and deliver under pressure within a matrix organization.
A high level of personal integrity, tenacity, independence with exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, a keen attention to detail and ability to challenge senior management.
The credibility and personal presence to understand and integrate into the business with excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills along with an ability to adjust your approach, influence others and build relationships at all levels including senior leaders.
Exceptional computer-literacy skills and proficiency in financial software and ERP systems
The ability to adapt to a dynamic and evolving business environment and are curious about business with a willingness to understand the wider business imperatives.

Savills is seeking a highly skilled and experienced finance professional to take on the role of Head of Finance Governance and Assurance. This position involves providing independent oversight of our fee and non-fee earning departments within Ireland for an initial period and thereafter with the potential to expand the role across the Savills European portfolio.
Reporting to the Finance and Operations Director, the Head of Finance Governance and Assurance will provide professional, high quality and independent assurance to senior leadership team around the integrity and performance of internal finance and non-finance processes with the business.