Senior Finance Business Partner

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MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Act as a key Finance Business Partner to business stakeholders across the site, particularly the Sales and Operations leadership teams.
• Conduct regular financial reviews and performance evaluations, identifying key trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Identify and investigate variances to budget and forecast, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement to drive business performance.
• Partner with Sales and Operations functions in completing the retail and operational KPI framework, and exercise ownership regarding performance measurement versus target.
• Collaborate with the Sales and Operations leadership team to achieve commercial and financial targets.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, offering financial guidance, insights, and recommendations to drive profitability and growth.
• Develop and challenge strategic/business plans, identifying areas of risk and opportunity. Review and approve business cases that drive high-return investment opportunities.
• Work with Sales and Operations functions to develop and challenge budgets and forecasts.
• Attend business reviews, identify budget/plan variances, and work with the business to recommend solutions and recovery plans where appropriate.
• Assist the wider finance team in producing timely and insightful monthly management reports.
• Evaluate and implement effective controls to ensure they are adequate to protect the assets, profitability, and cash flow.
• Support the business teams through implementation, monitoring, and ongoing improvement of the finance system processes to meet business needs efficiently and effectively.
• Provide finance input into the price changing/setting process and the Statement of Demand process.
• Support the preparation of ad-hoc scenario analysis, financial analysis and modelling, and management reporting to assist in business decisions, including but not limited to, planning, budgeting, forecasting, commercial negotiations, project appraisal, and analysing strategic options.
• Support process improvement and optimization, acting as the key finance player in commercial/process improvement projects from identification through to planning and implementation phases.
• Work on an operating cost allocation project in the business to drive accountability and ownership.
• Become a central point of contact between Finance and the wider business.
• Participate in other ad-hoc projects as required.

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Finance Business Partner within our Finance Department to support several key business units within the organization. This is a newly created role, and you will have the chance to work across different teams and departments to drive business performance.
This role will initially be based out of our Drogheda Head office but will primarily be based in our new offices at Dublin Airport Central later this year.