Accounts Payable & Cost Analyst: Drive Budget Insights

Davy Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing programmes

Flexible working options

Learning & development opportunities

Assisted retirement planning

Job summary

Davy Group seeks an Accounts Payable & Cost Analyst to manage supplier transactions, governance, and cost analysis. The role partners with budget owners and operations to improve controls and drive cost visibility across the organisation.

The candidate will handle end-to-end AP processes, supplier onboarding, data integrity, and month-end tasks while contributing to process improvements and stakeholder communication. Hybrid working in Ireland is supported.

Qualifications

• Experience working within Accounts Payable or Finance Operations.
• Experience processing invoices and supplier payments.
• Experience performing financial analysis and investigating financial variances.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to interpret financial data and explain findings to non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial systems.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end accounts payable process, ensuring invoices are processed accurately and in line with company policies and procedures.
• Review and set up new suppliers, ensuring all required documentation, approvals, and due diligence checks are completed.
• Maintain supplier master data and ensure information remains accurate and up to date.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, delegated authorities, procurement policies, and governance requirements.
• Process and validate supplier invoices, matching invoices to purchase orders and approvals where applicable.
• Investigate and resolve invoice queries, discrepancies, and supplier issues in a timely manner.
• Prepare and execute supplier payment runs in accordance with payment schedules and approval processes.
• Reconcile supplier statements and resolve outstanding balances.
• Support internal and external audit requirements relating to accounts payable activities.
• Analyse expenditure across departments and cost centres to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and anomalies.
• Produce regular cost reporting and variance analysis against budgets and forecasts.
• Investigate budget variances, identifying root causes and providing recommendations for corrective action.
• Challenge cost assumptions and provide insight into spending patterns.
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes by providing accurate expenditure analysis and commentary.
• Identify areas where costs can be controlled, reduced, or better managed.
• Prepare management information and financial analyses to support decision-making.
• Assist with month-end activities, including accrual reviews, prepayments, expenditure validation, and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and controls across accounts payable and cost management processes.
• Review existing workflows and recommend process enhancements to reduce manual activity and eliminate recurring issues.
• Support the implementation of system improvements, automation initiatives, and digital finance solutions.
• Develop and maintain process documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Promote best practice financial processes across the organisation.
• Drive initiatives that improve service delivery to suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Build effective working relationships with managers, procurement teams, and suppliers.
• Act as a trusted finance contact for operational teams.
• Support non-finance stakeholders in understanding financial information and governance requirements.
• Communicate financial issues, risks, and opportunities clearly and effectively.

Skills

Accounts Payable

Invoices & payments

Financial analysis

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Financial interpretation

Organisation & prioritisation

Stakeholder management

Excel & financial systems

Independent working

Education

AAT / ACCA / CIMA equivalent

Tools

SAP

Job description

Davy Group seeks an Accounts Payable & Cost Analyst to manage supplier transactions, governance, and cost analysis. The role partners with budget owners and operations to improve controls and drive cost visibility across the organisation.

The candidate will handle end-to-end AP processes, supplier onboarding, data integrity, and month-end tasks while contributing to process improvements and stakeholder communication. Hybrid working in Ireland is supported.