Finance Business Partner (Specific Purpose Contract)

Jones Oil (Certa Ireland); Portlaoise; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Certa Ireland is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join our finance team, reporting to the Head of Finance, Control & Reporting. This role offers a unique opportunity to broaden scope by contributing to our finance initiatives and partnering with department heads to drive performance.

You'll translate financial data into recommendations, support key controls, and deliver timely reporting for group submissions.

Qualifications

• Degree in business, finance or equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years post-qualification experience in a financial or partnering role.
• Experience in large shared services environments desired.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships and up-skill non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience impacting finance function quality and success.

Responsibilities

• Strategic financial support.
• Collaborating with department heads and operational teams to provide clear financial insights.
• Translating financial data into actionable recommendations.
• Supporting core financial processes and ensuring alignment with controls.
• Providing guidance on financial controls and regulatory compliance.
• Highlighting control gaps and strengthening governance.
• Delivering accurate, timely financial reporting for group submissions.
• Contributing to month-end and year-end close.
• Stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Training non-financial stakeholders on controls and reporting responsibilities.
• Maintaining a robust financial control environment and process improvements.
• Assisting with audit readiness.

Skills

Financial acumen

Commercial focus

Strong communication

Interpersonal skills

Team collaboration

Detail-oriented

Stakeholder training

Relationship building

Stakeholder coaching

Education

Degree in business, finance or equivalent

Job description

Brief Description

Certa Ireland is a wholly owned subsidiary of DCC plc and is part of the Energy Division of the Group. We were born out of the combination of successful Irish energy brands. We are one of the country’s leading home heating oil, commercial fuel, and agricultural diesel suppliers, in addition to other business divisions including retail forecourts, fuel card services and lubricants. In recent years Certa Ireland has grown with the acquisition of Campus Oil, Jones Oil, two lubricant businesses, and the establishment of the Certa forecourt network. What unites each of these brands is a powerful entrepreneurial spirit, a culture of high performance and agility and is underpinned by exceptionally strong customer service. Certa Ireland’s subsidiary company Alternative Ireland Energy, provides for further growth in the energy sector for Certa.

DCC plc is one of Ireland’s most successful organisations, operating in various sectors including Energy. With annual sales of over €18 billion, and operations in 21 countries spanned over 3 continents, DCC employs more than 15,400 people around the globe. Being a part of our parent company means that while we retain the agility and local resonance of a smaller organisation, we also benefit from the strength and scale of our parent company.

Principal Objective of Position

In this impactful role within our dynamic finance team, reporting to the Head of Finance, Control & Reporting. This position presents a unique opportunity for you to broaden your scope by becoming a contributor in driving our finance initiatives forward.

Business Partnering Responsibilities

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in supporting decision-making across the organization by:

• Strategic Financial Support
• Collaborating with department heads, subsidiaries, finance business partners and operational teams to provide clear financial insights that support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Translating financial data into actionable recommendations to support strategic initiatives, enhance performance and support group reporting requirements.
• Supporting core financial processes, ensuring alignment with Financial Control & Reporting standards.
• Compliance & Risk Advisory
• Providing guidance on financial controls, policy adherence, and regulatory compliance, ensuring consistent application across the business.
• Highlighting key control gaps and supporting stakeholders in strengthening financial governance.
• Performance Monitoring & Reporting
• Delivering accurate, timely financial reporting to support performance evaluation and group submissions.
• Contributing to month-end and year-end close activities, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and compliance with reporting timelines.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
• Building strong relationships with commercial, operational and finance teams to ensure clarity and alignment on financial matters.
• Providing targeted financial support that addresses business needs while upholding control and reporting standards.
• Acting as a liaison between finance and stakeholder to ensure clarity, accountability, and transparency in all financial activities.
• Providing training to non-financial stakeholders to build understanding of controls, reporting responsibilities, and compliance
• Financial Control Environment & Business Support
• Supporting and maintaining a robust financial control environment, ensuring consistent application of approvals, documentation, and policy requirements.
• Supporting accurate, compliant, and audit-ready financial processes that underpin reliable reporting outcomes.
• Enhancing data quality and efficiency through focused process improvements across financial workflows.

General

• Other ad-hoc finance duties as required.

Education & Experience

• Possess a degree in business, finance or equivalent field.
• Minimum experience 4 years post-qualification experience in a financial or partnering role, desirably but not essential, in a finance function of a large business with focus on shared services
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and part of a team
• Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships and up-skill non-financial stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in impacting the quality and success of a finance function.

Core Competencies

• Strong financial acumen and commercially focused.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team.
• Excellent attention to detail, with an ability and willingness to work in the detail and take a "hands-on" approach.
• Positive, can-do attitude, displaying a high level of commitment & motivation.
• Highly organized and ability to adapt to quickly changing priorities.
• Demonstrates articulate and professional communication style.
• Demonstrates high levels of personal and professional standards.
• Ability to build strong business relationships.

Our Values

Safety First

Our priority on safety has always been the foundation of our sustained success in business. We always prioritise the safety of our employees, contractors, customers and any others who may be affected by our business activities. This is why we continuously look for ways to improve our culture, systems, and our processes around safe practices.

Bold & Courageous

We embrace challenges with the determination to succeed. We push our boundaries and challenge the status quo. Every day we strive to understand the limits of "what's possible?" and "why not?". Both as individuals and as a collective, we strive to find innovative solutions to problems for our shared future and achieve our goal of becoming Ireland’s most loved, most efficient and most profitable energy brand.

One Team

We are one team and work with a shared vision; which is to always do the right thing for our customers, our businesses and our people. Internally, we operate without silos, and we say what we feel, we’re always respectful, honest and empathetic to different views and opinions, embracing diversity and nurturing inclusivity. We’re problem solvers who are never afraid to take the initiative and personal ownership of the part that we play. Our one-team culture means that we’re stronger together and are capable of accomplishing great things.

Irrepressible Performance

We at Certa share a collective entrepreneurial spirit, an agile approach to solving problems, a passion for accuracy, a dedicated work ethic and an unwavering commitment in serving our customers. Performance is at the heart of what we do and it makes us continuously seek new ways to improve what we do. Our pursuit of excellence demands that each one of us bring a consistently strong performance to their work every day, thus ensuring the long-term success and growth of our business.

Customer Obsessed

We take pride in defying expectations. We keep on our toes and come up with fresh ways to do things in response to changing customer requirements. Our increased focus on being customer-centric across the organisation drives us to deliver the best-in-class experiences to our customers. This is what helps us build enduring and lasting relationships based on trust, value and respect. Our shared belief in environmental citizenship and our philosophy of small steps over time equals big strides, helps us build an energy-efficient future for our customers and for our planet.