Financial Controller - Banking - Contract Roles

Morgan McKinley; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley in Dublin is seeking a Senior Financial Controller to lead the Group Financial Control team and oversee monthly, quarterly, and semi-annual close processes. You will ensure robust statutory and regulatory reporting, maintain strong controls, and partner with internal stakeholders to drive efficiency and accuracy.

The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with 5–10 years PQE, proven leadership, and a track record in financial governance and audit coordination within banking or

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with 5–10 years PQE.
• Experience leading a team in a Financial Control or similar function.
• Strong planning skills and ability to meet tight reporting deadlines.
• Technical accounting acumen and ability to apply expertise promptly.
• Leadership and collaboration to drive accountability and agility.

Responsibilities

• Oversee primary statements and statutory/financial close processes.
• Manage risks within end-to-end team processes and mitigation actions.
• Lead preparation of subsidiary statutory accounts and coordinate audits.
• Build relationships with internal/external stakeholders in Finance.
• Collaborate with group and auditors to ensure compliance and reporting quality.
• Drive continuous improvement for process efficiencies and controls.

Skills

Financial reporting

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Controls & governance

Technical accounting

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

The Finance Division has overall responsibility for driving the Group budgeting and forecasting process, developing Group-focused financial insight and analysis and delivering the Group statutory, regulatory and external reporting.

Role

The Group Financial Control Team takes lead responsibility, in ensuring that the

control environment around accounting processes is robust, and that financial

information is delivered to senior stakeholders across the Group on a timely basis, and

to high standards of accuracy. The team prepares Group and subsidiary statutory

accounts and regulatory returns and provides information to internal stakeholders to

support business decision making. Group Financial Control work closely with the Commercial Partner team and stakeholders across the Group to ensure that there is a continued focus on service excellence, developing our people and supporting the achievement of the Group strategic priorities.

Purpose of the Role

This Senior Financial Controller role leads a team of Finance professionals in the

delivery of the Group’s monthly, quarterly, and semi-annual financial reporting close

processes, ensuring delivery is on time and to a best-in-class quality.

Key Accountabilities

• Overall responsibility for Primary Statements, and the Statutory and Financial Reporting close processes, ensuring that underlying processes review and controls have been completed in accordance with best practice.
• Manage all risks in the end-to-end team processes, ensure risks are identified, understood, and actions taken to mitigate.
• Overall responsibility for the preparation of subsidiary statutory accounts, including managing the audit and governance processes and preparing and delivering presentations at audit committees.
• Forge strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders in Finance,
• the wider Group and the Group’s auditors.
• Work collaboratively with the Commercial Partnering team to identify and
• implement continuous improvement initiatives to deliver process efficiencies and improvements.
• Support and play an active role in the Group Financial Control team’s strategic initiatives
• Lead by example on building an exemplary team culture, founded on accountability, agility, one Group one team, and a strong customer focus.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Finance professional looking to broaden their experience in Banking. You will lead a team in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, build out expertise on technical accounting matters, stakeholder management and navigating a large organisation, together with supporting strategic initiatives within Group Finance.

Essential Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with 5 - 10 years PQE.
• Previous experience of leading a team in a Financial Control, or other control-based function.
• Highly motivated individual with the ability to work on own initiative and plan, coordinate and deliver results whilst managing competing priorities to tight reporting deadlines
• Technical accounting acumen, with the ability to apply expertise in a timely manner
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to engage and influence colleagues at all
• levels.
• Experience in leading with a culture of accountability, agility and collaboration