Senior Manager - Finance

• Full Time Permanent Contract position
• Hybrid role based in our City Centre offices

 

What we offer

We have embraced a hybrid working model for most of our positions, which means that you can enjoy a balanced approach of working from home for part of the week and working from the office for the remainder of the week.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salaries and bonuses, robust Learning and Development support, excellent Defined Contribution pension and comprehensive Wellbeing initiatives and support to name but a few. 

Further details on our benefits package can be accessed here Benefits (life-careers.com)

 

Role Overview

The purpose of Irish Life Group Finance, an essential function of the Irish Life Group, is to deliver better business outcomes whilst protecting financial integrity. Focused on our vision of being a trusted partner shaping key decisions, we are seeking to support and influence key business decisions and embed a culture of collaboration and innovation.
 
Recognising that our key asset is our talented team who are passionate about delivering for our stakeholders, we are looking to complement the team with the recruitment of a senior change manager to be at the forefront of exploring and understanding opportunities that can be exploited and lead the execution of optimum solutions for Finance at Irish Life.

 

Reporting to the Group Finance Controller, this is an exciting and varied role where your main responsibilities are to define & shape our strategic vision, deliver system and process change, and support sustainment and maturity of systems & processes across our finance landscape. 

 

You will be a key member of the Finance Team that is also responsible for delivering excellent support, expertise, and high-quality management information to our local and global leadership teams in a consistent way.

What you will help us to achieve

 

•    Leverage Innovation in data driven personalisation and technological advances such AI machine learning.
•    Create and maintain strategic change agenda goals in line industry developments.
•    Maintain and leverage existing finance systems to optimise/create new business processes.
•    Identify and implement technology solutions that support automation, data analytics and enhanced controls.
•    Support business process improvement/reengineering opportunities, through automation, where possible, whilst improving controls and efficiency. 
•    Identify and initiate projects that support the optimisation and efficiency of Group Finance.
•    Co-ordinate Group Finance reporting of change (including budget tracking, status updates with RAG, risks & issues etc) to the Finance leadership team. 
•    Create project business cases, appoint project team members, and oversee the execution of finance change projects.
•    Manage BAU support as the project teams’ hand over sustainment to your change department.

More specific responsibilities will include

•    Build relationships with group and divisional colleagues to understand their needs, anticipate future needs and deliver for your stakeholders.
•    Drive a high-performance culture, creating an environment where your team can operate at their very best.
•    Cultivate an ethos of continuous development and improvement, across people, systems, data, processes, and controls.

What you will need to be successful in the role

 

•    7+ years strategic change and project management experience, ideally within the insurance or financial services industry, but not essential.
•    Previous demonstratable experience in defining, planning, and delivering finance change or technology projects in prior roles that have created added value.
•    Deep understanding of project management, from business case creation to setting up delivery team(s) to go-live and post go-live support.
•    Experience of ensuring successful adoption of change initiatives and its impact on culture/employee engagement.
•    A keen interest in the finance function of the future, and technology and data infrastructure underpinning this.
•    Track record of influencing & defining finance change strategy and delivering process improvement and operational efficiency.
•    Demonstratable leadership skills in driving cross enterprise collaboration and innovation through existing and new partnerships.
•    Ability to achieve results and deliver through people.
•    Proven financial governance and oversight capability.
•    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
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