Senior Manager - Group Financial Reporting & Advisory

 

 

Country: Ireland 
City: Dublin 
Req ID: 489020

 

About CRH

We are CRH, and we are committed to contributing to a more resilient and sustainable built environment. We understand the wider impact our businesses can make in supporting human activity. We continue to do this through the delivery of unique, superior building materials and products for use in road and critical utility infrastructure, commercial building projects and outdoor living solutions.

 

CRH is the leading provider of building materials solutions that build, connect and improve our world. Employing c.75,800 people at c.3,160 locations in 29 countries, CRH has market leadership positions in both North America and in Europe.

 

Without you noticing our products, we are everywhere you live, work, and relax.

 

Our project portfolio includes some of the most sustainable and cutting-edge building projects around the world. Think of the asphalt on the Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, the Paris Metro Rail project, but also the Louis Vuitton Museum in Paris, parts of the Burj Khalifa, and the Kennedy Space Centre.

 

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Position Overview 

This is a unique opportunity to lead two highly respected teams within the Group Finance function at a particularly important time for CRH as the Group transitions its primary listing to the New York Stock Exchange (‘NYSE’). This pivotal role involves overseeing the Group’s expanding US GAAP and IFRS accounting and external reporting functions, partnering with senior stakeholders across a range of teams in CRH Group, CRH divisional offices and the operations to provide practical solutions to accounting and reporting complexities.

The Accounting Advisory and Financial Reporting teams form part of the External Reporting function at CRH and are high performing teams with a diverse range of backgrounds, skills, and experience.

The work of the teams provide exciting opportunities to build a wide network of relationships across CRH functions and locations; access to a wide variety of challenging and interesting work adding value for key senior stakeholders across the Group; to develop project management and decision-making skills; to refine judgement capabilities and continual learning. 

 

Accounting Advisory Team 

The team is a valued and trusted business partner that supports the business development and tax teams to determine the optimal structures for deals; supports local finance teams in preparing opening balance sheets for newly acquired businesses; presents at internal conferences and delivers training; and which will respond to ad-hoc US GAAP queries across the Group as they arise. Project-based work includes preparing the Group for changes in accounting policies and developing / maintaining the Group accounting manual in conjunction with key stakeholders. A priority project for the team during 2023/2024 centres around the Group’s transition to a primary NYSE listing and the related US GAAP reporting transition.

 

Financial Reporting Team 

This high performing team is responsible for the delivery of best-in-class financial reporting driving the implementation and management of best practice financial reporting across the group (CRH was the Overall Winner of the 2022 Chartered Accountants Leinster Society Published Accounts Awards, in addition to winning the ‘Euronext Dublin (Large Cap > €1bn)’ Award category). It has overall responsibility for the preparation and management of the external SEC financial reporting cycles (Form 10-K and Quarterly Form 10-Qs), supporting CRH’s US listing and for CRH’s Irish and UK external reporting requirements. 
 

The team is responsible for supporting any newly acquired businesses with the Group’s external reporting requirements; which through the delivery of training programmes and attendance at site visits provides an exceptional opportunity to both travel and become a key business partner. 
Outside of the external reporting cycles, the team is responsible for a variety of areas including; being a key business partner to the Divisional Finance teams on relevant reporting issues, as well as the preparation and review of Board and Audit Committee deliverables, overseeing the continued development and optimisation of the financial consolidation and reporting systems across the Group and maintaining and developing the global external audit relationship.

 

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Assessing the accounting implications of potential deals with business development teams and providing practical solutions to accounting issues;
• Responsibility for developing the Group accounting manual;
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