Senior Finance Manager

Dowds Group is an award-winning multi-discipline building and engineering services provider with more than 200 employees based across Ballymena and London. The Company has enjoyed consistent and sustained growth, continuously investing in the wellbeing and engagement its people, and in the organisation, to ensure best-in-class standards of delivery of service and projects.

To support further purposeful growth and a strong business forecast, the Company now seeks to appoint the newly created role of Senior Finance Manager to manage all day-to-day finance operations - including cash flow, month-end, and reporting, preparing timely and accurate management accounts, budgets, and forecasts. A key hire for the business, the role holder will also be responsible for coordinating external audits, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance and liaising with external accountants, banks, and stakeholders.

The Senior Finance Manager will support senior management with financial insights and analysis, identifying and implementing process improvements as needed. They’ll develop annual budgets and track performance against targets, maintaining internal controls, managing financial risk and contributing to business planning and wider growth initiatives.

The Company believes strongly in nurturing its talent and in building meaningful careers at every level - the Senior Finance Manager, as well as developing in their own role, will in turn play a pivotal leadership role to develop and retain talent for the future.

Applicants should possess the following skills and attributes:

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA, IATI qualified accountant.

• Significant relevant experience as a Finance Manager (or similar accounting manager role).
• Demonstrable experience of successfully managing and developing a finance team.
• Ideally delivered, or has played a part in the delivery of, an ERP system implementation.
• Hands-on approach, able to perform operational tasks alongside managing and developing a team.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Confident, adaptable, and commercially minded with the ability to lead people in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong technical finance knowledge, including month-end close, reporting, and VAT.

The Senior Finance Manager role presents further opportunities for development in an ambitious, progressive and people-centric organisation and would suit a hands-on, commercially focused finance leader. For a confidential discussion please contact Ruth McDonald at Narratology.