Head of Commercial Finance

Cairn Homes plc is offering an exceptional opportunity for a highly skilled Head of Commercial Finance to join our Finance function. Reporting to the Head of Finance & Treasury, you will lead a team of four dedicated and experienced accountants. The ideal candidate will have the following key responsibilities and requirements.

Key responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Head of Finance & Treasury on a day-to-day basis.
• Lead for all forward-looking financial and operational analytics for the CEO, CFO, Leadership
• Team and the Board of Directors, including short, medium and long range financial planning,
• budgeting and reforecasting. In doing so, having a full understanding over time of the
• operations of the business, the key interdependencies between business functions and their
• impact on our overall financial performance.
• Delivery of the annual budget and three year plan and mid-year reforecast by driving
• deliverables from all business functions.
• Oversee and drive business partnering with key business functions including commercial,
• construction and sales. Establishing and maintaining strong and productive working
• relationships with the Leadership Team members will be critical to success in the role.
• Lead the development of predictive analytics and performance dashboards to support
• Leadership team decision making, as well as areas of importance to the business, including
• but not limited to work-in-progress and operating expenditure spend, workforce planning
• and liquidity management.
• Review the financial evaluation of all strategic initiatives including land and business
• acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, debt structure, deal structuring and and other
• commercial initiatives, from both a returns and an accounting perspective. This will involve
• collaboration with other senior leaders within the business.
• Work closely with the Group Financial Controller across multiple workstreams, including
• annual budget and mid-year reforecast, managing Group liquidity, accounting treatment for
• transactions and any other areas where Commercial Finance and Financial Reporting overlap, including regular analytical reporting (monthly pack), to enable integrated ways of working across the finance function.
• Other ad hoc projects as they arise and impact the business from a financial or operational perspective.
• Responsible for the continued optimisation of our financial modelling capabilities to ensure that Commercial Finance continues to deliver real-time, value add forecasting and optionality to the business.

The candidate – key requirements

• Qualified accountant with a minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Ability to overlay technical accounting knowledge commercially.
• Construction or property experience is advantageous.
• Ability to communicate at all levels across functional departments.
• Good interpersonal skills with experience of interacting with senior executive team members
• in a Group HQ environment
• A strong ability to multi-task and work under pressure to deadlines in a fast-paced
• environment with conflicting priorities, where relationships, organisation, accuracy and a
• high attention to detail is required.
• Self-motivated team player within the Finance function with the ability to work on one’s
• own initiative in managing the Commercial Finance function.
• Hands-on approach to issue resolution and driven to deliver the required result
• Excellent verbal and written presentational skills
• Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

Benefits

We are delighted to offer a suite of benefits when you join Cairn which include:

• Competitive salary
• Performance related bonus
• Pension scheme with matching contributions
• Full health insurance with Irish Life Health
• Annual salary review
• Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme and funding
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Free ‘Cairn’ annual leave days
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme with VHI
• Tax saver – travel and bike to work
• Talent Development Program

The Cairn purpose is to build sustainable communities where people can thrive. At Cairn, it’s not what we build, it’s why we build. It’s about putting down a marker that will stand for generations to come. Creating new communities of connection and belonging for an Ireland where people can thrive. Reshaping, redefining, reinvigorating our place in the world. Building for people, progress, and potential.

Because when Cairn build, it’s Built For Good.