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Barden are seeking a motivated and ambitious Financial Accountant to join a growing property development and management business with a strong presence in Cork. This is an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified accountant to gain broad exposure across a dynamic, fast-paced environment while working directly with senior leadership.

Reporting to the CFO, you will play a key role in supporting the finance function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting across multiple entities. You will also contribute to the transition of financial operations currently managed by external providers, gaining hands-on experience in shaping internal processes and controls.

This role offers exceptional exposure to financial operations, payroll, compliance, reporting, and commercial finance within a growing organisation focused on delivering high-quality residential and purpose-built student accommodation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the preparation of monthly financial reporting for group entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Produce management reporting packs to support business decision-making
• Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations in line with financial policies
• Assist with year-end financial reporting and audit processes
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and cost tracking activities
• Provide financial analysis and ad hoc reporting as required
• Assist with cash flow and liquidity management
• Support project feasibility analysis, capital investment appraisals, and business expansion initiatives
• Assist with VAT, PAYE/PRSI, and general Revenue compliance obligations
• Support RCT administration and subcontractor compliance requirements
• Maintain accurate compliance records and ensure all filing deadlines are met
• Provide support with payroll processes as required
• Identify and support efficiency improvements across finance processes
• Contribute to strengthening internal controls, policies, and procedures
• Collaborate with wider teams on continuous improvement initiatives across the organisation

About You

• Recently qualified or soon-to-be qualified accountant
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and the wider Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Barden are delighted to be partnering with a large multinational and global brand to identify a Lead Financial Accountant to join a high performing Finance team.

Working closely with local and international finance leaders, this organisation has an excellent reputation in the market, both as an employer and brand. This role will have a strong focus on financial accounting, controls, US GAAP and statutory compliance, as well as partnering with cross functional teams across Finance, Tax and Legal.

It’s a role that offers real variety, ownership and the opportunity to develop further within a global environment. The successful candidate will be technically strong, a self-starter, and confident operating in a fast paced, multinational setting.

While initially a fixed term contract, there may be more longer-term opportunities for the right person. If this sounds interesting please get in touch with myself (caroline.frawley@barden.ie) or my colleague Denis Galvin (denis.galvin@barden.ie)

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Responsibility for accurate and timely month end, quarterly and year end close activities for multiple legal entities
• Preparation of high quality financial statements and ownership of statutory accounting requirements
• Lead role in managing relationships with external advisors and statutory auditors
• Active partnering with stakeholders across Finance, Tax, Legal and wider business teams to deliver successful outcomes
• Support for external audits, including tax audits from governmental agencies
• Driving standardisation and continuous improvement of processes and controls to ensure the highest level of compliance
• Contribution to wider group initiatives and ad hoc projects, offering variety and broader organisational impact

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Fully Qualified Accountant with 5+ years PQE
• Strong technical knowledge
• Excellent financial and analytical acumen
• Organised, detail oriented and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across regions and functions
• A natural problem solver with the ability to assess complex accounting and tax matters and provide practical, business focused solutions

Barden are delighted to bring this newly created role to the market for our longstanding client. Right now, there is a unique opportunity to join a large business undergoing significant transformation and this role will play a key element in terms of technical accounting.

Our client is seeking a self motivated and driven professional who has a technical mindset. In this role, you will be given the autonomy to play a lead role in this project. If you have a strong understanding of IFRS and are seeking a challenge that will be extremely professionally rewarding, then please get in touch for more information.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Support the transition to a new accounting framework, working within the agreed programme plan and governance structure.
• Perform detailed impact assessments across key areas of the balance sheet.
• Prepare technical papers and analysis to support accounting positions.
• Deliver hands‑on restatements under IFRS, including all relevant reconciliations.
• Support preparation of reconciliations and narrative explanations for management, auditors, and governance forums.
• Assist with the development and documentation of updated accounting policies.
• Support creation of technical memos, working papers, control documentation, and process narratives required for audit and governance.
• Act as a key point of contact for external auditors and advisors on assigned areas.
• Support audit queries through robust analysis, supporting evidence, and clear technical explanations.
• Assist with training materials or walkthroughs on new IFRS requirements and calculations.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting background, preferably IFRS.
• Proven experience preparing or reviewing complex statutory financial statements.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines.

An exceptional opportunity to join an international group headquartered in Dublin as Group Head of Tax. This appointment comes at a pivotal stage in the company’s growth journey, with ambitious expansion plans across new geographies and through acquisition activity.

This is a high impact leadership role responsible for shaping and leading the group’s tax strategy, while partnering closely with the CFO and senior leadership team to support continued business growth.

Operating within a flat and collaborative structure, the role is broad in scope spanning tax, treasury and investor engagement and will require a hands on approach to day to day tax matters alongside strategic leadership responsibilities.

You will join a dynamic group and high performing organisation, with the opportunity to work alongside exceptional leaders who are genuinely committed to developing talent and supporting long term career growth.

About the position

• Manage and identify tax risks across the group, taking ownership of tax compliance in the across all relevant tax heads
• Partner closely with the group’s external tax advisors with the possibility to build more in-house expertise
• Provide advice and insight into taxation matters related to potential M&A activity. This includes review of tax due diligence materials prepared by third parties, direct preparation of tax due diligence reports in conjunction with the group’s own advisors as well as management of tax due diligence processes involving multiple parties.
• Manage the annual tax compliance and advisory fee budget as well as ad -hoc management of tax advisory fees relating to potential M&A activity.
• Collaborate with Finance, Legal, Company Secretarial and Commercial teams across the business while engaging effectively with external stakeholders including auditors, advisors and investors
• Oversee the preparation and review of legal documentation arising from tax structuring.
• Manage cross border transfer pricing aspects of head office charges and intercompany trading. This includes ensuring divisional compliance with head office mandated transfer pricing margins and required local documentation to support intra-group charges
• Lead all interactions with Irish Revenue and other tax authorities across relevant jurisdictions
• Support month end, quarterly reporting and year end reporting for tax and treasury.

About the person

• Qualified tax professional with significant pqe gained within an international group environment
• Strong technical expertise across Irish and UK corporate direct and indirect tax along with a strong knowledge of cross border tax structuring, transfer pricing and global tax developments
• Strong experience managing international tax matters across multiple European jurisdictions
• Strong exposure to M&A activity and transaction related tax matters is highly desirable.
• Treasury experience advantageous, including exposure to global treasury operations such as cash management, liquidity and funding strategy, banking relationships, financing arrangements and capital structure optimisation
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated leadership capability with experience influencing and partnering at executive level.
• A high performer who will lead and drive growth and innovation, as well as inspiring a high-performing inclusive culture across the team and business.

Project Manager (Testing) / Scrum Master | Cork (Hybrid) | 12-Month FTC |

We are working exclusively with a global MedTech business on one of the more compelling transformation projects in Cork right now.

A major division is being spun out into a standalone company. A core data and analytics platform needs to be rebuilt from the ground up within 12 months. The team is small, the timeline is tight, and the project is already underway. They need someone who can walk in and take ownership of the testing workstream from day one.

About the Role

This is a hands-on role that will suit an experienced Project Manager who has worked closely with testing, or someone who started their career in testing and has since moved into broader delivery or PM work.

You will own the end-to-end testing process. That means writing test scripts, coordinating SIT, BST and UAT cycles, managing defects in Jira and keeping a non-technical finance stakeholder group on track through UAT. You will also be expected to bring the kind of structure and governance discipline that keeps a fast-moving project honest, feeding into an overall Jira board that is subject to financial audit.

Think of it as equal parts testing coordinator and delivery conscience for a project that cannot afford to slip.

About the Person

Hands-on Jira experience is essential. Not just familiarity, but the ability to administer a board, manage workflows and feed into a project-level view with confidence.

Beyond that: agile methodology, user story documentation, acceptance criteria, defect management. An understanding of how finance teams and financial auditors operate will stand to you here. The team is predominantly finance-background, and you will be the one translating between their world and the technical one.

Pharma experience is not required. The ability to work independently, without prompting, absolutely is.

Strict 12-month fixed term contract. No extensions, no permanent role to follow. This suits someone who knows their way around a project-based contract and is energised rather than unsettled by a defined piece of work with a clear finish line.

This role is primarily remote, with a minimum of three days per month on-site in Cork.

Interested?

Reach out to the Barden Projects, Transformation and Change team for a confidential conversation.

• If you are a commercial or revenue leader looking to step away from a traditional corporate structure into something more hands-on and high impact, then we should talk.
• If you’ve built your career in structured environments but are now motivated by ownership, autonomy, and visibility of impact, then we should talk.
• If you are energised by the opportunity to pull multiple revenue streams together and build a more cohesive commercial model, then we should definitely talk.

Barden is working with an international law firm well established in Dublin who are looking to hire a Solicitor to join its highly reputed Financial Regulatory department.

The firm has an excellent domestic and international client base in the financial sector, including banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, trading platforms, insurers, payment services and FinTech companies.

The Financial Regulatory team provides regulatory advisory and transactional services to the world’s largest financial institutions, ranging from setting up businesses and launching new products and services, to dealing with regulators, advising on anti-money laundering, financial sanctions, risk management, compliance frameworks, audits, investigations, etc.

The organisation is known for promoting faster career progression than usual, with a very non-hierarchical environment and very close access to the Partners.

The firm is open to considering applications from Solicitors with financial regulatory experience in top law firms ranging from 3+ years’ PQE up to Of Counsel level. They welcome exploratory and informal conversations with potential candidates who might be interested in hearing more about the opportunity and the team.

Barden has been engaged by a global FinTech company looking to hire a Regulatory lawyer to join its expanding Legal team in Dublin.

The role reports into the General Counsel for Ireland and will interact regularly with the international legal and compliance teams.

THE ROLE

The successful individual will work on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters in a fast-paced and technology-driven environment. This will include providing regulatory advice, advising on new products and services, cross-border business activities, liaising with the Central Bank of Ireland and other EU regulatory authorities, etc.

Full job spec is available.

THE PERSON

• A qualified lawyer in Ireland or another EU country (or another common law jurisdiction but with relevant regulatory experience in Ireland or Europe);
• Ideally circa 3-7 years’ PQE;
• Excellent financial services regulatory experience gained in a law firm or in-house.

Barden is partnering with a very well established law firm currently looking to recruit an Employment Law Solicitor to join its team.

THE ROLE

You will join a team which provides strategic advice and practical solutions to its clients across both the public and private sectors, working on a diverse caseload of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters including:

• Advising and guiding employers through investigations, disciplinary proceedings and termination of employment.
• Advising employers on protected disclosures, transfer of undertakings, employment equality, and unfair dismissals.
• Representation of employers (primarily) and employees before the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court and Civil Courts.
• Drafting, negotiation and advising upon contracts, policies, and termination agreements.

The team also supports public and private sector clients on a range of Data Protection/Regulatory matters.

THE PERSON

• Irish qualified Solicitor, with at least 4+ years’ PQE
• In depth knowledge of a full range of employment matters (employee or employer experience both welcomed)
• Data Protection advisory experience is an advantage but not a requirement
• An ability to handle a caseload independently, whilst also being a strong team player
• An ability to adopt a commercial/practical perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to legal issues.