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Uisce Éireann
Financial Reporting and Audit Lead
Dublin
September 9, 2024
We are Uisce Éireann. Every day, we are responsible for the delivery of secure, safe, and sustainable water services for the people of Ireland. As Ireland’s national regulated water utility, our vision is a sustainable Ireland where water is respected and protected, for the planet and all the lives it supports.
Our purpose at Uisce Éireann is to rise to the challenge of delivering transformative water services that enable communities to thrive. That means we are proud to take on the responsibility of protecting our water supply and passing on a safe and secure water system to a rapidly growing population and empowering Ireland’s social and economic growth.
So, we’re passionate about helping our people to do the best work of their lives, to enable them to make a positive difference to communities all over Ireland. Our aim is to attract and develop talented and skilled people with diverse backgrounds and an evolving range of expertise and insight. We believe that such a strong workforce will help us achieve our goals and allow us to continue investing in, and advancing, Ireland’s water services.
The Role:
The Financial Control and Planning Function is responsible for the high-quality management of statutory and regulatory financial information and ensuring that the highest level of assurance and service on the organisation’s finances is provided to senior and operational management, shareholders, financial agencies, regulatory authorities, and the public. The function oversees the management of UÉ’s liquidity, investments, funding, cash management, reporting activities and financial risks and is responsible for developing and maintaining best in class treasury processes, procedures, and control environment. Additionally, the teams drive the corporate planning, budgeting and forecasting, and all related activities for Uisce Éireann and are accountable for the development, refinement and analysis of short and long-term forecasting models across the organization as well as tax compliance, strategy and planning.
The Finance area within Uisce Eireann ensures effective financial management of the organisation and provides the expertise, services, and information to support the business in achieving its required business outcomes, including supporting the financial and information requirements of Uisce Eireann. The Financial Control team develop the Finance and Management Accounting areas of Uisce Eireann and deliver high-quality management, statutory and regulatory financial information and ensure that the highest level of assurance and service on the organisation’s finances is provided to senior and operational management, to shareholders, financial agencies, regulatory authorities and the public. They are also responsible for developing Uisce Eireann’s financial and management control function to meet current and future business requirements.
Reporting to the Financial Control Senior Manager, the Financial Reporting & Audit Lead will deliver the statutory financial audits and related processes for Uisce Éireann. The Financial Reporting Audit Lead will plan, co-ordinate and deliver the statutory financial statements audits, working closely with the Company’s financial statement auditors, while also coordinating the review and enhancement of internal policy and process and delivering to internal governance structures. They will be responsible for coordinating and reporting on the implementation of recommendations from the financial statement auditors and other related initiatives.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
General Duties and Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Uisce Éireann is an equal opportunities employer.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.
Our purpose at Uisce Éireann is to rise to the challenge of delivering transformative water services that enable communities to thrive. That means we are proud to take on the responsibility of protecting our water supply and passing on a safe and secure water system to a rapidly growing population and empowering Ireland’s social and economic growth.
So, we’re passionate about helping our people to do the best work of their lives, to enable them to make a positive difference to communities all over Ireland. Our aim is to attract and develop talented and skilled people with diverse backgrounds and an evolving range of expertise and insight. We believe that such a strong workforce will help us achieve our goals and allow us to continue investing in, and advancing, Ireland’s water services.
The Role:
The Financial Control and Planning Function is responsible for the high-quality management of statutory and regulatory financial information and ensuring that the highest level of assurance and service on the organisation’s finances is provided to senior and operational management, shareholders, financial agencies, regulatory authorities, and the public. The function oversees the management of UÉ’s liquidity, investments, funding, cash management, reporting activities and financial risks and is responsible for developing and maintaining best in class treasury processes, procedures, and control environment. Additionally, the teams drive the corporate planning, budgeting and forecasting, and all related activities for Uisce Éireann and are accountable for the development, refinement and analysis of short and long-term forecasting models across the organization as well as tax compliance, strategy and planning.
The Finance area within Uisce Eireann ensures effective financial management of the organisation and provides the expertise, services, and information to support the business in achieving its required business outcomes, including supporting the financial and information requirements of Uisce Eireann. The Financial Control team develop the Finance and Management Accounting areas of Uisce Eireann and deliver high-quality management, statutory and regulatory financial information and ensure that the highest level of assurance and service on the organisation’s finances is provided to senior and operational management, to shareholders, financial agencies, regulatory authorities and the public. They are also responsible for developing Uisce Eireann’s financial and management control function to meet current and future business requirements.
Reporting to the Financial Control Senior Manager, the Financial Reporting & Audit Lead will deliver the statutory financial audits and related processes for Uisce Éireann. The Financial Reporting Audit Lead will plan, co-ordinate and deliver the statutory financial statements audits, working closely with the Company’s financial statement auditors, while also coordinating the review and enhancement of internal policy and process and delivering to internal governance structures. They will be responsible for coordinating and reporting on the implementation of recommendations from the financial statement auditors and other related initiatives.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead a cross functional working groups and support collaboration across the organisation to enhance and maintain reporting and monitoring processes and control environments to support the statutory financial statements audit processes; to provide evidence of regularity, value for money, compliance with current legislation, code requirements, Uisce Éireann’s corporate policies and best practice.
- Lead the operational management of the statutory financial statement audit engagements, including planning, scheduling, execution, close out and debrief - liaising with the various statutory financial statements audit engagement stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Co-ordinate the delivery of Financial Statement audit sign offs, including the relevant Audit and Risk Committee (“ARC”) submissions and stakeholder reporting requirements.
- Deliver annual audit readiness status reporting to the relevant governance structures, the Executive and other key stakeholders.
- Co-ordinate the implementation of recommendations from financial statement auditors and other related initiatives – this will include establishing a steering committee & working group as deemed appropriate, and regular reporting to the financial statement auditors, the Integrated Assurance Forum and the Audit and Risk Committee (“ARC”).
- Support the External Audit Tender process.
- Manage business stakeholders, participate in relevant meetings and develop strong working relationships with Finance customers (within the department, senior leadership, HSQE, Legal, Business Services, Business Partners and with external organisations and suppliers).
- Contribute proactively to a fast moving and changing business environment. Other duties as required from time to time.
General Duties and Responsibilities
- Collaborate with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business
- Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards.
- Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives. Other duties as required.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- A minimum of five years’ relevant experience in similar roles (finance, audit, compliance, assurance) working in large-scale, complex organisations incl regulated utility and government/semi state bodies
- Relevant third level qualification required, and a recognised accounting qualification (ACA; ACMA; ACCA; CIMA) or an equivalent with five years’ relevant PQE (in finance, audit, compliance, assurance)
- Previous experience developing and maintaining cross-functional relationships both internally and externally, to accomplish objectives and ability to develop and maintain effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally
- Knowledge of procurement and / or governance systems
- Proven track record with dealing with complex issues, proactively and in a timely fashion along with the ability to communicate complex information to others
- Pragmatic, enthusiastic, and result oriented with both commercial and compliance awareness
- Ability to prioritise tasks, manage and deliver high-quality work within timelines, and manage resources while remaining focused on and aligned to team goals and objectives
- Working in a constantly changing environment, anticipating and proactively managing issues, engaging and influencing stakeholders and will be dynamic, driven, proactive and adaptable
- Highly motivated individual, working to the highest professional standards and with proven ability to deliver results
- Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions
- Demonstrate adaptability and the ability to change focus and direction in line with business strategy and requirements Proactively identifying new areas of improvement and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job
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Please be advised that if successful you will be placed on the salary range based on your skills and experience. Please note the Market reference point (midpoint) of the range is generally the upper end of the offer where someone is deemed to be fully competent to take on the duties of the role, and leaves room for the employee to progress through the pay range as their experience develops further.
Uisce Éireann is an equal opportunities employer.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.
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