Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant, Dublin

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Date: 4 Jun 2025

Location: Dublin, IE, IE

Company: Allied Irish Bank

Location/Office Policy:

Hybrid working, which will include a blend of onsite (Dublin) and remote working.

AIB Finance are looking for a talented and ambitious Accountant to join our Financial Planning & Forecasting team in Finance Business Partners.

Are you a highly motivated individual with well-developed commercial acumen?

Are you skilled at influencing stakeholders to drive the delivery of strategic and financial objectives?

Are you a leader who can create a culture of high performance, accountability and engagement?

Would you like to work as part of a team whose ambition is to become a world class Finance function, exceptional at developing talent and turning information into insights?

What is the Role:

As future focussed finance business partners, our objective is to support senior Leadership in the development and delivery of AIB’s strategic and financial objectives. The Planning & Forecasting team has responsibility for managing and co-ordinating financial planning and forecasting in AIB, and presentation of key information to Executive Leadership Team & AIB Board. Critical to our success is an ability to understand the business and to apply a mix of analytical, commercial and communication skills to deliver information and insights to key stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

A vacancy now exists for the role of an Accountant in the Planning & Forecasting Finance Business Partner team.

This is an important role in delivering proactive financial management and support to the business ensuring robust financial analysis, ongoing financial performance assessment and planning & forecasting.

Key accountabilities:

• Support in the production of the 3-year Financial Plan & Forecasts ensuring adherence with finance planning guidelines and alignment to integrated business, financial, credit and risk planning processes
• Work closely with Finance BPs, business units and other plan stakeholders to bring together the overall AIB group financial plans and forecasts
• Responsible for running forecast updates and assisting in the preparation of forecast presentations, including key metrics, insights and commentary for Executive Leadership Team and AIB Board
• Perform review & challenge of forecasts and plans, carrying out analysis to provide insights on key business trends and issues
• Other scenario and ad hoc analysis for management
• Support the management of the onePlan system (AIB’s planning system)
• Work with peers and colleagues across all levels, identifying and developing relationships within AIB

What you Will Bring:

• Minimum 3 years relevant experience working in a financial services and/or other finance role with an ability to ‘hit the ground running’
• Professional qualification (ACCA/ ACA/ CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong relationship builder and capable of managing a range of stakeholders on a cross functional basis
• Proven business understanding and highly developed commercial acumen
• Ability to analyse and interpret data, to assess its value and to present the findings to the relevant stakeholders concisely, with excellent attention to detail
• Results-oriented, with an ability to work to deadlines and act with discretion and confidentiality
• Be motivated, enthusiastic and forward looking, positive can-do approach is a necessity
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint capability

Why Work for AIB?

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

This is a permanent role with a competitive benefits package including pension and holiday entitlements.

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

Behavioural

• Collaborates – works cooperatively with others to achieve shared objectives. Gains trust and support of others
• Be Brave – Readily tackles tough assignments. Is willing to champion an idea or position despite dissent or political risk
• Drives Commercial Outcomes – Uses financial analysis to generate, evaluate and act on strategic options and opportunities

Technical

• Forecasting – Makes estimations and predictions about the future, based on past data and current prevailing trends
• Business Partnership and Consulting – Evaluates options from the business’ perspective to develop solutions that best meet its needs

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role at careers@aib.ie for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

Application deadline : Wednesday the 25th of June 2025

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